Creative commons issues

This post is goes a bit detailed into funding exercise being done by creative commons, some critiques to the creative common movement.

SFD 2009 – Challenges and criticism

Hi all,
This post tries to share about the experiences felt during the celebration of SFD 2009 and what we need to make it better.

SFD at Bhaskacharya Prathisthana

This post gives a brief about the Software Freedom Day being celebrated at Bhaskacharya Prathisthan with the combined efforts of PLUG and CSLUG.

OpenSolaris, SUN-CA at SFD, PICT

Hi all,

PICT had organised SFD or software freedom day on 19th-20th September 2008. While I would talk about the event and whatever happened in another post I wanna use this post as a way to share my experience with seeing OpenSolaris.

An experiment with FOSS

Hi all,

Last few days I tried something to see if it would work or that. We have a DTP shop where for the company’s work we use their services. They are the usual Coreldraw, Photoshop mom-and-pop shop we all know.

I wanted a presentation done and the presentation was to be done using Openoffice Impress for I specifically wanted the output to be in .odp format simply for the reason that once its open data then putting it across in multiple formats is so easy and perhaps a much bigger thing IIRC that the fonts get embedded in the document (an issue with MS docs. usually) . While it took them sometime to get a hang of things  or in other words get settled with the workflow  of Openoffice.

It took quite some pain, but at the end of it all one thing became clear for me, openness is an attitude, a culture . If one is open to trying out new things, then technology is indeed a slave.

Also one more small victory in the mind-space for free software 😉

Celeberating SFD on International Teacher’s Day

Hi all,

At the outset I have to confess I’m not a developer (i.e. don’t write code). I love and enjoy free software for it makes me think. It puts me in on toes and I enjoy that. This blog post would be specifically looking at how WikiOcean celebrated the Software Freedom Day with perhaps some things we need to enhance or improvise in the future.