india January 2009

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Do we have any activity in Rajasthan?
by Ayush Maheshwari 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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.)

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Re: [fedora-india] Fedora Indian Language remixes
by shantanu choudhary 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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

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Indefero
by Rahul Sundaram 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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

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Tip of the day: Package Groups
by Rahul Sundaram 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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

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FYI: Upcoming events and event reports
by sankarshan 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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) -- 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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Joining Planet Fedora
by Rahul Sundaram 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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

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A Fedora stall at Mukti 09
by Debayan Banerjee 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

I saw the Fedora stall at Science City Kolkata in the recently concluded Free Software Conference organised by IOTA. I liked it very much. What will it take to have a similar stall at NIT Durgapur from 6th to 8th February 2009? -- BE INTELLIGENT, USE GNU/LINUX http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in http://mukti09.in http://planet-india.randomink.org

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Fwd: [ilugd] Welcome to FOSSTIVAL 2009 at IIMT Meerut
by sankarshan 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- today's innovation is tomorrow's common sense --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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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Who wants free DVD to distribute?
by susmit shannigrahi 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

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. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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