Hi,
I am sure most of us know about the annual event Google Summer
Of Code. Like past years The KDE Project participated this year even.
Actually I had posted about the event when it was kicked off this
year.
Anyways, results were declared sometime back and KDE got some
40[1] [2] slots from Google. But for me the bigger and happier news is
that a lot of Indians participated this year and quite a few them
submitted good proposals. There were 216 eligible proposals in all
that were submitted to The KDE Project.
And the news that is even more happier and bigger is that one
of the chosen candidates is from our ``Amchi Mumbai" even - Sharan
Rao. Some of us surely must have seen him / met him at LUG meets or
otherwise. Sharan has been an occasional contributor to K3B since last
year. Sharan's proposal about Umbrello was happily selected by mentors
- I say this because I was present at the meeting and I noticed how
proposals were judged strictly by core KDE devs. I think, I have
mentioned before how being a ``actual" contributor helps in such cases
because they already have seen your code. And more importantly, a good
proposal does it job really well. Sharan's proposal was really good,
more importantly something he thought all by himself and was
completely out of the box and mentors didnot even put forth that in
the stock ideas. All he did was found a cool application and found
what it was lacking and made a good proposal around it.
To be fair to other candidates, I must admit most of the 40
accepted proposals were just like that of Sharan. And all such
proposals just passed with flying colours even if there was a
discussion/debate on pros and cons of the proposals. If there were
only disputes, it was due to certain conflicting proposals or
duplicate proposals for the same idea, in which case the most suitable
candidate was selected which ofcourse was measured by a scale called
as - "who show most enthusiasm and maybe has submitted most patches or
proposal was very very strong". It was taken care that proposal was
worth atleast 30+ hours per week of work and was even informed to
student if he had other ideas. Anything less and the candidate was
questioned. I was sort of happy and pleasantly surprised watching
mentors calling a spade a spade or some such metaphor. And since I
have spoken to personally ( or heard about ) quite a few candidates
this year, the common thing was their enthusiasm and willingness - be
it Mike Authur, Marcus Hanwell or Sharan or anybody else.
Anirudh Ramesh (based in Singapore) and Piyush Verma (Delhi
based) are the other Indians in the list. Good luck to you both. Do
well. Also heartiest congratulaltions to other members of the list who
have been selected as well for other projects. Good wishes to all of
you.
Sharan, dude you rock! Congratulations and loads of good
wishes. And one guy whom I really need to thank is our beloved admin -
Anurag - who was instrumental in helping me get introduced to ( and
meet ) Sharan ( - my favourite twit, is what I like to call him )
sometime Feb '06 or so. He has done really well for himself and
learnt a lot without any other expectations and more importantly has
contributed some lines of code to Free Software and I am sure he will
do much much more.
[1] http://dot.kde.org/1176336589/
[2] http://code.google.com/soc/kde/about.html
Cheers!
Pradeepto
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Hello all,
I am working with a small team on software
development/embedded development. Need BE (EE/CS) with linux/embedded
development expertise. 1-2 years of experience and a "Linux hand"
should be good. The requirement is to work on an embedded
platform/driver and application development.
The association is open, in terms of either on project contract basis
(4 months full time project) or becoming an employee . We can discuss
that for the suitable candidate.
You could drop me an e-mail if the work described suits you or if you
desire more information
Regards,
Akshay
Hello Friends,
I configured ltsp for PXE Boot in Fedora 5 . But when i try to boot from Client pc through PXE Boot i got error message:
Doing the pivot_root
pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory
Mounting the devfs filesystem
mount: Mounting /devfs on /dev failed: device or resource busy
Running /sbin/init
exec: /sbin/init: no such file or directory
Kernel Panic : Attempted to kill init!
Note:- My client pc have onboard LAN with Boot Rom supporting.
Also my pc have in which i configured ltsp support Boot Rom.
I also try with RHEL ES 4 but i face same problem.
Do i need an external PXE Boot lan card for my client PC.
Pls. help me & give me solution friends.
Thanks & Regards,
Mahesh Pokhriyal
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Hello All,
On Saturday 14th April 2007 we successfully setup the wireless mesh
running the free information server. This time the OLSR protocol was
also loaded into 2 laptops that acted as additional nodes. The server
machine with Apache2 was loaded with CD and DVD isos in the /var/www/
folder and we could visit the machine through the mesh and access the
web page with all the isos.
So finally we were having tea in the canteen and downloading Linux isos
on our laptops. The linux laptop got a speed of 1.2 Mbps to 800 Kbps and
the windows laptop got abot 500 Kbps. We can work on the speed part.
What a nice day to start the free information network. It was the
'Jayanti' of Dr. Ambedkar who wanted to empower the people with freedom
and knowledge. The full setup is available at
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/WirelessMesh
-
Regards,
Rony.
Hi,
Is it possible to have a stronger signup procedure for the wiki? I
think something as simple as email confirmation should do the trick.
Simply entering a username and password is making it really simple for
bots to play havoc.
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http://siddhesh.tk
Hello All,
We are meeting again tomorrow Saturday 10.30 am onwards 14th April 2007
at HBCSE Mankhurd for the wireless mesh setup. This time we will be
setting up the content server and is a very good opportunity to see how
the mesh will provide free information to the public. All those who
attend are requested to bring their laptops if possible, to test the
mesh as much as we can.
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Regards,
Rony.
Hey,
I have a few old Kubuntu CDs and few new ones even lying
around. Where old = 5.10 and new = 6.10. I have some ed/ubuntu - 6.10
as well.
Now if anybody is interested please ping me offlist, we can
arrange a meeting or meet during a lug meet or some such and I can
give you the cds then.
And before somebody says - ohhhh those are old, why would I
need those? Umm, you think. maybe old hardware or whatever. I am sure
there might be some use other than distributing those to autorickshaw
drivers in Panvel. Btw, those 5.10 Kubuntu CDs, were sent directly by
Jonathan Riddell because those days there was no shipit for kubuntu or
whatever.
Cheers!
Pradeepto
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