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Invite for FOSSMEET'20.
by Fossmeet 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

Hello, We are students from College of Engineering, Pune and are organizing an event, FOSSMEET, to promote the adoption, development and philosophy of Free Software and Open Source Software. With two successful editions already under the belt, we are back with the third edition of COEP FOSSMEET. Arranging talks and conducting hands-on workshops has been a proven way to transform students and developers alike into FOSS enthusiasts (possible contributors!). To make it possible, who better to call upon than FOSS aficionados? If you are intrigued about COEP FOSSMEET or would be interested in carrying out a workshop/talk, under the banner of FOSSMEET’20, do visit our website: foss.coep.org.in/fossmeet. The process to submit a proposal is to fill the form under the “Call for Talks” tab and submit your proposal. The deadline for same is 20th February. We hope to see you at COEP, if not as a speaker then as a participant. For any queries, feel to free to contact us as well.

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Crowd funding Free Software powered, community run, federated social media host poddery.com
by Pirate Praveen 03 May '19

03 May '19

Folks, we have been running poddery.com for last 6 years, started as a diaspora pod, with xmpp and matrix added later, all using the same username and password. When a lot of computing moved to "cloud", we have to step up our game to have Free Software based services and collective control. Since social media has network effect (you have to use the services used by your friends), it is much harder to get people to switch, though technically it is much simpler compared to GNU/Linux installation in the early days. It is fully funded and managed by the Free Software Community of India. I'm part of the team that runs this service. Now we need your help to make our third crowd funding campaign successful. Contribute and share the campaign. https://fund.poddery.com/

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DebUtsav Delhi | Call For Papers now open
by Shashank 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

Greetings, India Linux Users Group Delhi[1], Mozilla Delhi/NCR[2], and all Debian Enthusiasts in Delhi are organizing 3nd edition of DebUtsav - DebUtsav Delhi[3] on March 9th and 10th, 2019. DebUtsav Delhi's CFP[4] is now OPEN. If you are interested in talking a session or sharing about something cool you have been working on in the free and open source community please submit a proposal. DebConf is the annual Debian conference which is held in a different country every year. DebConf19 will be held in Curitiba, Brazil, from July 21 to July 29, 2019. MiniDebConfs are local meetings organized by Debian project members to achieve similar objectives to those of the DebConf, but on a regional context. When majority of talks are not Debian specific, it is called DebUtsav - celebration of Free Software by Debian community. DebUtsav Delhi will be happening on March 9th and 10th, 2019. You are invited to attend the event and participate in all the sessions you like, attendance is FREE of cost. Venue will soon be announced on the website. [1] https://www.linuxdelhi.org/ [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/India/Delhi [3] https://debutsav.in/ [4] https://events.fsci.org.in/conference/debutsavdelhi --- Shashank | realslimshanky https://shanky.xyz

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Mailman came to life after some issues.
by Abhijith PA 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

Hello FSCI mailing list service was deployed in 1 July 2018. From the start list was struggling with DKIM validation. All the domain hosted with lists.fsci.org.in has DKIM signature and it signs (its own) outgoing mails ie notifications, digest mails. But Mailman adds header, footer etc to the subscriber's original mail which breaks the DKIM signature causing mails to end up in spam/junk box (especially in gmail). This mailing list runs on Debian unstable. Around October the unattended upgrades[1] automatically updated mailman3 which caused several services within mailman to crash. I had no idea what happened until Praveen investigated and told me so. We quickly updated every piece of mailman3 and restarted the service and brought web, archiving services back to life but the most vital role of mailman was not working ie distributing emails. Malayalees would enjoy following line for this situation. റെക്കോർഡിങ് വർക്ക് ചെയ്യുന്നില്ല എന്നായിരുന്നു കംപ്ലൈന്റ്റ് I tried every suggestion I got from forums, blogs but no joy. I left it there and carried away with other duties of my life. The first issue shows lack of sysadmin magical skills. The second one shows my carelessness. Point is, more volunteers needed. Recently someone posted in our matrix channel questioning the stability of FSCI's services. This gave me a fire to start on these issues again. The first approach I took was to take the back up and build from the scratch as I forgot where I stopped. But it is not a good approach as I couldn't find the root cause and if the same issue pops again in future I can only do the same. So I tried harder in investigating logs. I was also getting help from upstream mailman devs. A lot of mails exchanged on their list and off list. While working on this, I got a lead to the DKIM issue. Thanks to this[2] blog. I finally figured out to sign every outgoing mail from the server. Today this[3] thread got my attention. I looked through templates of lists.fsci.org.in. and deleted the custom one and changed permissions of generic ones (From 3.2.0 every lists/domain templates can be customized from webapp) Finally mailman is distributing mails. Thanks to all who helped me. For now every known issue is cleared. .. Abhijith list master [1] - https://packages.debian.org/sid/unattended-upgrades [2] - https://www.spamresource.com/2014/05/signing-outbound-list-mail-with-opendk… [3] - https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/thread/…

