india November 2011

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Design for Ask Fedora
by Suchakra 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Dear Team, We all must be aware by now, of the release of Ask Fedora [1]. Its picking up pace and we need good design/artwork otherwise it can lead to negative publicity. Akbot seems to be working fine in terms of functionality and we just need good skinning/logo for the time being. I made some changes to the css (colour changes etc sometime back) which is just a temporary job. We even have a skin code repo from some Ubuntu guys who tried to do something similar for Askbot (Rahul has the links I think) It can be used as a reference. There are some other examples of good skins for Askbot which maybe he can share on this thread too so we can got going. I can start working on some mascot/logo - some remixed job from OCAL I think ;) There's a ticket already open [2] and some discussion already went through. Please help in adding beauty to this effort. Thanks :) [1] http://ask.fedoraproject.org [2] https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/199 Suchakra

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FUDcon attendance
by अभिजित Abhijit 13 Nov '11

13 Nov '11

Dear fudcon team, Can you please share the list of people who registered and those who attended FUDCON? I need it for the records of the institute. Prof. Abhijit A M CoEP.

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Re: [fedora-india] Freemedia Help *Needed* in India
by Inderjeet S Sodhi 13 Nov '11

13 Nov '11

Hi all, I think the idea erupted in Frank's mind after my mail yesterday. After a brief communication even I looked at the pending requests and was amazed to see the number of pending requests. Since most of them are for F15, I'd rather wait for F16 to open up, this because someone seeking F15 will most likely ask for F16 as well within the next fortnight. As for vendors, most of them are not into it because they follow their heart or because of the spirit that we people have here but because they think they should "sell". There isn't any exclusive vendor as far as I could understand from a quick glimpse. The name "Linux Bazar" would imply they have things/services/products related to Linux but one look at their site and I knew they are selling "whatever" comes to them. One vendor, copyleft solutions is in Pakistan, not as listed under India. As for countrymen not helping fellow countrymen, I disagree. The objective is to help the needy not the greedy. There is always an element of skepticism when it comes to someone asking for something for free in India. Seeker are always manifold higher than givers :-) I don’t mind contributing back, say 10 DVDs a month just to spread the cause, because some part of my earning comes from Open Source (thanks FOSS and the OS community) but that’s not the case with everyone. There is also no "criteria" to judge genuine requesters. I agree with fellow members that some requesters wouldn't have "seriously" created the requests. They did so just "because it was available" or in anticipation of getting a nicer or "official" media. I'd personally give preference to requests from areas that are not in/around metros. Since most of Metro India as well as Tier2 city segment is now under "unlimited data transfer" plans, So if they can go torrenting, they can download Fedora as well. Jammu/Kashmir would be a good option because students are keen to get into mainstream learning while Internet is still intermittent there. There could be a "I am willing to pay n Rupees as shipping charges" in the form. Such requests maybe matched to vendors. Contributors may also have some benchmarks, say 2 DVDs in 6 months (or in 2 releases). Those who are not upto the standard maybe "suspended". Yes, everyone is a volunteer so suspension sounds rude, but the system needs to be kept clean and concise. Well I can go on and on...but enough of it for now. I don't want to you have a first impression that I am a critic/skeptic or something on those lines. Thank you for a patient reading. Some functions/ideas I mentioned above may already be there in the current system, so please excuse my ignorance. I have the privilege of being new here you know ;-) Bye for now. Inderjeet

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Freemedia Help *Needed* in India
by Frank Murphy 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

Congrats on the Fudcon, well done. Now, Could I ask while there may be a feeling of goodwill. Than more people from India, may see a need to help get Fedora out to others in India. You will not get paid. You may not get any thanks. You may not get blanks and postage. You may not have any warm feeling. What you will have is the knowledge of helping someone else. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Freemedia/Join_freemedia -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded

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[OT] GNUnify 2012 dates
by sankarshan 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

