Hi everyone,
As all of you know, we had a small InstallFest in St. Mary's School
Mazgaon, Mumbai. We successfully installed Linux (Fedora 25) in over 30
computers of the school's lab.
Our group members came to the school around 1.30 PM. We were pleased to
see our old memeber Rony already there. We really need more members from
ML to participate in this movement.
Sajida Madam from St. Mary's School, Fr. Jude, engineers and technicians
from Ajuman-I-Islam were also present. The enthusiasm …
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school staff and engineers was commendable.
The members namely Nilesh and Tayyab Sir, who reached the venue early,
started copying the customised ISO image prepared by Rajeev to the USB
thumb drives.
We prepared 7-8 bootable Live USB and distributed it to the members and
school staff.
We started the install fest by doing a small demo installation on one of
the computer in the lab. The technicians and teachers took notes as the
install process progressed.
Later everyone started the install process simultaneously on the
computers, to our surprise the staff was successfull in installing linux
with little help. Sajida Madam installed linux on two to three of the
machines all by herself.
We were mostly over seeing and helping them. Meantime we went to one of
the class rooms to examine an education software named "eSense" by
Navneet. It was browser based software so there won't be much problem in
running it on Linux. Mr Walter, the software provider to school, has
already talked to Navneet. Once Navneet comes up with Linux port, we can
install linux in each classroom where one Windows 7 desktop runs this
application at present. Otherwise we might need to port it.
Rony pointed out that such smart school or digital school is only a
marketing gimmick and it has nothing to do it with good education.
Protecting schools from such commercialization is another social
movement. At present we have to fucus on Free software movement. We can
of course discourage schools on using such shiny tools in place of
traditional methods when we interact with them. Benoy has come up with
an idea of making such open source software as an alternative and
distribute in schools.
That is a wonderful project. We observed that eSense was only collection
of videos based on text book lessons.
We had another surprise visitor in the afternoon, Krishnakant of Digital
Freedom Foundation, he came with Prajakta (a GNUKhata team memeber).
Both were excited to see the enthusiasm of members. Rony was very happy
to see Krishnakant after a long time. Krisnakant told about latest
release of GNUKhata and that the software is now receiving nice response
from government and private sector. "From next academic year, GNUKahata
will be a part of curriculum in Kerala" he said.
Mr Walter (School Software Provider) also showed interest in GNUKhata.
He assured to offer it as an alternative to Tally. Fr Jude remebered
that he had met Krishnkant long ago in IIT mumbai.
Father Jude informed us that board provides a kind of exe file during
exam. So we must write to board to send an alternative for it and ensure
from them that there won't be any issues due to adoption of Free
Software. He is going to write to state board about it. This is an
important point and we must all take it seriously otherwise the schools
will hesitate to adopt FOSS.
Latif, from Osmanabad, was also present for the festival. We have great
hopes from him. Our success certainly depend on how the movement is
adopted in other parts of Maharashtra. We need many more people like
Latif. Thanks to Latif and also thanks to Tayyab for bringing him.
We completed everything before tea break. Post tea session was a
relaxing time for all of us. We shared our experiences and chat. The
festival ended with a group photo.
Cheers !!
Milind
(Report is prepared from the inputs given by Raghavendra Kamath and
other members)
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Hello All,
The next monthly meeting is on 10th June 2017, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don
Bosco Institute of Technology.
Would anyone like to give a talk?
--
Joe Steeve
HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited
http://www.hipro.co.in/
Please fill survey, also forward to users/orgs you may know who
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Date: Sun, May 28, 2017 at 11:07 PM
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Hi all Members,
Here is a small update of St Mary Linux Migration.
Today we reached exactly at 1 o clock to the St Mary school. Purpose of
our visit was to have trial installation and testing for Saturday's
Migration.
Father Jude was talking to a group of parents near the gate. He welcomed
all of us and instructed the non teaching staff to open the labs.. Also
he gave us his laptop for Linux installation.
We have decided to install Fedora-25 build, customized by our member
Rajeev …
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done in a small amount of time.
Rajieev's live image booted successfully but the installer had a
permission issue and was not starting. Then we tried Ubuntu 16.04.2 and
Fedora 25 plain image. Both got installed successfully on the lab machines.
After that we got Rajeev's on-call support and we were able to diagnose
and install the same on Fr Jude's laptop.
Finally every thing is working and the laptop is ready.
This means that Rajeev's image can now be used for Saturday's installation.
Observations :
1. Fedora's partitioning tools in the default installer was confusing
for us. As a workaround we used gparted.manually partitioned the disk.
2. There seems to be an error Notification about boot image crash but
the system is working correctly.
3. We saw few errors during shutdown.
Few suggestions :
1. Put Gparted in live image..
3. Put gnome tweak tool.
2. Request to add some extensions by default namely top icons, dash to
doc application menu.
3. Put some educational games.
Today we had a special guest - Latif.
