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a small suggestion
by Harsh Busa 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

List has been really old and there are several members who might have subscribed and forgotten or lost interest. We are seeing huge number of unwanted emails The list is for serious people who want to help and want to be helped ( thats the objective, pls dont debate the current state ) Can we have all list members confirm their membership once again so that people who are not serious and do not reply in X number of days can unsubscribed with due notification / reminder whatever process ? Because here we are not looking for number of members we are looking for quality. Also for members who willingly / accidentally spam the list with invites should be removed from the list and if they are serious about being around can join back with an explanation instead of going into a loop and eventually fighting Also it will be appreciated if the list owners will redistribute the list guidelines for the benefit of fellow members and include relevant suggestions from other members. These are only my suggestion. I encourage list admins to think about them and members to reply simple Vote + 1 / - 1 or list admins to setup a poll. If you have serious objections to what I have said please complain to list admins and do not discuss on the list. -- __________________________ http://harsh.busa.in/

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folks, I need help with testing Indian calendars in KDE
by Praveen A 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Hi, I would appreciate if anyone can confirm this bug and respond to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185093 I'm almost done with the saka calendar, but now the calendar applet itself seems to be broken for all calendars except gregorian. I suspect it is because of the introduction of holidays feature. btw holidays is a nice feature to have. - Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] a small suggestion
by Dinesh Dalvi 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

>These are only my suggestion. I encourage list admins to think about them >and members to reply simple Vote + 1 / - 1 or list admins to setup a poll my vote +1 Dinesh Dalvi

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Happy Glugging !
by Aanjhan R 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

[snip] Dear Luggies, I have been tracking this list through the archives and just subscribed to inform you guys the following. I have noticed that the subject of the "most informative discussion" has been changed more than 4 times and this is not leading anywhere. Infact you guys just lost the chance to beat the World ML Record of most responses to a thread by 133 replies. So in the future please use at-least this subject and provide your most valuable inputs so that we could hit the world record. Thanks and Best Regards, Aanjhan -- PS: Thanks to all those who are giving me a wonderful "Coffee with ILUG BOM Mailing List" experience.

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by !sub1779＠yahoo.com! Looking for change [MyLink500.com 2600+] 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

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Happy Glugging !
by Rony 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

Hello, Here are a few suggestions that will hopefully help members of this list enjoy their stay here and avoid the flame wars that keep flaring up and take up precious bandwidth. Just like a doze machine that has its resources eaten up by viruses, spam, spyware and bloatware, we could all contribute towards reducing flame wars and promote better relations among members. Here are some guide lines we could all follow. 1. We are all guests on this list, which means we have to abide by the host's (list's) rules and regulations. It includes abiding by the rules of moderation which is necessary for any public list. Without moderation there is chaos. 2. We have not created this list but have joined it for the purpose of being in touch with other GNU/Linux users of Mumbai. Our rights and privileges on this list are limited and not absolute. 3. If we had created this list then members would have the freedom to leave it whenever they found our messages insulting or personally attacking. However since this list is created by others and we are only guests here, it can be a very difficult and embarrassing situation for one guest to find that he/she is being attacked by another guest. 4. This is a public list with the scope of discussions limited to Open Source / Free Software, Software Freedom and occasionally technology related matters off topic, there is absolutely NO scope for discussions on social or political issues unless they are directly related to incidents of use or restriction of use of Free Software in rare cases. 5. Personal matters and feelings have no place on this list and this list is not to be taken personally in any way. This also means that we cannot allow our personal feelings, however strong and passionate about certain issues, to influence our communication as well as responses to others' messages. 6. There is freedom to disagree with others' points of view but this is in no way a consent to verbally attack the person. It should be noted by all members that harsh criticisms as well as ridicules of a member or his/her messages are equally insulting to that member, just like personal attacks and all members should refrain from doing it, however strongly or passionately they feel about certain issues. This also includes observing restraint by older members. 7. If a member has made a mistake or accidentally broken list rules then he/she should be made aware of the error in a polite way even if it involves putting the member under moderation or removal from this list. No member is justified to use harsh or insulting words towards the erring member. 8. When replying to members of the opposite sex, members must be careful not to use any words, phrases or sentences that comment in any way on the gender of the opposite member. This reduces the scope of any misunderstanding and reduces the chances of any member complaining of gender bias against another member. 9. Although this list has no place for personal feelings, all members must look upon fellow members as virtual or internet friends and just as in real life, they must be accommodating towards other members in case they err or make mistakes. Don't we expect the same treatment from other members towards us. 10. We are not just members of the list but also its salespersons. We have to present our GLUG in the best possible way to others so that more members can join in and make this community larger and happier. Naturally this starts with being proud of our GLUG and doing whatever is possible to spread knowledge and happiness to others and promote peaceful and cordial relations amongst all members. Peace and happiness to everyone. Ubuntu! -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Ubuntu CD
by Easwar Hariharan 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:03 PM, SSSMedicare <sssmedicare(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Easwar, > We are evaluating Ubuntu as OS for our telemedicine project. Where can we > get Ubuntu CD. > Regards, > Rudra Nevatia > Telemedicine Co-ordinator > Sri Sathya Sai Oraganization > Maharashtra Unit > Mo: 9820758513 > You can get a free copy from https://shipit.ubuntu.com which would necessitate creating an account,or send an to the ILUG-Bombay list( linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in )to arrange for someone near you to meet up and provide the CD.I'm cc-ing this mail to the list to aid as an announcement of CDs required. -- Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065

