FSUG-Bangalore March 2006

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Note from GNU/Linux friends ....
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

Can FSUG get in touch with Greg and Bill, two friends we met in Goa? May I also suggest them to look up at http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList FN From: agregwild(a)aol.com Add Address Date: 2006/03/14 Tue PM 01:20:56 GMT+05:30 To: fred(a)bytesforall.org CC: billkirk2003(a)yahoo.co.uk Add Address Subject: bangalore linux contacts Move To: hello Fred myself and Bill are in Bangalore at present trying to contact the user group but do not seem to be having much luck I wonder if you could put us un contact with anyone, we will be here until thursday morning as we fly to Kotchi on the afternoon.We have e-mailed the group but as yet there has been no contact,any ideas?.We are realy enjoying the city,have spoken to many Linux users and would like to know about any free courses available up until 25th of April either in Bangalore or Goa hoping this e-mail finds you in good health Greg&Bill -- ------------------------------------------------------------- | India Linux Users' Group, Goa | | Join the friendly user group | | Mail list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/join | ---------------------------------------------------------- | | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teach-yourself-linux | | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa-announce | | http://www.iosn.net/country/india/organizations/ilug-goa/ | ------------------------------------------------------------- , , / \ .-. * SOFTWARE ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) (. .) * FREEDOM `-_---' `---_-' / V \ * SHARING `--|o` 'o|--' // \\ \ ` / /( )\ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER ): :( '.^^_^^.' SHARE IT EQUITABLY :o_o: \_/ \_/ "-"

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GPLv3 MIT events videos
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

Hi List, Does anyone have the GPLv3 MIT event videos? We had an idea of screening them at future meeting. (Yes, I know we don't have a regular place of meeting but we shall hopefully remedy this with your help ;o) Cheers --arky

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Thanks you all !!!
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

Dear Friends, Against all odds, we had a nice meeting this evening and allow me for thanking each and everyone for participating. The verve of the organizers and the members needs a tip of our hats for getting us together on such a short notice. Perhaps next time we'll have meeting a little better and grow even stronger if we have few more hands to help us. So, Lets interact more on the mailing-lists over the coming weeks and lets have one more meeting on March 25. Have a great weekend. Cheers --arky

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Re: [fsug-bangalore] Meet Today [Saturday] @ Cubbon Park, 4:30 PM
by Ramakrishna Reddy 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

Hi Wouldn't it be nice to change it in the mail subject as well Regards On 3/11/06, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati <rakesh_ambati(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > --- isaac praveen <pravei(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sorry not Lal Bagh, its Cubbon Park! > > > > We are meeting today in Cubbon Park at 4:30pm, please > kindly try to be there. > > If you have any trouble reaching the venue please feel > free to call up Abhas # 9845646545 for any help. > > Cheers > > --arky > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: fsug-bangalore-unsubscribe(a)lists.deeproot.co.in > For additional commands, e-mail: fsug-bangalore-help(a)lists.deeproot.co.in > Archives: http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/ezmlm-browse?list=fsug-bangalore > > -- Ramakrishna Reddy GPG Key ID:31FF0090 Fingerprint = 18D7 3FC1 784B B57F C08F 32B9 4496 B2A1 31FF 0090

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Re: Re: [fsug-bangalore] Follow-up to the meet on Saturday...
by Kanti Jadia 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

Hi All, > > > > i ll try for the weekend , ie: 11th . it would be > > suitable... let me know > > about the following asap: > > > > > > - do you need a class or auditorium? or tell me > > the total audience you > > are targetting (50, 100, 200?) > > - do you need a projector? > > > >We may have >= 25-30 people from FCI/Blug/FSUG coming >and the students of the BMS (What is your estimation >guys?) > >Hmm, it would be great if the college has one and can >lend us or else I have to scout for someone who has >one. A projector is a must for showing anything. Evenif you have 10 people. he he , somebody remember the school days :) > >Yes having a hands-on workshop really good. Personally >am working on developing an XML training program >(consisting of five or six lectures) that I would take >to different colleges here in banglore and hyderabad >(couple of other places in AP). > This would be really nice to see. >At the moments there isn't must interest in Semantic >Web and Web Standards here in Bangalore. But in few >years we are gonna see companies requiring programs to >follow Web Standards from Interface design to Business >services based on XML. > Semantic web represent a very exciting area where the internet would go. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ for starters. I too would not say that i know a bit , having basics atleast. If possible can we have a small introduction on semantic web. Having them see something abstract and partly practical would be gr8. I too believe that to get the students involved we need to be hands on and keep them in good humour. Regards Kanti ----------------------------------------- Enjoy your Freedom,use GNU/Linux. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html -----------------------------------------