A somewhat reasonably early heads-up about the event which would help potential speakers plan out talks and hackfests. Excerpts from an email received from the organizers: GNUnify the Free Software event, will take place on 10th and 11th February, 2012 in Pune. GNUnify is jointly organized by PLUG and SICSR for the last nine years in Pune. This time we are celebrating the 10th year of the GNUnify event. Date: 10-11 February,2012 Venue: SICSR, (Symbiosis College, Atur center) Other details of the event will be available soon on the website http://gnunify.in/ -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>

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Fwd: FW: PPT of the morning keynote..
by अभिजित Abhijit 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Abhijit A.M. <abhijit.comp(a)coep.ac.in> Date: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:27 PM Subject: FW: PPT of the morning keynote.. To: "abhijit13(a)gmail.com" <abhijit13(a)gmail.com> Abhijit A.M. Faculty, Department of Computer Engineering and I.T., College of Engineering, Shivajinagar, Pune - 411005 Phone: +91 20-2550-7108 ------------------------------ *From:* Abhijit A.M. *Sent:* 07 November 2011 20:26:19 *To:* lists(a)india.fedoraproject.org *Cc:* Pradeep Waychal *Subject:* FW: PPT of the morning keynote.. Forwarding to the concerned people. Abhijit A.M. Faculty, Department of Computer Engineering and I.T., College of Engineering, Shivajinagar, Pune - 411005 Phone: +91 20-2550-7108 ------------------------------ *From:* Pradeep Waychal [pradeep.waychal(a)gmail.com] *Sent:* 06 November 2011 16:25:44 *To:* Abhijit A.M. *Subject:* Re: PPT of the morning keynote.. It is still not there. Is it possible for you to get it from Jared? On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Abhijit A.M. <abhijit.comp(a)coep.ac.in>wrote: > http://fudcon.in/sessions/fedora-state-union-address > Right now not available. If it becomes available, it will be at the above > address. > > Abhijit A.M. > Faculty, Department of Computer Engineering and I.T., > College of Engineering, Shivajinagar, Pune - 411005 > > Phone: +91 20-2550-7108 > ------------------------------ > *From:* Pradeep Waychal [pradeep.waychal(a)gmail.com] > *Sent:* 04 November 2011 23:11:57 > *To:* Abhijit A.M. > *Subject:* PPT of the morning keynote.. > > Hi, > > Where would it be available? > > -- > > *Pradeep Waychal. Ph D.* > > *Head, Innovation Centre,* > > *Professor in Information Technology,* > > *College of Engineering, Pune. India 411 005* > > *Phone +91 20 25507367* > > -- *Pradeep Waychal. Ph D.* *Head, Innovation Centre,* *Professor in Information Technology,* *College of Engineering, Pune. India 411 005* *Phone +91 20 25507367*

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Announcing Ask Fedora: Community Knowledge Base and Support Forum
by Rahul Sundaram 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

Hi As part of the release of Fedora 16 (Verne) today, I am proud to announce the launch of Ask Fedora at http://ask.fedoraproject.org. Ask Fedora is a community knowledge base and support forum for the Fedora community. You can ask any questions related to Fedora and you do not need to a separate id to post questions or answer them. More details at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003012.html Rahul

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Announcing the release of Fedora 16
by Rahul Sundaram 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

Hi The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 ("Verne"). This release is dedicated to Dennis Ritchie, co-inventer of Unix and the C language. For what's new, refer to https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003011.html Rahul

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[Event Report] FUDCon Pune, November 4-6, 2011, India
by Shakthi Kannan 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