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National Coalition for promotion of FOSS - meeting on 22.02.2009
by vinay ವಿನಯ್ 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

Dear All, Many of us have been advocating for several years the adoption of FOSS applications and platforms and FOSS related advocacy has been gathering momentum. Last year, we had an advocacy processes relating to software patents and the OOXML debate, we had RMS and Eben Moglen visiting various places in India sharing their views on FOSS. Yet, we do have a long way to go before FOSS is widely used in India. Bringing different groups of actors (who believe in the principles of Free Software), including academic institutions, NGOs and CBOs, research and advocacy groups, professional associations, FOSS enterprises providing services in different areas as development, training, support and maintenance, we believe will help in supporting and cohering a positive discourse in favour of FOSS. Some of us have been thinking that a loose national coalition of such individuals/ organizations and associations should be formed that will work towards the widespread adoption and promotion of FOSS. Such a network of organizations working along a broad consensus on promoting FOSS will provide stronger and more effective responses to events relating to FOSS as well as initiate proactive actions than perhaps individuals or institutions acting in isolation. We are writing to you all, to suggest a meeting to discuss this idea of the coalition and thereafter also items for immediate action. We would request you to join for a half-day meeting, on Sunday, the 22nd of February to discuss the same. Time : 3pm - 6pm Venue : CIS office, Cunningham road, Bangalore, landmark - same building as Wockhardt hospital Map : [1]http://tinyurl.com/apltcb Present below is the proposed agenda for the meeting - a. Formation of a national coalition of organisations advocating for FOSS. The goals, scope, priorities, approaches, structures, issues / risks, alternatives, resources for such a coalition etc, name of the coalition will be discussed. Some proposed activities which can be discussed - b. Working with government departments and public sector units advocating them to adopt and promote FOSS When we individually speak to any of our contacts/departments in the government the impact may not be significant. However, if we send collective representations to departments such as the e-Governance, IT, Education, RDPR departments, and seek meetings to explain the issue and the advantages of FOSS, it would gradually help them to look at the issue in depth. c. FOSS initiatives in the country, including the Gujarat ICT in schools program Many state governments across India are in different stages of adoptiong FOSS (many on the extreme of not using FOSS!) and we can share our understanding and views on the current situation. The Gujarat government for instance is implementing a 500 crore ICT in school education program. They are inclined to go towards FOSS, however the final decision has not been taken yet. We need to look at ways so that they consider FOSS seriously. There are also plans for a FOSS workshop in Delhi, where different groups, including political parties and government officials could be invited and disuss the advantages of adopting and promoting FOSS. d. FOSS initiatives in Karnataka There are some initiatives in Karnataka for which we can work together to help in the adoption of FOSS. We have an informal request for a proposal for a pilot project to train government staff and vendor staff in Bangalore on GNU/Linux platform that has been chosen for the ICT in schools program. We also need to work on the issue of using Nudi on FOSS. A big impediment currently to getting the government to use FOSS is be that 'Nudi' works only on MS Windows and does not work on FOSS distributions. Lastly we should explore what could be done to help VTU adopt FOSS and prefer it over proprietary technologies. Engineering colleges adopting FOSS will make a huge impact on the creation of the FOSS ecosystem in the state. We can also discuss other means and methods which we can collectively work on to promote FOSS. Please do let us know if you can make it (so that we know how many chairs, tea/coffee we need) Please mail [2]vinay(a)itforchange.net to let us know. Please also mail in with suggestions and ideas for the agenda for the meeting. In case you are interested in participating in the coalition, but are unable to join the meeting, please do email and let us know. Thanks, Vinay (On behalf of the organizers - Anivar Aravind, ,Gurumurthy K, Renuka Prasad, Sunil Abraham, Vinay Sreenivasa) -- Vinay Sreenivasa IT for Change 91-98805-95032 [3]vinay(a)itforchange.net [4]http://itforchange.net [5]http://india.is-watch.net/ [6]http://is-watch.net References 1. http://tinyurl.com/apltcb 2. mailto:vinay@itforchange.net 3. mailto:vinay@itforchange.net 4. http://itforchange.net/ 5. http://india.is-watch.net/ 6. http://is-watch.net/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 70, Issue 43
by Suhit Kelkar 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

this is to vote +1 for harsh busa's proposal.

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download Edubuntu
by yogesh kunjir 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

hi i want to download Edubuntu 7.10 is any server in mumbai have that copy of Edubuntu 7.10 please hurry i have to download it by today itself or suggest a good mirror for download my internet speed is good enough to download it waiting for your reply -- sincerely, योगेश Saddest quote of funniest man "I like to walk in rain because no one can see my tear" i am more +ve than just a A+ve read me @ http://technology-4-you.blogspot.com/

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