Hello,
Was the list really silent or was it my mailbox bouncing?
We've to overcome the silence and inaction somehow if that is the case. Well, there was a plan for launching a website and wiki/CMS. What about a workshop or something similar one of these weekends? That could serve as a socialising/PR occasion as well.
By the way, any idea how many people are on board as of now?
Sajith.
Hello there, --- Sajith T S sajithts@softhome.net wrote:
Hello,
Was the list really silent or was it my mailbox bouncing?
The list was silent, nothing wrong with your mailing system.(Except that sick sys admin of yours)
Well, there was a plan for launching a website and wiki/CMS.
I put a request to someone for a wiki,as soon as it set up well, start off work with site.
Guess, we can get arun to give us a domain name like fsf.co.in/fsug-blr or something.
What do you think arun ?
What about a workshop or something similar one of these weekends? That could serve as a socialising/PR occasion as well.
Yes, that a good idea. I can get someone to lend us a place after 20 th of this month.Would anyone like give us presentation or talk.How about you Ramakrishnan or Abhas.
By the way, any idea how many people are on board as of now?
I think we should call for a census.
Btw, friends.Abhas is not well. Send him get well cards and wishes.
Abhas get well soooon !!!!
cheers
--arky
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On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:02, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
Well, there was a plan for launching a website and wiki/CMS.
I put a request to someone for a wiki,as soon as it set up well, start off work with site.
Have a look and tell me if this will do fine: http://fsug-bangalore.deeproot.org.in/
Have shamelessly borrowed the emacswiki.org / oddmuse.org CSS for now. Please do send me modified versions of the css. You can download a copy at: http://fsug-bangalore.deeproot.org.in/wiki.css. That seems to be the only way to do it for now. Suggestions are most welcome.
Those new to using a wiki, please use the sandbox to test your skills out. Meanwhile, there is content waiting to be added.
This URL: http://puggy.symonds.net/~sajith/gnupe/ still contains some very useful content that can be migrated to the new wiki.
What about a workshop or something similar one of these weekends? That could serve as a socialising/PR occasion as well.
Yes, that a good idea. I can get someone to lend us a place after 20 th of this month.Would anyone like give us presentation or talk.How about you Ramakrishnan or Abhas.
Any specific topics in mind? How about planning this for the next weekend?
We can meet this Saturday / Sunday and finalise the details. Lets make some suggestions and agree upon some probable first.
By the way, any idea how many people are on board as of now?
I think we should call for a census.
Permit me to share the subscriber list (hope its fine with everyone):
[in alphabetical order]
abhas at deeproot.co.in abhilash_gpillai at hotmail.com arun at gnu.org.in avinashss at tatanova.com dwija at phreaker.net gnu at vsnl.net listmail at pixelconsulting.net nishant at deeproot.co.in prasun at softhome.net rakesh_ambati at yahoo.com ramanraj at md4.vsnl.net.in sajith at symonds.net sajithts at softhome.net senthil_or at dell.com suraj at symonds.net vimalekm at vsnl.net
[had to remove all the '@' manually here!!!]
It would be nice if all of us could post a small introduction about ourselves here - that will ensure that we can have more meaningful discussion! And can depend on each others' respective strengths and resources to grow Free Software usage around here.
Btw, friends.Abhas is not well. Send him get well cards and wishes.
Abhas get well soooon !!!!
Well - I'm back in action now! As hungry to 'graze' as ever! Thanks a lot for your good wishes! :)
cheers, Abhas.
Abhas Abhinav wrote:
Permit me to share the subscriber list (hope its fine with everyone):
[in alphabetical order]
.. ramanraj at md4.vsnl.net.in
It would be nice if all of us could post a small introduction about ourselves here - that will ensure that we can have more meaningful discussion! And can depend on each others' respective strengths and resources to grow Free Software usage around here.
Hi! I am ramanraj at md4 dot vsnl dot net dot in and my personal home page is at http://personal.vsnl.com/ramanraj
Though I am stationed at Chennai, I have subscribed to fsug-bangalore because:
Bangalore is the software capital of India. Any search for _licensed_ software packages [and probably many things connected with software] lead to Bangalore, which is also perhaps the computer hardware capital. AFAIK, most shipments land here in the Chennai port, but are opened only at Bangalore! As use of free software grows, I expect most of the distros to get routed through Bangalore. I hope, keeping a pulse on the key centre for software production and distribution that is always a little ahead than the rest, would help. The next best thing to living in Bangalore is subscribing to fsug :)
Regards, Ramanraj.