FUDCon Pune 2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Day I, Friday, November 4, 2011 I arrived early on day I of FUDCon Pune 2011 [1] to help with the registration desk. We had different counters for speakers and volunteers, and for delegates. Fedora banners were placed at various seminar locations on campus to indicate where the talks and sessions were being held. I attended the keynote by Jared Smith [2], the Fedora Project Leader. The illustrations used in his presentation, 'Fedora "State of the Union" Address' [3] were really good. I then proceeded to the classrooms to attend Ramakrishna Reddy's talk on 'Developer Survivor Manual' [4]. He addressed essential things that newbie developers need to know, and demoed various revision control systems. Lunch was served at 12 noon, and then I moved on to attend the 'Fedora Remix and the Community' [5] talk by Danishka Navin [6]. He shared his experience with the Hanthana [7] project, which is a Fedora remix that has support for Sinhalese, and Tamil and has been deployed at various schools in Sri Lanka. Fedora is one of the first and largest user of Gitolite [8], and I was happy to meet its author, Sitaram Chamarthy, from TCS Innovation Labs, Hyderabad, India. His talk [9] was filled with numerous examples from people using gitolite. The other large users of gitolite are KDE and kernel.org. I then attended the 'GlusterFS' [10] talk by Krishna Srinivas from Red Hat, who gave an overview of the Gluster file system, its architecture, and uses. Day II, Saturday, November 5, 2011 I arrived early again on day II of FUDCon Pune 2011. The day's proceedings started with a keynote by Harish Pillay [11] on his thoughts on community work, and on his new role as the lead of Community Architecture [12]. I then attended the 'Security in the Open Source world!' talk [13] by Eugene Teo [14] and Huzaifa Sidhpurwala [15]. Their talk covered quite a bit on the various security threats, and on how they are handled. Since I attended the GlusterFS overview talk on the first day, I wanted to follow it up with the 'GlusterFS: Hacking HOWTO' talk [16] by Amar Tumballi. He suggested newbies to read on translators as a starting point to work with Gluster, along with few ideas that they could start with. Lunch was again served at 12 noon. After lunch, I headed to Seminar Hall 2 for my talk on 'Quite Universal Circuit Simulator - A Qt Love Story' [17] [18]. It is an introduction to electrical circuit theory using circuit components as "fictional" men and women. The example circuits were created using qucs-0.0.15. The examples are available at gitorious: $ git clone git://gitorious.org/qucs-a-qt-love-story/qucs-a-qt-love-story_prj.git After my talk, I went to the auditorium to attend the talk by Amit Shah [19] on 'Linux Virtualization' [20] followed by Kashyap Chamarthy's [21] talk on 'Virtualization with Libvirt' [22]. They had given a good overview of virtualization in the Linux kernel, and available tools that one could use. I do use Publican [23], and thus attended Jared Smith's talk on the same. Publican does insert blank pages to ensure that new chapters start on the right-hand side if the content were to be printed as a book. For the final talk of the day, I attended Rahul Sundaram's [24] session on Askbot for Fedora [25], and the roadmap and features that he is interested in. We then travelled to Hotel Parc Estique [26] for the FUDPub! Final Day, Sunday, November 6, 2011 As a follow-up to my talk on QUCS [17] on day II of FUDCon Pune 2011, I wanted to create circuit examples on the final day from a text book that was being followed for basic electrical engineering course work. This would be a supplement that a student can use when learning circuit theory. Anuj More and Payas Awadhutkar joined in, and we worked on schematics from chapter I of 'Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering' [27] by Leonard S. Boborow, a.k.a "Babu Rao" in India. The schematics were created in qucs-0.0.16, and are available from Payas Awadhutkar gitorious repo: $ git clone git://gitorious.org/qucs-baburao/qucs-baburao.git I would like to thank all the volunteers from College of Engineering, Pune [28] and Prof. Abhijit A M [29] who coordinated with us in organizing this conference. Thanks also goes to the Fedora contributors who helped in getting things done. Special thanks to Red Hat for sponsoring the event, and for their wonderful support. We trained many students over the years as part of the Fedora project. I was very happy to see them as speakers and present on the things that they have been working on, and also help others when required during the conference. This is the best outcome that I take from the event. The photos that I took at FUDCon Pune 2011 are available in my /gallery [30]. [1] FUDCon Pune 2011. http://fudcon.in/ [2] Jared Smith. