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software freedom at the time India is debating privacy, data policy in the digital space
by GN 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

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

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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 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

---------- 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

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All Day DevOps 2018/10/17
by Arun Khan 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

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 ....]

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Requesting help in formatting the system.
by sriram g 02 Sep '18

02 Sep '18

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.

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September 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Hello All, The September 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 8th September 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. Using git - Mr.Nilesh, Mr.Tayyabali Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Comprehensive list of open source education tools
by Rushabh Mehta 25 Aug '18

25 Aug '18

I just discovered that Scratch now has a web version ! https://beta.scratch.mit.edu/ <https://beta.scratch.mit.edu/> Is there a comprehensive list of F/OSS education tools and games? The articles that Google throws up are very old and so is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open-source_educational_video_games <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open-source_educational_video_games> Please share if you find a curated list!

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August Meet Summery
by Milind Oka 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

The meeting started exactly at 3 pm.In the beginning, speaker Sooraj Dhanuka explained the terms Blue Ocean and Red Ocean. Most of the attendees were not aware of these terms. "Blue ocean" is a slang term for the uncontested market space for an unknown industry or innovation. Blue oceans are sectors associated with high potential profits.In an established industry, companies compete with each other for every piece of available market share. The competition is often so intense that some firms cannot sustain themselves. This type of industry describes a red ocean, representing saturated market share bloodied by competition. Sooraj then gave lot of examples of how the Blue oceans gradually became Red. Later, he gave examples of FOSS related blue oceans and the opportunities for startups. He descirbed his own experience when he tried to explore those sectors.It was an interesting speech, especially for students who could take some inspiration from Sooraj. In the next session we had lot of discussion on various activities that ILUG-BOM would like to initiate. The team asked new participants about what they really expect from ILUG meets. It was then decided to conduct sessions for Students, Teachers and Computer Novices on basic skills like - using Linux,using Libre Office, creating Word Press Websites etc.

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Fwd: Considered UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you
by Dhruva lokegaonkar 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

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August 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Hello All, The August 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 11th August 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. 60 minutes: "FOSS & Blue Oceans" - Sooraj Dhanuka Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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My Presentation on FOSS & Blue Oceans
by Sooraj Dhanuka 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Hi All, Please find the link to the presentation here: https://www.slideshare.net/navindhanuka/foss-blue-oceans Best Regards, Sooraj Dhanuka

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Multiseat setup
by J T Dsouza 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Has anyone done a multi seat setup? I am trying to do it with lightdm which is supposed to have built in ability for multiseat. I am able to get two mouse pointers but not independent. I get two keyboards but working as one. Both screens are controlled by one user with one single login instead of getting two independent lightdm login greeters. my lightdm.conf [LightDM] start-default-seat=true #[Seat:*] [Seat:0] xserver-command=/usr/bin/X :0 xserver-layout=HDMI [Seat:1] xserver-command=/usr/bin/X :1 xserver-layout=VGA my xorg.conf (relevant parts) Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "HDMI" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" # Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" # InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" # InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection #Section "ServerLayout" # Identifier "VGA" # Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 # Screen 1 "Screen1" 1367 0 # InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" # InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" #EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "kbd" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "LG" ModelName "20MK400H-BB" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "LG" ModelName "20MP48HB-BB" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz", ### <percent>: "<f>%" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "Accel" # [<bool>] #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>] #Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>] #Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str> #Option "AccelMethod" # <str> #Option "DRI3" # [<bool>] #Option "DRI" # <i> #Option "ShadowPrimary" # [<bool>] #Option "TearFree" # [<bool>] #Option "DeleteUnusedDP12Displays" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "amdgpu" BusID "PCI:6:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz", ### <percent>: "<f>%" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "Accel" # [<bool>] #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>] #Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>] #Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str> #Option "AccelMethod" # <str> #Option "DRI3" # [<bool>] #Option "ShadowPrimary" # [<bool>] #Option "TearFree" # [<bool>] #Option "DeleteUnusedDP12Displays" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card1" Driver "amdgpu" BusID "PCI:6:0:1" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Card1" Monitor "Monitor1" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [PLUG] Debconf 20/21 in India
by Siji Sunny 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

