Linuxers October 2010

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by Kenneth Gonsalves 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

hi, just testing as my recent mails to the list have been bouncing -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC

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FOSS in Indian Schools - A Serious Concern & a Request to Unite.
by Narendra Sisodiya 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Dear FOSS Enthusiasts and Activists. I am writing this letter to all for a request to create a task force to advocate FOSS in schools. If we fail to advocate Linux in schools then we will be failed everywhere. Most of the computer users like me are using computer from Last 5-6 year or less. They learned everything in college only. Also at our time computer was a costly device. We have not faced much difficult in migrating from Windows to Linux. Now we love Linux based distro and advocate for open curriculum, content , no-patents, no-DRM etc. But today scenario has changed. Computer are available in every * Mohalla* and Village. many of them are not having Internet connectivity. they are just using some pirated software. This is not a small population. This is a very huge population. This huge population of school students is also including student who do not have money to buy computer but they are learning using cybercafe and coaching classes. If you do not tell them to use FOSS and Linux based Distro, they will continue using pirated window software for next 10-15 year of their life until they got lucky to enter into a college where Local LUG is active and he got change to explore GSoC and other activities OR course curriculum include FOSS. *After 7 year, if you wish to give a lecture for advocating FOSS/Linux in a college then Do you think you can convince them to use FOSS/Linux and stop using the proprietary products which he is using from last 10 years? * During a workshop of Kids at NCERT, a 5th class kids refused to work on Kturtle because he was using LOGO software from last 1 year. Those who do not know LOGO created very beautiful diagrams with Kturtle. You can only reach engineering students at College level Linux/FOSS promotion and activities. But these student who are going to use proprietary product for they whole school life will go in various domain like art, music, law etc. you can never convince them after their mind-wash. I learned to do advocacy from two side attack. System is like pyramid. Bottom side contains huge student. and tip is controlled by those who run Education system. at top level we need to look for syllabus change and other activities. At bottom side we need to advocate FOSS and Linux principle in schools. Imagine the power of community and collaboration value inside this huge community. This student community need out love, care and guidance. We can together create a task force and think for various strategies to introduce FOSS in schools. If you empower this student community then they can crate whole curriculum and e-learning videos of their syllabus by themselves. == Duty of Task Force == * Creating mailing list or all FOSS + Edu persons * Bring all FOSS+Edu on mailing list Or paper newsletter * Creating Workshop for discussion. * supporting the development of SchoolOS * empower technical level of student and teacher * Creating article for FOSS advocacy * Creating template letters for creating workshop in schools * getting help from NCERT and other institutes. * Creating booklets/Books - Classwise * Creating Portals for students and teacher * Creating teacher and student community Please Join - SchoolOS mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/schoolos and wiki.schoolos.org -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Mumbai Meet up in the attendance of Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia
by Mehul Ved 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kundan Amitabh <kundanamitabh(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:16 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Mumbai Meet up in the attendance of Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi ! A Meet up has been organised on 31st Oct., 2010 at Mumbai. Alongwith others Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia will be attending the meet up. For details please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai3 All are invited to attend. -- Best Regards. Kundan Amitabh Ang India Technologies, www.angindia.org CH-2/52, Kendriya Vihar, Sector-11, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai-410210, INDIA ====================== 9320255450 / 9869478444 ====================== "Let's Keep Our World Green for Our Children's Future! Please don't print this email unless it's really necessary" _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list Wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum -- With Regards, Mehul Ved

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Tomcat log issue
by Sameed Ahmed 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

Hi, We are running Tomcat on two different servers. One is Tomcat5 comes under RHEL5.2 DVD, Other is Tomcat5.5.28 from Tomcat website. Both are running on RHEL5.2 Downloaded Tomcat shows " catalina.out, admin.log, catalina.log, host-manager.log, localhost.log, manager.log " in log directory. while Tomcat5 installed from DVD shows only "catalina.out" log. we need all above logs in this server too. In logging.properties following line are already define " 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = catalina. 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = localhost. 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = manager. 4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE 4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs 4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = admin. 5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE 5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs 5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = host-manager. java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = FINE java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter " -- Sameed Ahmed

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Fwd: [PLUG] [X-Post]Open Source COM-Beagle Board /HawkBoard workshop For Developers in Mumbai-India
by Arun Khan 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

