Another reason to contribute to Debian.
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From: Neil McGovern <neilm(a)debian.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:27:21 +0000
Subject: Valve games for Debian Developers
To: debian-devel-announce(a)lists.debian.org
Hi all,
At $dayjob for Collabora, we've been working with Valve on SteamOS,
which is based on Debian. Valve are keen to contribute back to the
community, and I'm discussing a couple of ways that they may be able to
do that [0].
Immediately though, they've offered a free subscription to any Debian
Developer which provides access to all past and future Valve produced
games [1]!
If you're interested, and a DD, simply mail jo.shields(a)collabora.co.uk
with a mail signed by a key in the Debian keyring, and he'll send you
back a redemption code to add in Steam. If you haven't heared from him
in a couple of days, you can also prod me at neil.mcgovern(a)collabora.com
as he may happen to be on holiday that week.
Happy gaming,
Neil
[0] If anyone has any specific ideas, drop me a mail :)
[1] List at http://deb.li/91yz, but excluding Steam Greenlight.
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പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്
You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights
from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the
rules: laws and constitution.
Dear All,
On behalf of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, we cordially
invite you to a public lecture *by Richard Stallman *titled *"Free
Software, Free Society", * *on Tuseday, 21st of January, *at the Old
Conference Hall, TISS Main campus (Time: 5pm -7pm).
I trust that Richard Stallman needs no introduction on this mailing list.
The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
We welcome you all and hope to see you there.
Warm Regards,
Indivar Jonnalagadda
MA, Schol of Development Studies
TISS (Mumbai)
+91-9819172401
Hello,
We (MELabs) are into Mobile & Embedded Computing Domain, looking for some
programmers who is willing to work on technologies such as -
- Linux (Kernel, Drivers)
- Python
- Web Technologies (HTML5, LAMP)
- Mobile Application Development (Android)
- Embedded devices & Mobile Wireless Networking.
We prefer Freshers with good Programming & Logical skill-set and ready to
learn new technologies.
We consider Programming, Technical and logical knowledge consider as
qualification.
Qualification : Graduates/Post graduates and Diploma holders with sound
technical/logical understanding can apply.
Location: Bhandup, Mumbai (Prefer candidates from Mumbai)
Interested candidate, pls contact me offline.
--
Siji Sunny
For those who were not present at the meetup, kontalk is a Free
Software replacement for whatsapp - you can chat with anyone if you
know their phone number using a data connection (cheaper sms for many
people). See http://kontalk.org
Currently it is available only on android. Their next version would
support XMPP and it would make it easy to get it working on other
platforms.
Karan asked me how they would know if my contact has a kontalk account
if they don't store everyone's number? I asked the upstream and he
confirmed my guess.
When you register your number, the server sends you an sms to confirm
your number and the number is discarded. A one way hash of the number
is used as username (like storing passwords, the server can never
guess the number based on the hash). So when you want to talk to
someone in your phone contact list, the client will make a hash and
send it to the server to find the public. The public key of the user
will be signed by the server and all communications will be end to end
encrypted. Only way to spy would installing apps on the users' phones.
This is simply brilliant, the encryption solution we have been waiting
for, as easy as whatsapp!
Cheers
Praveen
2014/1/18, Rigved Rakshit <r.phate(a)gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> There might be connectivity issue at the venue. It is advisable to
> have a backup Internet connection handy.
>
> Best Regards,
> Rigved
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> http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
>
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പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്
You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights
from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the
rules: laws and constitution.
Hello,
> I was thinking of keeping the January meetup on 12th Sunday. This is
because 19th Sunday has the Mumbai Marathon. What does everyone think about
this change?
>
> Also, for the Linux meetup, there'll be a presentation on Debian
packaging.
I meant January meetup and not December meetup in the subject line!
Best Regards,
Rigved
@Sent from my smart-phone
Hi All,
Would anyone like to help/volunteer with this? and any pointers would be
helpful :-).
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From: Ambuja Salgaonkar <ambujas(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:01 PM
Subject: Happy New Year...
To: Dhruv Baldawa <dhruvbaldawa(a)gmail.com>
Hello
Though very belated, hope you will appreciate this as a gesture of
restarting the interaction that had started during the last month.
May I know the updates of your last meeting?
My college colleagues are ready to host FOSS lectures.
Do let me know what best could be done.
Thanks and reply awaited
Regards
-Ambuja
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Dhruv Baldawa
(http://www.dhruvb.com)
Rootconf is a conference targeted at system administrators. As per
their website:
"""Rootconf is a conference on web and cloud infrastructure. It is
targeted at companies who are struggling to scale the effectiveness of
their developer teams and performance of their web stacks."""
If you'd like to speak on a topic, you can submit your proposal on
https://funnel.hasgeek.com/rootconf2014/
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With Regards,
Mehul Ved
Hey,
My name is Indivar Jonnalagadda, I am a student at TISS, Mumbai. I'm
contacting you with regards to my dissertation which is a study of FOSS
culture in India.
Basically I want to look at the ideas of FOSS developers/enthusiasts
regarding themes like intellectual property rights, internet, innovation &
collaboration and also look at how these ideas are linked to the practices
of FOSS. As part of my study I wish to interview developers and advocates
of FOSS. That is why I'm posting to this mailing list.