> at bottom :- > > On 07/08/2018, Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar(a)alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 08:19:49AM +0530, Rigved Rakshit wrote: > >> Thanks everyone for submitting the bid for DebConf in India. > >> > >> If we are thinking of IIT Mumbai as a venue for DebConf 20, then we need > >> to > >> make sure that IIT Mumbai gives us solid WiFi and mobile carrier signals > >> in > >> the campus. During the Mini-DebConf there, we had big issues with > >> internet > >> connectivity. This is something which we can easily fix with help of > >> current students. > > > > As someone who works in IIT Bombay and a member of Debian, I can make > > this happen. We have quite a big operation in IITB with regard to FOSS > > push, and Debian is one of our major work items. > True, our experience with IIT Mumbai (and FOSSEE team) was amazing and organized 4-5 OpenSource events (including MIniDebConf) in last couple of years and all went well. As mentioned by Rigved, there was few challenge from the connectivity point of view, which I believe we can address very smartly, since we have enough time to plan. My company is working in the domain of Wireless Network/Internet, so getting a dedicated high speed Fiber connectivity for the event won't be a challenge. > > >> We have good volunteer numbers in Pune and Mumbai combined, for on the > >> ground support before the event (if it does happen). Also, Mumbai has > >> many > >> hotels to accommodate a large contingent and the IIT campus is large > >> enough > >> to accommodate multiple parallel tracks. Plus, we have many good > >> sightseeing places nearby the city. > > > > Indeed. I'll be happy to facilitate and participate. > > > > Kumar > > -- > > Kumar Appaiah > > > > > > We would be counting on you Kumar as well as people from IIT-B, people > from Mumbai LUG for your co-operation in making this a reality but > first we would need to do whole lot of minidebconfs to increase the > bench-strength and making people more aware about Debian and free > software practices. > I completely agree with you, we will be able to schedule 1-2 MiniDebConf in Mumbai before 2020. @rigved , @lugmum team, I think we should initialize this in our next Monthly meeting. > > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल > My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com > EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 > > -- Siji Sunny

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Should http be banned or blocked?
by Rony Bill 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Dear Friends, With http being insecure and a magnet for injected ads, shouldn't the http protocol be completely banned or blocked internationally and nationally and https be the norm? Regards, Rony.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [PLUG] Debconf 20/21 in India
by Rigved Rakshit 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Thanks everyone for submitting the bid for DebConf in India. If we are thinking of IIT Mumbai as a venue for DebConf 20, then we need to make sure that IIT Mumbai gives us solid WiFi and mobile carrier signals in the campus. During the Mini-DebConf there, we had big issues with internet connectivity. This is something which we can easily fix with help of current students. We have good volunteer numbers in Pune and Mumbai combined, for on the ground support before the event (if it does happen). Also, Mumbai has many hotels to accommodate a large contingent and the IIT campus is large enough to accommodate multiple parallel tracks. Plus, we have many good sightseeing places nearby the city. Adding Mumbai LUG to CC. On Mon 6 Aug, 2018, 17:57 akshat, <akshat-pg8(a)iiitmk.ac.in> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 6:46 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> In-line :- >> >> On 06/08/2018, Skool!lookS <look.kool(a)guruvision.com> wrote: >> > Kerala is a better place according to me. >> > >> > In 52 years of life thus far I found no other complelling reason to >> > reach there despite it being called "God's Own Country". >> > >> > It may change with this option... Debcon may be irrelevant for me, >> > Kerala isn't..! >> > >> > >> >> Can you stop insulting and put the proper name 'Debconf' rather than >> 'Debcon' . >> >> It's insulting. >> > > I second that, always mention it with a proper name DebConf. > > >> Also you took a thread which is happening in debian-india and plugging >> it in 'plug-in' . Is this some ploy to drive some traffic to 'plug-in' >> ? >> >> That's like taking somebody's code and claiming it as yours :( >> >> If you have no interest in Debconf then nobody is stopping you from >> visiting Kerala now or in October/November . >> >> FSF does their thing every year, even Amrita University does a free >> software program every year, it doesn't need a Debconf to appreciate >> what Kerala has to offer. You will find more free software activities >> which happen there all the time, at least much more to what Pune does. >> >> > >> > -- >> > Consultant Spirituel >> > >> > Guruvision Inc. >> > >> > -- >> > "Science is nothing more than an understanding of the way the world >> > is and why it is that way.. (it) is the method we use to try and >> > postulate a minimum set of assumptions that can explain, through a >> > straighforward logical derivation, the existence of many phenomena >> > of nature .." -- From "The Goal" by E.M. Goldratt >> > _______________________________________________ >> > plug-mail mailing list >> > plug-mail(a)plug.org.in >> > http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail >> > >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल >> My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 >> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ >> http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com >> EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 >> _______________________________________________ >> plug-mail mailing list >> plug-mail(a)plug.org.in >> http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail >> > > > > -- > Akshat Singh > [PG-8 IIITM-Kerala] > Pune > > Mob.: +91-8806963718 > Webpage: akshat.info <http://akshat.info> > > -- Best Regards, Rigved

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Happy to join in ILUG-BOM Linuxers list
by Baskar Selvaraj 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

