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Katrina Kaif

I saw the movie in Inox called Namaste London. My friends had taken me for it, because my friend had taken me for it. Her name is Gabbi. Katrina Kaif used to live in London, but then her father decided to take her to India, and then to some people's house, and they went to the Taj Mahal.

The movie was fun, because there were funny parts. One day she spilt cold-drink on her husband. And her father was drinking milk with his hands, so badly.That was what was funny.

After the movie we went to a restaurant, Kamat, near the church. I ate chole.

It rolls... because it's a ball

A: You know why this rolls down?

Dada: Why?

A: Because it's a ball...

Dada: So why should it roll down if it's a ball?

A: Otherwise, how can you play with it?

Software Wars

An interesting chart on "software wars". It's described as "a graphic map depicting the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) against the Empire of Microsoft". Does bring out the totality of the picture... Rather interesting!

Read more at mshiltonj.com/software_...

Feeds.goa-india.org

Check http://feeds.goa-india.org/ for links about news from FLOSS in Asia. And if you know of more Asian mailing lists or websites that offer RSS feeds, do let me know. Thanks, Derek, for setting this up!

Feeds.goa-india.org

Check <a href="http://feeds.goa-india.org/">feeds.goa-india.org</a> for links about news from FLOSS in Asia. And if you know of more Asian mailing lists or websites that offer RSS feeds, do let me know.  Thanks, Derek, for setting this up!

Example Note 1

Check <a href="http://feeds.goa-india.org/">feeds.goa-india.org</a> for links about news from FLOSS in Asia. And if you know of more Asian mailing lists or websites that offer RSS feeds, do let me know.

Anuradha's Diary ... from Lanka

Anuradha's Diary is the blog of a GNU/Linux geek from Sri Lanka. Its subtitle: "of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings". Interesting!

AsiaOSS

AsiaOSS Home Page is a network of promoters of Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Asia. Including governments, academia (mainly them) and a lesser number of techies too. A better start page might be this.

Self-description: "We, Asia Open Source Software Community, are just starting to collaborate each other.
Background

"The popularity of Open Source Software (OSS) has grown at an astonishing rate such that government, business sector, academy, R&D related organizations, and community groups have been expecting its policy to promote the use of open source software. The major advantage of open source software includes operation/development cost reduction, computer security raise, and, ultimately, competitiveness gain in software business and industry. However, in those economies which are slow in their economic development, the main focus concerns distribution of low-cost, rather than the most powerful PCs. open source software can contribute greatly to this issues.

"Another issues involves the growing gap in the information society or the problem of digital divide, due to enormously varied degrees of technological advances, Government policy, and knowledge and understanding of open source software among the participating economies. This leads to the need for Asian economies to cooperate in order to bridge the growing gap. This also involves promoting open source software.

"At the same time, whereas various kinds of organizations and communities conduct development and promotion activities under different circumstances/levels in order for information sharing, regional and international cooperative network including organizations and communities, have not been fully connected to share their knowledge and experience.

"Considering above background, peoples who are eager to develop their own software technology by their hands are gathered from various areas in Asia. We held the "Asia Open Source Software Symposium 2003" in March, 2003 at Phuket, Thailand. "

In Bangladesh...

This is a link to a presentation on Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Bangladesh by Ms. Tazrian Khan presented at The 6th Asia Open Source Software Symposium held in Colombo in September, 2005.