FSUG-Bangalore April 2006

fsug-bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in

15 participants
24 discussions

Talk on GNU/Hurd internals
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hi, GNU Hurd hacker Annad Babu will be presenting a talk on Hurd/Mach internals. When: Monday 10AM-1PM (May 1st) where: Computer Science & Automation Dept., Indian Institue of Science[, Malleswaram, Bangalore]. Links: * GNU Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ * Debain GNU/Hurd http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd * Qemu image http://www.zabor.org/balrog/hurd/ * Indian GNU/Hurd User Group http://i-hug.sarovar.org/ IRC: * on FreeNode #hurd, #hug, #i-hug, #hurd.in Regards Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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Google Summer of code guidelins
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi, These are the GNU projects guidelines to participate in Google Summer of Code. http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html More about Google Summer of Code http://code.google.com/soc/ http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html will give you Frequently asked questions like 1. What is Summer of Code 2006? Summer of Code 2006 is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several hundred projects over a three-month period. The inaugural instance of the program, which took place last summer, brought together 400 students and 40 mentoring organizations from 49 countries. We'd like to include even more organizations and participants this year. The program's goals are to inspire young developers and provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer, and to support existing open source projects and organizations. Since we're looking to find developers around the world (many of whom may have considered creating open source software but havent yet taken the plunge), we felt that concentrating on the student population was a good place to focus our efforts. Further, since no single organization could possibly mentor hundreds of students working on disparate projects, we thought it made sense to spread the work throughout the open source and free software community. We also think that the Apache Software Foundation (for instance) knows a lot more about what an Apache project needs than Google does and is more likely to ensure that an applicant gets the right kind of guidance so they can create acceptable code. I really hope some of you join in. I'm sure it will be a really good opportunity to learn with some of the best programmers of the world (and ofcourse $4500). Regards Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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Re: [IHUG] Re: [fsug-bangalore] Re: i-hug meeting
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

2006/4/21, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs(a)researchut.com>: > > Praveen, > > Would be great if you could give the exact location and time. (A link > which > could be tracked would be much better). Cubbon Park (our usual meeting place, victoria statue entrance, come straight down) Sunday 3.30 pm -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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FW:Training programme in Bangalore
by rakesh_ambati＠yahoo.com 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Original Message: ----------------- From: shrave1 shrave1(a)yahoo.ca Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:08:57 -0000 To: blore-linux(a)yahoogroups.co.in Subject: [blore-linux] Training programme on open source software Special Correspondent KOCHI: The Software Division of Computer Society of India in association with CICC, Singapore, National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software of CDAC, Chennai, and RMK Engineering College, will hold a five-day southern regional training programme on Open Source Software from May 22 to 26 in Chennai. The training programme will broadly cover the following: free and open source software and GNU/LINUX linux installations; OSS licensing and copyright issues; desktop management, command line, file system operations; package, user, hardware management; apache / MySQL; PHP introduction and detailed discussion; web database connectivity - LAMP; localization projects, etc. On the last day (26th May 2006) of the programme, a one-day conference on Open Source Software will be held in which the trends in open systems and their applications in the enterprises would be dealt with in detail. The speakers and the resource persons for the training programme and the conference are drawn from both academia and industry with extensive experience in OSS. A team of resource persons supported by CICC will provide international perspectives to the subject. The training programme is free and open to members of the teaching faculty. Persons from industry, Government departments and other organizations are also eligible. This first southern regional programme planned in Chennai is open to the participants from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. RMK Engineering College, Kavaraipettai (near Chennai), will host the programme and provide the infrastructure and logistics support. Outstation participants will be provided accommodation at the college hostel and travel cost. Interested candidates may get the details by sending an e-mail to csiaoss(a)gmail.com {lt}mailto:csiaoss@gmail.com{gt} or from the website: www.rmkec.ac.in/csiaoss/index.html {lt}http://www.rmkec.ac.in/csiaoss/index.html{gt} The last date for receiving the nominations is 10th May 2006. http://www.hindu.com/2006/04/21/stories/2006042121920300.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Re: [fsug-bangalore] Re: i-hug meeting
by rakesh_ambati＠yahoo.com 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

