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The Simputer is a low cost portable alternative to PCs, by which the benefits of IT can reach the common man. It has a special role in the third world, particularly in India, because it ensures that illiteracy is no longer a barrier to handling a computer. Based on Linux, the Simputer provides a simple and natural user interface based on sight, touch and audio. Edward will tell us about the work he has been doing with Simputer to bring computers to the masses worldwide. | |||||||
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Nuts & Bolts presentation by Rick Moen: "Personal encryption with PGP and GnuPG" |PGP and GnuPG are not used as widely as maybe they should be. With them we can encrypt and authenticate our email. Public-key crypto and the "web of trust" model helps it scale to a worldwide scope. Rick will explain what it's all about and how you can use it in your daily email.Keynote presentation by Edward Cherlin: "Simputers and Free/Open Source software for the poor" |The Simputer is a low cost portable alternative to PCs, by which the benefits of IT can reach the common man. It has a special role in the third world, particularly in India, because it ensures that illiteracy is no longer a barrier to handling a computer. Based on Linux, the Simputer provides a simple and natural user interface based on sight, touch and audio. Edward will tell us about the work he has been doing with Simputer to bring computers to the masses worldwide.App of the Month Club discussion facilitated by Bill Ward: "vi and vim" |Our third topic is the old workhorse editor for Unix, "vi". Bill will be facilitating a discusison of some basic and not-so-basic vi skills. Your homework is to play with the vim tutorial and/or read Bill's article in the current issue of Linux Journal magazine, and try at least one vi command you never knew before. -- BillWard - 12 Nov 2003 | |||||||||||||||||