Hi all, Myself S. Baskar, an active member from ILUG-Chennai since 2005 who is more passionate about Linux/FOSS. A Linux/FOSS user since 1997. I came to know that, few users in this group are interested in creating a custom spin using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I have been creating custom spins based on various Linux distro for educational purpose. I hope I can share this experience with ILUG-BOM members if they are interested. A few days after the release of Ubuntu 18.04, I have created a spin based on LUbuntu 18.04 for Libraries. More information can be found in the below link. I can provide a copy of the spin for the group for experimentation. http://www.digimat.in/downloads/Digital-Library-OS-for-NPTEL-SWAYAM-local-c… S. Baskar

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Call for speakers, August 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 11th August 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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Ubuntu 18.04 Custom Image
by Milind Oka 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

Hi, I came across two recent blogs on how to create custom build for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. https://www.google.com/amp/s/linoxide.com/linux-how-to/create-custom-live-c… https://news.softpedia.com/news/you-can-now-create-your-own-ubuntu-18-04-lt… We do have two custom images, Fedora and Debian ( Thanks to Rajeev and Raghu). But Ubuntu is also a very popular distribution. Few schools may request ILUG -Team to install Ubuntu in future. It is difficult to build custom image for an average user. Also there is no proper help or documentation. We can even arrange a session in our monthly meetings and try it there itself. If our experts come together, then surely success will be ours Would anyone like to take the initiative ? Thanks and Regards Milind

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opportunity for a FOSS consultant or company
by GN (Nagarjuna G) 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

Gnowledge is seeking help from a FOSS consultant or a company to create a progressive web app for gstudio project. Https://github.com/gnowledge/gstudio Please reply to me off list if any of you want to help me finding the right agency. Of course, it will be a free software released under AGPL licence. -- GN gnowledge lab HBCSE TIFR

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[Workshop] Kubernetes workshop at BigBinary Pune on 10th August.
by Rahul Mahale 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

Hello, BigBinary is organizing one day Kubernetes workshop in Pune on 10th August 2018. For registration and details please check event link https://www.townscript.com/e/kubernetes-bigbinary-workshop https://github.com/bigbinary/kubernetes-workshop -- Thanks, Rahul Mahale. http://twitter.com/Rahul_Mahale

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July 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hello All, The July 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 14th July 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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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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Thanks for the talk today.
by Dhruva lokegaonkar 12 May '18

12 May '18

My friend Sudesh has also joined the mailing list, and will hopefully also join us the the future meetings. Also I just saw the new mailman interface. It looks much better and it's more inviting to new users. -- Dhruva Lokegaonkar dhruva(a)lokegaonkar.in

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restructuring curriculum and Textbooks for the academic year 2019-20
by Milind Oka 10 May '18

10 May '18

Applications are invited for selection of members of Board of Studies for restructuring curriculum and Textbooks for the academic year 2019-20 and onwards, This is for Std 11 and 12. This includes IT (Information and Technology) where we all are focusing. Link to apply online : https://www.research.net/r/bosnew11-12std This is a great opportunity to shape the future of lacs of students of Maharashtra. I request our members to apply and help the state to frame the best possible curriculum in IT. Earlier, the last date was 5 may. It is now extended to 10 may. Thanks and Regards Milind

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May 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 07 May '18

07 May '18

Hello All, The May 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 12th May 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. "Getting started with embedded Linux" - Siji Sunny Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Summary of April Meetup
by Milind Oka 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Meeting started at exactly 3 pm. We had some new members. Dhruv, a young student who has been using Linux for last four years. He shared his experience of installing Linux for the first time and also using Linux in School. Ashish, another newcomer, who is an experienced sysadmin and programmer, said that he has been pushing FOSS in his company. We were happy to see an old ILUG member Prof Kumar from IIT-B who is also a Debian developer. After the initial introduction, Rajeev started with the basic introduction of gpg. he explained how symmetric and asymmetric encryption works, the concept of secret keys. he explained how symmetric encryption is coupled with asymmetric encryption in the gpg to optimise performance. Rajeev showed us how to set-up gpg key pairs and also how to share the public key with other users, he then gave a demonstration of how to encrypt, decrypt and sign a document with gpg. He explained the concept of the web of trust and how to import and sign gpg keys of others. After the demo, there was a small question and answer session. ( Prepared by Raghu and Tayyab) Thanks and Regards -- Milind

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ERPNext Summer of Code
by Rushabh Mehta 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Hello all, We are glad to announce that ERPNext is organising ESoC - ERPNext Summer of Code, inspired by GSoC. You get to spend one summer with some of the top open source developers in India and be a part of the large open source community. Why should you apply? - Get experience working on real-life projects. - Get mentored by some of the top developers in India. - Be a part of Open Source Communities. - Build your resume and increase your chances of getting a job. - Did not get into GSOC, don't worry, you will get a better experience here. - Earn a stipend of Rs 20,000 per month, on completing your tasks. How to Apply? - Select one (or multiple) projects listed out here. - Go through the tasks listed down for them in the “issues” section of the repository. - Register for the event! (PS: also go through the terms once) So why waste any more time? Go to https://erpnext.org/esoc and register. And while you’re at it, also spread the word to others! Have any more queries? Drop an email to esoc(a)erpnext.org. Thanks! best, Rushabh

