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FSUG TVM Offline Meeting today
by Athul R T 13 Oct '23

13 Oct '23

Greetings all, As planned earlier, we are arranging a gathering at Manaveeyam Veedhi by 7 pm today, 13 October 2023. As mentioned earlier, there will be a friendly and informative discussions, so please try to attend and connect with our free software people here. See you all today evening ! Thanks and regards, Athul R T

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Prav Messaging App project as a federated replacement of WhatsApp
by Praveen Arimbrathodiyil 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Hi, We have been trying to build a replacement for WhatsApp as a cooperative (the software part is already implemented by quicksy.im, but privacy policy and terms of use for the service in a democratic way giving users more control) for over a year. For services that needs to be run 24/7 on a server, in addition to convincing people, we need money and maintenance effort to keep it in a sustainable way. So we have to go beyond just the technology part to build better organizational structures as well. We have a private beta version of the app and service already, you can learn more about it at https://prav.app To register as a cooperative society we are looking at two options, 1. Multi state cooperative society (this is our preferred option), which needs 50 members from two states and we have 57 from Kerala already, but other states are still not 50 yet, Maharashtra is at 30, Tamil Nadu at 11 and Karnataka at 9. 2. Register as a cooperative society in Kerala (this is our fallback option in case we don't get enough members from a second state by June 15). It needs 25 members from a single district. We have 11 from Thrissur, 8 from Palakkad, 7 from Kozhikode and 3 from Thiruvananthapuram. Would you consider joining as a member of this cooperative society? If yes, you can fill this form at https://prav.app/become-a-member/ and we will contact you once we reach the required numbers. It would be great of you can ask your friends and contacts too. Since it requires a large and coordinated effort beyond just creating software, we need your support to make this successful. Thanks Praveen

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Isolated build setup for C/C++
by Gokul Das B 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Hi, I have published a boilerplate setup for isolated builds of C/C++ on gitlab: https://gitlab.com/gokuldasb/cpp-boilerplate This is my solution for C++ build problems that I raised before with FSUG. The issue is that C and C++ presently doesn't have good package management solutions. The dependencies (libraries, headers etc) are often taken from the system environment. The dependencies in the system environment very often don't match the project requirements. This is especially bad when multiple projects need different versions of the same dependency. Another issue is of undocumented dependency, which can happen when it is already present in the developer's system. The solution is to use an isolated build environment. Each project has its own build environment with specific dependency versions. System environment doesn't affect the build. The solution uses Guix (package manager), Meson (build configuration), pkg-config (dependency location and flags) and Ninja (build tool). Feel free to try, use and ask any questions. Regards, Gokul Das B

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Problem faced while installing matrix-synapse server in postgres setup step
by tanzeem＠tutanota.com 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

I am installing matrix synapse server from source in Debian 10. installing synapse from source was done as in https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/INSTALL.md#installing-fro… Next I went on to install the postgres. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/postgres.md When I ran the command ~/synapse/env/bin/pip install "matrix-synapse[postgres]" I get the error message as specified in the file attached. How can I move further after fixing this error. Please help. with Thanks & Regards iGNUjee Free Software Enthusiast -- Securely sent with Tutanota. Claim your encrypted mailbox today! https://tutanota.com

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Presentation: Intermediate Git (Rebase & Email patch)
by Gokul Das B 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Hi everyone, I'm attaching and publishing the slide deck from today morning as promised. Some additions are made based on the discussion. No license is yet added. However, you can assume it to be under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. LaTeX beamer source is not released yet - but may happen some day! On a related note, I found out why the patches sent to the mailing list never reached the list. My developer address is different from the one registered in the list. Anyway, hope this helps everyone. Have a nice week ahead! Regards, Gokul Das B

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A session on understanding git email and rebase workflows
by Ashish Kurian Thomas 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Hi everyone, Gokul Das (https://gitlab.com/gokuldasb) will be taking a session on understanding git email and rebase workflows. It'll be on 14th March 2021, Sunday. Time will be confirmed shortly. Expect mornings or late evenings. We are planning to host the session on a BigBlueButton instance available over at https://meet.nixnet.services. This will be confirmed further down the line. Hoping to see everyone there! -- Regards, Ashish Kurian Thomas (~akts) www.aktsbot.in

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Writing output of Make command to log file as well as console
by Athul R T 29 Aug '20

