Meeting minutes for 17/08/2008
by soumya chakraborty
Hi All
Today we had a meeting at *#fedora-india* at 6.30 PM IST
Those who missed it, here is the **meeting logs** :--
<kushal> --MEETING STARTED--
<kushal> Roll Call please
<kushal> KushalDas
<ria> Ria Das
<Soumya> SoumyaChakraborty
<kushal> no one else ?
<kushal> Bonaparte, chacha_chaudhry generalBordeaux mavu sankarshan
tuxmaniac meeting ?
<generalBordeaux> kushal, thanks for the ping :)
<generalBordeaux> present sir :D
<Bonaparte> SudheerSatyanarayana
<kushal> generalBordeaux, roll call
* sankarshan nods
<mavu> Satya Komaragiri
<tuxmaniac> Aanjhan. jsut a passer by :-)
<kushal> :)
<generalBordeaux> \o/
<kushal> so , we can start ...
<generalBordeaux> agenda?
<kushal> Foss.in dates announced
<kushal> that means , many things needs to be taken care of
<kushal> Nov 25 - Nov 29th this year
<kushal> in Bangalore
<kushal> First of all , we are planning to have a proper Fedora stall this
year.
<Bonaparte> ?
<kushal> need volunteer to manage that :)
<kushal> Bonaparte, yes
<Bonaparte> kushal, is there a wiki link describing what is planned for the
event?
<kushal> Bonaparte, nothing yet, thanks for volunteering to make that page
<kushal> :)
<kushal> Bonaparte, main idea as we discussed before here is :
<Bonaparte> kushal, I sure can. I hope I won't do a sloppy job volunteering
for that
<kushal> To have more workshops than talks
<Bonaparte> Having workshops makes more sense
<sankarshan> wasn't there a page summing up the earlier plans ?
<kushal> sankarshan, I am bad with wiki links
<kushal> sankarshan, may be mether made one
<sankarshan> yeah i guess so, grokking my inbox for that
<kushal> btw, all people please read this
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00009...
<Bonaparte> kushal, what is needed to have a Fedora stall?
<Soumya> kushal, its already in the planet
<kushal> Bonaparte, Volunteers first, then some demonstration , liveusb
buring station
<sankarshan> http://morpheus.fedorapeople.org/fudcon/fudcon@foss.in was the
note that got wikified
* sankarshan goes to whack Firefox, open damnit
<Bonaparte> kushal, I am willing to offer my time and whatever resources I
can for the event
<sankarshan> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConIndia2008 is the
page
<sankarshan> the dates need to be rejigged
<kushal> Bonaparte, cool, so we can take your name for the stall
<kushal> sankarshan, thanks for the links :)
<Bonaparte> kushal, yes, you can
<sankarshan> and while foss.in or, more precisely FUDCon(a)foss.in is a major
focus, there are other events at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RegionalTeams/India/EventTracker
* sankarshan notes that the EventTracker page does not have mukt.in listed
although tuxmaniac and techbugs did a fine job
<kushal> So we can see details on the FUDCON page
<kushal> one of the major target is packaging sessions
<kushal> for which we started to have irc based sessions
* mj0vy (n=sanujan(a)123.239.211.252) has joined #fedora-india
<kushal> then create your own spin sessions :)
* empLinux (i=empoweri(a)61.1.196.198) has joined #fedora-india
<sankarshan> Umm.. ok, so if you have read the plans by now, the idea is to
have a set of activities as opposed to a 'set of talks'
<sankarshan> Talks are good, but with the kind of stuff that's happening
around Fedora right now, it would be nice to have a constant set of tasks at
foss.in
<empLinux> Hello friends..
<sankarshan> That means that if there are any aspects which you would like
to demonstrate, show, talk, have a workshop around - hit fedora-india
mailing list with the idea
<kushal> Anyone has anything else to talk about ?
<Bonaparte> Yes
<Bonaparte> I have come across few software that are not in the Fedora repo
<Bonaparte> Would someone like to add them?
* mavu_ is now known as mavu
<kushal> Bonaparte, you can start package them, and also put them in the
wish list
<Bonaparte> kushal, I wish I had more time to contribute packages to Fedora
<Bonaparte> Wishlist sounds like a good idea
<kushal> ok, so if no other issues we can call the meeting's end
<kushal> 5
<kushal> 4
<kushal> 3
<kushal> 2
<kushal> 1
<kushal> --MEETING ENDS--
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[Fwd: [foss.in] FOSS.IN/2008: Event Announcement]
by sankarshan
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [foss.in] FOSS.IN/2008: Event Announcement
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:02:36 +0530 (IST)
From: Atul Chitnis <listadmin(a)linux-bangalore.org>
Reply-To: foss-in(a)yahoogroups.com
To: FOSS.IN <foss-in(a)yahoogroups.com>
Happy Indian Independence Day, everyone!
Team FOSS.IN is happy to announce that this year's edition of Asia's
biggest Free and Open Source Software contributor conference will be held
on November 25th to 29th, 2008, at the National Science Symposium Centre,
of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
As always, this event is focused on actual contribution to FOSS projects,
not evangelism or advocacy, in line with the event motto
"Talk is cheap - show me the code"
The conference website at http://foss.in will have all the information
you will need about the event, including the Call for Participation,
schedules, speaker, volunteer and delegate registration, etc. The website
is currently being populated, and will be opened over the next couple of
days.