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Join orkut community for FSUG Bangalore
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Hi I just thought about creating an orkut community for Free Software User Group Bangalore, and I created it. I hope you would love to be a part of this. Regards Praveen A प्रवीण्(Praveen) ए(A) has invited you to join the 'FSUG Bangalore' community. To view the 'FSUG Bangalore' community page, visit: http://www.orkut.com/community.aspx?cmm=9650331 To see प्रवीण्(Praveen) ए(A)'s profile visit: http://www.orkut.com/profile.aspx?uid=9100167375655218671 -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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GPLv3 Series: Richard Stallman on P2P
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

Hi, Here is one interview of RMS about P2P sharing and DRM. Good one. http://www.linuxp2p.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10771 Regards Praveen A -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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Catch me on Radio City this Monaday
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

Hi, I will be talking about Free Software and some other bits on Radio Live on Radiocity <http://www.pravi.co.nr/2006/03/05/live-on-radiocity/> Regards Praveen A -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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Follow-up to the meet on Saturday...
by Abhas Abhinav 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Hi Everyone... First of all let me profusely apologise for the rather delayed email... Its been pending for many days and I just got a chance to send it in. Okay - first a short snapshot of major stuff that we discussed regarding the organisation of a GPLv3 event. I'm going to focus and quote only on that part of our discussion... please do feel to add in anything that you feel I left out. 1. We discussed venues like public halls, IISc and IIM. There is a small follow-up to this after our visit to IISc on Monday and IIM on Tuesday. Shivanand and I met Prof Gopinath at IISc. Due to other engagements that he has it would not be possible to involve him in organising the conference at IISc. However, he is very interested in the conference and would be willing to join ing. We then met Prof Rahul De' and Prof Shankar Venkatgiri at IIM-B on Tuesday. They were very upbeat about the possiblities of organising the conference at IIM. Now we need to indicate some dates to them so that they can make a proposal to their committee (at the Centre of Public Policy at IIMB) and get a nod on whether they can hold the event there. 2. Kanti raised a very very important point about assembling an action team here in Bangalore. He said that as a precursor to organising an event on such a large scale, we should first organise series of smaller events. This will help us in proving to ourselves that we can indeed organise a much bigger event. Based on Kanti's feedback, all of us decided that this is definitely needed and doable. Basically, working together as a team is very important and if we work together to do smaller events, it will help increase understanding amongst all of us who have volunteered to help out for the GPLv3 event. To start with, we will have another meet at BMSCE to discuss and understand the GPLv2. I volunteered to make a presentation on this. (Don't know if I'm biting off more than I could chew, but lets see...) And then we decided that we will discuss about the license to ensure that all of us understand it very well. This event will a more of a team-building event. The idea is to ensure that we all know and understand each other enough to be able to work together for organising the GPLv3 conference. 3. Of course, I can't miss out mentioning the coffee we had at Koshy's. And the fun that it was sitting in Cubbon Park to have our discussion... I think we can make Cubbon Part our regular meeting place. Not the same rock... maybe a different one every time. 4. Briefly, we also touched upon the topic of offering projects and seminars to students. Many Many thanks to: Rakesh (arky) - for setting the temper and direction for so many of the meeting topics. Rakesh was also the one, I guess, who knew almost everyone present. Praveen A, Kushal Das, Ramkrishna Reddy, Anush Shetty, Nirmal Thacker, Kanti, and Bimal Mankara for contributing very actively to the healthy discussion. Many thanks to all others who attended and volunteered. I could not quote everyone's name above. Please don't feel bad about it. Here is a list of people who attended: Kushal Das Isaac Praveen Akshay SasiKumar Basil Baby Bimal mankara Sajith K.C Anush Shetty Nirmal Thacker Praveen A Ramkrishna Reddy Parag Nemade Zabil CM Sweekar Pinto Sajith T S Nitin Numar Laxminarayan Kamath Shivanand V Edrami Abhas Abhinav Rakesh Ambati Many thanks to Laxminarayan for typing this in. I've left out the phone numbers here since this will be publically archived on the Internet... Can mail that to all of us privately. Further actions --------------- 1. Identify time and date for the BMSCE meeting. I think we were planning for Saturday. But there seems to be a BLUG meeting. Do we still want to hold it parallelly or should we postpone our meet to Sunday or next weekend? Or even mid week sometime. Any other venues that could accomodate all of us? 2. We need a discussion list of some sort. Any suggestions? How about a gnu.org.in mailing list? Currently, everyone is subscribed to the FSUG-Bangalore mailing list and we can continue our discussion here. Fellows - please do build up on this email... I'm sorry if I did not cover everything. Cheers, Abhas. -- i-take-charge at DeepRoot Linux http://www.deeproot.co.in / +91 (80) 4112 4784 / 85 Getting gnu/Linux to work for you. Faster. Better. Today. Every way.

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[Tech] Debian Mirror checker
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi There, Was wondering if anyone know how to track the freshness of Debian Mirror from client machine. Like the Debian Mirror Checker ( http://mirror.debian.org/status.html ). Going thro old debian weekly news archives I found any announcement of project called deblint but there is no sign of this python program anywhere. Enlighten me !!!! --arky

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