If anybody is interested in sharing their experiences and views on FOSS in
India, please get back to me at indivarj(a)gmail.com. Based on your
convenience and preference we could either have an interview over
telephone/skype or in person.
Thanks. I'm looking forward to speaking to some of you.
Regards
Indivar Jonnalagadda (+919819172401)
Hi,
Happy new year to you all. Please forward this email to various
Linux/FOSS user groups in your city, college any where you think it
should reach. Thank you in advance.
We are very excited to announce the second edition of conf.kde.in, the
biggest KDE conference in India. This three day conference scheduled
in February will bring together Qt developers, KDE contributors, open
source enthusiasts and users from all across the nation. The event
will give you the opportunity to learn, share, contribute, innovate
and create while providing you endless possibilities with Qt/KDE
technologies.
conf.kde.in is an excellent platform for you to learn about FOSS and
start contributing to it. The participants will be introduced to the
KDE community, and shall also be given an overview of the latest
developments in it. The talks, interactive sessions shall help
strengthen your basis and shall familiarize you with what it’s like to
be a part of the KDE community and help you to contribute to KDE SC
and maybe for future participation in programs like Google Summer of
Code and Season of KDE. Last year, KDE was the largest participating
organizing in GSoC with a selection of 60 students.The sessions will
range from the beginner to the advanced level, to facilitate all kinds
of participants.
*Talks*
There shall be a vibrant gamut of talks at the event; ranging over a
variety of technical as well as non technical talks covered by members
of the KDE community from the extremes of India as well as the world.
Be a witness to this cultural as well as intellectual infusion of
ideas and experiences, of knowledge and guidance; by people from
different walks of life, all with a common passion - open source, KDE;
ready to ignite the same passion in you through their words and their
minds.
1. How I got involved in KDE and How to attack a problem - Sujith H
2. Hacking on KStars: Progress and challenges - Rishab Arora
3. One app to rule all your media - Sinny Kumari
4. KDE unlike a coconut - Smit Shah
5. Plasma Workspace 2: Little introduction - Bhushan Shah
6. Baloo - Metadata and Search - Vishesh Handa
7. Cute (Qt) C++ idioms - Nikhil Marathe
8. Qt Project - Frederik Gladhorn
9. Language learning with KDE - Samikshan Bairagya
10.Effective Open-Source Speech Recognition in Your Application - Peter Grasch
11.Where KDE is and where it is going - Jos Poortvliet
12. C++11: A Language Renaissance - Kévin Ottens
The above is the incomplete list of talks, we are adding more talks as
we get confirmation from the speakers. The updated list of talks can
be found at http://kde.in/conf/accepted-talks.
Every speaker at conf.kde.in is a bonafide contributor to KDE, some of
them contributing over a decade. Attending the conference will give
you the opportunity to meet seasoned open source contributors, discuss
with them, exchange ideas with them, learn from them and also teach
them something new.
Many of these contributors work for great companies (which themselves
are involved in various open source projects) like Mozilla, openSUSE,
Red Hat, Blue Systems, ThoughtWorks, KDAB, Digia etc. Also you will
find that many of these contributors were students until recently.
*Wondering what KDE/Qt is?*
KDE is one of the largest international free software community. It
has an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run
on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and OS X systems.
KDE is known for its Plasma Workspace, an environment provided as the
default working environment on many Linux distributions, such as
Kubuntu, Pardus, and openSUSE.
To find more information about KDE, please visit http://www.kde.org/
Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for
developing application software with a graphical user interface (GUI)
and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as command- line
tools and consoles for servers. Qt is most notably used in Adobe
Photoshop Elements, Skype, VLC media player, VirtualBox, Dassault
DraftSight and Mathematica, and by the European Space Agency,
DreamWorks, Google, HP, KDE, Lucasfilm, Autodesk Maya, The Foundry's
Nuke, Panasonic, Philips, Blackberry applications, Samsung, Siemens,
Volvo, Walt Disney, Animation Studios and Research In Motion. Qt runs
on multiple platforms which include Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, Embedded
Linux, Blackberry 10, Android, Sailfish and Ubuntu Phone OS.
To find more information about Qt, please visit http://qt-project.org/
*Details about conf.kde.in*:
Venue: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication
Technology, Gandhinagar
Date: 21st - 23rd Feb, 2014
Time: 9 AM - 6:30 PM
The registrations for the conference are now open. Please register
yourself here (http://cki2014.doattend.com/) and avail the “Early
Bird” discount till 15th Jan. There are limited seats so hurry up! You
will find accommodation options at http://conf.kde.in/accommodation.
We are working very hard to make conf.kde.in 2014 a huge success. And
it will happen with the help of your participation. Looking forward to
meet you all. Stay tuned for regular updates about this event on our
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/kdeindia) / Twitter
(https://twitter.com/kdeindia) page.
For any queries, feel free to reach us at conf(a)kde.in
Cheers,
Pradeepto
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Pradeepto Kumar Bhattacharya
KDE e.V. Board of Director | Proud KDE Contributor
The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org