Linuxers March 2010

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Linux desktops for new users
by Richard Victor Correia 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Hi, One of my friend is in cargo business having 7 PCs. He asked me to buy windows XP licenses for all 7 PCs. His employees just check emails and work on office documents such as word, excel, powerpoint. I told him that Linux can be used easily with few hours training for above mentioned things. I also explained the stability and cost effectiveness of it. Now the question is, which distribution should we suggest? Which desktop environment? Which email client (closer to Outlook look and … [View More]

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[Problem Solved] unable to type in remington keyboard
by narendra sisodiya 13 May '10

13 May '10

I am attaching a modified version of the remington keymap file. Steps to install new hi-remington keymap ---------------------------------------------- 1) Please download the file 2) Open Terminal 3) type following. sudo nautilus /usr/share/m17n/ 4) This will open keymap directory , Paste the downloaded file into this directory 5) Restart Ibus, using right click on ibus keyboard layout indicator icon. If you are unable to locate it. Please restart your system. PS: Once I will get full … [View More]

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Initial design document for FOSSDevConf , Please feel free to comment over it.
by Suhit Kelkar 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Yes, and those who are 1] chronically dyspeptic sourpusses 2] armchair pundits should also be banned, what do you think!

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is it possible to fly like chris angel ?
by shamoorthy 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

DEAR ALL, IS IT POSSIBLE TO FLY LIKE CHRIS ANGEL OF MINDFREAK ? LET ME GET THE MOST OBVIOUS THING OUT OF THE WAY. WHY AM I ASKING THIS QUESTION HERE. I KNOW FOR SURE THAT THIS MAILING LIST HAS THE MOST LEVEL HEADED APPROACH. I WILL UNDERSTAND THAT NO ONE IS INTERESTED ONLY IF NO ONE RESPONDS TO THIS QUESTION. ITS MY NEED TO UNDERSTAND THATS WHY I ASK. YOU DONT NEED TO UNDERSTAND MY NEED TO ANSWER. On 3/31/10, narendra sisodiya <narendra.sisodiya(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, … [View More]

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Initial design document for FOSSDevConf , Please feel free to comment over it.
by narendra sisodiya 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

* Here is the initial design document for FOSSDevConf , Please feel free to contact us. Date of document : 30 March 2010 What is FOSSDevConf ? *FOSSDevConf is the yet another conference for Free and Open Source Developers. This is a true Developer to Developer Conference. *Who can speak at FOSSDevConf ? * Developer and FOSS contributors (Activist, Supporter, Business using FOSS etc) provided they follow Rules and Guidelines of FOSSDevConf. If you are working on any un-… [View More]finished FOSS project, you are most welcome to show it to get more developers. You can put your stall. There is no fees needed for speakers. *Who can attend this ? * Any one. All you need to pay fees of conference if any. *What is difference between FOSSDevConf and other workshop ?* Basically we trying to show a true spirit of Open World = (Open Content, Open Innovations, Open Standards, Open Source/Free Software). For this we are imposing some guidelines on everybody who are part of it. *What are Strict Rules and Terms of Workshop ? * - *For Audience* - no rules applied. but we expect tweets and blog to get real feedback. - *For Speakers* - *ODF/HTML5 : *Presentation must be shown using ODF (Open Office format) Or other Open Technology like HTML5. - *NO-DOC , NO-DOCx : *Any speaker who use Microsoft /MAC technology will be disqualified to present. - *OGG : *You are only allowed to use Ogg music/video for demo. Any video with .mp4 Or other format will disqualify your selection. - *GNU/Linux : *You are allowed to carry Any Laptop with Any Operating System over it But you can only plug your laptop to projector if you have GNU/Linux OS over it. If you do not carry such laptop then you can ask organiser to arrange one for you. - *Copyright Policy : *Every Speakers are advised to make a account on main FOSSDevConf Server. They must submit their presentation Or videos before the timeline. However your presentation will be made public during workshop. All your presentations and other stuff will be licensed under "CC-By-SA" Or public domain. You have to choose either of two license. - *NO-MONO : *You cannot show your product/demos which are made using mono technology. - *NO-FLASH : *We are not entertaining Flash/Flex or other related technology. Please use SVG. - *No-Patents : *You cannot show any technology for which you have applied patent. - *For Organiser* - *Video Recording : *You must provide video recording for all speaker. All Video Recording must be uploaded to our common server using Ogg format - *Images : *All the Images must be uploaded to our common server using PNG format. - *GNU/Linux : *All the Software needed for conducting workshop must be Open Source/Free Software. You must not use Windows or Mac for workshop. - *Free-of-Cost to Speaker : *you can only charge fees to audience but you cannot charge to speaker. we advice you to pay money for - *Free Lunch* : You must provide free lunch and evening snacks to all. - *No-Coke : *You must not use Cocacola during workshop. - Please do not become organiser if you do not know the whole philosophy of Open World. - *Copyright Policy : *Please make sure that all the presentation or other stuff goes under "CC-By-Sa" license, for these copyright holder must be the original author. The uploaded video of workshop which is recorded by FOSSDevConf team must be copyrighted by FOSSDevConf and released under CC-By-Sa License. - *NO-nonfree Distribution* : you must not help any speaker or Organiser to distribute any non-free software or content. Anything which you can distribute in FOSSDevConf must have either CC-By-SA license Or FOSS license. - *NO-FLASH, NO-MONO : *you must not use flash or mono Or any technology - *T-Shirt* : You must provide TShirt to all audience. - Tshirt may or may not contain all sponsors but it should not highlight a particular sponsors in misleading ways - The Design of Tshirt must be uploaded in SVG/PNG format using CC-By-SA license. - *Gift to Speaker : *You must provide gifts to speakers. - *Free Stall* : you must provide free of cost space to stall for the project which are meant for non-profit. Selling FOSS goods like Tshirt other things are treated as non-profit. - *For Sponsors* - *No Interference :* You are not allowed to make inference in FOSSDevConf specially on rules and guidelines. - *No Brandmixing :* any company which have their name similar to FOSSDevConf like FOSSDevCenter, FOSSDevGroup etc are not allowed to sponsor the event. *Why these rules and guidelines ? *Basically a true FOSS lover who is well aware of all issues in Open World and he/she has these rules in his/her mind. but I have seen some new conference which ignore one or other layer. So basically we are trying to show a true Open Conference. most of the developers are happy to see such guidelines. * How Can I organise FOSSDevConf in my City ?* You are allowed to use FOSSDevConf brand in any city provided you can impose these rules and guidelines on yourself and on speaker. We are totally open people who strongly believe in full freedom. We are just providing a medium. We are working on this isssue ! *Suggestion :* Yup, current contact me, narendra.sisodiya AT gmail.com -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘ -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘ [View Less]

