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headers Raghavendra S | 5 Mar 2010 17:36

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Hi, 

The article about AC3 mentions about Vidya a low-vision user  http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article245413.ece

"Shedding light on another issue, Vidya, who suffers from partial visual 
impairment, spoke on the issues that the visually impaired face while 
using computers. Demonstrating various technical issues with the 
proprietary tools she uses, she also spoke about the fact that 
accessibility tools (such as screen readers and related software, all in the proprietary domain) are
extremely expensive. "

Magnification is problem with gnu/Linux. Some of members of accessibility team are working on this, but we
have a long way to go. Given the giving the state of some of assistive gnome-mag, perhaps someone would like
to work on this. Until then we have to rely on using Compiz eZoom [1]. If you are a low-vision gnu/Linux or
know some of problems  please drop me a line. 

Cheers

--arky 

[1] Better Gnome Desktop Magnification with eZoom - 
http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2009/07/better-gnome-desktop-magnification-with.html

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Please check out:

http://pramode.net/2010/03/19/gfdl-pythonlatex-book/

regards,
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On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 18:08 +0530, Pramode C.E. wrote:
> Please check out:
> 
> http://pramode.net/2010/03/19/gfdl-pythonlatex-book/

Great! Congratulations! Does anyone know of other books published by
Indian authors with Free licences (GFDL or CC)? Is there a list
somewhere?

Best
Sasi

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On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:17 AM, V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.fsf@...> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 18:08 +0530, Pramode C.E. wrote:
>> Please check out:
>>
>> http://pramode.net/2010/03/19/gfdl-pythonlatex-book/
>
> Great! Congratulations! Does anyone know of other books published by
> Indian authors with Free licences (GFDL or CC)? Is there a list
> somewhere?

FWIW, the books, booklets and edited versions (of already existing
books under GFDL / CC) being published by IOTA (inst for open
technology and applications - http://www.iotawb.org) are being printed
under either CC 3.0 or GFDL licenses. IIRC, so far the number of such
publications is 3, with more in the works.

cheers

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From: Nagarjuna G <nagarjun@...>
Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:00 AM
Subject: Release Candidate of GNOWSYS and gnowsys-mode
To: info-gnu@...

Gnowledge lab team is happy to announce the release of GNOWSYS and
gnowsys-mode.

This is the first major release of GNOWSYS and gnowsys-mode (An Emacs
major mode as an UI for GNOWSYS) as a release candidate 1. If no more
bugs are reported/fixed in the coming two months, v 1.0 will be
released in May 2010.

The release can be downloaded from here:
http://mirror.lihnidos.org/GNU/savannah/gnowsys/gnowsysApp_rc1.tar.bz2
http://mirror.lihnidos.org/GNU/savannah/gnowsys/gnowsys-mode_rc1.tar.bz2

Release Notes:

This release is a major overhaul of the last stable release 0.62 (June
2006). After this GNOWSYS has been completely rewritten.  The major
changes are summarized below:

 + The storage uses postgresql and not ZOPE object database (ZODB).

 + Full version control of data and metadata is implemented making it
   a multiuser collaboration through the web, as well as through an
   Emacs client. (A major mode of GNU Emacs called  gnowsys-mode has
   been developed as a client to work collaboratively through
   Internet without using an Internet browser.)

 + It is scalable and faster than all the earlier versions.

 + It is standardized for use as a triple (RDF) store. (In the next
   release Ontologies can be published and managed collaboratively.)

 + Graphs are drawn automatically for each node in SVG with
   hyperlinks.

 + RDF export in N3 notation is implemented.

 + Basic ontology editing is possible through the Emacs client:
   gnowsys-mode.

* A brief Introduction about GNOWSYS

 GNOWSYS (Gnowledge Networking and Organizing System) is a triple
 store (RDF) for representing knowledge networks and its dynamics.

** The Structure of the Network Memory

  The network construction uses the following principles:

  1. The memory in GNOWSYS is a set of nodes with all nodes with a
     unique NID (Node ID). The NID with the address locator gives
     rise to a unique URI in the cyberspace.
  2. Every node links with the neighborhood nodes through two kinds
     of mediating nodes: attributes and relations. Thus every node
     can be represented as a frame.
  3. Every node is described by neighborhood.
  4. The network can be obtained as a graph by merging the
     neighborhood of all the nodes.
  5. The set of all attributes and relations is the full set of
     knowledge represented in the network.
  6. Each attribute or relation constitutes one RDF triple.
  7. Search and query operations give the list of SSID (SnapShot ID)
     whose neighborhood contains the searched value.
  8. The value space is linked to the nodes via named links making
     most results of queries meaningful.
  9. The representation of network memory can be completely encoded
     in any of the RDF languages.

** The Dynamics (change management) of the Network Memory

  1. Insertion of new nodes changes the neighborhood of the nodes
     concerned, and such changes can be tracked by holding the
     snapshots of the node's neighborhood at each instance of change.
  2. Being a collaborative space, the system records who did what
     change and at what time.
  3. Delinking is the preferred way of removing data elements from
     the network, and no node can be removed without prior removal of
     the links the node may have with others.
  4. Each Node's neighborhood at a given time becomes the state space
     of the node.
  5. Changing state of nodes can be recorded persistently as process
     nodes that record the prior-state and post-state of the nodes
     invovled.

For more details, please follow http://www.gnu.org/software/gnowsys/
and http://lab.gnowledge.org site.

For video documentation please see:
http://lab.gnowledge.org/download/gnowsys-mode-screencasts

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