http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/ListHelperAntiSpam
The above link documents a nice way to control spam on GNU Mailman run
mailing lists. I am using it on 2 lists.gnu.org lists and 1 non
lists.gnu.org list. Things seem to be ok till now.
Cheers,
Debarshi
--
After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box.
-- Italian proverb
Sjoerd Hemminga is developing Contact2, a Web 2.0 Contact Management
software, using Python. Tomorrow, 22nd at 4:30PM he will talk about how
he is using a test driven development approach. Come by if you are
interested in TDD or in possibly in Contact2 development.
Sjoerd says:
Next Monday I will give a talk on Test-Driven Development and how I use
it in my project.
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a relatively new technique where a
developer writes automated test cases before implementing a feature.
These automated tests will verify correct system behaviour throughout
the lifetime of the system. In this talk I will explain what TDD is and
what the advantages are. We will also look at a well-known testing
framework and discuss some testing strategies. I will also show how I
have adopted TDD in my project.
In summary:
Talk: Contact2 and Test-Driven Development
Date: Monday January 22nd, 2007
Time: 1630h
Location: Servelots, Bangalore
(see directions on http://servelots.com)
Hi,
The BangPypers invite you to submit a proposal to present a technical paper
or tutorial,
or to host a meeting or BOF session at the conference.
There are no fixed guidelines except for the below.
1) The talk has to be on a Pythonic Topic
2) It will be restricted to 45 mts with buffer for Q& A -10 mts
3) Though not mandatory, preference will be given to relevance of the topic
with the agenda of the conference being "to promote Python"
Though currently the plans of having a separate tutorial section is not on,
we still want to hear from you, and we can see whether something can be
fitted in...
There might be just 10 talks split into 2 tracks. So please hurry up and
send in your proposals.
Your Proposal should be mailed conference AT bangpypers.org.
--
Cheers.
Anush Shetty
BangPycon
First Indian Python Conference,
March 3rd 2007,
St Josephs PG College, Bangalore, India.
Email: conference(a)bangpypers.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangpypershttp://bangpypers.org
Hi,
The BangPypers invite you to submit a proposal to present a technical paper
or tutorial,
or to host a meeting or BOF session at the conference.
There are no fixed guidelines except for the below.
1) The talk has to be on a Pythonic Topic
2) It will be restricted to 45 mts with buffer for Q& A -10 mts
3) Though not mandatory, preference will be given to relevance of the topic
with the agenda of the conference being "to promote Python"
Though currently the plans of having a separate tutorial section is not on,
we still want to hear from you, and we can see whether something can be
fitted in...
There might be just 10 talks split into 2 tracks. So please hurry up and
send in your proposals.
Your Proposal should be mailed conference AT bangpypers.org.
--
Cheers.
Anush Shetty
BangPycon
First Indian Python Conference,
March 3rd 2007,
St Josephs PG College, Bangalore, India.
Email: conference(a)bangpypers.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangpypershttp://bangpypers.org
Disclaimer:: These films have nothing to do with Free
Software per se, but related the coding culture of
bangalore.
Cheers
--arky
Films for Freedom / Vikalp Bangalore presents a
weekend of contrasts.
POWAQQATSI
By Godfrey Reggio with music by Philip Glass
6.30 p.m. Saturday, January 20, 2007
Centre for Film and Drama (address below)
Powaqqatsi is part of the Qatsi trilogy. It's overall
focus is on
natives of the Third World - the emerging, land-based
cultures of
Asia, India, Africa, the Middle East and South America
- and how they
express themselves through work and traditions. It is
a celebration of
the human-scale endeavor the craftsmanship, spiritual
worship, labour
and creativity that defines a particular culture. It
is also about
contrasting ways of life, and in part how the lure of
mechanization
and technology and the growth of mega-cities are
having a negative
effect on small-scale cultures.
FUN @ SUN (29 min) and JULY BOYS (26 min)
>From the series CODING CULTURE
By Gautam Sonti in collaboration with Carol Upadhya
6.30 p.m. Sunday, January 21, 2007
Centre for Film and Drama (address below)
Coding Culture is a series of three films, each set in
one software
company of Bangalore. The films explore the cultures
of outsourced
work and the moulding of a new workforce.
Fun@Sun highlights the contradictory ways in which
'culture' is
invoked in the global corporate workplace. While
cultural sensitivity
training programmes validate cultural difference,
Indian software
engineers are expected to conform to the dominant
model of global
corporate culture, by learning appropriate
communication and
behaviourial styles.
July Boys explores the creation of a Silicon
Valley-style work culture
within a 'cross-border' company, that has one leg in
Bangalore and the
other in Santa Clara, California. It highlights the
emergence of new
kinds of identities (global, transnational,
cosmopolitan), that
incorporate and transcend pre-existing identities such
as the national
and the regional.
The filmmakers of Coding Culture will be present at
the screening.
Centre for Film and Drama
5th Floor, Sona Towers
71 Millers Road, Bangalore 560052
Phones: 080-22356263
Note: Starting this month, FfF,Bangalore's monthly
screenings will be
open to members only. Please do come in a little early
and register
yourselves at the screening venue.
Hello Friends,
The Ubuntu-India team is delighted to announce that we have got a
shipment of the Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft CDs. We are willing to share this
with the LUGs around us and have created a Wiki page with respect to
this. You can include your requirements there.
What we have in hand are Ubuntu Edgy Desktop CDs (and its variants
Kubuntu and Edubuntu for both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures), which
are Live CDs with a GUI installer along with it. If you need to
install on computers with less than 192 MB of RAM or need to upgrade
from an earlier version of Ubuntu, 6.06 LTS ``Dapper Drake'', then we
suggest you to download the `Alternate CD' from the Ubuntu Mirror
sites.
The Wiki link is below
http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/EdgyCdRequests
We will try our best to meet your requirements depending upon the
overall requests from other LUGs as well.
Thanking You,
Ubuntu-India Team
Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) is a technology that affects all users
of computers, media players, mobile phones and other devices.
"'Your devices don't trust you!' is the basic message of DRM. In fact they
trust you so little that they will not even tell you that they put you under
surveillance," says Joachim Jakobs, FSFE's media coordinator.
[1]<http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q4/000157.html>
"If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we've
already failed," says Peter Lee, an executive at Disney.
[2]<http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4342418>
"DRM technologies are based on the principle that a third party has more
influence over your devices than you, and that their interests will override
yours when they come in conflict. That is even true where your interest is
perfectly legitimate and legal, and possibly also for your own data,"
explains Georg Greve, FSFE's president.
[3]<http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q4/000157.html>
Join the campaign to eliminate DRM
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign
Also act against the amendmend to Indian Copyright law for DRM
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign/Proposed-Amenments
Cheers
Praveen
--
"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
Hi,
We have started collection of tips to promote Free Knowledge and Free
Software for a Free Society here.
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/IfYouAre
Please pass on this to your friends which ever field of life they are in
also contribute to make it better.
Cheers
Praveen
--
"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