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Call for speakers, July 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 7th July 2018, 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/

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June 2018 meeting cancelled
by Joe Steeve 09 Jun '18

09 Jun '18

Hello All, On account of heavy rains, today's meeting is cancelled. -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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June 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

Hello All, The June 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 9th June 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. Discussions on ILUG-BOM activities Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Stunning portraits of open source revolutionaries
by Arun Khan 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

Fascinating and enlightening. <quote> Faces of Open Source is a photography project that takes the people of the open source community as subjects. Notable and unsung heroes of the open source coding world, people who dedicate themselves to license free creation and the democratization of technology, are presented in stunning black and white portraiture. </quote> Read more https://www.zdnet.com/article/stunning-portraits-of-open-source-revolutiona… Here is a picture gallery of contributors to Open Source; Peter Adam's work [1] http://facesofopensource.com/ [1] http://facesofopensource.com/artist-statement/ -- Arun Khan

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Fwd: [Workshop] Debian Packaging - 09th and 10th June 2018
by Pirate Praveen 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Workshop] Debian Packaging - 09th and 10th June 2018 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 18:43:31 +0530 From: Dhanesh Sabane <dhanesh95(a)disroot.org> To: plug-mail(a)plug.org.in CC: sagarg(a)technisia.in, praveen(a)debian.org [Tl;DR at bottom] Aloha! The FOSS world is huge and everyday new ideas are born and new software is written. But how do these software end up on Debian? How is it made possible for us to just run `apt-get install foo` to install these software? Well, the answer to these questions is packaging[1]. This workshop is aimed at answering questions like these, in depth, and also help everyone build packages for Debian. To help us all with packaging, we've invited a distinguished personality from the Debian Project, Pirate Praveen. Praveen is a Debian Developer and maintains a lot of packages in the Debian project. You can find out more about Praveen on his Debian wiki page.[2] The workshop will be held at Reserved-bit[3]. This workshop is open to all and there are no registration fees. However, note that we have limited seating capacity at the venue. Seating arrangement will be on a first-come-first-serve basis. The workshop will span over two days (09th June and 10th June 2018), so everyone can be rest assured that all the points will be covered in depth. Don't forget to bring your laptops! TL;DR: ========= *Event* - Debian Packaging Workshop *Dates* - 09th and 10th June 2018 *Time* - 10 AM to 05 PM *Venue* - Reserved-bit, 337, Amanora Chambers (Above Amanora Mall), Hadapsar, Pune *Fees* - No fees [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging#What_is_a_.22package.22.3F [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Praveen%20A [3] http://reserved-bit.com/ Regards, -- Dhanesh B. Sabane https://dhanesh95.gitlab.io

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Good Linux/FOSS Books For Migrated Schools
by Milind Oka 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi, As you already know, ILUG-BOM have migrated two schools in Mumbai to Linux/Open Source. There is a query from these schools for a list of appropriate computer books for coming academic year. There is an excellent project - Computer Masti by, IIT Mumbai, where Open Source Computer Books are being created and released under 'creative commons'. Intially copyrights belonged to InOpen technologies, now they are taken over by Next.Education. https://www.computermasti.in/ I really appreciate IIT-B and FOSSEE teams for their commendable projects. It seems that the project now is maintained nicely by Next.Education without violating the Open Source Policy. I suppose that they do not depend upon government funds now to grow. These books will definitely be a great help to all the schools migrated to open source. So I think we can surely recommend these books to all schools. But this solves the problem of most of the CBSE/ICSE schools who generally do not have budget restrictions. On the other hand, students of many state board schools come from weaker sections of the society. They cannot even spend 250 Rs for a book. Our two schools also come in these category. ( They are aided, but IT section is unaided, so even salary of teachers is paid by school management). While talking to ILUG team, Fr Jude of St Mary school said "We cannot charge more than 500 Rs for computer fees, then how to pay licences of commercial softwares ?" So lack of funds is the prime reason for them to migrate. They are expecting from us something like a small booklet costing around 50-75 Rs for each std so that students can afford it. Kindly give your suggestions. TIA Milind

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Call for speakers, June 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 30 May '18

30 May '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 9th June 2018, 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/

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[OT] Spam Tabs in Browser
by Rony Bill 25 May '18

25 May '18

Hello Friends, Off late I have observed that when visiting some websites (Clean ones), especially where a form is to be filled, a spam advts tab opens in the browser. It happens in Android as well as Ubuntu in Firefox. In my Ubuntu laptop, I was on a sports shopping site and just when I clicked on Buy Now, it opened a spam page, even playing an advt video. What is this new phenomenon happening? Regards, Rony.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser
by Chirag Wazir 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hi, As Richard says, the problem is probably due to MTNL's irritating habit of injecting Ads. I have never seen them do a full page one - i.e. usually I saw small popups - but I have had the URLs blocked for a couple of years now, so I suppose they have "progressed". Regarding Rony's question "Is there any setting in my router that can reduce this?". Yes. You need to block some URLs/IPs on your router. My list is as follows: 203.94.227.141:3000 203.94.227.141:80 203.94.227.140:80 203.94.243.40:80 adphonso.com:80 phozeca.com:80 Where the setting will be depends on your router - on my D-Link it's "Advanced Setup" => "URL Filter" -- Chirag Wazir http://chirag.freeshell.org

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Book to learn openstack
by Augustus Johnson 17 May '18

17 May '18

Hi, I want to deploy openstack in our environment so I want to learn it. Please suggest a good book I can read to learn it. Thanks, Augustus.

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