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...
Right says Fred, I've sent out the word on all the community lists here and there ;) We are definitely gonna see some good feedback, I am also going to bring...
... So true. ... For Bangla, what I'd like to see is a truly beautiful font that is also open source. Now, that's going to require typographic/fontographic...
... This must be in a context with which I'm not familiar, but I am certainly interested why you think that IDRC will not be good funding source for this. I...
Dear All, We have been working as a small team here in Nepal in localizing FOSS. Please visit the site http://www.nepalinux.org for details regarding our works...
Dear All, We have been working as a small team here in Nepal in localizing FOSS. Please visit the site http://www.nepalinux.org for details regarding our works...
To all concerned global FOSS Bodies, ICT stakeholders & UN-GAID, The results of the selection of committees or stakeholders is not acceptable by the (Civil...
Another domino? Can we expect Microsoft to dash off to Thimphu, with all kinds of "attractive" offers? FN http://tinyurl.com/hg39k From: Christian Perrier -...
Nicholas Ng from Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia wrote in to ask about a recent post I had forwarded about a localisation of computing plan in Bhutan. See details...
CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES OPEN VIDEO CONTEST WITH THE FEDORA PROJECT San Francisco, USA - June 20, 2006 Creative Commons and the Fedora Project are pleased to...
Dear Colleagues, I am quoting my experience from working with Urdu newspapers in the past few years. Inpage is the preferred software for Urdu composing in...