Linuxers April 2018

linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in

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8 discussions

Good Linux/FOSS Books For Migrated Schools

by Milind Oka

Hi, As you already know, ILUG-BOM have migrated two schools in Mumbai to Linux/Open Source. There is a query from these schools for a list of appropriate computer books for coming academic year. There is an excellent project - Computer Masti by, IIT Mumbai, where Open Source Computer Books are being created and released under 'creative commons'. Intially copyrights belonged to InOpen technologies, now they are taken over by Next.Education. https://www.computermasti.in/ I really appreciate IIT-B and FOSSEE teams for their commendable projects. It seems that the project now is maintained nicely by Next.Education without violating the Open Source Policy. I suppose that they do not depend upon government funds now to grow. These books will definitely be a great help to all the schools migrated to open source. So I think we can surely recommend these books to all schools. But this solves the problem of most of the CBSE/ICSE schools who generally do not have budget restrictions. On the other hand, students of many state board schools come from weaker sections of the society. They cannot even spend 250 Rs for a book. Our two schools also come in these category. ( They are aided, but IT section is unaided, so even salary of teachers is paid by school management). While talking to ILUG team, Fr Jude of St Mary school said "We cannot charge more than 500 Rs for computer fees, then how to pay licences of commercial softwares ?" So lack of funds is the prime reason for them to migrate. They are expecting from us something like a small booklet costing around 50-75 Rs for each std so that students can afford it. Kindly give your suggestions. TIA Milind

5 years, 4 months

Summary of April Meetup

by Milind Oka

Meeting started at exactly 3 pm. We had some new members. Dhruv, a young student who has been using Linux for last four years. He shared his experience of installing Linux for the first time and also using Linux in School. Ashish, another newcomer, who is an experienced sysadmin and programmer, said that he has been pushing FOSS in his company. We were happy to see an old ILUG member Prof Kumar from IIT-B who is also a Debian developer. After the initial introduction, Rajeev started with the basic introduction of gpg. he explained how symmetric and asymmetric encryption works, the concept of secret keys. he explained how symmetric encryption is coupled with asymmetric encryption in the gpg to optimise performance. Rajeev showed us how to set-up gpg key pairs and also how to share the public key with other users, he then gave a demonstration of how to encrypt, decrypt and sign a document with gpg. He explained the concept of the web of trust and how to import and sign gpg keys of others. After the demo, there was a small question and answer session. ( Prepared by Raghu and Tayyab) Thanks and Regards -- Milind

5 years, 5 months

ERPNext Summer of Code

by Rushabh Mehta

Hello all, We are glad to announce that ERPNext is organising ESoC - ERPNext Summer of Code, inspired by GSoC. You get to spend one summer with some of the top open source developers in India and be a part of the large open source community. Why should you apply? - Get experience working on real-life projects. - Get mentored by some of the top developers in India. - Be a part of Open Source Communities. - Build your resume and increase your chances of getting a job. - Did not get into GSOC, don't worry, you will get a better experience here. - Earn a stipend of Rs 20,000 per month, on completing your tasks. How to Apply? - Select one (or multiple) projects listed out here. - Go through the tasks listed down for them in the “issues” section of the repository. - Register for the event! (PS: also go through the terms once) So why waste any more time? Go to https://erpnext.org/esoc and register. And while you’re at it, also spread the word to others! Have any more queries? Drop an email to esoc(a)erpnext.org. Thanks! best, Rushabh

5 years, 5 months

Call for speakers, April 2018 meeting

by Joe Steeve

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 14th April 2018, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

5 years, 5 months

April 2018 meeting

by Joe Steeve

Hello All, The April 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 14th March 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. 60 minutes: "Using GPG" - R.K.Rajeev 3. Floor open for relevant discussions Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

5 years, 5 months

{Job Posting} Linux/Networking - Freshers/Experienced

by Siji Sunny

Dear All, We are looking for freshers/experienced people to work on Linux, Open Source Technologies and Networking, who's ready to learn new things and work with well-funded fast growing start-up environment. Location - Mumbai Pls share your resume to hr(a)sugarboxnetworks.com -- Siji Sunny

5 years, 5 months

[commercial] [xpost][hiring]: NIPFP is looking to hire Research Programmers on a full-time in Delhi

by atul jha

Hi All, NIPFP are looking to hire Research Programmers on a full-time The tools involved here are Linux, MySQL, R, time-series analysis, longitudinal data analysis and geo-spatial analysis [example <https://ajayshahblog.blogspot.in/2018/03/estimating-impact-of-draft-drone.h…>], machine learning. We are at the frontiers of R programming including releasing open source R packages [fxregime <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fxregime/index.html>, eventstudies <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/eventstudies/index.html>]. Details about announcement: https://ajayshahblog.blogspot.in/2018/04/announcements.html -- Atul Jha www.atuljha.com @ koolhead17 <https://twitter.com/koolhead17>

5 years, 6 months

[xpost] Cloudflare announces DNS Resolver 1.1.1.1 (on 4/1)

by Arun Khan

Cloudflare announces public DNS servers 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 on 4/1 (April 1). NO -- it’s not an April Fool’s joke. Scroll down to the end of the blog. https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-resolver-1-1-1-1/amp/ Don’t believe it? Pinch yourself and test it out! -- Arun Khan

5 years, 6 months

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