Do we have any activity in Rajasthan?
by Ayush Maheshwari
Hi to all fedora lovers and to whomsoever it may concern,
We are second year students of information technology and electronics and
comm engg. and fedora ambassadors in a city of raj. known as Kota...the
people where are only known to windows only......
They even have not heard about linux or any other os..
We are here with a challenging task to make fedora replace windows....?
as we are very young and less aware of much of the knowledge about the
fedora kernel,its superiority over windows and like that....so we want to
conduct workshops and seminars based on d same but problems are
many...semester exams,lack of budget,lack of material to be distributed on
fedora...n lots more..
we have installed F10 on pcs and laptops of 17 of our peers but their
comments and problems makes it very difficult 4 them to switch it over
windows!!!
The point we'd like to raise here is that if any ambassador from Rajasthan
like to organise workshop in the state since our peers like to attend such
kind of activity & we are in dire need of that.We are absolutely aware of
the fact that learning is a continuous process & we need to have patience
and commitment but we are looking,with desperation, forward to engage in
some serious learning of Fedora & sharing it too!!!
Does any Fedora Ambassador from Rajasthan listening????
Ayush Maheshwari(hakmn AT fedoraproject DOT org)
Gaurav Agarwal(gauravagrawal AT fedoraproject DOT org)
Univ . College of Engg.,RTU,
Kota(Raj.)
14 years, 10 months
Re: [fedora-india] Fedora Indian Language remixes
by shantanu choudhary
Hello all,
I have also worked on creating Fedora 8 and 9 local language distribution
using kickstart files.I used them with Fedora DVD only, cause i was told
that we don't have option of installing system using liveCD(pardon me if i
am wrong,will try to confirm it on my personal account asap), and i was
targeting installable media. I posted here earlier too related to problems i
faced with kickstrat files and other things. But in the end i was successful
in providing minimal features which were installed by default.
I was targetting all the Indian languages available irrespective of there
effort and percentage of translation.(Hindi, bengali, assamese, tamil,
telgu, oriya, punjabi, malyalam, gujrati, marathi)
Here is the list of packages i was targeting:
- Gnome desktop environment.
- OpenOffice.
- Scribus.
- GIMP.
- scim with local language support(.
- mozilla-firefox.
- pidgin.
Please don't take this list of packages as point of discussion, it was just
my personal prefrence. So in case we can install using liveCD, and can have
these packages in CD, i would be happy to volunteer for helping you out. As
far as customization is concerned, i have used revisor, and am comfortable
with kickstart files. I have never tried to create LiveCD's. Else will try
to fit kickstart file in normal DVD's only and let you know of final status.
In case you have some plan or suggestion's let me know.
I am also available with nick 'baali' on #fedora-india channel.
Regards
Shantanu Choudhary
14 years, 11 months
Indefero
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
It's a relatively new one. Best described as a Google Code clone app
written in PHP and supports multiple dscm's. Anyone wants to package?
Might be useful for Fedora infrastructure at some point.
http://www.indefero.net/
Rahul
14 years, 11 months
Tip of the day: Package Groups
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
You are probably already familiar with the concept of groupinstall in
yum which allows for example, installing LXDE desktop environment in one
go.
# yum grouplist - shows a list of groups
# yum groupinstall "SUGAR Desktop Environment" - installs sugar
environment developed for OLPC.
Unlike meta packages which are essentially empty packages which depends
on a set of other packages, groups (defined via comps.xml) is more
flexible and doesn't require rebuilding packages to redefine the set to
be installed and can have mandatory, default, optional and conditional
types.
The format is defined in more detail at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CompsXml
* Mandatory - selected by default and cannot be unselected during
installation
* Default - selected by default but can be unselected
* Optional - not selected by default
* Mandatory - selected depending on the presence of other packages
The last one is interesting. If you want say, Hindi support, you can do
# yum groupinstall hindi-support
This can optionally pull in the Openoffice.org hindi support sub-package
depending on whether or not, Openoffice.org was already installed. yum
groupinfo on any particular group would let you know, what each group
contains and the types of various packages as well.
