Free Media Distribution
by Debayan Banerjee
2008/8/31 Susmit <susmit.shannigrahi(a)gmail.com>
> >
> > We should be in a position to satisfy requirements in West Bengal soon. I
> > can convince college authorities to start the service, but they wont
> agree
> > beyond WB. We do ship media from time to time on special requests. Day
> > before yesterday, I shipped two linux DVDs to a guy in Jalpaiguri.
>
>
> That's very nice effort on your and your college's part.
> Its not a problem when it comes to one or two DVD. I myself do send
> DVDs on a regular basis.
> The problem was bulk production. Your college want to do that too? If
> yes, that's great.
> But remember, I am talking in terms of 100s, not one or two.
I am talking in the same terms too. 100s.
>
>
> BTW are you aware of this[1]?
>
> One more thing, please do post your mail with a proper subject line.
> Having "Fedora-india Digest, Vol 12, Issue 25" does not convey
> _anything_ what your mail says.
Ya, actually i am subsribed to the digest mode. I hit reply in gmail and
theres no choice to change the subject. Anyways, will not happen again.
>
>
>
> [1]
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/India/LocalContacts
> --
> Regards,
> Susmit.
>
> =============================================
> ssh
> 0x86DD170A
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit
> =============================================
>
--
BE INTELLIGENT, USE LINUX
--
BE INTELLIGENT, USE LINUX
15 years
Re: [fedora-india] Re: Fedora-india Digest, Vol 12, Issue 25
by susmit shannigrahi
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Susmit <susmit.shannigrahi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We should be in a position to satisfy requirements in West Bengal soon. I
>> can convince college authorities to start the service, but they wont agree
>> beyond WB. We do ship media from time to time on special requests. Day
>> before yesterday, I shipped two linux DVDs to a guy in Jalpaiguri.
>
>
That's very nice effort on your and your college's part.
Its not a problem when it comes to one or two DVD. I myself do send
DVDs on a regular basis.
The problem was bulk production. Your college want to do that too? If
yes, that's great.
But remember, I am talking in terms of 100s, not one or two.
BTW are you aware of this[1]?
One more thing, please do post your mail with a proper subject line.
Having "Fedora-india Digest, Vol 12, Issue 25" does not convey
_anything_ what your mail says.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/India/LocalContacts
--
Regards,
Susmit.
=============================================
ssh
0x86DD170A
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit
=============================================
15 years
Re: Fedora-india Digest, Vol 12, Issue 25
by Debayan Banerjee
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:23:21 +0530
> From: "Sankarshan (????????)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [fedora-india] Susmit's blog ... and the media bits
> To: The Fedora Project Community in India <fedora-india(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <48B7AAF1.8030907(a)gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Hi,
>
> For those who have missed it, Susmit blogged today about the fact that
> he wasn't feeling up to the task of being the face of Fedora in front of
> an audience at an Engineering College.
>
> http://susmit.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/today-i-have-a-talk-on-fedora/
>
> In this case, I believe that the buck stops with me. And I take it as a
> lesson to work on the media availability bits so that this does not get
> repeated.
>
> I thought I had (wrongly as it turns out) fixed the media availability
> bits for this particular event. So Susmit, I am sorry that you feel the
> way you do. As a Fedora Ambassador and a pioneer mirror manager, you
> don't deserve to feel that way and we intend to take care of that.
>
> Susmit is going to represent Fedora at Nagpur at an event called AXIS
> and we are going to ensure that there is media.
>
> Sometime earlier, I'd written to the list about those who would desire
> to have a set of media which they can use to meet the demands from the
> users. Barring Kushal and Debarshi no one had responded. So, if you do
> require a set of media which you intend to use to meet demands locally,
> please feel free to write to the list and let's get on with making that
> available.
We should be in a position to satisfy requirements in West Bengal soon. I
can convince college authorities to start the service, but they wont agree
beyond WB. We do ship media from time to time on special requests. Day
before yesterday, I shipped two linux DVDs to a guy in Jalpaiguri.
