Design for Ask Fedora
by Suchakra
Dear Team,
We all must be aware by now, of the release of Ask Fedora [1]. Its
picking up pace and we need good design/artwork otherwise it can lead
to negative publicity. Akbot seems to be working fine in terms of
functionality and we just need good skinning/logo for the time being.
I made some changes to the css (colour changes etc sometime back)
which is just a temporary job. We even have a skin code repo from some
Ubuntu guys who tried to do something similar for Askbot (Rahul has
the links I think) It can be used as a reference. There are some other
examples of good skins for Askbot which maybe he can share on this
thread too so we can got going. I can start working on some
mascot/logo - some remixed job from OCAL I think ;) There's a ticket
already open [2] and some discussion already went through. Please help
in adding beauty to this effort. Thanks :)
[1] http://ask.fedoraproject.org
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/199
Suchakra
12 years, 5 months
FUDcon attendance
by अभिजित Abhijit
Dear fudcon team,
Can you please share the list of people who registered and those who
attended FUDCON? I need it for the records of the institute.
Prof. Abhijit A M
CoEP.
12 years, 5 months
Re: [fedora-india] Freemedia Help *Needed* in India
by Inderjeet S Sodhi
Hi all,
I think the idea erupted in Frank's mind after my mail yesterday. After a
brief communication even I looked at the pending requests and was amazed to
see the number of pending requests.
Since most of them are for F15, I'd rather wait for F16 to open up, this
because someone seeking F15 will most likely ask for F16 as well within the
next fortnight.
As for vendors, most of them are not into it because they follow their heart
or because of the spirit that we people have here but because they think
they should "sell". There isn't any exclusive vendor as far as I could
understand from a quick glimpse. The name "Linux Bazar" would imply they
have things/services/products related to Linux but one look at their site
and I knew they are selling "whatever" comes to them. One vendor, copyleft
solutions is in Pakistan, not as listed under India.
As for countrymen not helping fellow countrymen, I disagree. The objective
is to help the needy not the greedy. There is always an element of
skepticism when it comes to someone asking for something for free in India.
Seeker are always manifold higher than givers :-)
I don’t mind contributing back, say 10 DVDs a month just to spread the
cause, because some part of my earning comes from Open Source (thanks FOSS
and the OS community) but that’s not the case with everyone. There is also
no "criteria" to judge genuine requesters. I agree with fellow members that
some requesters wouldn't have "seriously" created the requests. They did so
just "because it was available" or in anticipation of getting a nicer or
"official" media. I'd personally give preference to requests from areas
that are not in/around metros. Since most of Metro India as well as Tier2
city segment is now under "unlimited data transfer" plans, So if they can go
torrenting, they can download Fedora as well. Jammu/Kashmir would be a good
option because students are keen to get into mainstream learning while
Internet is still intermittent there.
There could be a "I am willing to pay n Rupees as shipping charges" in the
form. Such requests maybe matched to vendors. Contributors may also have
some benchmarks, say 2 DVDs in 6 months (or in 2 releases). Those who are
not upto the standard maybe "suspended". Yes, everyone is a volunteer so
suspension sounds rude, but the system needs to be kept clean and concise.
Well I can go on and on...but enough of it for now. I don't want to you have
a first impression that I am a critic/skeptic or something on those lines.
Thank you for a patient reading. Some functions/ideas I mentioned above may
already be there in the current system, so please excuse my ignorance. I
have the privilege of being new here you know ;-)
Bye for now.
Inderjeet
12 years, 5 months
Freemedia Help *Needed* in India
by Frank Murphy
Congrats on the Fudcon, well done.
Now,
Could I ask while there may be a feeling of goodwill.
Than more people from India, may see a need to help
get Fedora out to others in India.
You will not get paid.
You may not get any thanks.
You may not get blanks and postage.
You may not have any warm feeling.