Hidden groups:
-------------
Groups can also be defined as hidden by package maintainers so that it
is not normally end user visible. Language support groups are normally
hidden. If you would like to see such groups, you can do
# yum grouplist hidden
The @ trick
------------
In the good old days of up2date, groups used to be indicated with @ and
this is the same in kickstart as well. Recently this has been added to
yum as well. So instead of doing yum groupinstall foo, you can very well
do yum install @foo. This works for all the other yum commands as well.
Aliases
-------
Many of the groups have an alias defined in comps.xml file. Normally
when users want to figure out, how to install a group, they do a yum
grouplist and then copy paste that to the groupinstall. Instead, if you
note the alias, it is much easier to type. Combing that with the @ trick
mentioned earlier, you can for example, do
# yum install @sugar-desktop.
This works well for say kde-desktop or lxde-desktop as well. I don't
think yum supports listing aliases directly so I generally lookup, the
xml file itself at
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/comps/comps-f10.xml.in?view=markup
There are dozens of yum plugins if you want to list more data. We will
look at those another day. Hope that helps.
Rahul
14 years, 11 months
FYI: Upcoming events and event reports
by sankarshan
To facilitate event planning and participation, here is a list of a few
of the upcoming events :
- Taqneeq at BOM (in progress today and tomorrow)
- IOTA Convention on FOSS at CCU (end Dec)
- TechKriti at IIT Kanpur (mid Feb)
- GNUnify at PNQ (mid Feb)
- Freed.in at DEL (end Feb)
Apart from the above, I have sketchy information about Techfest2009 at
IIT Mumbai (http://techfest.org/competitions/crypt-o-logic/codewars/)
and no reports on Open Source Summit 2008 at HYD (Nikhil Bharadwaj had
responded to a call about this event on the list)
The Ambassadors and the local contacts at these regions may please take
note so as to ensure a healthy turnout and participation from the Fedora
Project. /me requests Susmit to help out here.
Additionally, FOSS.IN event reports are yet to come in from a few of
those who attended (you know who you are ;) no need for me to name names)
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14 years, 11 months
Joining Planet Fedora
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
I still get questions on this now and then, so here are my details.
Planet Fedora, the aggregation of blogs at
http://planet.fedoraproject.org is for a while, a self service scheme.
If you have a Fedora account (this is trivially easy to get by clicking
through http://join.fedoraproject.org and joining one of the groups),
then follow https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet_HowTo to add your blog
feed. Note that if you discuss things in the blog, you don't want to get
aggregated, it is useful to tag your blogs and put in the appropriate
rss feed instead of the generic one.
Rahul
14 years, 11 months
Fwd: [ilugd] Welcome to FOSSTIVAL 2009 at IIMT Meerut
by sankarshan
Would anyone be interested in participating/speaking/demonstrating
Fedora Stuff ?
~s
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mohit Singh <gmohitsingh(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM
Subject: [ilugd] Welcome to FOSSTIVAL 2009 at IIMT Meerut
To: ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org
Dear ilugd FOSSmates,
Happy Hacking GNU/Linux!
I am the coordinator of GLUG-Meerut and now I've joined you to be a member
of a larger combined family of FOSSmates!
We Welcome all of you @ 'FOSSTIVAL 2009 - GNU/Linux Software Development
Workshop' at IIMT Engineering College, Meerut from 9th to 11th January 2009!
FOSSTIVAL 2009 will have parallel lab sessions on Linux shell & system
programming and Web Development Technologies by community hackers.
I hope to see you all @ FOSSTIVAL 2009!
Warm Regards,
Mohit Singh
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14 years, 11 months
Who wants free DVD to distribute?
by susmit shannigrahi
Siddharth has already mailed about it. But only one reply came from Jaipur.
So once again,
1. We have a few blank DVDs (~150) at our disposal.
2. If you are interested in taking up freemedia requests at your
place, we shall send you some free blank dvds.
3. All you have to do is to burn the dvd and tell the person to
collect it from you.
4. you have to be a Ambassador or LocalContact.
Who is interested? I shall ship you the blank media.
Please let me know your address along with your wiki page address.
Thanks.
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Regards,
Susmit.
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