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Call for speakers, April 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 14th April 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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April 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Hello All, The April 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 14th March 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. 60 minutes: "Using GPG" - R.K.Rajeev 3. Floor open for relevant discussions Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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{Job Posting} Linux/Networking - Freshers/Experienced
by Siji Sunny 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

Dear All, We are looking for freshers/experienced people to work on Linux, Open Source Technologies and Networking, who's ready to learn new things and work with well-funded fast growing start-up environment. Location - Mumbai Pls share your resume to hr(a)sugarboxnetworks.com -- Siji Sunny

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[commercial] [xpost][hiring]: NIPFP is looking to hire Research Programmers on a full-time in Delhi
by atul jha 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Hi All, NIPFP are looking to hire Research Programmers on a full-time The tools involved here are Linux, MySQL, R, time-series analysis, longitudinal data analysis and geo-spatial analysis [example <https://ajayshahblog.blogspot.in/2018/03/estimating-impact-of-draft-drone.h…>], machine learning. We are at the frontiers of R programming including releasing open source R packages [fxregime <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fxregime/index.html>, eventstudies <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/eventstudies/index.html>]. Details about announcement: https://ajayshahblog.blogspot.in/2018/04/announcements.html -- Atul Jha www.atuljha.com @ koolhead17 <https://twitter.com/koolhead17>

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[xpost] Cloudflare announces DNS Resolver 1.1.1.1 (on 4/1)
by Arun Khan 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

Cloudflare announces public DNS servers 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 on 4/1 (April 1). NO -- it’s not an April Fool’s joke. Scroll down to the end of the blog. https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-resolver-1-1-1-1/amp/ Don’t believe it? Pinch yourself and test it out! -- Arun Khan

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Fwd: [CoFSUG] COEP FOSSMeet: Registrations are open
by Pirate Praveen 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [CoFSUG] COEP FOSSMeet: Registrations are open Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:12:16 +0530 From: अभिजित Abhijit <abhijit13(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: cofsug(a)googlegroups.com To: cofsug <cofsug(a)googlegroups.com> Dear All, COEP is organising it's first every FOSSMeet on 7th and 8th April (Sat-Sun) 2018. The website is up at https://foss.coep.org.in/fossmeet/ <https://foss.coep.org.in/fossmeet/> The registrations for non-COEPian attendees are open at https://www.townscript.com/e/coep-fossmeet18/booking <https://www.townscript.com/e/coep-fossmeet18/booking> Enter the world of Opestack, Firefox, Wordpress, Blender, Docker, Git, Virtual Reality, DevOps, jQuery, IoT, Beaglebone, Debian, Go and a lot more. With 22 sessions (Talks, workshops and fun) the event will definitely be fruitful for everyone. Each venue has a limited capacity and the seating will be on a first com basis. Hurry and register yourself before the tickets get over! Please forward this message to all your LUGs, ILUGS, FSUGs and interested communities. Cheers, Abhijit A M COEP -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CoFSUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cofsug+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:cofsug+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to cofsug(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:cofsug@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/cofsug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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Anybody using Dart?
by Joe Steeve 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Hello All, Does anyone on this list use Dart professionally? I am just trying to see if there is any adoption, locally. And if there is, how it went. -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Call for speakers, March 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 10th March 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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February 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Hello All, The February 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 10th February 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. 1 hour: "Introduction to Python" - Nilesh Ghavate 3. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Call for speakers, February 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 10th February 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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Jude in Mumbai Mirror
by GN 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

My mentor, friend and digital freedom fighter https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/city-columns/jt-dsouza-the-thin… -- GN

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Series of Articles on Open Source Movement in Marathi
by Milind Oka 14 Jan '18