What you will have is the knowledge
of helping someone else.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Freemedia/Join_freemedia
--
Regards,
Frank Murphy
UTF_8 Encoded
12 years, 5 months
[OT] GNUnify 2012 dates
by sankarshan
A somewhat reasonably early heads-up about the event which would help
potential speakers plan out talks and hackfests.
Excerpts from an email received from the organizers:
GNUnify the Free Software event, will take place on 10th and 11th
February, 2012 in Pune.
GNUnify is jointly organized by PLUG and SICSR for the last nine
years in Pune.
This time we are celebrating the 10th year of the GNUnify event.
Date: 10-11 February,2012
Venue: SICSR, (Symbiosis College, Atur center)
Other details of the event will be available soon on the website
http://gnunify.in/
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>
12 years, 5 months
Fwd: FW: PPT of the morning keynote..
by अभिजित Abhijit
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Abhijit A.M. <abhijit.comp(a)coep.ac.in>
Date: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:27 PM
Subject: FW: PPT of the morning keynote..
To: "abhijit13(a)gmail.com" <abhijit13(a)gmail.com>
Abhijit A.M.
Faculty, Department of Computer Engineering and I.T.,
College of Engineering, Shivajinagar, Pune - 411005
Phone: +91 20-2550-7108
------------------------------
*From:* Abhijit A.M.
*Sent:* 07 November 2011 20:26:19
*To:* lists(a)india.fedoraproject.org
*Cc:* Pradeep Waychal
*Subject:* FW: PPT of the morning keynote..
Forwarding to the concerned people.
Abhijit A.M.
Faculty, Department of Computer Engineering and I.T.,
College of Engineering, Shivajinagar, Pune - 411005
Phone: +91 20-2550-7108
------------------------------
*From:* Pradeep Waychal [pradeep.waychal(a)gmail.com]
*Sent:* 06 November 2011 16:25:44
*To:* Abhijit A.M.
*Subject:* Re: PPT of the morning keynote..
It is still not there. Is it possible for you to get it from Jared?
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Abhijit A.M. <abhijit.comp(a)coep.ac.in>wrote:
> http://fudcon.in/sessions/fedora-state-union-address
> Right now not available. If it becomes available, it will be at the above
> address.
>
> Abhijit A.M.
> Faculty, Department of Computer Engineering and I.T.,
> College of Engineering, Shivajinagar, Pune - 411005
>
> Phone: +91 20-2550-7108
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Pradeep Waychal [pradeep.waychal(a)gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 04 November 2011 23:11:57
> *To:* Abhijit A.M.
> *Subject:* PPT of the morning keynote..
>
> Hi,
>
> Where would it be available?
>
> --
>
> *Pradeep Waychal. Ph D.*
>
> *Head, Innovation Centre,*
>
> *Professor in Information Technology,*
>
> *College of Engineering, Pune. India 411 005*
>
> *Phone +91 20 25507367*
>
>
--
*Pradeep Waychal. Ph D.*
*Head, Innovation Centre,*
*Professor in Information Technology,*
*College of Engineering, Pune. India 411 005*
*Phone +91 20 25507367*
12 years, 5 months
[Event Report] FUDCon Pune, November 4-6, 2011, India
by Shakthi Kannan
FUDCon Pune 2011
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Day I, Friday, November 4, 2011
I arrived early on day I of FUDCon Pune 2011 [1] to help with the
registration desk. We had different counters for speakers and
volunteers, and for delegates. Fedora banners were placed at various
seminar locations on campus to indicate where the talks and sessions
were being held.
I attended the keynote by Jared Smith [2], the Fedora Project Leader.
The illustrations used in his presentation, 'Fedora "State of the
Union" Address' [3] were really good. I then proceeded to the
classrooms to attend Ramakrishna Reddy's talk on 'Developer Survivor
Manual' [4]. He addressed essential things that newbie developers need
to know, and demoed various revision control systems.