Welcome back Abhas!
Abhas Abhinav wrote:
Have a look and tell me if this will do fine: http://fsug-bangalore.deeproot.org.in/
Well, wish the wiki was a bit more good looking :) Hope a better CSS will do... Or maybe, what about dhrupal, cowiki, mediawiki etc?
Permit me to share the subscriber list (hope its fine with everyone):
I think this is still too small for Bangalore. Maybe time to launch a PR initiative. How to go about doing this would be a worthy topic to discuss about :)
It would be nice if all of us could post a small introduction about ourselves here - that will ensure that we can have more meaningful discussion! And can depend on each others' respective strengths and resources to grow Free Software usage around here.
I'm a free software enthusiast (obviously) and a Doubting Thomas, originally from Kerala. I do bit of Java and a lot of fooling around at work, in a company here in Bangalore. I have a degree in computer engineering, but honestly I'm clueless about either.
At college, I helped organising a talk by /the/ RMS, which served as a good introduction to the very idea of free software. (Stuff from those days is still at http://www.mec.ac.in/events/rms/)
I'm trying to love programming, wish I could do a bit of free software development in my spare time, but since there isn't much of spare time and resources, all I do as of now is bitching about life. Be careful when you come near me, I'm looking for shoulders to cry on.
Btw, meeting this weekend is okay with me.
Sajith.
Sajith T S wrote on Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:00:19AM +0530: ,---- | Btw, meeting this weekend is okay with me. `----
:(( Why is it that you guys always want to meet when its my "working weekend"? :((
cheers,
-Suraj
Suraj wrote:
:(( Why is it that you guys always want to meet when its my "working weekend"? :((
We're conspiring to gas out Suraj from FSUG. Really :)
Well, if we are meeting this weekend, and if we decide to conduct a workshop to bring up the site, let's decide to make it convenient for Suraj. Wouldn't it be cool to have a Yahoo! guy to do slavery for an FSUG site? ;)
Sajith.
Sajith T S wrote on Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:26:19AM +0530: ,---- | Well, if we are meeting this weekend, and if we decide to conduct a | workshop to bring up the site, let's decide to make it convenient for | Suraj. Wouldn't it be cool to have a Yahoo! guy to do slavery for an | FSUG site? ;) `----
oh my. I wish why I wrote that mail ;)
anyways, I was just wondering what kind of "work" I would have to do. Let me tell you that I donot have LOTS of time on my hands. a one time investment of 4 hours or so is fine.
cheers,
-Suraj
Sajith T S wrote on Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:00:19AM +0530: ,---- | >It would be nice if all of us could post a small introduction about | >ourselves here - that will ensure that we can have more meaningful | >discussion! And can depend on each others' respective strengths and | >resources to grow Free Software usage around here. `----
I'm *still* a free software enthusiast inspite of all the flaming I received from all the LUGs and stuff. (now guys, please clap for me ;)) ). Seriously, I'm still a GNUHead without an actual head (in tamil, such a thing is called a "mundam". And thats how most of my teachers used to call me at school). At this point I can easily manage to talk to people who call it "Linux" and mix "free software" with "open source". However I *might* tell them about the differences if rand(0,100) is 42.
The real, about me:
I work for Yahoo! (yeah, Yahoo! holds hundreds of software patents and even trades them with patent giants like IBM). I work for search.yahoo.com. and then I learn music (just started). I bought an el heapo guitar and found some really nice tutorials on the Web on Carnatic music. I also do some photography in my spare time.
cheerio,
-Suraj
"Sajith T S" sajithts@softhome.net wrote:
I'm trying to love programming, wish I could do a bit of free software development in my spare time, but since there isn't much of spare time and resources, all I do as of now is bitching about life. Be careful when you come near me, I'm looking for shoulders to cry on.
You cry on mine and I'll cry on yours (shoulder).
-------------------------------------------------------------- Sreekiran.K.R - http://whitehats.cjb.net/ - dwija@phreaker.net Registered Linux User # 335122 at http://counter.li.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 09:00, Sajith T S wrote:
Well, wish the wiki was a bit more good looking :) Hope a better CSS will do... Or maybe, what about dhrupal, cowiki, mediawiki etc?
