Some FLOSS links. From Asia

Subject: [bytesforall_readers] Some FLOSS links. From Asia.
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 01:56:42 +0530
From: Frederick Noronha <fred@sancharnet.in>
Organization: BytesForAll.org
To: bytesforall_readers@yahoogroups.com

Some FLOSS links. From Asia.
02/02/2005 - 01:42

Meet these good people, and their ventures. At least virtually! Warning: some of the links might be
only somewhat 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.

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