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by default does ilug-cochin ML do digest mode or single post mode ?
by shirish शिरीष 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

Dear all, I just subscribed to the ilug-cochin ML. I used the help command to see what changes I could do to my subscription but got very limited output - The results of your email command are provided below. The results of your email command are provided below. <snipping the header and message ID for privacy reasons> - Results: confirm - Confirm a subscription request. echo - Echo back your arguments. end - Stop processing commands. help - Get help about available email commands. join - Join this mailing list. leave - Leave this mailing list. stop - An alias for 'end'. subscribe - An alias for 'join'. unsubscribe - An alias for 'leave'. - Done. I have subscribed to the Mailman 3 interface . We need to make people aware that they should sign up via the web-form and then subscribe and later make changes to settings. IIRC, Mailman 2 does send you a mail telling you all of the above when you sign up a mailman 2 assisted mailing list. This seems like a regression IMHO, but perhaps that is the reason the creation of ilugcochin hasn't been shared widely within the free software circles yet, even after 1 month of the mailing list being functional (or are you waiting for some more components of Mailman 3 to mature and update/upgrade to that ? ) -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8

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The Debian track in debutsav
by Abhijith PA 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi. The /debutsav-cochin/ discussion is progressing fairly and as we agreed upon dividing in to two parallel tracks of talks/sessions. I was wondering what we are going to add to the Debian track. How we are promoting to the Debian people outside Kerala? I suppose the forever flagship talk - Introduction to Debian and Debian packaging session will be in the FOSS track. PS: Not just D people, everybody is invited to share your bits. - --abhijith -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE7xPqJqaY/zX9fJAuhj1N8u2cKO8FAltXHWgACgkQhj1N8u2c KO8oYhAAh65iL49NvOxJQCj1CiIjMqlsBbRtJu2prQc9hD9b7WLhUjSilMpg5uKS 7zxIQHeYUgs1vglGn/6qBVtU9BzFNHXr0SW3X4oZ6TgM4G6ChCaMQ5US2IXUEVf5 lRhN6OwFupnxyh9C44MLYCxpLEcOFQuoUbzhdQ+anpINKWrqlNKRU9FRuG3v5wJE O311MgfP8UARz2oEhP7P7j2TMG/DTBwzcOmNluBhBtL1P68bYtCOKI2fipB7qTl+ Ba3gs7ZOnpvt/flTq6yWTjBtkSu8hVqdh7Uyu6kddT6D4Bj8iiBbrnmosYkxPHKs l1A+B5wa2HwGRsrbtKvO9TKsY2ykdQ8Q2B/8j49qR7g0lId3j5xCzRsaaF7Nq5Uu tJ7Q+PfRsIMr/IfZMnQpKaz7f+sL6z6RIkNcD6fN4vSrfqXukg0dHbh0e6wrp5jk kFIy9YXgXZwF+uuk/8RjDCMqwXziq6vi+ARhYWD7QiNDzQqWlB3+nNIiqP6O5Wad gu7Wb0WfmYXjyEnpElthff5JIKhnZPBPseik5MlmBbbZ1bb7M5DS+yud3PTiuCT6 NibekKaPj13pR830L2Pxo3iUXYqgHi8YoSZuf37dOKcn44FecbElNqqRckVSmeaW z2l/FwGoizSFd8DsDoxFg9WmsQFmGUXexSk8tXrLUkY/pwI0XY0= =nywc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Release of Hamara Sugam 2.0 !!
by Sagar सागर 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