14 Jan '18

Dear all, From new year, Loksatta, one of the leading newspapers in marathi, (Express Group) has started a weekly series of articles on Open Source Movement. The articles will be published on every Monday. The writer is Mr Amrutaunshu Nerurkar. This series is really going to help in creating awareness about FOSS among ordinary people. First two articles have already been published and I found them quite impressive. On behalf of ILUG, I thanked the author for his efforts and invited him to our group and meetings. Giving his response below. ----- ---- नमस्कार. तुमच्या ईमेल बद्दल खूप आभार. तुम्ही माझा लेख वाचलात आणि तो तुम्हाला आवडला हे ऐकून फार आनंद झाला. पुढील लेखांमधूनही मी तुमच्या अपेक्षांना खरा उतरेन अशी आशा बाळगतो. या लेखमालेला जास्तीत जास्त वाचक वर्ग मिळवून देण्याच्या आपल्या प्रयत्नांसाठी मी आपला मनापासून आभारी आहे. तुमचं निरीक्षण अगदी बरोबर आहे. आपल्याकडे शासकीय आणि शैक्षणिक स्तरावर ओपन सोर्स सॉफ्टवेअरच्या संशोधन अथवा वापराबद्दल खूप अनास्था आहे. तुमच्या मुंबई लिनक्स ग्रुपचे या बाबतीतले प्रयत्न अत्यंत कौतुकास्पद आणि अभिनंदनीय आहेत. तुमच्या एखाद्या मासिक बैठकीला उपस्थित राहण्याचा मी निश्चित प्रयत्न करेन. पहिल्याच लेखात म्हटल्याप्रमाणे मी स्वतःला या विषयातला तज्ज्ञ समजत नाही. मी फक्त या विषयाचा अभ्यासक आहे. त्यामुळे मी तुम्हाला किती मार्गदर्शन करू शकेन मला माहित नाही पण मला स्वतःला काही नवीन नक्कीच शिकता येईल. असो. या लेखमालिकेला पूरक असा ब्लॉग लिहिणे मी चालू केले आहे. जस जसे माझे लेख लोकसत्तामध्ये प्रकाशित होत जातील त्यांची एक प्रत मी या ब्लॉग वर सुद्धा (लोकसत्ता इ-पेपर च्या माध्यमातून) प्रसिद्ध करेन. यामुळे कोणास मागील लेख वाचायचे असतील तर एकाच ठिकाणी त्यांच्या सर्व लिंक्स उपलब्ध होतील. तसेच मी या ब्लॉगवर वेळोवेळी काही पूरक दस्तावेज किंवा लिंक्स प्रसिद्ध करेन ज्या माझ्या लेखांशी निगडित असतील पण शब्दमर्यादेमुळे वर्तमानपत्रातील लेखांमध्ये समाविष्ट होऊ शकल्या नसतील. https://mahajalache-muktayan.blogspot.in/ या संकेतस्थळावर हा ब्लॉग उपलब्ध आहे जो तुम्ही follow करू शकता. तसेच आपल्या ग्रुप मधील सर्व कार्यकर्त्यांना व परिचितांना सुद्धा जर ही लिंक पाठवलीत तर आपला ऋणी राहीन. धन्यवाद. अमृतांशू नेरुरकर

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January 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Hello All, The January 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 13th January 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. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Call for speakers, January 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 13th January 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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linux installation
by Bharath Kumar 24 Dec '17

24 Dec '17

Hi ILUG Mumbai, Greetings ! I would like to install linux on my "HP" laptop. downloading the huge size of the operating system (1.5 GB) is not practicable. It is a 64-bit intel processor with 8GB RAM and 1000GB hard-disk. I cannot shift to "installation from pen-drive" mode after pressing F2. Can you please help me ?? I will come to your place with my laptop and get linux installed. I stay in Koparkhairane , Navi Mumbai. Is there any linux installation expert near-by ?? Even if your member stays far away from my place, I will come. Please suggest me an appointment. I ready to even completely delete windows and install linux in my laptop. Thanks, Bharathkumar AV

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Debian 9 input sources for Indian languages
by Joshua Immanuel 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

Hello all, In Debian 9, I am not able to find input sources for Hindi or Tamil in "Region & Language" settings of GNOME. Is there any specific package that has to be installed for this? -- Joshua Immanuel http://www.randomsurge.in/

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December 2017 meeting (at Frappe Technologies)
by Joe Steeve 06 Dec '17

06 Dec '17

Hello All, The December 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 9th December 2017, 15:00 to 16:30 IST. Venue: Frappe Technologies Private Limited, D/324 Neelkanth Business Park, Vidyavihar West, Mumbai, Maharashtra - 400086, India Map: https://goo.gl/maps/MnPh3Wu9bLs Agenda: 1. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. 1 Hour: "How to do charting from scratch in 2017" by Prateeksha Singh, Frappe Technologies Private Limited. 3. Floor open for relevant discussions Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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The ML is dropping mails
by Joe Steeve 06 Dec '17

06 Dec '17

Some emails are not pushed to subscribers. I first thought it was just me, but looks like a lot of others are having similar problems. Can the admins please look into it. -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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[x-post][commercial] Opportunity: Web application developer (python)
by Joe Steeve 06 Dec '17