>
>
> It is a fairly known fact that making media bits available to every
> request and meeting the demands for bulk shipment of media is somewhat
> expensive. For that particular reason, we begun by choosing a very small
> subset of FOSS events in the country. We have been lucky in the fact
> that other events had sponsors like Nilesh (aka Electromech) who have
> come forward with support of media.
>
> Currently, I have no more F9 media with me. I expect a small run to
> happen, but that will take at least 20 days. iLUG-Delhi (and especially
> Gora) are organizing a large number of workshops and they are doing a
> production run of media again to meet the expected demands.
>
> So, what happens if you have an event to attend or organize ?
>
> [*] please let the list know about when it is going to happen
Will post as soon as it is final, and there will be enough info on
http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in .
>
> [*] put an owner to the event
> [*] put that on the event tracker page
> [*] if you get media sponsored, please follow it up
>
> Suggestions for improvement to the media bits issue are welcome.
>
> ~sankarshan--------
15 years
IRC meeting log. Aug 31, 2008. 0630 IST.
by susmit shannigrahi
<mether> kushal: meeting?
<kushal> yes
<kushal> :)
<mether> anyone else here
* susmit :)
* generalBordeaux has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out))
<mether> susmit: welcome
<susmit> mether, thanks
<mether> I think most of last week is just people recovering from
Fedora infrastructure being unavailable for sometime
<mether> but we did get a video camera to post video podcasts
<mether> or take interviews when appropriate
<kushal> :)
<mether> susmit: are you going to be attending foss.in?
<susmit> mether, yes
<mether> are you going to be presenting?
<mether> if you want to help organize the event and be the event
owner, let me know
<mether> kushal: did you get livecd-creator built ?
<susmit> why don't someone near bangalore take up? Won't it be
difficult from so much distant?
<kushal> mether, not yet
<mether> susmit: well coordination is just over email
<mether> doesnt matter where you are for the most part
<kushal> mether, need to update keys + bla bla in my personal laptop
<mether> do we have active contributors from Bangalore
<susmit> mether, will there be a Fedora Day?
<mether> yes
<mether> are you in fedora-india list?
<susmit> yes...
<mether> we have send many updates to that list
<mether> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConIndia2008
<kushal> and you also must be in foss.in list
<susmit> I know this page, I even updated myself :), but is it confirmed?
<susmit> kushal, I forgot, thanks
<mether> Nope. we cant confirm there is a cfp and we propose an agenda
<mether> thats what requires a event owner to organize it
<kushal> mether, cfp is not out yet
<mether> which is what i said
<mether> until there is a cfp
<mether> we cant confirm
<susmit> fine, there should not be much of a problem in taking up the
ownership, provided there be bit assistance :)
<mether> kushal: get the livecd-creator built. we need it in before
the beta release
<mether> of course
<kushal> mether, ok, should be done in next week
<mether> since i am hoping to get it installed by default atleast in
the kde live cd
<mether> it is critical that we follow the release schedule
<susmit> btw, finally I tried my hand in packaging, and got
muktinarrow font packaged this morning...will submit for review soon.
* mj0vy (n=sanujan(a)123.239.111.52) has joined #fedora-india
<susmit> mether, thanks for your tutorial
<mether> np
<mether> good to know
<mether> are you in fedora-fonts list?
<susmit> yes
<chacha_chaudhry> Rakesh is here
<susmit> today only :)
<mether> you might want to send a intro over there
<susmit> okies
<mether> chacha_chaudhry: hello
<chacha_chaudhry> mether: hello
<mether> we just suckered up susmit to be the event organizer for foss.in :-)
<chacha_chaudhry> :)
<chacha_chaudhry> +1
<mether> and kushal to help?
<kushal> mether, means ?>
<mether> kushal: arent you supposed to have been from bangalore?
<kushal> mether, yes :D
<mether> see
<mether> then you get to help
<kushal> heh, last year in the evening before foss.in we got stickers printed :D
<kushal> after first day I guess
<mether> chacha_chaudhry: what has been happening last week from your side
<chacha_chaudhry> I had been busy with some other stuff + packaging
<chacha_chaudhry> I have few easy to review requests if folks here are
interested -- txt2rss being one ;-)
<mether> post to list?