Latif is from Osmanabad. He is well acquainted with Linux. He teaches
Edu-BOSS in School. He is about to start this mission in nearby schools.
We all will support him. All best wishes to him.
Mostly Raghu and Tayyab performed all experiments, helped by Benoy.
Benoy was busy but still managed to find some time and came for support.
Latif and me were only testing different packages such as gimp, libre
office etc. On Saturday we also can take part in installation, since 30
machines are to be switched to Linux (Fedora).
To help us, Principal Fr Jude's Fernandes had called a Lab maintenance
person Mr Dilip. Dilip curiously watched the installations and is ready
to learn the skill in future.
So let us tighten our belts for Saturday Installation Festival. This is
really a proud moment for all of us here in GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai.
Please do join us on Saturday at about 1:30 pm. We can complete all
installations upto 4:30 - 5:00 pm
All are welcome.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/8o5mg00ac12nrys/SM01http://www.mediafire.com/view/snk6dnjo5p7u2j9/SM02http://www.mediafire.com/view/err4o1sp1sc6e0f/SM03
Thanks and Regards
Milind
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On 30-May-2017 2:20 PM, "Raghavendra Kamath" <raghavendr.raghu(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
On 2017 May 30 13:59:14, Joe Steeve wrote:
> Ubuntu 16.04 ships with Unity. Canonical is abandoning unity in favour
> of GNOME. In the next LTS, Ubuntu will ship with vanilla GNOME. I
> strongly suggest that we dont put users through this shock. Lets
> introduce them to vanilla GNOME from the start.
I agree, you might also want to consider K.D.E plasma as it is close to
windows paradigm, …
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But this is just my opinion.
The windows paradigm is anyways in plus at the moment, and has been ever
since win8 and it's metro ui. So targeting it is anyways no longer useful.
Plus, with the majority of systems defaulting to gnome, a distros like
fedora that provides one of the cleanest gnome 3 desktops is ideal here.
And it plays well with a centos server, providing long term stability and a
rock solid platform for network infrastructure services.
> I would also suggest that we consider Debian. Debian is far more mature
> and stable.
I agree with this too, I had only one concern though, we need to check if
the newer machines are supported in Debian Stretch (or jessy?)
In the last meeting, I noticed that Principal Jude's new machine had
skylake processor and linux mint 17.3 was installed on it. Mint 17.3 being
based upon Ubuntu LTS 14.04(which is from 2014) it lacks skylake support
(As far as I know)
So his audio was not working, We need to check if 'stretch' has a
considerable newer kernel with support for recent hardware that the school
is procuring.
Another place where fedora scores. It closely tracks the current kernel
releases, meaning it has the most complete hardware driver support,
especially in categories like wifi, GPU (GPL) and motherboard integrated
devices.
Also I feel 2 gb ram mentioned in earlier email is a bit on the lower end.
Please do keep in mind that anything we suggest will be perceived as linux
experience, and if anything doesn't work or becomes a hassle for them, it
will be a bad case for linux from their point of view.
As they say first impression always matters, So please suggest
specifications carefully.
Which is why we are coordinating a test installer image to deploy at the
school to see it's performance...
Regards
R. K. Rajeev
Thank you
--
Raghavendra Kamath
Illustrator
raghukamath.com
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Hi All,
Below are some points need to be consider before the initiate Migration.
Points Details Remarks
OS Flavour Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS Recommended system requirements:
2 GHz dual core processor or better
2 GB system memory
25 GB of free hard drive space
Architecture 32 bit or 64 bit ?
Additional Required Packages ?? Builtin Packages--Browser --- Chromium,
Firefox
Mail Client --- Thunderbird
Office tools --- LibreOffice
Media Player --- VLC player
Image editor --- Gimp
Any Server Services …
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Add in case i missed anything.
--
Amit
9867895689
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Hi,
As per schedule our next meetup will be on 10th June.
What is the plan for it, any talks or mini workshops?
Rushabh's team had a presentation that was postponed in last meetup, Do you guys plan on having it in this meet?
Also as some of you may know we are helping St. Mary's School (mumbai) to migrate from windows environment to linux on 3rd June.
Someone (I think Benoy) had an idea that we should have a meetup there, those who attend can help us setup the workstations.
We can make it a …
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Thank you
--
Raghavendra Kamath
Illustrator
raghukamath.com
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Hi,
As the subject line suggests, How do you guys verify digital signatures in pdf documents, mainly in e-adhaar pdf obtained from UIDAI website.
As far as I searched the feature is not available in most of the libre pdf readers like evince or okular. There are some threads on internet that poppler(the pdf library) is going to get this feature soon.
What do you guys do to validate the signature? Which software or workaround do you use?
thank you
--
Raghavendra Kamath
Illustrator
raghukamath.com
I just head about the Hurd kernel from a link from your website and I'm
kinda curious about it. What exactly is the Hurd kernel and what are
some of the advantage/disadvanges compared to linux?