06 Dec '17

Hello All, HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited provides development services and products based on Free and Open Source Software. We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Python web application developer with the following skills, to join our team. 1. Strong python knowledge 2. HTML5, CSS3, Javascript 3. One of the python web frameworks (preferably Pyramid) 4. Comfortable with git based development workflows 5. Comfortable with IRC, mailing lists 6. Strong communication skills 7. Comfortable with Debian GNU/Linux 8. Comfortable with GNU Emacs Mail me your resume, in PDF format, off the list. Dont feel shy to show case your Free and Open Source work in the resume. -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Call for speakers, December 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 05 Dec '17

05 Dec '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 9th December 2017, 15:00 to 17:00, at Frappe Technologies Private Limited. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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About password strength
by Arun Khan 25 Nov '17

25 Nov '17

XKCD PoV <https://xkcd.com/936/> A PoV on long phrase like password. <https://blog.codinghorror.com/password-rules-are-bullshit/> Password generator using Unicode inspired by above <https://www.sethserver.com/unicode-random-password-generator.html> -- Arun Khan

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The Munich tragedy
by sudheer k Muhammed 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/11/13/munich_…

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What do you want to learn in FOSS?
by Navin Dhanuka 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

(posting @ Mumbai G-LUG & Pune LUG) Hello All, I have been working on a project called OpenSource.education. (http://www.opensource.education). I have seen that every year when a new batch of CS students happen to a college, they all have to go through the same baby steps and guidance. And they all come with a similar set of questions. And there then starts the same life-cycle of same questions and answers. I want to know what are the most important topics you want to learn as a CS student. So what all is hot in FOSS? Please reply back to the list. I will try my best to set up tutes on all of this asap. Best Regards, Navin Dhanuka. 9987752076

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November 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

Hello All, The November 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 11th November 2017, 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. 1 hour: "How to make a .deb package" - Praveen, Debian developer. 3. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Excerpts of lat meeting
by Prahlad C 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

---- Excerpts of the meeting After transforming Auxilium School wadala to Linux, ILUG BOM had an excellent meeting with teachers and students on 14th Oct 2017 at DBIT-Kurla. Though good number of teachers have registered for the meet but due to heavy rains many haven't dared to take risk and some due to personal reasons. No problem, there is always a second time. The meet started with the introduction of everyone including the new comers. few were completely new to Linux. They showed lot of interest in learning Linux. Mr. Joe Steve c ms and softwares, in short, why and what of Linux. He highlighted the need for FOSS and how it should be, in the reach of common man as it is community driven. Replying to Shashwat's (a student of 12th standard) question, the difference between hackers and crackers Joe narrated an interesting story on hackers and also mentioned why that word was coined. Mr. Rajeev unpacked his bundle of knowledge and explained the Linux Fedora starting from installation of the OS which is customized for schools and school teachers. He dealt with most of the applications which are useful to teachers such as tuxpaint, tuxmath, Unicode for devanagari script etc. Most interestingly he made an impeccable explanation of Libre office giving importance to Libre Writer, Libre calc and Libre impress which are far better than their counterpart softwares like Office word, Excel sheet and Power Point Presentation of MS Office. Mr. Rajeev cleared the doubts of teachers in a lucid language. At the end of his session Mr. Rajeev gifted everyone with a bootable DVD of Fedora. Next, Mr. Raghavendra Kamat a professional artist, perspicuously ( with clarity and lucidity ) explained GIMP ( GNU Image Manipulation Program ) to everyone's understanding. He emphasized on the tools that are available in GIMP starting from types of brushes of different thickness, different colors, different pallets etc. He demonstrated multilingual text usage in GIMP especially combination of two letters in Marathi or Hindi, to be precise Devanagari script. He beautifully showed with ease that how one can touch, cut, crop and change the complexion of the an image and also warned, public of it's misuse. Mrs. Sarita Mulay a representative of Shishuvan School of Matunga offered us a pleasant chance to meet the teachers of her School and demonstrate Linux starting from installation, to use of all applications which are beneficial to teachers but only when school reopens after Diwali Vacation. She also assured us of place in her School for our future meet ups. At the end all dispersed with a sense of gratitude and achieving some thing new. All of them ( new entrants ) showed interest in continuing with us in the journey of Linux and also to help us in our mission ..... Prahlad C

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Call for speakers, November 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 11th November 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/

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Updated October 2017 meeting agenda
by Joe Steeve 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

Hello All, There has been a small confusion in the planning and here is the updated agenda. The October 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 14th October 2017, 15:00 to 17:00 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. 1.5 hour: Introducing FOSS to teachers 1. Installing GNU/Linux 2. Basic usage 3. Common day to day tools (Web browsing, documents, spreadsheets, presentations) Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Meeting / Workshop on Linux on 14/10/2017
by Prahlad C 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

