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Event Report Mukt.in
by Siddharth Upmanyu 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi All, Here goes the event report for Mukt.in a FOSS event held at Hyderabad, India http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents#Asia.2C_India.2C_Australia Mukt.in happened on 1,2,3 Aug in Osmina University Campus, Hyderabad. I reached there on 2nd morning, got registered and started off with attending the welcome session... My talk was scheduled on 3rd at 12 noon so I had some time to interact with people earlier. There were quite a few representations, there were Debian folks, Ubuntu, GSoC guys and many more.. The attending people were mostly those who started using Linux not so long ago, and so there were a mix of non-tech and tech sessions. I started off when queries regarding Fedora, installations and like that began to pour in, I was traveling with my laptop running partial Rawhide, I demoed some features, how Fedoraproject is organized and how to join in... some DVDs were burned and distributed along. Later we also had a mini install fest where a few people were interested in installing Fedora on the Laptops they got with them got the F9 installed, Later in the day i attended some sessions on OpenMoko, Indichix ( http://linuxchix.org ) Ruby... and also distributed Fedora Media. ---- On 3rd I was told that there might be some change in the timings for the schedule but later it came out that my talk was at same time 12 noon. As it happened rain scared off some of the people and there were less then expected audience, I gave an overview of how things at Fedoraproject works, how distros become different because of choices made by the downstream even if the upstream for all the code is same(the Fedora philosophy), and of course how and why to participate. there were lot of questions regarding how to get started, what exactly to do and how Fedora does things, and although there were some problems with connecting to the net I explained the process to join and participate at different Projects. in the end of the session demos were shown for Live CD/USB (many people were interested in Live USB and got one in the end ), and also the Fedora Media distribution. ----- The report is available at http://www.techbugs.org/wiki/MuktIN I'll update the page as soon as i get the snaps for the event from organizers. Regards Siddharth

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error during installation using kickstart file
by shantanu choudhary 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

hello all, i am using this kick-start file to automate installation problem, everything goes fine until i enable interactive option, because after that it start giving error related to: time configuration /Asia/Calcutta. and installation stops, i have no problem installing system in text mode, but still if this is some bug or any other change is required to make it work, do let me know. this spin/configuration is for installing fedora having some set of packages and support to various Indian languages.... #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T #version=F8 # Root password rootpw --iscrypted $1$dzGlKjKs$HgW6XYbAUcg6KC144tVJu0 # System authorization information auth --useshadow --passalgo=md5 # Use graphical install text # Firewall configuration firewall --disabled firstboot --disable # Use interactive kickstart installation method text # System keyboard keyboard us # System language lang en_US # SELinux configuration selinux --enforcing # Install OS instead of upgrade install # Use CDROM installation media cdrom # System timezone timezone Asia/Calcutta # X Window System configuration information xconfig --defaultdesktop=GNOME --depth=8 --resolution=640x480 --startxonboot # System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr # Partition clearing information clearpart --none %packages @office @mysql @admin-tools @editors @punjabi-support @hindi-support @fonts @gujarati-support @gnome-desktop @authoring-and-publishing @base @kannada-support @malayalam-support @telugu-support @tamil-support @base-x @graphics @dial-up @oriya-support @assamese-support @bengali-support @legacy-fonts @sound-and-video @marathi-support @graphical-internet im-chooser scim-input-pad -gimp-help -evolution -evolution-help %end also i would like to know if this configuration, and spin i created is useful to some-one let me know where i can post it or upload it so that others can use it. One more thing i wanted to ask was what is difference between normal bootable full DVD, and a DVD containing a kick start file, i mean if we simply add kickstart file to bootable fedora DVD, installation wont start via kick start file, so what is way to add kick-start configuration in boot-menu apart from using revisor to create spin having all the packages. thank you regards shantanu ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using SquirrelMail. "Webmail for nuts!" http://squirrelmail.org/

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Griffith rpm
by Swati Sani 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi, I saw some screen shots of Griffith (http://griffith.cc) today. Griffith is a media collection manager application and very useful for anyone who collects movie VCD and DVD´ś . Sadly, I could not find find an RPM to install it on my box running F9. I am hoping that helpful people here will come to my rescue :) I am an absoloute non-techie and incapable of doing it myself Cheers! Swati Sani -- ======================================================= Custom Made High Performance PHP Applications SANIsoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. http://sanisoft.com =======================================================