*Namaste*Everyone, Hamara developers and contributors gleefully present to you the most awaited lightweight, full-fledged, easy-to-use distro designed specially for Indians, *Hamara Sugam*. The distro is highly suitable for devices with low computing resources and usesMATEDE to provide you with customized themes that capture the essence of our culture and roots. Check out our blog post covering the release of Hamara Sugam 2.0 here [0] Hamara Sugam 2.0 Release - https://www.hamaralinux.org/2018/07/hamara-sugam-2-0-releases/ Check the detailed bug specifications and fixes in the release notes on our wiki[1] [1] Release Notes for Hamara Sugam - https://wiki.hamaralinux.org/wiki/index.php/Hamara_Sugam_2.0/Release_Notes *Features* *Hamara Sugam*is a feature-rich Operating System targeting the masses. We have tried to make user experience foolproof by providing the following features in this release. 1. Easy to use Calamares Installer Considering the mind boggling setup with Debian Installer for anyone new to installing Operating Systems, we tried porting toUbiquity Installerwhich was later overtaken byCalamares. Calamares is the universal installer framework which is very customizable while being super easy and pragmatic. We have this beautiful installer integrated with Hamara Sugam keeping our promise of making the distro easy-to-use for everyone. [2] Calamares Installer - https://calamares.io/ 2. Power Up: Linux kernel We have upgraded the kernel to keep in sync with Debian and we shall keep pushing the latest kernels via point updates. 3. Theme We’re using Materiatheme for GTK and Papertheme for icons in Sugam taking into account the assuasive design and experience. 4. Generic application names To avoid any confusion for users which might be caused by using MATE DE due to their naming conventions, we have made most application names generic. Release notes Please look for the official Release notes with all the changes and bug fixes curated at one place [3] Release Notes - https://wiki.hamaralinux.org/wiki/index.php/Hamara_Sugam_2.0/Release_Notes Screenshots Take a look the screenshots of the Hamara Sugam Release [4] [4] Screenshots of Hamara - https://www.hamaralinux.org/screenshots/ Download Hamara Sugam 2.0 ISO Get the latest Hamara Sugam 2.0 ISO [5] [5] Hamara Sugam ISO - https://www.hamaralinux.org/download/ Report bugs/ Ask for help Report bugs or improvements if you come across any here [6] [6] Hamara Bugzilla - https://bugs.hamaralinux.org/ Get involved and contribute One of the key points of Hamara which differentiates it from other Operating Systems is the support and contribution to and from the community. This is why you’ll be helping us the most by involving with the Hamara community and learning and contributing from there. We are available at various communication Channelschoose your favorite and say Hi! 😀 [7] https://www.hamaralinux.org/contribute/ [8] IRC/Matrix - #hamara on OFTC [9] Telegram Group - https://t.me/hamaraLinux Thanks

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Meeting Shashikant from Swecha.org today evening at Edappally
by Pirate Praveen 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Hi folks, Sorry for the short notice, we came to know Shashikant is visiting Kochi two days back, so we organized a meetup with him. Location: Scoops Cheranalllur Rd, Ponekkara, Edappally https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?from=&to=10.02579%2C76.30657 Thanks Praveen

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Hamara Sugam 2.0 Release Party
by sagar＠hamaralinux.org 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Namaste! The coolest Open Source Indian distro is all set for its next release. Hamara Linux, a distro that actually manages to provide comfort to any Indian and does absolutely well in making us feel it belongs to us is going to release Sugam, a lightweight, full-fledged distro on 15th July 2018. Excited to know how Hamara manages to make you feel more compatible with it? Join us for Sugam's release party! We have in store exciting activities and surprises for people of all domains. Come, enjoy, win prizes, get goodies and meet the amazing team behind our success. Get on the link and confirm your presence at the event: https://bit.ly/2MR6H4e If you want to organise your own release party, contact us and we will send you a party box! See you there! :) Venue: AIHP Tower, 249G 2nd Floor, Udyog Vihar, Phase 4, Gurgaon, Haryana 122015 Time: 11 AM

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Re: Possibilities of a MiniDebConf Kochi
by Abhijith PA 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Hello Levi On Friday 30 March 2018 03:08 PM, levi vaguez wrote: > Yes, SDS has a mailing list. > We use the meetup group as our mailing list. Ilugcochin have one now (ilugcochin(a)lists.fsci.org.in) :). Everybody can subscribe to this list. Please send request to postmaster(a)lists.fsci.org.in If SDS need a real FOSS mailinglist :P Also wondering where our MiniDebConf Kochi discussion got stalled. --abhijith.

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