29 Aug '20

Hi all, I was writing a bash script file to install an application which involves make file. I found that echo "hello" | tee -a log.txt can write the output to console as well as file. How can I write the result of a make target command like this as the above method works only on console. This is the format of execution of make. make target With regards, Athul R T -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Re: Setting up a mail server
by Gokul Das B 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Hello Ajith Sir, On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 08:03:50PM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote: > I am just trying to set up various services on a digitalocean >droplet. At present a web server, Moodle LMS and Bigbluebutton video >conferencing server are running. The site is at https://scischool.in/ , the >objectives are mentioned there. >Like to try a mail server , like postfix. Any help in that direction would >be very useful. Setting up mail servers are proving to be very challenging these days due to two reasons: 1. There are many parts (more on this later) 2. The mails from the server often get rejected as spam. This needs a bit of work. There are two information that would be useful: 1. Are you setting up the mail server on the same droplet as moodle? 2. What do you intend to do with it? Mail Server Components ---------------------- A mail server has several components. Postfix is just one. You will need to install and configure all of them. There are turnkey solutions available and they are described later. 1. Mail Transfer Agent (MTA): Postfix is an MTA. This is used to send out mails. 2. Mail signer: OpenDKIM is used to sign mails. Unsigned mails are just dropped by most receiving servers. 3. Mail Delivery Agent: Dovecot. This is used to receive mails. You don't need this if you just want to send out mails (like from moodle). You'll need it if you want to hand out user accounts and receive mails. 4. Spam filter: SpamAssasin or RSpamd 5. Web Client: Roundcube, Sogo etc. One of this is needed if you need to have webmail. Turn-key solutions ------------------ Configuration of all these parts well is a bit of a challenge. Most of us prefer to use turnkey solutions. Some are: 1. Mail in a Box (https://mailinabox.email/). Mail in a box needs a VM of its own. 2. Mailu (https://mailu.io/1.7/). Can run in docker 3. Mailcow (https://mailcow.email/). Can run in docker If none of these solutions are viable, there are deployment scripts (mostly ansible) that allow you to deploy them remotely and automatically. Manual configuration is still possible, but is very involved. It can be used if none of the above are viable. Server Reputation ----------------- None of these measures ensure that your mails wont be dropped by another server as spam. This needs more work. 1. Blacklisted IP and domains: You need to make sure that your IP address and domain are not blacklisted. It's possible to get them whitelisted. 2. Reverse DNS: You should set R-DNS for your server. Not very hard on Digital Ocean. 3. DKIM, SPF, DMARC: These are standards used to reassure other servers that your server is trustworthy. Despite all these, they do get often dropped - especially by Google (gmail, gsuite) and Microsoft (hotmail, office365). It's just a game of patience - getting your mails marked as not spam by others. These are the intial information I can offer you. Let us get to know your specific requirements and we can come up with some solution. Regards, Gokul Das B

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Editor (emacs, vim, nvim) Configurations
by Gokul Das B 02 Aug '20

02 Aug '20

Hi everyone, Based on our discussion today in video conference, I encourage everyone to share your vim, neovim or emacs configuration here. These are great editors that are as powerful as any IDE. For many including me, they are the center of digital life. Infact, I am typing this mail on Neovim with format=flow method. Share any additional info or interesting information about your editor too. Here is my Neovim configuration: - Plugin manager: junegunn/vim-plug - Completion and language support: neoclide/coc.nvim - Language highlighting: sheerun/vim-polyglot - Formatting: sbdchd/neoformat - Make/Build: neomake/neomake - Clipboard: christoomey/vim-system-copy - Status line: vim-airline/vim-airline - File browser: preservim/nerdtree - Icons: ryanoasis/vim-devicons - Table formatting: dhruvsagar/vim-table-mode - Git integration: tpopt/vim-fugitive - Markdown preview: euclio/vim-markdown-composer - Theme: dracula/vim There are custom keybindings, integration with TMux, editor configurations etc. Here are some of the ways I used neovim: 1. Programming in multiple languages with autocompletion and linting - Autoformat and build is also available - Code folding using fold markers 2. Create email like this 3. Edit markdown with live HTML preview (no need to even save) - Table mode allows live auto format of tables 4. Manage my system configs and dotfiles Let me know what you folks think and of any questions you have. Don't forget about posting your own configurations and cool concepts. Regards, Gokul Das B (goku12)

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CFOSS director is asking for help from community to help draft guidelines for funding
by Athul R T 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

This is a forwarded email from Praveen. / / /Hi, // / /Today we had a good discussion with new ICFOSS director Sabarish K and the discussions are still continuing at //#icfoss:matrix.org//matrix channel. // / /Sabarish K: frame a guideline for funding, fixing criteria Naveenpf: community grants can be split as // / /1. Project grant/ /2. Events and Travel grant // / /Project grant proposals can be invited once in a month in a year. // / /Events and travel grant proposal invited anytime. // / /Grants committee should be formed with community members. All depends on yearly budget for community grant./ /Structure for fund expenditure reporting template should be in place. (can be reused from wikimedia grants reporting)/ /Hrishi: Adding to this, Travel support can be of two types./ /1. Grants // / /2. interestless loans // / /The second one should be easy to work out. Few years back I was in need of a travel support when I had an opportunity to present one of my projects in a prestigious event abroad. The organizers were reimbursing the travel expenses but I had to advance it to make the arrangements. I tried to get support from many such govt programs (including startup mission) in vain. If such a travel support can be arranged, it is not an expense per say. As the candidate will repay it when she gets the reimbursement. // / /Sabarish K: This is a good suggestion, biggest task before me is to frame meticulously charted guidelines for each of the external funding progs. Otherwise it may be the Next Story of Nepotism.. // / /Navenpdf: Open proposals, community endorsements, diverse grant committee and open reporting will help // / / / /You can see his responses to our demands we send to last ICFOSS director here //https://pad.disroot.org/p/ICFOSS_New_Director_Response_To_Old_Points//If you'd like to volunteer to be part of this team to draft guidelines for funding from ICFOSS, please reply. // / /We can send him the list of people volunteered in a week's time (by next Wednesday 22nd July. There are also other promises from him like funding font development which I hope someone will take up. See the pad linked above or join the matrix group to see all the points. // / /Thanks // / /Praveen/ Please express your responses in the matrix group /#icfoss:matrix.org/. With Regards, Athul

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