[Ambassadors] Fedora Activity Day - Pune, India: Summary

[Mosheul Islam]

wish u guy's all the best and i really wish to be there to support u all but
alas!
anyways have a great event.....

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We had organized a Fedora Activity Day last weekend in the Red Hat
> office in Pune, India. It was a two day event. You might have seen the
> blog posts on that over this week in Planet Fedora and we have a roundup
> of all that at
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2010#Reports
>
> We had a variety of projects and tasks that was tackled during the
> event. Here is a quick summary:
>
> * OLPC/Sugar:  Sayamindu who works for OLPC joined hands with Kushal Das
> to package up a accessibility tool of interest to OLPC and a Sugar
> activity called Pathagar which is a book server
> (http://github.com/sayamindu/pathagar).  Sayamindu also gave a talk on
> life as downstream of Fedora.
>
> * Fedora Tour - A clutter based app with whiz bang effects that aims to
> provide a friendly welcome screen for new users on first login.  Ankur
> Sinha is leading this effort.  Ankur Sinha has also helped out in
> packaging reviews and submitted a few new review requests.  The latest
> being a dependency of Shotwell.
>
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2010-June/006339.html
>
> * Fedora Medical Spin:  Susmit is a leading an effort to create a
> medical spin for the next release. Many of us are helping out.
>
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2010-May/003497.html
>
> Harsh Varma participated in some packaging tasks and is helping with
> this spin as well.
>
> * Systemd, WebM support etc:  I reviewed a few packages, approved one
> and worked on packaging up systemd, updating webkitgtk in Fedora 12 for
> WebM support, fixing a E-V-R issue that broke Deluge, qbittorrent etc
> for users upgrading to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12.
>
> * Package Reviews:  A number of us including Rangeen Basu, Ankur Sinha,
> Kushal Das and me participated in doing package reviews.
>
> * Autootools workshop:  Siddesh who works for GSS gave a introductory
> workshop on autotoolizing a project.
>
> * Repository wide fixes -  Rakesh Pandit working on fixing several
> security bugs and Imran who couldn't make it to the event due to some
> last minute disruption came up on IRC and filed patches that fixed all
> of the pending E-V-R issues between Fedora 12 and Fedora 13
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599492
>
> Rakesh will be committing and doing the builds to resolve them today.
> We hope to be tackling source url issues, desktop file fixes, FTBFS and
> other similar issues via a online FAD sometime later.
>
> * gFotoStat:  Kishan and Meejan worked on a tool for statistics of
> photos for professionals. This tool can run against a set of pics and
> provide all sorts of interesting info based on the metadata.  They fixed
> a number of bugs and added some new features in a new release.
>
> * wordGroupz:  Ratnadeep worked on a new project which is a vocabulary
> builder and he also took on some packaging tasks.
>
> * Shreyank Gupta worked on packaging Sup, a popular gmailish mail client
> written in Ruby and several of the Ruby module dependencies. He has just
> been sponsored yesterday.
>
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2010-June/003542.html
>
> * Salim Ansari hacked on Anjuta including a symbol browser and some new
> search capabilities and Satya continued her work on Beacon, a web based
> docbook xml editor
>
> * Runa ported the help in the new mallard format from Tomboy to Gnote
> for GNOME 3 readiness.
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620557
>
> ---
>
> At the end of the event, we had a discussion about what went well and
> what we could improve and about organizing a FUDCon next year in India.
>
> Rahul
>
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