------------ *Excellent meeting.* ------------ After transforming Auxilium School wadala to Linux, ILUG BOM had an excellent meeting with teachers and students on 14th Oct 2017 at DBIT-Kurla. Though good number of teachers have registered for the meet but due to heavy rains many haven't dared to take risk and some due to personal reasons. No problem, there is always a second time. The meet started with the introduction of everyone including the new comers. few were completely new to Linux. They showed lot of interest in learning Linux. Mr. Joe Steve convincingly explained the concept and the philosophy of community Operating systems and softwares, in short, why and what of Linux. He highlighted the need for FOSS and how it should be, in the reach of common man as it is community driven. Replying to Shashwat's (a student of 12th standard) question, the difference between hackers and crackers Joe narrated an interesting story on hackers and also mentioned why that word was coined. Mr. Rajeev unpacked his bundle of knowledge and explained the Linux Fedora starting from installation of the OS which is customized for schools and school teachers. He dealt with most of the applications which are useful to teachers such as tuxpaint, tuxmath, Unicode for devanagari script etc. Most interestingly he made an impeccable explanation of Libre office giving importance to Libre Writer, Libre calc and Libre impress which are far better than their counterpart softwares like Office word, Excel sheet and Power Point Presentation of MS Office. Mr. Rajeev cleared the doubts of teachers in a lucid language. At the end of his session Mr. Rajeev gifted everyone with a bootable DVD of Fedora. Next, Mr. Raghavendra Kamat a professional artist, perspicuously ( with clarity and lucidity ) explained GIMP ( GNU Image Manipulation Program ) to everyone's understanding. He emphasized on the tools that are available in GIMP starting from types of brushes of different thickness, different colors, different pallets etc. He demonstrated multilingual text usage in GIMP especially combination of two letters in Marathi or Hindi, to be precise Devanagari script. He beautifully showed with ease that how one can touch, cut, crop and change the complexion of an image and also warned public, of it's misuse. :D Mrs. Sarita Mulay a representative of Shishuvan School of Matunga offered us a pleasant chance to meet the teachers of her School and demonstrate Linux starting from installation, to use of all applications which are beneficial to teachers but only when school reopens after Diwali Vacation. She also assured us of place in her School for our future meet ups. At the end all dispersed with a sense of gratitude and achieving some thing new. All of them ( new entrants ) showed interest in continuing with us in the journey of Linux and also to help us in our mission.

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October 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Hello All, The October 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 14th October 2017, 15:00 to 17:00 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. 15 minutes: Introductions 2. 45 minutes: Introduce teachers to FOSS 3. 60 minutes: "Introduction to Docker" by Mr.Joel Divekar Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Call for speakers, October 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 14th October 2017, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. In this meeting, we are expecting a lot of participants from the teaching community (schools in particular). They are new to "Free and Open Source Software", and to computers in general. So, for this month's meeting, we need to pick a topic that will give them a good introduction to the community and be a starting point for their adoption of Free Software. Please pour in your suggestions for the same. -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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[X-POST] Annual Python Developer Survey
by Kushal Das 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

Hi everyone, The annual Python developer survey is here. Fill it even if you are just starting with Python. The survey is organized in partnership between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains. Blog post: https://pyfound.blogspot.in/2017/09/join-python-developers-survey-2017.html Link to survey: https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/c11-python-developers-survey-2017 Kushal -- CPython Core Developer Director, Python Software Foundation https://kushaldas.in

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Fw: [Positions] Positions for free software developers in gnowledge lab
by Anurag Patel 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Forwarding on Nagarjuna's behalf. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Positions] positions for free software developers in gnowledge lab Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:41:34 +0530 From: GN <nagarjun(a)gnowledge.org> To: glug <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> Good for freshers with interest to become a free software developer. CIET-NCERT and gnowledge lab (http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/research-development/gnowledge-lab) of HBCSE-TIFR are collaborating in the development of a National Repository of Open Education Resources (NROER http://nroer.gov.in). The repository is a collaborative platform working towards a collection of various media ICT resources in different subjects. To support the design and development of the web platform for NROER, CIET-NCERT invite applications for filling up the following technical posts on purely contractual basis initially for a period of one year and likely to be extended for a maximum period of 3 years. The Walk-in interview will be held at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Tata Institute of fundamental Research (TIFR), (Next to Anushaktinagar Bus Terminus), V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai- 400088, on 6th October 2017. More details here: https://hasjob.co/gnowledge.org/4x65u -- GN

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Linux Localization Video
by Navin Dhanuka 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Hello All, I was in hibernation for a long time. Gearing up now to be a active lugger again. Please have a look to the video I made like 10 years back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vljou-mE6gM I missed Karunakar. :-( Regards, Navin Dhanuka 9987752076

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Open Source Summit LA Sep/2017 -- A conversation with Linus Torvalds
by Arun Khan 16 Sep '17

16 Sep '17

Recording of Linus Torvald's interview at the just concluded Open Source Summit in LA Sep/2017 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlRXFpUVPK4> It's 26 mins but do take the time to watch the full video and witness the introduction of Zach, representing the next gen open sourcers. Njoy. -- Arun Khan