To stay informed about the event and to participate in the discussions
about it, subscribe to the event mailing list at http://foss.in/list,
follow the FOSS.IN Twitter account at http://twitter.com/fossdotin,
subscribe to the website's RSS feed at http://foss.in/feed, or simply keep
an eye on the website at http://foss.in
Cheerio!
Atul Chitnis
Project Lead
FOSS.IN
http://foss.in
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Can anyone around Delhi please take this up?
by susmit shannigrahi
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: arshan abbas <arshan.abbas(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:09 AM
Subject: fedora
To: thinklinux.ssh(a)gmail.com
Hi,
I am a resident of Okhla, New Delhi. Can you please mail me some address from
where I can burn a copy of latest fedora.
My contact no is +919999051501
With Regards
Arshan Abbas
Student
MBA | CMS | 2007-2009
My address:
Arshan Abbas
Centre for Management Studies,
Jamia Millia Islamia,
Jamia Nagar, New Delhi
pin code 110025
mobile # +919999051501
--
Regards,
Susmit.
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[report] Guest Lecture at SICSR -- An Introduction to open source software
by steve
Hi,
A few days back the students from 1st and 2nd Year MSc (C.A.) at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research(SICSR) invited one of us from Red Hat to conduct a guest lecture for which I volunteered. This talk was held on Mon, 11 Aug 2008. The topic was -- An Introduction to open source software.
There were some 60 odd students who had a general awareness of linux and open source, so it was easy to talk to them. The Master's course at SICSR apparently has a few electives which are designed around OSS and as such the institute itself is very OSS friendly (after all Harshad Gune, one of the elected board members of OSI, is a lecturer at SICSR !).
Although the talk was supposed to last for an hour, I overshot it by almost 40mins. (I am lousy at presentations !). The bright side is, we didn't hear any snoring (at least not discernible !). Most of the kids were pretty enthusiastic and we had some animated discussion about the merits of OSS, the business models, the challenges OSS faces and other randomness.
The response were quite nice and I am sure I managed to sell OSS and a bit of Fedora to at least some of the more impressionable minds in the audience :) !
Anyways, the slides for the talk (the original .odp as well as the .pdf) are attached to this mail. Hope someone finds them useful (Surprisingly, I did not find much in way of slides or presentations through google for real basic introduction to OSS -- so hope this gets picked up eventually).
regards,
- steve
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Fwd: [Fwd: Fedora Test Day - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - Encrypted installs and Plymouth]
by Debarshi Ray
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul W. Frields <pfrields(a)redhat.com>
Date: 2008/8/12
Subject: [Fwd: Fedora Test Day - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - Encrypted
installs and Plymouth]
To: fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com, fedora-announce-list
<fedora-announce-list(a)redhat.com>
For people interested in contributing through testing, the upcoming
Fedora Test Day on Thursday is a great opportunity! The #fedora-qa
channel on IRC Freenode is always open in case you want to join early or
help in some other way.
Paul
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: James Laska <jlaska(a)redhat.com>
> Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
> To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
> Subject: Fedora Test Day - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - Encrypted
> installs and Plymouth
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:00:53 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Greetings,
>
> Wanted to invite folks to join #fedora-qa this Thursday, August 14,
> 2008 for a Fedora Test Day. The topic for this test day is Encrypted
> installs and Plymouth. Perhaps slightly aggressive, but each are
> closely related so it made sense to combine the events.
>
> There will be a cast of testers and developers on hand between 8am -
> 5pm EDT (12:00 - 21:00 UTC) to help guide testing, answer questions,
> triage and troubleshoot issues.
>
> Want to get involved? You don't have to be an experienced developer
> or tester to join the fun. There are plenty of activities that need
> your help, all leveraging different skill sets.
>
> For example ...
> * Triage existing issues
> * Validate fixes
> * Exploratory testing
> * Test execution
> * Documentation
>
> For more details, please stay tuned to
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2008-08-14.
>
> Hope to see you in #fedora-qa this Thursday!
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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Re: [Ambassadors] An Event in VIT-VELLORE, Need People to give talk on Fedora
by sankarshan
karthik parvathaneni wrote:
[snip]
> Leaving that aside, We (Myself and Satish Eerpini , the Fedora
> Ambassador of Secunderabad) are planning to conduct an event under
> LUG(Linux User Group)@VIT for Freshmen to create awareness about Fedora
> Project. We are Planning to do as an Event where the Fedora Ambassadors
> can come and Speak about their Experience on using Fedora and Linux in
> general. We have planned to Invite someone form the Fedora Commitee to
> come aswell. Regarding the accomodation for the commitee members, we
> will take care. We just need you guys to come to our college and share
> your valuable Experience with us. This way, we would like to promote
> fedora at our college and aswell get freshers knowing the power of open
> source.
[snip]
As an alternative to spending on a member from the Fedora Committee(s)
or Boards, you could consider having a video conference. Paul did that
for the NIT Calicut meet and by all reports it was a success.
Additionally, there are a significant number of developers and
contributors to Fedora out of India who would be an excellent resource
pool to talk, demonstrate and share insights into Fedora as a project
and as a community.
Hop on to #fedora-india on any given Sunday at around 1830 hours India
time for regular meetings and exchange of notes.
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