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Exciting job opportunity: L2 Service Desk with Red Hat
by Sanjulee 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Hi Friends Red Hat is currently looking for a L2 Service Desk Engineer for its Pune location. It will be a "contractor's " position. Anyone interested can contact me directly on the given phone numbers ( signature ) or contact me over the mail ( off list ) Please find the “ Daily responsibilities and Job Requirements” for this role. Daily responsibilities of an Service Desk Engineer include : - providing email, telephone, irc-based support for all employees - providing technical help with user hardware and software issues - communicating effectively with employees in well spoken and written English - exercising expert judgement within defined procedures and processes to determine appropriate action - performing configuration, upgrades, and relocation of user hardware, software and other devices - participating in employee training and education on policy, procedure, processes, information, how to s - experience in providing remote assistance to end customers using various tools and comfortable in remotely resolving of issues. - assisting the team in documenting all tasks, processes, procedures and information - working independently with minimal supervision - handling shift work and unusual hours if required Job Requirements: -3+ years experience in troubleshooting / desktop / end-user machines in a Linux, Windows, or Mac environment. *Linux experience preferred. - Outstanding customer service and interaction skills - Customer focused and enthusiastic in helping people to resolve technical problems - Linux PC system/networking troubleshooting skills - Demonstrated ability to solve problems quickly and skilfully - Excellent English verbal and written communication skills - Experience and skill with user hardware installation and configuration - Experience in deploying and supporting communications hardware (cellphones, desk phones, video conference) - Proven ability to adapt quickly to organizational changes - Demonstrated ability to learn and develop technical skills - Strong computer ethics - BSc/BS degree preferred or equivalent experience - A desire to be part of a company that is redefining the entire software industry - Work hours: To work in shifts if required. 9 hours a day. Thanking you again, Regards, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sanjulee Hazarika Pune,India Phone +91-203-046-7419 Mobile +91-986-057-2439

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Exciting job opportunity: L2 Service Desk with Red Hat
by Sanjulee 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

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[Event Report] "Pragyan 2012", NIT, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India - February 26, 2012
by Shakthi Kannan 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Hi, I had presented the (in)famous "i-want-2-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do-fedora" [1] presentation as a guest lecturer at "Pragyan 2012" [2], NIT, Trichy [3], Tamil Nadu, India on Sunday, February 26, 2012. Most of the student participants were familiar with the the *nix desktop. I explained to them the various project, communication guidelines, and best practices that they need to follow when working on free/open source software projects. I had also introduced them to the various Fedora sub-projects that they can participate and learn from. I was invited four years ago by the Pengufest [4] team of Pragyan, but, I couldn't make it then. Apparently, my presentation has been circulating among them for quite some time, and they now got to hear it from the horse's mouth. On Saturday, as part of the Pengufest track there were sessions held by Dr. Viswanath Poosala [5] on "Engineering Innovation - A recipe for coming up with disruptive ideas", and sessions on "How to be a Hacker?", "Functional Programming and why it matters", and "Lisp - God's own programming language.Lisp" by Vivek Shangari [6]. I also attended Suraj Kumar's [7] talk on "GNU/Linux in large scale Internet based businesses", where he addressed the different concepts, terminologies and F/OSS tools that people use for large scale web deployments. I would like to thank Red Hat for sponsoring my travel, and the organizing team of Pragyan 2012 for the wonderful hospitality. Few photos taken during the trip are available in my /gallery. http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album77 SK [1] i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat-2-do-fedora. http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat-2-do [2] Pragyan 2012. http://www.pragyan.org [3] National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. http://www.nitt.edu/home/ [4] Pengufest. http://www.pragyan.org/12/home/pengufest/ [5] Dr. Viswanath Poosala. http://www.bell-labs.com/user/poosala/ [6] Vivek Shangari. http://www.linuxforu.com/author/vivek-shangari/ [7] Suraj Kumar. http://sunson.livejournal.com/ -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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Linux Chaupal in College fest Algorhythm'12 at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi on 3rd and 4th March 2012
by Sheel Sindhu Manohar 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hi, We Need Fedora Discs and Goodies for our upcoming event in College fest Algorhythm'12 <http://www.algorhythm12.in> at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi on 3rd and 4th March 2012 . Please help us in making this event successful. Linux Chaupal Its not an event its "Adda" where you you know can come and interact with Linux Enthusiasts, Gurus, Geeks, etc.... In a short complete place for newbies to get started into the new world of open source. Like an old tradition of "*chaupal*" in villages where people come and sit and have discussions, share their experiences, newbies raises problems and problems solved by others, etc. Similar kind of stuff here also. Its a place where anyone can come and join us as volunteer for helping those who are new to this fields. Also want to turn up more students towards Linux to spread the word *FOSS*. 1. FOSS Charca : discussion regarding open source 2. Open Talk Sessions : Talks of short durations which going to be schedule randomly according to free time slots. 3. FREE Goodies, CDs, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- " Live Free think Freely " - By JMILUG Team ------------------------------------------------------- Organizing group: Jamia Millia Islamia Linux User Group (JMILUG) *Event Links:* http://www.facebook.com/events/366675500027773/ http://rsvp.ayojak.com/event/linux-chaupal http://www.facebook.com/events/366675500027773/ -- -------------------------------------------------------------* *Sheel Sindhu Manohar ( शील सिंधु मनोहर ) Manager JMILUG *www.jmilug.org * Founder Linux Adda *www.linuxadda.org* -------------------------------------------------------------