<chacha_chaudhry> there are few other I need to check -- yes i loved
to get vhdl-mode in BZ
<chacha_chaudhry> oh - yes will post today
<chacha_chaudhry> I keep forgetting :-/
<mether> any plans for software freedom day?
<mether> btw, everyone owning packages make sure you list them in comps.xml
<chacha_chaudhry> what is it for ?
<mether> package grouping
<kushal> brb
<mether> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CompsXml
<susmit> for SFD, we have an event here in kolkata...not sure if I can attend
<susmit> http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asiaandmiddleeast/india/ILUG-CALINFO
<mether> try to
<mether> or get someone else to
<susmit> will do
<mether> atleast it will help us get a feel of the event
<mether> if it is a important one, we need to make arrangements for
the year after ;-)
<susmit> :)
<chacha_chaudhry> mether: okay Thanks for link -- I am on fixing some
initscripts to meet LSB guidelines right now.
<mether> alright
<chacha_chaudhry> susmit: between i was there at one of workshops
being organized bu ilugd -- just to collect media from Gora
<susmit> how was the workshop?
<chacha_chaudhry> it was good.
<mether> that reminds me. what happened to fedorahosted.org projects?
<mether> did you get admin access. was content migrated over?
<susmit> not yet...not yet
<chacha_chaudhry> yes - yes I even got 1-2 students interested in
joining the project -- posted that media to them
<mether> cool
<chacha_chaudhry> it was for me mether ? :p
<mether> chacha_chaudhry: yes
<chacha_chaudhry> :)
<susmit> oh..I have a ticket for the same, so I misunderstood :)
<chacha_chaudhry> :^)
<mether> susmit: what project are you involved in
<susmit> where? #fedora-admin?
<mether> yes
<susmit> not in project...its about finding and removing all the
outdated projects from fedorahosted
<mether> ah ok
<susmit> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/714
<mether> i was referring to one of the projects that chacha_chaudhry
was involved in that migrated from indlinux
<susmit> ok :)
<susmit> we have anything else to discuss?
<mether> no. thats it
<mether> susmit: can you post the log to the list?
<susmit> sure
--
Regards,
Susmit.
=============================================
ssh
0x86DD170A
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit
=============================================
15 years
IRC meeting log. Aug 31, 2008. 0630 IST.
by susmit shannigrahi
<mether> kushal: meeting?
<kushal> yes
<kushal> :)
<mether> anyone else here
* susmit :)
* generalBordeaux has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out))
<mether> susmit: welcome
<susmit> mether, thanks
<mether> I think most of last week is just people recovering from
Fedora infrastructure being unavailable for sometime
<mether> but we did get a video camera to post video podcasts
<mether> or take interviews when appropriate
<kushal> :)
<mether> susmit: are you going to be attending foss.in?
<susmit> mether, yes
<mether> are you going to be presenting?
<mether> if you want to help organize the event and be the event
owner, let me know
<mether> kushal: did you get livecd-creator built ?
<susmit> why don't someone near bangalore take up? Won't it be
difficult from so much distant?
<kushal> mether, not yet
<mether> susmit: well coordination is just over email
<mether> doesnt matter where you are for the most part
<kushal> mether, need to update keys + bla bla in my personal laptop
<mether> do we have active contributors from Bangalore
<susmit> mether, will there be a Fedora Day?
<mether> yes
<mether> are you in fedora-india list?
<susmit> yes...
<mether> we have send many updates to that list
<mether> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConIndia2008
<kushal> and you also must be in foss.in list
<susmit> I know this page, I even updated myself :), but is it confirmed?
<susmit> kushal, I forgot, thanks
<mether> Nope. we cant confirm there is a cfp and we propose an agenda
<mether> thats what requires a event owner to organize it
<kushal> mether, cfp is not out yet
<mether> which is what i said
<mether> until there is a cfp
<mether> we cant confirm
<susmit> fine, there should not be much of a problem in taking up the
ownership, provided there be bit assistance :)
<mether> kushal: get the livecd-creator built. we need it in before
the beta release
<mether> of course
<kushal> mether, ok, should be done in next week
<mether> since i am hoping to get it installed by default atleast in
the kde live cd
<mether> it is critical that we follow the release schedule
<susmit> btw, finally I tried my hand in packaging, and got
muktinarrow font packaged this morning...will submit for review soon.
