india September 2009

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Software Freedom Day' 2009 Report : Kolkata
by A. Mani 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

I have put it up at http://www.ilug-cal.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Item… I will put it up at the SFD wiki tomorrow Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc

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SFD Presentation
by A. Mani 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

I have put up my beamer presentation 'The Fedora Project' on Software Freedom Day, Kolkata' 2009 at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Presentations I will write the event report later. http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asiaandmiddleeast/india/ILUG-CALINFO Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc

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Require 75 Fedora CD/DVD in Mumbai
by Gaurav Prabhu 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

Hello, I(actually my friend) would like to have around 75 CD or DVD of Fedora 11 for my college project based on Linux in which I'm considering distributing medias to the students. Can anyone provide me with the same. I am located in Mumbai & I can collect them forehand. I need the media by end of this month. Apologies for the duplicate message but I forgot to fill in the subject. Regards, Gaurav Prabhu ________________________________________________________________ Gaurav Live Layman Linux Connect more, do more and share more with Yahoo! India Mail. Learn more. http://in.overview.mail.yahoo.com/

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by Gaurav Prabhu 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

Hello, I(actually my friend) would like to have around 75 CD or DVD of Fedora 11 for my college project based on Linux in which I'm considering distributing medias to the students. Can anyone provide me with the same. I am located in Mumbai & I can collect them forehand. I need the media by end of this month. Regards, Gaurav Prabhu Gaurav Live Layman Linux Yahoo! India has a new look. Take a sneak peek http://in.yahoo.com/trynew

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rsync availability for India
by Saurabh Joshi 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear All, Mirror team at IIT Kanpur has decided to open up rsync on trial basis. 1) If too much load on the server is observed, rsync port will be blocked. 2) Initially, rsync access will be provided only to IITs/NITs on request. We hope that more public mirrors would emerge out of this. 3) Private mirrors may themselves can serve to other private mirrors to spread open source without putting too much pressure on a single server. 4) rsync access request can be directed to "mirror [at] cse [dot] iitk [dot] ac [dot] in" Regards, Saurabh Joshi - ------------- Research Scholar CS213, Dept of CSE, IIT Kanpur GPG Key : http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/sbjoshi/sbjoshi_public_key.txt Key fingerprint: 9D85 7E6D 47BF BCC2 D975 F12E 7AE6 6438 AC8A 0B11 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqvjwsACgkQeuZkOKyKCxHKuACgu5Jh+NGg5YkZBTam8Vnjho0M ISQAn0ABZI+arRMKcxOJ3d4HdvqL9BUq =rX9j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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fedora tshirt
by Aditya Patawari 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

>From where, in India, can I get a fedora tshirt? How much will it cost if I order in bulk for my LUG members? And what will be the cost for a single piece? -- Aditya Patawari Join Live DVD SIG : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/LiveDVD http://blog.adityapatawari.com/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adimania India

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Kunal Chhajer 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

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Creation of Live DVD SIG and spin
by Aditya Patawari 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

I was just reading the mails about the Fedora print magazine. There Paul Frields said that "In the longer term we really do want to move away from the Install DVD to a Live DVD that has more relevant applications and content". We don't have any SIG for creating Live DVD and Live DVD spin. I was thinking to start the same. For this community support is very much required. Any one interested, please reply to the mail. Any kind of suggestions or pointers are most welcome. Some pointers can be found at :- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Defining_projects#Special_Interest_Groups_.28… Also it would be great help if someone can tell me the procedure of creating a SIG. Are there any prerequisites for creation of SIG? -- Aditya Patawari http://blog.adityapatawari.com/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adimania Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra India

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[Report] Fedora @ Devnar Foundation for the Blind
by Shakthi Kannan 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

Greetings! Today, Sunday, September 13, 2009, I deployed Fedora 11, and Fedora 11 offline repository at Devnar Foundation for the Blind, Mayurmarg, Begumpet, Hyderabad, India. They have been using a proprietary software on a proprietary system, and wanted to explore better alternatives in this regard. I was given a 256 MB RAM system, with 40 GB hard-disk. This system did not have Internet connectivity. The offline repository really helped. Most of the systems are donated by companies for the school to use. The school follows the Andhra Pradesh State syllabus, and this year they have introduced Intermediate (after Board X). They write their exams on slate or on Braille paper (which I believe, is very expensive). Some students stay in the school hostel, while others' are day scholars. They do have one MountBatten Brailler [1] (costing around 1,00,000 INR) which can produce output to a computer or a printer. It also spells out the input. I didn't have time to test it with Fedora (serial, parallel ports). A junior teacher, Miss. Shashi, did try out Orca [2] with the Gnome shortcut keys, listening to Orcas' audio output. She was able to navigate through the Gnome menus, and use Openoffice.org Writer. They did want spoken American English, which is default in Gnome. It will be good to have those Orca audio recorded in Telugu or other regional languages in India. There were some very interesting questions like: * Orca loads only after logging in -- which spells out menus, the frame window that is selected, keys pressed etc. So, grub which loads prior to all these doesn't announce the choice of kernel. So, how does one choose the right kernel? * A sound can be played after gdm loads? Otherwise, they wouldn't know if the system booted to gdm or not. If there are multiple user accounts, some application need to spell-out the login names? * By default there is no shutdown sound in Fedora 11? How to set one? * Some applications pop-up menus didn't support tab feature, so one had to remember to use shortcuts like Alt+S to Save, or Alt+C to Cancel. I shall check these requests with the Orca project team, and any other queries that they might have as follow-ups. I would like to thank Padma Shri Dr. A. Saibaba Goud for giving me an opportunity to deploy the solution at their school. Thanks to Rakesh ("arky") Ambati for introducing me to them, who also works for 'Braille Without Borders' [3]. Eric Ofori from South Africa will be following it up with support for the school staff (about 40 in number). If anyone in Hyderabad is interested in helping them, please do contact me offline. With all due respect to the physically challenged, I did not take any photos. SK [1] http://mountbattenbrailler.com/ [2] http://live.gnome.org/Orca [3] http://www.braillewithoutborders.org/ENGLISH/index.html -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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Can you take even one freemedia request?
by susmit shannigrahi 12 Sep '09

12 Sep '09

Hi, For India, we have only 28 pending requests. https://fedorahosted.org/freemedia/report/9 If you take even one request, we can easily fulfil all. Will you please take it up? If you are not a member of freemedia group, please apply https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia#join If you are unsure about handling tickets, please see this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Freemedia_screenshots Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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