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[edit] I am an Organiser

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.-- Oscar Wilde I'm an activist of sorts. You can contact me on +91 9448810822 or vincentvikram at swatantra dot org.

I now work for Christ College(Autonomous), Bangalore. My official id is vikram.vincent@christcollege.edu

My webpage: http://www.swatantra.org/ Translation page http://translate.swatantra.org/

My political space

[edit] My Theories

  1. This is based on my practical experience of participating in the students' movement: Girls are more committed than boys. If that initial psychological barrier is broken, they are the ones who will stand by you till the end no matter what. The only challenge is that we should play the role of the catalyst(in the words of Praveen) to enable this feature ;-) Relevance of International Women's Day
  2. As an organiser you need to organise the people. The event organises itself. And the organisation of people is more of an Art than of a Science.
  3. You need to understand the socio-political-economic dynamics of every issue/event. There is no such thing as an 'apolitical' issue(If you can prove that there is an apolitical issue then I shall re-assess this premise).

[edit] Contribute to free knowledge

The Wikipedia is one of the most important means to protect the democratisation of knowledge. Support Wikipedia and contribute to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vincentvikram

[edit] The new economy and alternate forms of struggle

Click here for article

[edit] Patent Wars And The Indian Scenario

Link to orginal post: http://www.delhiscienceforum.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=329&Itemid=2

[edit] Why free software or free culture movement?

To protect our intellectual self-reliance, to strengthen the local economy, to generate local employment, to make knowledge freely available to all who want to obtain knowledge, to promote healthy businesses as opposed to monopolies,...

[edit] Localisation to protect language or knowledge?

I have been having discussions of late on the why do we need localisation. Is it to protect language or to protect knowledge and I have been getting responses to the former. I have written a small algorithm to support the latter.

while(localisation){

if (localisation for language-protection only)

then (Localisation && language-protection == failure)

/* Language(a) is dynamic and constantly evolving along with technology(b). Technology(b) evolves according to the economy(c). Thus, language dependent on economy. Mathematically, a->b && b->c => a->c(Transitive function)--(1)*/

else if (localisation for knowledge-protection)

then (localisation && knowledge-protection && language-protection == success)

/* We assume that (1) holds good for all general cases(unless it can be proved otherwise). Special cases will be handled seperately. Knowledge-protection in a particular language ensures 'intellectual self-reliance' and this is key to 'economic self-reliance'. The reason why English thrives is because it is key to generating a huge economy. Thus, if you can generate a sustaining localised economy that language is also protected. This is an extention of (1). */

}

[edit] My (continuing) work on GNU/Hurd at NRCFOSS

GNU/Hurd

[edit] Reference http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/OS

[edit] Bug reports I submitted (that I could locate)

DEBIAN

  1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428958
  2. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432850
  3. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449325

GNOME

  1. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420561
  2. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434561
  3. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439101
  4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447757
  5. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451225
  6. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480911
  7. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492325
  8. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492577
  9. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494969
  10. Kannada(kn_IN) translation of pessulus.HEAD.kn.po
  11. Kannada(kn_IN) translation of accerciser.HEAD.kn.po
  12. "Attach file" not easily accessible
  13. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522622
  14. eel.kn.po file(kn_IN)
  15. sabayon.kn.po(kn_IN)

KANNADA L10N MAILING LIST

  1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421892

GNU/Hurd or GNU

  1. 304577 coreutils' su no longer works
  2. 304777 shutdown does not work

Trac

  1. 6126 Internal error when trying to save kn_IN letters

Pidgin

  1. Links within chat window do not open when clicked

Madwifi

  1. Problem during the boot: "wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL status 13)"
  2. wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device

Entrans

  1. Wrong character on Kannada inscript keyboard

MySQL

  1. Buggy mysql-administrator-template.po in trunk

Freedesktop

  1. Kannada(kn_IN) translation of xdg-user-dirs.HEAD.po

[edit] KDE

I created the sounds for Kannada. It is a bit buggy so will do the needful as soon as possible but if anybody with a good voice would like to volunteer to redo it please do contact me http://edu.kde.org/klettres/news.php#itemThreenewlanguagesinKlettres

[edit] Campaigns

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