* mj0vy (n=sanujan(a)123.239.111.52) has joined #fedora-india
<susmit> mether, thanks for your tutorial
<mether> np
<mether> good to know
<mether> are you in fedora-fonts list?
<susmit> yes
<chacha_chaudhry> Rakesh is here
<susmit> today only :)
<mether> you might want to send a intro over there
<susmit> okies
<mether> chacha_chaudhry: hello
<chacha_chaudhry> mether: hello
<mether> we just suckered up susmit to be the event organizer for foss.in :-)
<chacha_chaudhry> :)
<chacha_chaudhry> +1
<mether> and kushal to help?
<kushal> mether, means ?>
<mether> kushal: arent you supposed to have been from bangalore?
<kushal> mether, yes :D
<mether> see
<mether> then you get to help
<kushal> heh, last year in the evening before foss.in we got stickers printed :D
<kushal> after first day I guess
<mether> chacha_chaudhry: what has been happening last week from your side
<chacha_chaudhry> I had been busy with some other stuff + packaging
<chacha_chaudhry> I have few easy to review requests if folks here are
interested -- txt2rss being one ;-)
<mether> post to list?
<chacha_chaudhry> there are few other I need to check -- yes i loved
to get vhdl-mode in BZ
<chacha_chaudhry> oh - yes will post today
<chacha_chaudhry> I keep forgetting :-/
<mether> any plans for software freedom day?
<mether> btw, everyone owning packages make sure you list them in comps.xml
<chacha_chaudhry> what is it for ?
<mether> package grouping
<kushal> brb
<mether> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CompsXml
<susmit> for SFD, we have an event here in kolkata...not sure if I can attend
<susmit> http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asiaandmiddleeast/india/ILUG-CALINFO
<mether> try to
<mether> or get someone else to
<susmit> will do
<mether> atleast it will help us get a feel of the event
<mether> if it is a important one, we need to make arrangements for
the year after ;-)
<susmit> :)
<chacha_chaudhry> mether: okay Thanks for link -- I am on fixing some
initscripts to meet LSB guidelines right now.
<mether> alright
<chacha_chaudhry> susmit: between i was there at one of workshops
being organized bu ilugd -- just to collect media from Gora
<susmit> how was the workshop?
<chacha_chaudhry> it was good.
<mether> that reminds me. what happened to fedorahosted.org projects?
<mether> did you get admin access. was content migrated over?
<susmit> not yet...not yet
<chacha_chaudhry> yes - yes I even got 1-2 students interested in
joining the project -- posted that media to them
<mether> cool
<chacha_chaudhry> it was for me mether ? :p
<mether> chacha_chaudhry: yes
<chacha_chaudhry> :)
<susmit> oh..I have a ticket for the same, so I misunderstood :)
<chacha_chaudhry> :^)
<mether> susmit: what project are you involved in
<susmit> where? #fedora-admin?
<mether> yes
<susmit> not in project...its about finding and removing all the
outdated projects from fedorahosted
<mether> ah ok
<susmit> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/714
<mether> i was referring to one of the projects that chacha_chaudhry
was involved in that migrated from indlinux
<susmit> ok :)
<susmit> we have anything else to discuss?
<mether> no. thats it
<mether> susmit: can you post the log to the list?
<susmit> sure
--
Regards,
Susmit.
=============================================
ssh
0x86DD170A
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit
=============================================
15 years
Event Report: TechTrix '08
by susmit shannigrahi
Hi,
As I said on 29th, I had a talking event at a local engineering college.
As the day progressed, excitement grew.
It was morning when the organisers called us up and asked if they
could shift our talk to open stage. They were having space problem :)
No, we said. we are no bollywood stars..are we?
Around 10:30, we assembled. It was around 11:10 when we reached the college.
Upon entering the room we found that there was around ~100 students,
mostly from first and second year. Unfortunately, there was a power
cut as soon as we entered the room and though they had backup and
generators, they were unable to fix it.
Time was running and audience was getting bored, so we decided to
start without the microphone and projector.