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Initial design document for FOSSDevConf
by Surya Sharma 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

With all these strict rules, I'm assuming FossDevConf aims only at expert / developers used to linux, foss, etc. If you're looking to pull in newbies, then these are too restrictive. Surya Sharma

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Initial design document for FOSSDevConf , Please feel free to comment over it.
by Surya Sharma 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

With all these restrictions, I have a funny feeling on what "Open" means anymore. This is like an AI learning a bit too much and trying to take over the world :D Surya Sharma

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summer internship in open source technology
by Pratik Anand 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

I am looking for an internship in an open source related company for a period of 1-2 months (Jun-July 2010) I am linux user for last 2 years and a FOSS developer. So, it would be a a really great opportunity if I get internship of working on Open Source technology related to fields of web application development to networking. Please let me know about it. Can anyone help me with it ? Start-ups will be the best. Thanking you, Pratik Anand -- Pratik Anand B.Tech - CSE (2nd year) Blog: … [View More]

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 83, Issue 23
by Surya Sharma 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

> > I am looking for an internship in an open source related company for a > period of 1-2 months (Jun-July 2010) > Thanking you, > Pratik Anand > I think you have a senior at MIT in the 3rd year called Ankur Shrivastav. Hit @Ankur (twitter) with this, he'll be able to hook you up at a good place. Surya Sharma

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FossDevConf
by Surya Sharma 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

> > > With all these strict rules, I'm assuming FossDevConf aims only at expert / > developers used to linux, foss, etc. If you're looking to pull in newbies, > then these are too restrictive. > but newbies are supposed to sit as audience and there is not restriction on them. Also, I do not feel these as restriction on speaker, These are just guidelines. Basically I attend some conference where Windows was used for ppt presentation. Although those speaker are taking about … [View More]FOSS but it do not match with true spirit of FOSS and Open world. For example a totally new bies when attend fossdevconf or simila event where he will find every speaker using non-windows stuff, this will make a positive impact on him. Please reply back how to feel.. on this ? ┌─────────────────────────┐ > │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) > │ Society for Knowledge Commons > │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org > └─────────────────────────┘ > Firstly, I'd request you to keep this on the mailing list, because the power of crowd can't be beaten. Secondly, disclaimer, I'm a windows user, and my hand really flies across it when I'm using it. I'm not a hardcore developer, just some programming here / there on PHP or microcontrollers (C). I do use linux, multiple distro's, but spend most of the time on windows / winblows etc. I also got Windows for free from M$ under a certain unrelated engineering subscription. There's two ways of losing an addiction, the cold turkey way, and the slow way. The cold turkey way is awesome, but doesn't work for everyone. Also, I study in a college where the students / crowd isn't very technically inclined (including Engineering students doing Computer sciences). I found that showing them open source on windows worked much better than doing an install fest and throwing them into the linux world. Once they were comfortable with technical aspects like SVN, command line etc, then introducing them to linux worked better. (compared to direct installfest, where most of the students were noting down steps on a notebook, but not getting the steps. So imho, there should always be a basic workshop / lecture on FOSS philosophies and applications in Windows to get the newbies into the scene. After all, most of us are here because of our hatred to Windows / OS X :) Surya Sharma [View Less]

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