Linuxers September 2018

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Fwd: SFLC.in - Round Table Discussion on Data Protection (Sep. 26 Mumbai)

by GN

Software Freedom Law Centre is organizing a Round Table Discussion tomorrow at Taj Lands End, Bandra West between 10.30 and 5.30pm. I thought some of you may be interested in participating in this meeting. If you are coming, please send me (off the list) your name. Sorry for the late Invite. Please find the agenda of the meeting attached. The Supreme Court of India in the Puttaswamy judgement recommended the need to examine and put into place a robust regime for data protection. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had constituted a Committee of Experts to deliberate on a data protection framework for India, under the Chairmanship of Mr. Justice B.N. Srikrishna. On 27 July 2018, this expert committee submitted its Repor <http://meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/Data_Protection_Committee_Report-co…>t <http://meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/Data_Protection_Committee_Report-co…> along with a draft bill titled The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 <http://meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/Personal_Data_Protection_Bill%2C201…> to the Ministry of Information and Technology (MeitY). On 14 August, the Ministry issued a call for comments <http://meity.gov.in/content/feedback-draft-personal-data-protection-bill> on the draft Bill to be submitted by 30 September 2018. The data protection framework would have immense implications for the privacy rights of citizens and for the open Internet. It is important to deliberate whether the draft bill is in tune with the privacy rights of citizens as laid down in the Puttaswamy judgment as well as the expectations of various stakeholders. SFLC.in is organizing a round-table discussions in 3 cities across Indiato facilitate exchangeof ideas between various stakeholders so that organizations and individuals can submit informed responses to the Government on the Bill, these are: *Mum**bai***on Sept. 26, 2018 (Wednesday) at the Taj Lands End, Bandra West between 10.30am and 5.30pm

4 years, 8 months

Unable to switch between AMD drivers to get vulkan support

by Dhruva lokegaonkar

Hello, I needed some help with graphics drivers I have a AMD graphics card (r9 280x) I've been using the x86-video-ati driver but I also have the amdgpu driver installed. I wanted vuklan support so I need to use the amdgpu driver. How can I switch between what driver I'm using? lspci -k shows in using the "radeon" driver (which is the ATI driver) I've tried adding MODULES=(amdgpu) in my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and running mkinitcpio -p linux but the kernel still uses the radeon driver. Also I'm using arch and I've installed the xorg-drivers group. I actually tried uninstalling the xf86-video-ati package but even after uninstalling that I was still stuck on the same driver. (I've tried rebooting) Let's say I also install the amdgpu-pro proprietary driver. Is there a way I can switch between the various drivers and how do I check what driver I'm running? Note: I'm checking vulkan support with vkmark and trying DXVK support in Lutris (with wine) -- Dhruva Lokegaonkar dhruva(a)lokegaonkar.in

4 years, 8 months

software freedom at the time India is debating privacy, data policy in the digital space

by GN

All the recent threats to digital netigens are arising due to ignoring the visionary warnings RMS gave us several decades ago. Whether it is a threat to privacy, or the dangers of cloud computing. The 'open source' vision though may have spread the development of technology, it failed miserably in adhering to the ethical and political dimensions of the movement. I think it is relevant to discuss such issues and awaken the community to why we still need to address the issues of software freedom. RMS will be in India during early 2019. Would any of you be interested in coordinating with me to check for a good venue and to find a host in the first week of January. The date will be around 7th of Jan, + or - one day. -- GN

4 years, 8 months

Fwd: [Events] Talk on "Cooperativism In The Digital Economy: Trends & Challenges" on 10th September , 2018 at 5.15 p.m| SJMSOM Auditorium – adjacent to I RCC/SOM

by jitendra

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Office Centre for Policy Studies <office.cps(a)iitb.ac.in> Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 10:25 AM Subject: [Events] Talk on "Cooperativism In The Digital Economy: Trends & Challenges" on 10th September , 2018 at 5.15 p.m| SJMSOM Auditorium – adjacent to I RCC/SOM To: <events(a)iitb.ac.in>, seminar(a)iitb.ac.in <student-notices(a)iitb.ac.in>, < staff-notices(a)iitb.ac.in> [image: Boxbe] <https://www.boxbe.com/overview> This message is eligible for Automatic Cleanup! (office.cps(a)iitb.ac.in) Add cleanup rule <https://www.boxbe.com/popup?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.boxbe.com%2Fcleanup%3Fkey…> | More info <http://blog.boxbe.com/general/boxbe-automatic-cleanup?tc_serial=42845674313…> ---------------------------------------- IMPORTANT To join the list send a mail to events-subscribe(a)iitb.ac.in To leave the list send a mail to events-unsubscribe(a)iitb.ac.in Policy on postings to this list is available at: http://lists.iitb.ac.in/policies/EVENTS_policy.pdf __________________________________________________________________ Your subscribed address in the mailing list Events(a)iitb.ac.in is jitendra.shah(a)iitb.ac.in Messages may get discarded if you post from any other email address. __________________________________________________________________ Dear All, The Centre for Policy Studies would like to cordially invite you for a talk by Michel Bauwens on “Cooperativism in the Digital Economy: Trends & Challenges”. Date : Monday, September 10, 2018 Time : 05:15 pm – 06:30 pm Venue : (SJMSOM Auditorium – adjacent to IRCC/SOM) Michel Bauwens is a well-known writer, researcher and theorist in the area of peer to peer (P2P) production, shared economy and digital cooperativism. He is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives (http://p2pfoundation.net) and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He is also research director of CommonsTransition.org, a platform for policy development aimed toward a society of the Commons. He has crafted a Commons Transition Plan for the city of Ghent in Belgium, after a similar project for Ecuador in 2014. He is also adviser to SMart, a fast growing European labour mutual for autonomous workers, seeking welfare reform, while considering biocapacity-based accounting mechanisms. We actively look forward to your presence on the occasion! Prof. Satish Agnihotri Head, CPS _______________________________________________ Events mailing list Events(a)iitb.ac.in http://lists.iitb.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/events -- jitendra

4 years, 9 months

All Day DevOps 2018/10/17

by Arun Khan

FYI / FWIW -- Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Raju Devidas <rajudev(a)disroot.org> Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 1:25 PM Subject: [ilugd] Organizing an All Day DevOps viewing party To: <ilugd(a)lists.hserus.net>, <meetup-group-ilugd-announce(a)meetup.com> Namaste Everyone, Some of us have been contacted regarding organization of a viewing party of the All Day Devops virtual conference. https://www.alldaydevops.com/ The dates for this 24 Hour virtual conference is October 17, 2018. About some background for the conference. All Day DevOps <http://www.alldaydevops.com/> is a free, online community event. Last year was its second year, and it included 5 simultaneous tracks, 96 sessions, and 4 keynotes - across all time zones, for 24 hours, absolutely no vendor pitches allowed. The 2018 conference on October 17 will feature 5 tracks and 100 half-hour sessions over 24 hours and the same no-vendor-pitch rules apply. [.... snip ....]

4 years, 9 months

Requesting help in formatting the system.

by sriram g

Hi All, I'm Sriram, based out of Chennai. I have my laptop which is dual boot (windows and Linux drivers). I would like to format my system and keep a fresh Linux os (Ubuntu or anything else). I'm looking for Linux users group to whom I can take my system. Requesting your help in sorting this. Thanks Sriram.

4 years, 9 months

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