Lunch was served at 12 noon, and then I moved on to attend the 'Fedora
Remix and the Community' [5] talk by Danishka Navin [6]. He shared his
experience with the Hanthana [7] project, which is a Fedora remix that
has support for Sinhalese, and Tamil and has been deployed at various
schools in Sri Lanka. Fedora is one of the first and largest user of
Gitolite [8], and I was happy to meet its author, Sitaram Chamarthy,
from TCS Innovation Labs, Hyderabad, India. His talk [9] was filled
with numerous examples from people using gitolite. The other large
users of gitolite are KDE and kernel.org. I then attended the
'GlusterFS' [10] talk by Krishna Srinivas from Red Hat, who gave an
overview of the Gluster file system, its architecture, and uses.
Day II, Saturday, November 5, 2011
I arrived early again on day II of FUDCon Pune 2011. The day's
proceedings started with a keynote by Harish Pillay [11] on his
thoughts on community work, and on his new role as the lead of
Community Architecture [12]. I then attended the 'Security in the Open
Source world!' talk [13] by Eugene Teo [14] and Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
[15]. Their talk covered quite a bit on the various security threats,
and on how they are handled.
Since I attended the GlusterFS overview talk on the first day, I
wanted to follow it up with the 'GlusterFS: Hacking HOWTO' talk [16]
by Amar Tumballi. He suggested newbies to read on translators as a
starting point to work with Gluster, along with few ideas that they
could start with. Lunch was again served at 12 noon. After lunch, I
headed to Seminar Hall 2 for my talk on 'Quite Universal Circuit
Simulator - A Qt Love Story' [17] [18]. It is an introduction to
electrical circuit theory using circuit components as "fictional" men
and women. The example circuits were created using qucs-0.0.15. The
examples are available at gitorious:
$ git clone git://gitorious.org/qucs-a-qt-love-story/qucs-a-qt-love-story_prj.git
After my talk, I went to the auditorium to attend the talk by Amit
Shah [19] on 'Linux Virtualization' [20] followed by Kashyap
Chamarthy's [21] talk on 'Virtualization with Libvirt' [22]. They had
given a good overview of virtualization in the Linux kernel, and
available tools that one could use. I do use Publican [23], and thus
attended Jared Smith's talk on the same. Publican does insert blank
pages to ensure that new chapters start on the right-hand side if the
content were to be printed as a book. For the final talk of the day, I
attended Rahul Sundaram's [24] session on Askbot for Fedora [25], and
the roadmap and features that he is interested in. We then travelled
to Hotel Parc Estique [26] for the FUDPub!
Final Day, Sunday, November 6, 2011
As a follow-up to my talk on QUCS [17] on day II of FUDCon Pune 2011,
I wanted to create circuit examples on the final day from a text book
that was being followed for basic electrical engineering course work.
This would be a supplement that a student can use when learning
circuit theory. Anuj More and Payas Awadhutkar joined in, and we
worked on schematics from chapter I of 'Fundamentals of Electrical
Engineering' [27] by Leonard S. Boborow, a.k.a "Babu Rao" in India.
The schematics were created in qucs-0.0.16, and are available from
Payas Awadhutkar gitorious repo:
$ git clone git://gitorious.org/qucs-baburao/qucs-baburao.git
I would like to thank all the volunteers from College of Engineering,
Pune [28] and Prof. Abhijit A M [29] who coordinated with us in
organizing this conference. Thanks also goes to the Fedora
contributors who helped in getting things done. Special thanks to Red
Hat for sponsoring the event, and for their wonderful support.
We trained many students over the years as part of the Fedora project.
I was very happy to see them as speakers and present on the things
that they have been working on, and also help others when required
during the conference. This is the best outcome that I take from the
event.
The photos that I took at FUDCon Pune 2011 are available in my /gallery [30].
[1] FUDCon Pune 2011. http://fudcon.in/
[2] Jared Smith. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jsmith
[3] Fedora "State of the Union" Address.
http://fudcon.in/sessions/fedora-state-union-address
[4] Developer Survival Manual.
http://fudcon.in/sessions/developer-survival-manual-impatient-developer-g...