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FUDCon Pune reimbursements done
by Rahul Sundaram 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hi As of now, everyone waiting on reimbursement for their travel should have received it already. Thanks to PJP. Let me know if there is anything else, I need to round off. Rahul

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Call for Speakers
by A. Mani 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Talk proposals are invited on the the following for a 2-day document freedom workshop at ISI, Kolkata sponsored by ISI towards end of March'2012. It is also a Fedora Event and I have listed it on fedora wiki. Intending speakers may contact me off list with details Each of the sessions will be of 2 hrs (1 hr Th and 1 hr Lab). 4. Libre Office and related topics, Gnumeric 5. XML, XML subsets, Docbook and XML for KDE Development 6. Advanced Topics: Latex Advanced 0. You suggest Thanks and Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc

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[Event Report] GNUnify, February 10-11, 2012, Pune, India
by Shakthi Kannan 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hi, I attended GNUnify 2012 [1] on February 10-11, 2012 at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research [2], Pune, India. Day I The first day first session that I attended was on "Build your own cloud computing infrastructure" [3] by Arun Khan [4]. He addressed the different concepts and tools available for setting up a private computing infrastructure. After the first session, I moved to listen to Saleem Ansari's [5] talk on "Torque Box - Ruby App Server" [6]. TorqueBox is small adaptation layer on top of JBoss's Java application server. I then attended Srikant Patnaik's [7] talk on "Web based embedded project design" [8]. He demonstrated a simple example of using an LED with Arduino and controlling it with a Python CGI webserver. He also demonstrated the use of Fritzing to build the demoed circuit. All the tools are available on Fedora: $ sudo yum install fritzing arduino After lunch, I attended the talk on "Btrfs - The next Generation Filesystem on Linux" by Neependra Khare [9]. He addressed the different problems in the current filesystems, and how Btrfs tries to solve them. For the last talk of the day I attended Dr. Abhijat Vichare (from Computational Research Laboratories, Pune [10]) session on "Portability concepts in GCC". It was a detailed session on the internals of GCC [11]. Day II I attended Suchakra Sharma's [12] session on "Developing QT Apps on Android" [13]. I then went to assist with the system programming contest organized by Neependra Khare. The participants were given a written test on the first day, and based on the results few were selected to compete in the programming contest (sponsored by STEC [14]). For the contest, few programming problems were given to the participants to be solved in C within couple of hours time. The first, second and third prices were worth INR 5000, 3000 and 2000 respectively. Kiran Divekar (Marvell [15]) joined us, and we reviewed the code and chose the winners. After lunch, we announced the winners and the organizers and PLUG [16] members helped with the prize distribution. I then went to attend Arun Khans' session on "Convert your old laptop to an useful network device" [17]. He had illustrated with numerous examples on how he had used old hardware into functional, useful network devices. It is extremely useful for beginners who are interested in getting started in working with inexpensive hardware. I then had a chance to meet and talk with Gen Kanai [18] and Rakesh "Arky" Ambati [19] from Mozilla. It was also good to catch up with lot of Wikimedia folks, with whom I went for dinner at the Vaishali restaurant [20]. Few pictures taken during the event are available in my /gallery: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album75 SK [1] GNUnify 2012. http://gnunify.in/ [2] SICSR, Pune, India.http://sicsr.ac.in/ [3] Build your own cloud computing infrastructure. http://gnunify.in/2012/KYS/ArunKhan#talk1 [4] Arun Khan. http://www.gnunify.in/2012/KYS/ArunKhan [5] Saleem Ansari. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tuxdna [6] Torque Box - Ruby App Server. http://gnunify.in/2012/KYS/SaleemAnsari#talk1 [7] Srikant Patnaik. http://gnunify.in/2012/KYS/SrikantPatnaik [8] Web based embedded project design. http://gnunify.in/2012/KYS/SrikantPatnaik#talk1 [9] Neependra Khare. http://wiki.embeddednirvana.org/User:Neependra [10] Computational Research Laboratories, Pune. http://www.crlindia.com/ [11] GCC. http://gcc.gnu.org/ [12] Suchakra Sharma. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Suchakra [13] Developing QT Apps on Android. http://gnunify.in/2012/KYS/SuchakrapaniDattSharma#talk1 [14] STEC. http://stec-inc.com/ [15] Marvell. http://www.marvell.com/ [16] PLUG. http://plug.org.in [17] Convert your old laptop to an useful network device. http://gnunify.in/2012/KYS/arunkhan#talk2 [18] Gen Kanai. http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/ [19] Rakesh "Arky" Ambati. http://playingwithsid.blogspot.in/ [20] Vaishali restaurant, Pune. http://www.vaishalihotel.in/main.html -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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Fwd: [PLUG] Gnunify CFP is now open
by Rahul Sundaram 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi I am not in India during the event but if anyone else wants to coordinate and present talks, now would be a good time to get started Rahul -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [PLUG] Gnunify CFP is now open Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 22:17:08 -0800 From: webmaster(a)plug.org.in Reply-To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List <plug-mail(a)plug.org.in> To: plug-mail(a)plug.org.in Hi The CFP for GNUnify 2012 is now open. Please visit the Gnunify website to know more. http://www.gnunify.in regards _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Manikandan S
by vijay mani 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hi folks, IRC NAME : ManikandanSInterest : SysAdminTechnical Skills : Can configure, monitor troubleshoot the following services DNS, DHCP, squid, mysql, LDAP, FTP, NFS, Sendmail, Postfix, Dovecot, Kerberos, Samba, NIS, SVN, GIT SELinux Policy writing Monitoring tools: nagios, ntop, nmap, wireshark, tcpdump Script: python, bashLike To Learn : Cloud Computing, Clustering -- Regards S.Manikandan(BE,RHCSS, RHCE), SysAdmin,Chennai,India. E-Mail:- vijaysomt@gmail.commobile:- +91-9865313396

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I have an idea for GSOC12 but no idea how to implement it.
by Anuj More 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hi, I don't know how many of you have used Arch Linux, but there's this frontend to pacman (their package manager) called yaourt which uses AUR (Arch User Repository) which takes in PKGBUILDS and compiles packages locally. >From Archwiki: "The Arch User Repository[1] (AUR) is a community-driven repository for Arch users. It contains package descriptions (PKGBUILDs) that allow you to compile a package from source with makepkg and then install it via pacman." The benefit of this is: 1. You cut down on hosting as the PKGBUILD only contains instructions to download from the original file repo. As an example check PKGBUILD for lightdm[2]. 2. A package could be put into something like the AUR before it is pushed to a more stable repo. Opinions? Thanks! Funfact: If you consider AUR, Arch Linux has ~35020 packages which are more than those in Debian Unstable (~30500) [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt [2]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/li/lightdm/PKGBUILD -- Anuj Visit: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Anujmore Promoting: (pro-GNU/Linux) http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm (GNU/Linux's not Windows)

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