Dear friends: BytesForAll has just launched a new mailing list, specifically focused on Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS, or FOSS). Details of the...
Open source software and development can push governments of developing nations ahead in the world, but only if they participate as producers of the technology...
Dear Fred and Friends, We are happy to join this initiative and on behalf of OpenLX, we assure you of our active cooperation in this activity. It is very...
Hi all: Our ignorance is profound, when it comes to understanding what's happening in South Asia. We really need to use ICTs (or information and communication...
FLOSS ENTHUSIASTS CONSIDERING WORKING TOGETHER OVER URDU IN PAKISTAN AND INDIA: Gora Mohanty <gora_mohanty@...> in New Delhi has been discussing issues...
Dear Rana and all, Thanks for posting an ineteresting article on the fate of languages in global times. One more thing that we need to take into account is...
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Software Piracy in Pakistan - Building a case for ICT Software Freedom: By Fouad Riaz Bajwa, FOSS Advocate FOSSFP: Free and Open Source Software Foundation of...
Check the Indic ToDo list - exhaustive list of tasks todo. http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicTodo Quote: It would be good to have an exhaustive list...
URDU Urdu Linux Localization Project | FOSSFP http://www.fossfp.org/ullp A Quick Primer On Unicode and Software Internationalization Under Linux and UNIX ...
Dear Khalid, Thank you for your reply. Regarding what CRULP-FAST-NU or the NLA and National Library are doing with the issue of Urdu Language is of totally ...
In search of Public Truth online! - Building a case for ICT Software Freedom By Fouad Riaz Bajwa General Secretary FOSSFP http://www.fossfp.org Author:...
Comments from Shahzad and Ravikant. Share your views too! FN http://www.apcasiaictpolicy.net/blog/shahzad/dilemma-of-urdu-language Dilemma of Urdu Language ...
Dear Aijaz, The FOSS Localization Consortium at BytesForAll encourages you to join us and continue your contributions in Urdu Language and to other South Asian...
Dear Linux and Open Source Software Community Members, As an effort to share and benefit from Free & Open Source Software knowledge as it becomes available,...
Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable' View the complete story at: http://news.com.com/Microsoft+Open+source+not+reliable+or+dependable/2100-73 ...
Hello All, Recently I wrote about FOSS in Weekly Ekattor Magazine. If you are interested to know about FOSS, you can read the article by downloading the PDF...
NOTIFICATION: Save your organizations from Software Piracy - FOSSFP will help you migrate to Open Source Software! Dear Community Members Are you running...
Is the availability of South Asian fonts such a crucial issue as made out by this message: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdlug/message/14310 If so, what can we...
... First of all, some of the message thread you refer to is just about local acrimony, so please ignore that part. I see two major issues at play here: 1....
... There is no situation. I thought people know about it. But when I found they need to know what is going on, I explain the situation on the above link. ... ...
Dear Dr Khan, Thank you for your kind and detailed response. It makes a lot of sense to me. Yes, I am not talking about the angry words in the link mentioned....
Dear Fred, The issues at hand here in terms of the non-availability of standardized fonts for localization initiatives is definitely very true. We as a ...
A must read on Copy South Copyright Issues: http://www.kent.ac.uk/law/copysouthfiles/dossier.htm Regards ... Fouad Riaz Bajwa General Secretary - FOSS Advocate...
Dear Community Members, BytesForAll [Fredrick Noronoha] South Asia, FOSSFP Pakistan and Sarai India including a number of partner organizations at the "South...