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This is from the Asia Source camp, just concluced in Bangalore. See more at http://www.tacticaltech.org/asiasource/blog ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Some FLOSS links. From Asia Meet these good people, and their ventures. At least virtually! Warning: some of the links might be only distantly related to the field of FLOSS. * http://www.khmeros.info Making Cambodia "a country that does not have to change to a new language in order to use computers!" This page is linked to the work of Hok Kakada (20), Javier Sola, Keo Sophon (24) among others. For other Cambodia sites, visit * http://www.forum.org.kh Open Forum of Cambodia * http://www.cambodiacic.org Community Information Centre project * http://www.nida.gov.kh/ National ICT Development Authority * http://www.itm.edu.kh/ The varsity where Rapid Sun (a young graduate who passed out in 2001) teaches Linux-Apache-MySQL-PhP and related technologies. * http://www.internux.net.id This is Adi Nugroho's Internet Service Provider in Indonesia. Adi is the guy who built Indonesia's first only-GNU/Linux cybercafe at the remote region of Makassar, some 1400 kms from Jakarta. http://linux2.arinet.org Fajar Priyanto (Indonesia) keeps his Indonesian GNU/Linux tutorial site here. Fajar is a convert from proprietorial software to FLOSS fan. And, at the risk of sounding arrogant by linking to myself, here are some of this blogger's links: * http://ilug-goa.swiki.net ILUG-Goa, a local user group * http://linuxinindia.pitas.com Links to FLOSS in India * http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList Listing of user groups Here's some useful links to Indic localisation guru G Karunakar: * http://www.indlinux.org IndLinux Project, check it out * http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/ Wiki for the above project * http://cartoonsoft.com/blog ("Just a personal blog. You need not put it there," says GK.) Indian Plone ace (and many things more) Kiran "Jace" Jonnalgadda's: * http://jace.seacrow.com/me Another localisation guru (and many things more, despite the young age) Sayamindu Dasgupta's links: * http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/ His home page. * http://wlinux.ods.org/GNOME-2.6/ One of his often-Slashdotted Gnome reviews. * http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/index.php Sayamindu's weekend hacker's blog * http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/index.php?p=124 His blog from Asia Source. This is Sunil Abraham's NGO-dressed-as-a-company offering FLOSS-based solutions to NGOs: * http://www.mahiti.org Sarai is a Delhi-based organisation that has been giving fellowships to geeks working on FLOSS. * http://www.sarai.net Malaysian young guru Colin Charles -- currently studying in Melbourne -- has his website below. He's experienced with the Fedora Project and OpenOffice.org, and has authored on lulu.com books on Fedora Core: Made Simple and OpenOffice.org: Made Simple * http://www.bytebot.net Jaclyn 'Jac' Kee Siew Min of Malaysia is with the Association of Progressive Communicators and other women's groups. FLOSS-linked in many ways is the APC: * http://www.apcwomen.org APDIP is linked to IOSN.net (the International Open Source Network), and, in turn, Seow Yoke May is linked to APDIP (she's the webmaster -- or webmistress, rather -- there). * http://www.apdip.net A UNDP body * http://www.iosn.net International Open Source Network, good primers related to various aspects of FLOSS. Khin Mi Mi Aung is from Myanmar (based in Korea, for her PhD) and offers this LUG link * http://www.myanmarlug.org Kuma Raj Subedi "Kamal" from Nepal is a great narrator. Earlier connected to the Ganesha Project of taking GNU/Linux to a Nepali school. * http://ganeshas-project.org http://opart.org/svcs (Silicon Village) Sufyan Kakakhel of Pakistan is part of the Open Source Resource Centre in Pakistan and founded an Open Source iinix Solutions company * http://www.osrc.org.pk * http://www.iinix.com And Dong Calmada is the vice president of the Philipine Linux Users Group, for external affairs. And do point to any links that might have got inadvertently left out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://fn-floss.notlong.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation. --Aristotle # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net