[5] Fedora Remix and the Community.
http://fudcon.in/sessions/fedora-remix-and-community
[6] Danishka Navin. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Snavin
[7] Hanthana project. http://www.hanthana.org
[8] Gitolite. https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
[9] Gitolite by Sitaram Chamarthy.
http://fudcon.in/sites/default/files/slides/gitolite-at-fudcon-india-2011...
[10] GlusterFS.
http://fudcon.in/sessions/glusterfs-red-hat-storage-storage-red-hat
[11] Harish Pillay. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:HarishPillay
[12] Community Architecture.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Community_Architecture
[13] Security in the Open Source world.
http://fudcon.in/sessions/security-open-source-world
[14] Eugene Teo. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Eteo
[15] Huzaifa Sidhpurwala. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Huzaifas
[16] GlusterFS Hacking HOWTO. http://fudcon.in/sessions/glusterfs-hacking-howto
[17] Quite Universal Circuit Simulator - A Qt Love Story.
http://fudcon.in/sessions/qucs-qt-love-story
[18] Quite Universal Circuit Simulator. http://qucs.sourceforge.net/
[19] Amit Shah. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Amitshah
[20] Linux Virtualization.
http://fudcon.in/sites/default/files/slides/Virtualization-with-libvirt.pdf
[21] Kashyap Chamarthy. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kashyapc
[22] Virtualization with Libvirt.
http://fudcon.in/sessions/virtualization-libvirt
[23] Publican. https://fedorahosted.org/publican/
[24] Rahul Sundaram. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sundaram
[25] Askbot on Fedora.
http://fudcon.in/sessions/ask-fedora-community-support-and-knowledge-base
[26] Hotel Parc Estique. http://www.parcestique.com/pune.htm
[27] Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering.
http://www.amazon.ca/Fundamentals-Electrical-Engineering-Leonard-Bobrow/d...
[28] College of Engineering, Pune. http://www.coep.org.in/
[29] Prof. Abhijit A M. http://www.coep.org.in/index.php?profile=abhijit.comp
[30] Photos. http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album72
--
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
12 years, 5 months
Re: [fedora-india] Fudcon (worst) Experience
by Saleem Ansari
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Chaitannya Mahatme <chaitannya(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Suchakra,
>
> I do agree with the Siji regarding a few aspects.
> About the sessions even I experienced the same thing. A few simple things
> could have been done eleminate the inconvenience caused.
>
> 1. Since there were more than 2 venues, there should have been a map on the
> back of the schedule.
There were separate venue maps printed and distributed on the first
day ( registration ) of
event. Maybe they got over by the time you reached there.
> 2. More posters at the venue, indicating way to xyz hall and also mentioning
> relevant landmarks on the map.
There were direction marks clearly indicating direction with arrows
and room numbers.
They were posted on trees, stairs and walls on the way to rooms esp. electrical
department rooms. We made sure that they were there. I don't know when and who
removed them.
> 3. There should have been small teams of 2-3 volunteers assigned with a
> Single responsible person or group leader assigned for specific session. It
> is very important at this stage that the roles and responsibilities of the
> volunteers is well defined. What I saw was, volunteers were randomly moving
> around the venue.
>
This is acceptable to some extent but then again FUDCon is a barcamp style,
self organizing conference. So essentially speakers are required to take the
lead in organizing the sessions by themselves. Maybe this message was't
well received by the audience.
So essentially, the keyword here is "barcamp". We tried our best to avoid
confusion by pre-scheduling most of the session, making it easier for audience
and speakers. Othewise in FUDCon all the scheduling happens
at the venue. With such a huge crowd it would have been chaotic to do that.
Please do not misunderstand FUDCon with the way most of the conferences
are organized in India.
Thanks for your feedback. We will try to fix these issues for a next FUDCon.
Also correct me if I have myself misunderstood your feedback.
/tuxdna
12 years, 5 months