>We are meeting Sunday evening 3.30 at cubbon park. May be if you are free after 6.30 we can have your talk and may be follow it up in the weekday evenings as well if you are free. Well, count me in for the sunday 3:30 meet-up at cubbon park if someone is buying me a cuppa of tea(sorry, its too hot for coffee). Cheers --arky -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Re: [fsug-bangalore] Bandipur Trip planning
by rakesh_ambati＠yahoo.com 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

2006/4/20, Sajith T S <sajith(a)gmail.com>: > > > Some friends were denied trekking permission in Bandipur, in February > I think. I am not sure about the reason. Any idea about the present > status ? > We can discuss the details this sunday. If anyone can check the status it would be great. Hi there, I checked out the telephone directory listing for Aranya Bhavan here in malleswaram and called them. The helpful lady at the switchboard (#23347008) directed me to call this number #23341993 . Its busy all the time, guys try it out fellows. Cheers --arky -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Bandipur Trip planning
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi I suggest we meet over this weekend (how about Sunday as Saturday seems to be working day for many). http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?Bandipur I look forward to this trip as an excellent opportunity to build a strong team and of course have fun. We can come out with detailed plan for the GPLv3 event as well. Lookinf forward to your comments. Regards Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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Re: i-hug meeting
by Anand Babu 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

,----[ Isaac Praveen <isaac(a)deeproot.in> ] | Hi Anand, | | I beleive you are in Bangalore, currently. | | Would be great to have you tell us more about HURD -> its | development, action plans. Probably the HURD users could meet up | and you could guide us through. There are about 5-6 users currently. | | Please let us know your availability. `---- Except Saturday noon to Sunday evening, I am available any time. I can give a talk on GNU/Hurd internals and may be GNU Guile too. -- Anand Babu GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org] The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org]

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[Fwd: Google's Summer of Code 2006]
by Sajith T S 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi, Now that Anand Babu is here, wouldn't it be worthwhile to discuss Google's Summer of Code as well ? Wouldn't it be neat if we can get some students to write code for GNU ? Speaking of this, there's this old academic project of mine which is checked into hurdextras repository last week : http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/jfs/?root=hurdextras Though AB was not directly involved, I ought to buy him a chai or something for this - it was a talk given to him at my college that made me choose such a project. That old charm of his should surely still work great among current generation of students as well ;-) Thanks, Sajith. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Google's Summer of Code 2006 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:26:48 -0400 From: Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge(a)gnu.org> To: hurd-devel(a)gnu.org, bug-hurd(a)gnu.org, l4-hurd(a)gnu.org Hi! For those who don't know it yet: Google's Summer of Code, <URL:http://code.google.com/soc/>, is a project organized by Google where capable students can sign up to work on tasks (software projects) that are offered my mentoring parties. A pecuniary aid is also involved. See the above URL for details (or ask me). The GNU project is participating in this year's Summer of Code, which leads to question if the Hurd project, being part of the GNU project, is also going to offer some tasks and evaluate tasks which might possibly be submitted by the potential workmen themselves. I could imagine handling the task of mentoring with the help of the whole Hurd community. That is, I'd be the official mentor for the projects we're going to submit. But for sure I'll need a backup who would at least care at the times I won't be available, especially for two weeks in August (which is near the end of the project), which I'll most probably spend with a concert band in Canada, perhaps without any possibilities to work on the Summer of Code stuff. Who could also imagine being a mentor for the Summer of Code? Possible projects I thought about submitting include `libchannel', `pfinet rewrite', `nfs / nfsd rewrite / enhancement', `GNU Mach on Xen'. If you have ideas for other projects, please don't hesitate to tell me. It is also possible that you come up with suggestions for projects which you then consider yourself applying for. Please hurry up with your answers; the deadline for submitting the proposals is quickly getting nearer. Regards, Thomas

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Next meeting?
by Anand Babu 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

I am in Bangalore till end of this month. Can we all meet at some coffee shop? I also want to introduce few more free software hackers to our group this time. -- Anand Babu GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org] The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org]

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