FYI - forwarding w/o prejudice. -- Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amit Karpe <amitkarpe(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:20 PM Subject: [PLUG] [X-Post]Open Source COM-Beagle Board /HawkBoard workshop For Developers in Mumbai-India To: cslug(a)yahoogroups.com, plug-mail(a)plug.org.in, pandaboard(a)googlegroups.com, The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org>, openarmlab(a)googlegroups.com, Ubuntu India Local Community <ubuntu-in(a)lists.ubuntu.com>, ubuntu-mobile(a)lists.ubuntu.com, LinuxChix - India <indichix(a)linuxchix.org>, ILUG-C <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in>, kde-india(a)kde.org Open Source COM-Beagle Board /HawkBoard workshop For Developers in Mumbai-India Date: 30th Oct 2010 Venue: CDAC Lecture theatre,Juhu, Mumbai. Registration Fee : 200RS (payment on the spot by cash). This workshop is jointly organised by Bizmobiletech business entity-Net4Uonline Pvt. ltd. and CDAC Mumbai supported by Texas Instruments . The Core objective of the workshop is to meet and learn from the developers of Open Source Computer On Module,improve your development skills with in-depth sessions and training. Topics To be covered 1.Hardware And OS overview of BeagleBoard In this session attendees get an overview of the Beagle Board and its OMAP3530 processor. Also, setting up the beagle board and building and running various Embedded Linux distros. The session also gives an overview of the Angstrom operating system, its architecture and major features. This session looks at the open embedded Builder and how to use it to create operating system images and cross compiled packages. 2.Application / UI Development with BeagleBoard Using Clutter This session will provide an overview of the software and hardware features available on the OMAP 3 BeagleBoard platform relevant to consider when creating 3D user interfaces, with a summary of Linuxʼs graphics software stacks(integrated SGX hardware graphics accelerator), and an introduction to creating user interfaces by using Clutter. 3.Hardware And OS overview of hawkBoard 4.H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding Using Open Source COM H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding is an international standard for video compression. The aim of the standard is to provide as good a video quality at lower bandwidths. The standard has created a set of profiles like Constrained Baseline Profile (CBP) for video conferencing and mobile applications, Main profile (MP) for broadcast and storage applications, etc. While the encoding or producer functions can be expected to work on high performance specialized equipment, the client side decoding needs cost effective equipments like set top boxes in large numbers. While the computationally intensive functions can be offloaded to special codecs and DSPs, there are other aspects to be handled by a CoM. 5.Grid tied Solar PV application Using COM Grid tie of SPV requires CoM. The important functions in the CoM are 1) Inverter functions to convert DC to AC using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), Space Vector Modulation (SPV) and Maximum Power Point (MPP) tracking. 2) PV generation monitoring and reporting system and 3) Smart grid related protocol handling. Of these the inverter functions are required and the other two are increasingly becoming important. 6.Android On beagleboard 7.Introduction to beagleboard XM and Panda Board Source: Siji Sunny I am going to update more information on this blog: http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/10/beagle-board-hawkboard-workshop-for.html _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

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Google Tech Talk: The Power of Collaborative Innovation
by Venkatesh Hariharan 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

I recently gave a talk at Google's Bangalore office titled, "The Power of Collaborative Innovation." This 60 minute talk is now archived at: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks#p/u/24/Wye5rh9roh0 The abstract of the talk is given below for your reference. Venky Abstract of the talk ==================== The power of collaborative innovation. The Internet and the growth of the open source movement have lead to a fundamental change in the way knowledge is created and distributed. Older generation networks are either one-to-one networks (phones, faxes etc) or one-to-many networks (TV, Radio etc), while the Internet is a many-to-many network. As we move to an interconnected world, the balance of power is shifting from old, proprietary models of knowledge creation to the open source model that emphasizes collaboration, community and the shared ownership of knowledge. From management gurus to consulting firms to leading business schools, everyone is taking note of this new phenomenon that goes by various names like ‘Collaborative Innovation,’ ‘Open Innovation,’ or ‘Distributed Co-creation.’ This session will examine the impact of these trends on our collective future and how they can be harnessed for social and economic development. In particular, we will take a closer look at the growing global knowledge commons and its impact on current issues like open standards and software patents. About the speaker ================= Venkatesh Hariharan is Corporate Affairs Director (Asia-Pacific) for Red Hat. In this role, he works with industry, academia, government and the open source community to accelerate the growth of the global open source movement. In 2006, he was awarded the "Indian Open Source Personality of the Year" by the organizers of Linux Asia 2006. Hariharan is a former Executive Editor of Express Computer and the first Indian to be selected for the prestigious Knight Science Journalism Fellowship (1998-99) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a Knight Fellow, Hariharan spent a year looking at cutting edge technologies that can be deployed for bridging the digital divide. During his stint at Express Computer, he imparted a dynamic news orientation to the magazine. He has interviewed some of the leading figures in the world of technology including Microsoft's Bill Gates, John Gage of Sun Microsystems, Stan Shih of the Acer Group and many others. He has written for leading Indian and international publications including MIT Technology Review, Upside, Slashdot, Economic Times, Times of India and many others. After his stint at MIT, Hariharan co-founded of IndLinux.org, one of the leading localization groups in the India subcontinent. IndLinux.org has localized the GNOME and KDE interface of Linux to Hindi. The organization has helped localization groups in India, Bhutan, Nepal and other countries localize Linux and other open source software to their native languages. He has delivered talks on open source at leading academic institutions across the country, including IIT Bombay, IIT Guwahati, IIIT-Bangalore and many others. Hariharan believes that open source and free software are powerful tools to empower emerging economies with the benefits of information technology. He has advocated the adoption of open source and open standards in emerging economies for political, cultural and economic reasons through his writing and his speeches. He is currently setting up the Open Source Foundation of India. His long term interest is in the area of technology and public policy. He maintains a blog on open source and open standards at www.osindia.blogspot.com. Hariharan is a member of the Bureau of Indian Standards committee for data management, which recently reviewed and voted against OOXML. -0-