Well - a wiki is still a wiki by any name. The main thing will still be content. I feel the current wiki is very functional - all you need to do to improve its looks is to change the CSS and maybe add a background image.
Lets first start by adding content right away. I'm setting up a system which will email us all with the list of changes made over the last 1 day every morning - so that we can keep abreast with developments there.
Cheers, -abhas.
"Abhas Abhinav" abhas@deeproot.co.in wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:02, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
Yes, that a good idea. I can get someone to lend us a place after 20 th of this month.
Where is it ? Do you have a specific place in mind ?
Any specific topics in mind? We can meet this Saturday / Sunday and finalise the details. Lets make some suggestions and agree upon some probable first.
Yes. Speakers can be arranged if we have a specific topic. The problem is in choosing the topic for the meet, cause, come on, we have only 16 members here.
Permit me to share the subscriber list (hope its fine with everyone): abhas at deeproot.co.in abhilash_gpillai at hotmail.com arun at gnu.org.in avinashss at tatanova.com dwija at phreaker.net
Thats ME :-D
gnu at vsnl.net listmail at pixelconsulting.net nishant at deeproot.co.in prasun at softhome.net rakesh_ambati at yahoo.com ramanraj at md4.vsnl.net.in
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sajith at symonds.net sajithts at softhome.net
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Is this the same guy, if it is, we have only 15 members.
senthil_or at dell.com suraj at symonds.net vimalekm at vsnl.net
[had to remove all the '@' manually here!!!]
You probably did a find all '@' and replace with '_at_'. (where _ is a <space> )
It would be nice if all of us could post a small introduction about ourselves here - that will ensure that we can have more meaningful discussion! And can depend on each others' respective strengths and resources to grow Free Software usage around here.
OK, here it goes, I am Sreekiran and I am an engineering student (4th sem, C.S). Studying at Acharya Institute of Technology, Hesarghatta road, and not Acharya Paatha Shala (APS) to which people often confuse it to. I joined B.E after a 3 Year Diploma in Computer Science. If you want more info about me my homepage is at : http://www.geocities.com/sreekirankr. My resume is the index page. and its the only page.
Btw, friends.Abhas is not well. Send him get well cards and wishes. Abhas get well soooon !!!!
Well - I'm back in action now! As hungry to 'graze' as ever! Thanks a lot for your good wishes! :)
Those were some really effective wishes in that case.
Abhas Abhinav abhas@deeproot.co.in CEO, DeepRoot Linux
DeepRoot ? Are you the same guys developing Mandrake.
Bye for now. -------------------------------------------------------------- Sreekiran.K.R - http://whitehats.cjb.net/ - dwija@phreaker.net Registered Linux User # 335122 at http://counter.li.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------
Hello Fellows,
--- Sreekiran dwija@phreaker.net wrote:
"Abhas Abhinav" abhas@deeproot.co.in wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:02, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati
wrote:
Yes, that a good idea. I can get someone to lend
us a
place after 20 th of this month.
Where is it ? Do you have a specific place inmind ?
Any specific topics in mind? We can meet this Saturday / Sunday and finalise
the details. Lets make
some suggestions and agree upon some probable
first.
Yes. Speakers can be arranged if we have aspecific topic. The problem is in choosing the topic for the meet, cause, come on, we have only 16 members here.
Now, we are small and quite informal group.So for the starters you can choose a topic that is in interest of everyone.
Why don't we come out on topic,to begin the series I would give a _short_ talk on "How to evade Umber Ackers and piss-off heady,hairy Been-there-done-that Gurus".
How about that ?
cheers
--arky
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Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
Why don't we come out on topic,to begin the series I would give a _short_ talk on "How to evade Umber Ackers and piss-off heady,hairy Been-there-done-that Gurus".
How about that ?
We sould call for action rather than mere talk on this very serious topic. How about that?
Arky, you made my day, thanks a lot :)
Sajith.
Why don't we come out on topic,to begin the series I would give a _short_ talk on "How to evade Umber Ackers and piss-off heady,hairy Been-there-done-that Gurus".
cool, try to organise regular story telling section by Arky ;)
As a society are loosing all these 'soft' side and that create problems like proprietary software. Enriching our soft sides is the only viable long term solution against proprietarisation.
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