Fred Noronha

Prolific journalist on issues of technology and development in South Asia and beyond, covering open source issues quite often. One way to descrine Fred is indefatigable. He maintains a number of sites including:

BytesForAll
Highly recommended site on development issues.

Linux in India
Fred's recent effort, a news site for India and beyond.

Fred's news letter on issues of free software in India:

• GNU/Linux India - December 27, 2002
• GNU/Linux India - January 10, 2003
• GNU/Linux India - October 15, 2003

Fred has written a number of review articles including:

Thai Tales: Taking Computers to Schools
Posted on a number of sites Thursday, April 25, 2002

Pakistan Government Looks to the Linux Users Group
Posted on the Linux Journal site, Saturday, July 13, 2002.

The Penguin's Mantra: Efforts are on to find Indian language solutions to GNU/Linux in the subcontinent that matters
Posted September 18, 2002 on a number of lists
Very extensive review of software localization efforts in India that will take us months to digest and incorporate in SOS.

GNU/Development, International Organizations Take a Close Look at Linux
Interesting review on efforts by international organizations such as UNESCO in support of free / open source software. October 25, 2002.

Liberation Technology for the Lands of Diversity? Free Software in Asia
May 29, 2003. Fred does a great job in reviewing open sources developments in Asia. (130K) Local text version, check also html version.

We have separate pages for:

• Open Source India
• Open Source Goa
• Open Source Pakistan

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Comments

Thanks for the generous comments above... just a small correction. I've been focussing largely on +South Asia+ not South East Asia. Also, please check out http://linuxinindia.pitas.com -- a hastily put-together site that offers links about what's going on at the FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) scene in India. -FN

This page is far from complete, anyway it's a start: http://gnuasialinux.pitas.com