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One-day workshop on Open Source Computer on Module (BeagleBoard/HawkBoard )
by Siji Sunny 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Open Source COM-Beagle Board /HawkBoard workshop For Developers 30th Oct 2010, CDAC Lecture theatre,Juhu MumbaiVisit : http://blog.bizmobiletech.com/ This workshop will be jointly organised by Net4uonline Pvt.Ltd and CDAC Mumbai supported by Texas Instruments . The Core objective of the workshop is to meet and learn from the developers of Open Source Computer On Module,improve your development skills with in-depth sessions and training. Topics To be covered 1.Hardware And OS overview of BeagleBoard In this session attendees get an overview of the Beagle Board and its OMAP3530 processor.Together with setting up the hardware and building and running various Embedded Linux distros. The session also gives an overview of the Angstrom operating system, its architecture and major features. This session looks at the open embedded Builder and how to use it to create operating system images and cross compiled packages. 2.Application / UI Development with BeagleBoard Using Clutter This session will provides an overview of the software and hardware features available on the OMAP 3 BeagleBoard platform relevant to consider when creating 3D user interfaces, with a summary of Linuxʼs graphics software stacks(integrated SGX hardware graphics accelerator), and an introduction to creating user interfaces by using Clutter. 3.Hardware And OS overview of hawkBoard 4.H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding Using Open Source COM H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding is an international standard for video compression. The aim of the standard is to provide as good a video quality at lower bandwidths. The standard has created a set of profiles like Constrained Baseline Profile (CBP) for video conferencing and mobile applications, Main profile (MP) for broadcast and storage applications etc. While the encoding or producer functions can be expected to work on high performance specialized equipment, the client side decoding needs cost effective equipments like set top boxes in large numbers. While the computationally intensive functions can be offloaded to special codecs and DSPs, there are other aspects to be handled by a CoM. 5.Grid tied Solar PV application Using COM Grid tie of SPV requires CoM. The important functions in the CoM are 1) Inverter functions to convert DC to AC using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), Space Vector Modulation (SPV) and Maximum Power Point (MPP) tracking. 2) PV generation monitoring and reporting system and 3) Smart grid related protocol handling. Of these the inverter functions are required and the other two are increasingly becoming important. 6.Android On beagleboard 7.Introduction to beagleboard XM and Panda Board -- Siji Sunny

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[X-Post] A very good Web Application Security article by Philip Telis
by Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Guys and Gals, You will find this article on Web Application Security by our won Philip Telis very useful. http://iopt.in/JqUpMx With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System Pvt. Ltd. +91-98213-11906 +91-9833-TICKET http://www.shahmicro.com http://iopt.in http://crm.iopt.in Blog: http://dineshah.wordpress.com

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[OT] [Commercial] Need a Business Analyst / Architect for a FOSS based project.
by Koustubha Kale 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Dear All, We have received a mandate to develop a large web based application on FOSS stack. We need a consulting Business Analyst / Architect. Interested people with such experience, please contact me off list.. Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2

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Any bar-code generator package?
by Mohit Sharma 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Is there any bar-code generator package for F12 ? I want to generate simple bar-codes for my product on the basis of its attributes. Any recommendation ?

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Linuxers October 2010