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jsmith [3] Fedora "State of the Union" Address. http://fudcon.in/sessions/fedora-state-union-address [4] Developer Survival Manual. http://fudcon.in/sessions/developer-survival-manual-impatient-developer-gui… [5] Fedora Remix and the Community. http://fudcon.in/sessions/fedora-remix-and-community [6] Danishka Navin. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Snavin [7] Hanthana project. http://www.hanthana.org [8] Gitolite. https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite [9] Gitolite by Sitaram Chamarthy. http://fudcon.in/sites/default/files/slides/gitolite-at-fudcon-india-2011.p… [10] GlusterFS. http://fudcon.in/sessions/glusterfs-red-hat-storage-storage-red-hat [11] Harish Pillay. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:HarishPillay [12] Community Architecture. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Community_Architecture [13] Security in the Open Source world. http://fudcon.in/sessions/security-open-source-world [14] Eugene Teo. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Eteo [15] Huzaifa Sidhpurwala. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Huzaifas [16] GlusterFS Hacking HOWTO. http://fudcon.in/sessions/glusterfs-hacking-howto [17] Quite Universal Circuit Simulator - A Qt Love Story. http://fudcon.in/sessions/qucs-qt-love-story [18] Quite Universal Circuit Simulator. http://qucs.sourceforge.net/ [19] Amit Shah. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Amitshah [20] Linux Virtualization. http://fudcon.in/sites/default/files/slides/Virtualization-with-libvirt.pdf [21] Kashyap Chamarthy. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kashyapc [22] Virtualization with Libvirt. http://fudcon.in/sessions/virtualization-libvirt [23] Publican. https://fedorahosted.org/publican/ [24] Rahul Sundaram. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sundaram [25] Askbot on Fedora. http://fudcon.in/sessions/ask-fedora-community-support-and-knowledge-base [26] Hotel Parc Estique. http://www.parcestique.com/pune.htm [27] Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering. http://www.amazon.ca/Fundamentals-Electrical-Engineering-Leonard-Bobrow/dp/… [28] College of Engineering, Pune. http://www.coep.org.in/ [29] Prof. Abhijit A M. http://www.coep.org.in/index.php?profile=abhijit.comp [30] Photos. http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album72 -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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Re: [fedora-india] Fudcon (worst) Experience
by Saleem Ansari 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Chaitannya Mahatme <chaitannya(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Suchakra, > > I do agree with the Siji regarding a few aspects. > About the sessions even I experienced the same thing. A few simple things > could have been done eleminate the inconvenience caused. > > 1. Since there were more than 2 venues, there should have been a map on the > back of the schedule. There were separate venue maps printed and distributed on the first day ( registration ) of event. Maybe they got over by the time you reached there. > 2. More posters at the venue, indicating way to xyz hall and also mentioning > relevant landmarks on the map. There were direction marks clearly indicating direction with arrows and room numbers. They were posted on trees, stairs and walls on the way to rooms esp. electrical department rooms. We made sure that they were there. I don't know when and who removed them. > 3. There should have been small teams of 2-3 volunteers assigned with a > Single responsible person or group leader assigned for specific session. It > is very important at this stage that the roles and responsibilities of the > volunteers is well defined. What I saw was, volunteers were randomly moving > around the venue. > This is acceptable to some extent but then again FUDCon is a barcamp style, self organizing conference. So essentially speakers are required to take the lead in organizing the sessions by themselves. Maybe this message was't well received by the audience. So essentially, the keyword here is "barcamp". We tried our best to avoid confusion by pre-scheduling most of the session, making it easier for audience and speakers. Othewise in FUDCon all the scheduling happens at the venue. With such a huge crowd it would have been chaotic to do that. Please do not misunderstand FUDCon with the way most of the conferences are organized in India. Thanks for your feedback. We will try to fix these issues for a next FUDCon. Also correct me if I have myself misunderstood your feedback. /tuxdna

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