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Is there a page on the wiki that does ...
by sankarshan 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

... collect the details (e-mail) of the GSoC candidates from India on The Fedora Project over the years ? If not, how best to get the data ? -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

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Fedora Talk at SCIT
by Neependra Khare 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hello, I went to SCIT(www.scit.edu) to judge the event the called 'OS-MAZE' on 02/08/08, which was the part of their tech fest called "Techie-Kaun-08". http://techiekaun08.scit.edu/ For 'OS-MAZE' there were two rounds:- a. Written b. Hands-On. They conducted 'Written' round in the morning (9:45-10:45) and the 'Hands-On' round was from 2:30 to 4:30 PM. Students from different colleges attended the event.Around 30-35 were selected for 'Hands-On' round.Out of these 5 students were for the Linux platform and rest of them were for Windows platform. I reached there at 2:30 and presented the session on Fedora.I got 15 minutes time slot for the presentation.I used following presentation:- http://mspevack.fedorapeople.org/talks/fedora.pdf The presentation was attended by the students who were selected for the 'Hands-On' round.Some of the faculty members of SCIT also attended the presentation. 90% of the attendees heard about Fedora/FOSS and showed good interest in the presentation. I started my presentation by giving some history about Fedora and went over the slides.They were amazed by looking at slide #8 which mentions "320,000 Fedora boxes checked in for updates last week" and have a map.They also appreciated the slide #12, which describes the Fedora logo. I then followed rest of the slides.We then had a small discussion in which we talked about the various means by which we can contribute to the Fedora project. Then I distributed the stickers and batches. Also while judging the 'Hands-On' round students requested me to suggest them some projects.I requested them to look at Fedora site.Specially at :- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList Three out of four winners was from SICSR.I requested them to contact me later. http://symbiosiscomputers.com/v5/home/index.php Here are some pics of the event:- http://picasaweb.google.com/neependra.khare/TechieKaun08 Regards, Neependra http://techieneeps.blogspot.com/

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free media query..
by ankur sinha 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

hi,how do you redirect a free-media request to local contacts?? Do we email the person requesting? Do i still reply saying "I accept this request" ?? eg ::There is this request from "Voon Kashin" who is in Manipal itself.. I can give it to him in person.. :-D regards,Ankur Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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pls help
by daulat rathod 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

dear friends i very sad about to say the fedora is not os the system is very slow in downloading update pls me to make me fast update

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[Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] NIXI representative visiting Mumbai]
by sankarshan 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ILUG-BOM] NIXI representative visiting Mumbai Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:52:38 +0530 From: Pradeepto Bhattacharya <pradeeptob(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> Hi, Sending this mail on behalf of Devdas Bhagat who asked me to relay this message to the list since he doesn't have internet access until tomorrow night or such. Mr. Rajesh, of NIXI ( www.nixi.in / The National Internet eXchange of India ) will be in Mumbai on Monday, 4th of August. He would be visiting the Directi office in Mumbai and would be very interested to meet LUG members. One of agenda for the meeting is for sponsoring bandwidth for foss projects or foss setups like - local copy of sf.net, debian/fedora/ubuntu/yourfavdistro, indlinux mirrors. NIXI is very interested in going ahead with this idea and have had meetings regarding this with the ilug-del. Directi has expressed interest in sponsoring the hardware for the same cause. Lug members who are interested in meeting up with Mr. Rajesh to discuss the above are very welcome and encouraged to join Devdas and others at Directi office ( Malad ) for lunch or later. JFYI, Mr. Rajesh will be leaving on Monday evening itself. Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

