Re: SPI resolution 2013-06-30.jmd.1: Swathanthra Malayalam Computing as an associated project

2013-07-01 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:06 PM, MJ Ray  wrote:

> On 30/06/13 23:09, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > Presented for the July 11th AGM; their website is at
> > http://smc.org.in/ and while they already have a not-for-profit society
> > registered in India since 2010 it doesn't help them with cross border
> > donations such as payments from Google Summer of Code.
> >
> > WHEREAS
> >
> > 1. Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is a substantial and significant Free
> >Software project.
>
> OK, great you say that, but what does it do?  Its website is blank
> (seems to be wrapped entirely in 

Re: SPI resolution 2013-06-30.jmd.1: Swathanthra Malayalam Computing as an associated project

2013-07-07 Thread Anivar Aravind
Dear Jonathan,

We, swathanthra Malayalam Computing are very happy to be listed as one of
the "Associated Projects" of SPI.
In case if you need this protected wiki page lists  contact details of
liaison and backups for SPI http://wiki.smc.org.in/SPI-contact.


~ regards
Anivar Aravind
Secretary and Project Admin
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing.
http://smc.org.in
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc/
http://silpa.org.in



On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Jonathan McDowell  wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:37:25PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > On 06/30/2013 03:09 PM, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > > Presented for the July 11th AGM; their website is at
> > > http://smc.org.in/ and while they already have a not-for-profit
> society
> > > registered in India since 2010 it doesn't help them with cross border
> > > donations such as payments from Google Summer of Code.
> >
> > So the idea is that SPI would be their US fund?
>
> Yes, in a similar manner to the way Debian use SPI in the US but FFIS in
> Europe. They have an existing organisation that suits their local needs
> well, but doesn't interoperate well with global donor requirements.
>
> J.
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Re: SPI resolution 2013-06-30.jmd.1: Swathanthra Malayalam Computing as an associated project

2013-07-08 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Robert Brockway  wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Anivar Aravind wrote:
>
>  Dear Jonathan,
>>
>> We, swathanthra Malayalam Computing are very happy to be listed as one of
>> the "Associated Projects" of SPI.
>> In case if you need this protected wiki page lists  contact details of
>> liaison and backups for SPI 
>> http://wiki.smc.org.in/SPI-**contact<http://wiki.smc.org.in/SPI-contact>
>> .
>>
>
> Hi Anivar.  Please note that Swathanthra Malayalam Computing hasn't been
> accepted as an SPI associated project yet.  The vote is due to occur at the
> next board meeting, which will be held at Thursday, 11th July, 2013 at
> 20:00 UTC.
>
>
mea culpa . We will wait for that  .

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Re: SPI resolution 2013-06-30.jmd.1: Swathanthra Malayalam Computing as an associated project

2013-07-22 Thread Anivar Aravind
On 7/22/13, MJ Ray  wrote:
> On 01/07/13 12:25, Anivar Aravind wrote:
>> Website: http://smc.org.in/
>> Wiki: http://wiki.smc.org.in (in malayalam language)
>
> I had seen those, but these other ones are invaluable:
>
>> Developer Home: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc
>> Sub Projects:
>>  1. http://silpa.org.in/ code: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/silpa
>>  2. Pypdflib https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib
>>  3. Dhvani http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/
>>  5. Github Mirrors http://github.com/smc/
>> https://github.com/Project-SILPA
>
> Thank you for the additional information.  Web searches did not reveal
> them.
>
>>> I noticed that http://wiki.smc.org.uk/ uses the non-free-software FDL
>>> and its "English" link does nothing either, then I gave up.
>>
>> Wiki is at http://wiki.smc.org.in It is in malayalam language . The
>> English
>> link is the ULS extension of media wiki for menu changes.
>
> I apologise for mistyping the URL but I had it correct before and that
> English link does not seem to work in Firefox 22+NoScript.

it is a jquey based script library . It is a good library to handle
multilingual links with equal weight to languages . The library will
identify user language based on your browser language settings.

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Anivar

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Re: SPI member projects adopting a Code of Conduct

2020-10-13 Thread Anivar Aravind
Hi Peter,
SMC adopted a CoC a few years ago, based on Contributor Covenant

https://smc.org.in/code-of-conduct

Enforcement side, All free and open source communities have limitations as
Joshua pointed before.

Anivar

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 8:33 AM Matthew Ahrens  wrote:

> Hi Peter.  OpenZFS adopted a CoC
>  a few years ago.  I'm not sure
> I have any specific advice, but I'd be happy to (privately) share our
> experience if you'd like.
>
> --matt
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 10:58 AM Peter Cock 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear SPI projects,
>>
>> The OBF is an SPI member project, and is currently in the process of
>> adopting a Code of Conduct (CoC) to cover both our online activities
>> (including software development) and in person events (like our annual
>> conference, assuming that resumes as a physical event).
>>
>> If legal assistance were required (e.g. in handling a specific CoC
>> incident), I presume as per https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/services/
>> the OBF would at the SPI board's discretion have access to the SPI's
>> legal counsel? Is that correct?
>>
>> If any other SPI projects have themselves adopted a CoC, do you have
>> any advice to share? Our concerns include scope and procedures, and
>> providing training for those handling reports.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Peter
>> Peter Cock, current OBF president.
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