First was the talk by Indranil Das Gupta, upon enquiring the audience
let us know, that they have heard of Linux in general, they have no
detailed idea but now that they have an opportunity want to know
specifically what Fedora and Linux was all about.
And there was the HOD of the Computer Sc. who wanted to know more
about Fedora as they were migrating a whole lab to Fedora.
Interestingly, a few students honestly confessed that they were here
because the tech fest was on and they had to come to it anyway. ;)
In the middle of talk, power came back and everything was back to normal.
After that there was my talk[1]. The audience was listening to it
carefully, they asked a few questions, and after the talk a few came
up to me and asked that they have already installed Fedora and they
were having such and such problems. As I didn't have much time, I told
them to follow it up with mail.
The scenario there is not much encouraging, as people never heard of
sourceforge and kernel et. al., but that give us a lot of opportunity
to teach them new things.
What I found, they have a LUG, had an install fest and then they had
no idea how to proceed.
So, I talked to them and asked them to make it a in a workshop format.
Probably, I shall go back there soon. :)
Next, Sayamindu from OLPC spoke, and demoed the sugar desktop, people
was entertained. Unfortunately, time ran out and he had to cut his
speech short. (He did a 2 hour presentation in ~20 minutes :D.)
So that was all about the event.
On our return leg, there was rain, so we had to walk a bit, cross a
bamboo bridge with toll tax....("bamboo bridge with a toll tax") and
went into the china town to have some nice...but that's a different
story. :)
Thanks.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Final1.pdf
--
Regards,
Susmit.
=============================================
ssh
0x86DD170A
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit
=============================================
15 years
Re: Fedora-india Digest, Vol 12, Issue 25
by Debayan Banerjee
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:36:31 +0530
> From: Kushal Das <kushaldas(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [fedora-india] Re: Request for support to Install Fest at NIT
> Durgapur on 25th, 26th, 27th September
> To: fedora-india(a)redhat.com
> Message-ID: <200808291236.31706.kushaldas(a)gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> On Monday 25 August 2008 12:18:32 pm Debayan Banerjee wrote:
> > O ok. I will find out who does that work here.
> Any update on the quotes ?
Not yet... we are still looking for media replication and printing houses in
Durgapur. Will get back to you as soon as we do.
>
>
> Kushal
> --
15 years
Susmit's blog ... and the media bits
by sankarshan
Hi,
For those who have missed it, Susmit blogged today about the fact that
he wasn't feeling up to the task of being the face of Fedora in front of
an audience at an Engineering College.
http://susmit.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/today-i-have-a-talk-on-fedora/
In this case, I believe that the buck stops with me. And I take it as a
lesson to work on the media availability bits so that this does not get
repeated.
I thought I had (wrongly as it turns out) fixed the media availability
bits for this particular event. So Susmit, I am sorry that you feel the
way you do. As a Fedora Ambassador and a pioneer mirror manager, you
don't deserve to feel that way and we intend to take care of that.
Susmit is going to represent Fedora at Nagpur at an event called AXIS
and we are going to ensure that there is media.
Sometime earlier, I'd written to the list about those who would desire
to have a set of media which they can use to meet the demands from the
users. Barring Kushal and Debarshi no one had responded. So, if you do
require a set of media which you intend to use to meet demands locally,
please feel free to write to the list and let's get on with making that
available.
It is a fairly known fact that making media bits available to every
request and meeting the demands for bulk shipment of media is somewhat
expensive. For that particular reason, we begun by choosing a very small
subset of FOSS events in the country. We have been lucky in the fact
that other events had sponsors like Nilesh (aka Electromech) who have
come forward with support of media.
Currently, I have no more F9 media with me. I expect a small run to
happen, but that will take at least 20 days. iLUG-Delhi (and especially
Gora) are organizing a large number of workshops and they are doing a
production run of media again to meet the expected demands.
So, what happens if you have an event to attend or organize ?
[*] please let the list know about when it is going to happen
[*] put an owner to the event
[*] put that on the event tracker page
[*] if you get media sponsored, please follow it up
Suggestions for improvement to the media bits issue are welcome.
~sankarshan
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