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today's meeting logs
by Rakesh Pandit 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Hello list, Today we had meet at #fedora-india (irc.freenode.net) at 6:30pm. Some highlights : - Some events round the corner in nagpur, Hydrabadh and Durgapur (still in planning) Please consider updating for any event on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents - Consider posting thoughts to this thread about fedora publications and media related activities: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2008-July/msg00106.html - In case you are working on anything related to Fedora -- consider pointing in list ;-) e.g kushal is working on blog aggregation tool (http://kushal.fedorapeople.org/post.py) asked for at http://spevack.livejournal.com/59491.html In case I missed some important points , please add on. In case you missed today -- don't miss it next time same time same place. Meeting log: Roll Call then Rahul Sundaram <chacha_chaudhry> Rakesh Pandit <techbugs> SiddharthUpmanyu <kushal> KushalDas <mintos> Minto Joseph <mether> ok mintos: Do you want to introduce yourself ;-) for the good news last week <mintos> Yea I am pretty new with community activities.. <chacha_chaudhry> nice, /me waiting for good news <munichlinux> prashanth <mether> chacha_chaudhry: has been sponsored and became a official package maintainer with two new packages: sitecopy and dnrd under his belt http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/?p=76 <mether> and many more on review <kushal> chacha_chaudhry, once again , congrats :) <techbugs> cool <chacha_chaudhry> Thanks :) <techbugs> congrats <chacha_chaudhry> :-) <mether> mintos, Minto Joseph has became a official package maintainer too starting with padauk-fonts <chacha_chaudhry> Congrats mintos <mintos> thank you . :) <mether> chacha_chaudhry: will pass on the list of packages he has submitted that are waiting on review to fedora-india list. If anyone is interested in reviewing packages (as you all should be), that would be a good place to get started <kushal> mintos, congrats <chacha_chaudhry> I will post just after meet <mintos> thankyou kushal ok mintos munichlinux mether <chacha_chaudhry> mether: I haven't started fonts yet :( <mether> sm|CPU: posted a query about keeping track of Fedora related publications or media activities in https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2008-July/msg00106.html if you haven't read it, take a look and feel free to offer your suggestions <chacha_chaudhry> news wiki is good idea in my view <mether> There are foss events planned at Nagpur and one in Hyderabad. is anyone planning to attend either? <techbugs> HYD ? when is that one scheduled? <mether> thttp://mukt.in/ <chacha_chaudhry> susmit was planning to attend nagpur I am not sure though <mether> 1-3 Aug Osmania university campus <techbugs> hmmm it is possible to go.. i'll say 50.50.. let me go thought it for a min <mether> I had a couple of invitations from the folks organizing the event for mukt.in but it is unlikely I would be able to travel if someone local to the event is attending, that would be great <techbugs> our local Fedora guy in hyd is not in town this month <chacha_chaudhry> :-/ /me very far away <mether> noone from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CategoryAmbassadorsIndia? I will go through the list and find if anyone is in those places or nearby it and check with them <techbugs> mether .. is there any conveyance they r providing or we have to do our own <mether> techbugs: which event are you asking? <techbugs> mukti.in s/i// <mether> I dont think so but if you are nearby and willing to travel, we might look into funding that from the Fedora India budget <techbugs> I can traver that weekend.. i am free <mether> contact me or sm|CPU online and we will look err offline <techbugs> ok sure.. <mether> anyone know of any other foss events before foss.in? <chacha_chaudhry> no <mether> when you come across any, please update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents <kushal> mether, a small chance of arranging "A Day with Fedora" in Durgapur <chacha_chaudhry> no idea I mean <kushal> mether, very small though <mether> kushal: alright, you might want to update the events page nevertheless to plan for it. <kushal> mether, first I have to plan to organize the event in any case :p <mether> of course, make this part of your plan mintos munichlinux mether <kushal> mether, ok <mether> do we have anyone new and interested in contributing here? <kushal> here == ? <mether> Lakshmi Pathi said he was going to package his own utilities at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2008-July/msg00085.html might want to followup on that kushal: here = hanging in irc now <kushal> oh, ok <mether> techbugs: didnt you sign up to maintain the Fedora developers spin or was it someone else? <kushal> mether, Soumya is trying to go through the basics of packaging , he will join the team I guess :) <mether> kushal: yep. I will keep a tab on that <techbugs> mether yap it was me... trying a few combos for Cd and DVD <mintos> I am planning to package few more packages .. <techbugs> mether i was hoping to pass some patches this weekend but went down with cold <mether> techbugs: alright, let me know when you are ready. We need to plan it out and propose it before the feature freeze for Fedora 10 <techbugs> mether ok <mether> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule <kushal> mintos, cool :) <mether> mintos: when you propose it you might want to post a note in Fedora india list <mintos> mether, yea sure I will <mether> and for everyone else too, if you are doing something related to Fedora, announce that in the list so the rest of us are aware of it and can help or join the effort that is especially true for things in new package proposals where you need someone else to do the peer reviews but other things are good to know too anything else people want to talk about or got questions to ask? <kushal> I have some thing to say: <mether> go ahead, the stage is yours <kushal> I am working on blog aggregation tool, which will blog Fedora announce list's mails as asked by speavak http://fedoraannounce.wordpress.com/ ^^ is the blog initial version of the code can be found http://kushal.fedorapeople.org/post.py <EOF> <mether> Max Spevack (who is the previous Fedora Project leader for those not in the loop) asked for it at http://spevack.livejournal.com/59491.html <kushal> ok, I typed wrong name :( <mether> which one? <kushal> spevack :p <mether> ah, thats ok Is this time convenient for everyone? <chacha_chaudhry> yes <kushal> yes <mintos> yes seems interesting <techbugs> yes <mether> alright then if nobody else has anything else to announce or ask, We will end the meeting here <chacha_chaudhry> just one query I was looking at gnusound http://www.gnu.org/software/gnusound/ <mether> and <chacha_chaudhry> it has ffmpeg as one of its requirements which is not in fedora official repo but present at livna <mether> unless the requirement is optional, the entire package has to go to livna or other third party repositories too <chacha_chaudhry> requirement is optional <mether> then you can push the main package into Fedora and put the optional components if any to livna <chacha_chaudhry> mether: is it required to package ffmpeg for fedora or we can leave that okay yes <mether> you cannot package ffmpeg in Fedora due to patent concerns <chacha_chaudhry> yes that I though earlier but did not dig that deep <mether> in general, if there is any package in livna, it is there because of legal concerns or licensing issues <chacha_chaudhry> mether: if there are same issues with other package where it is not even in livna then -- is it good that I package that requirement for livna ? <kushal> chacha_chaudhry, yes <chacha_chaudhry> okay <mether> chacha_chaudhry: yes, the software should allow at the minimum redistribute rights for livna to accept it <chacha_chaudhry> okay <mether> some proprietary software like adobe reader can be downloaded individually by the user but they cannot be packaged and redistributed so livna is not a "anything goes" kind of repository <chacha_chaudhry> there are many other packages in orphan list actively maintained upstream and important -- we may also consider looking at some whether we can pick them okay <mether> right there are two classes of packages orphaned and dead <chacha_chaudhry> yes <mether> orphaned = maintainers lost interest and orphaned it <chacha_chaudhry> I had a dig at this list these needs some work some dead packages are also in wish list <mether> dead = maintainers orphaned it and marked it as dead for good reasons and you probably shouldnt bring them back, atleast not without getting to know why it is marked as dead in the first place <chacha_chaudhry> yes okay <mether> these include, opyum which was marked as dead because pirut has been replaced by packagekit which is growing that functionality <chacha_chaudhry> okay <mether> chacha_chaudhry: your case is similar to xine-lib in Fedora <chacha_chaudhry> okay /me checking ... <mether> the free and patent unencumbered portions are in Fedora the rest is in livna <chacha_chaudhry> okay good :) <mether> if you are a official package maintainer, the guidelines is just the same and you dont require separate sponsorship there <chacha_chaudhry> nice <mether> the only bits that are different is the licensing portions <chacha_chaudhry> mether: okay -- may you point in brief what ? I mean what is that difference <mether> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines are not applicable to livna they allow proprietary or potentially patent encumbered components <chacha_chaudhry> okay <mether> also note that livna and other repos are getting merged into http://rpmfusion.org I am not involved in that effort but ask in their channels or mailing lists for more details <chacha_chaudhry> okay nice -- Rakesh Pandit

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Packaging walk-through for new contributors
by Rahul Sundaram 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Hi, Thanks for all participating in the IRC session on packaging yesterday. I am thinking of doing a packaging walk through with new contributor(s) on coming Sunday on our regular timing at 6:30 PM. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/India/Meetings At the end of the session, you will have a package (that is not in the repository yet) that you can submit for review. Ankur? and others, if anyone is a completely new contributor and want to sign up to be a package maintainer and developer in Fedora, let me know. Basic reading material: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CreatingPackageHowTo https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines Rahul

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