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Software Freedom Day 16th September 2017 - Free Software & Education
by Raghavendra Kamath 16 Sep '17

16 Sep '17

Hello Everyone, Some of the members of ILUG BOM have come together with Free Software Movement Maharashtra, Digital Freedom Foundation & Don Bosco Institute Of Technology to celebrate Software Freedom Day 2017. This years Focus is Free & Libre Software in Education. We have planned to Invite Teachers and students for a seminar , which will highlight the role of free software in education. Agenda: 1. Digital classroom and Lab work — We shall discuss how teachers can make use of digitized textbooks and computerized exercises for any subject. 2. Teaching Aids — The most complex concepts can now be demonstrated in classroom to stimulate pupil’s imagination. 3. Programming at an early age — We discuss how children can start coding at an early age and make their own software. 4. Why Free & Libre Software — What is free and open source software? Why is it important in Education? Steps to encourage free software in education. We are also trying to give (if possible) DVD live installation medias, after the event. Venue & Time: Date : 16 Spetember 2017 Day : Saturday Time : 3 PM TO 5PM Address: IT Lab 4, 3rd floor, A wing Department Of Information Technology Don Bosco Institute Of Technology, Kurla (W) 12 Minutes walk from Vidyavihar Station(W) Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp We request the support from all of you to make this event a success -- Raghavendra Kamath Illustrator raghukamath.com

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Keynote speakers for PyCon Pune 2018 have been announced
by Kushal Das 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

Greetings! We are happy to announce our six keynote speakers for PyCon Pune 2018 [1]. The speakers are: * Brett Cannon (CPython Core Dev) * Carol Willing (CPython Core Dev, Project Jupyter) * Nicholas Tollervey (Micro:bit, mu editor) * Paul Hildebrandt (Senior Engineer, Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS)) * Paul Everitt (PyCharm & WebStorm Developer Advocate, JetBrains) * Andrew Godwin (Django Core Developer, Engineer at Eventbrite) Tomorrow the CFP [2] for the conference ends! So, go ahead and submit your talk proposal. This is your chance to present in front of a vibrant Python community. [1] PyCon Pune 2018. https://pune.pycon.org [2] Call for Proposals. https://pyconpune.talkfunnel.com/2018/ Kushal PyCon Pune team -- Fedora Cloud Engineer CPython Core Developer http://kushaldas.in

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[x-post] ERPNext Conference on October 12-14
by Rushabh Mehta 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

Hello all, The 4th Annual ERPNext Conference will be held in Mumbai on October 12-14. The conference is organized by the ERPNext Foundation, a not-for-profit dedicated to promote and build ERPNext as a open source product (https://erpnext.org) For venue and agenda. See https://erpnext.org/conf/2017 As of today, ERPNext is one of the last remaining, 100% open source ERP with a large community. ERPNext is also GST ready. Hope to see you there! best, Rushabh

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Event Summary for the 9th September 2017 ILUG-BOM Meetup
by Rajeev R. K. 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Hi Everyone, The meeting on the 9th of September 2017 started off by 3 pm, with a small group of regulars(Including milind and raghu) and a few students from DBIT coming together for a round of introductions. We also got a mini intro from our speaker for the day, Achilles. We waited a short while as the logistics of projection and access to the relevant github accounts were being sorted, allowing a few more participants to troop into the room. We then started on a fascinating look into a FOSS developer's mindset, and watched how software would evolve through the prism of the various projects that Achilles has been involved with. We started off with Achilles professing his deep love for python and clean code, and graduated to the importance of simple and neat API's, where he used the versatile python Request library as an example of how to build a powerful but still clean API interface. We then learnt how Readme Driven Development(RDD) is one of the various paradigms that can be used to drive development of a FOSS project, and that it is ideally suited to managing small to mid sized projects, generally centred around one primary author + maintainer. The session was peppered with a lot of interesting detours into a variety of topics, ranging from a discussion of the importance of open data sets, and the state of software in the bioinformatics domain. The participants then got involved, with Achilles throwing the floor open to all types of questions, especially from the DBIT student participants. In fact, with the lively Q&A session that followed Achilles's talk, Milind had to step in and remind both the speaker and the audience that we had run out of time. The action then shifted to the 2 guest foundations that were present at the meeting. First up was the Digital Freedom Foundation(DFF), represented by its founder, Mr Krishnakant Mane, also an ilug-bom old timer whom we were glad welcome back after an extended break. His talk, covering a range of topics, centred on the importance of FOSS in education, also drew a lot of parallels with our recently concluded outreach activity at St. Mary's, and highlighted a number of avenues where the DFF and ILUG-BOM could collaborate in this sphere. Next, we had representatives of the Free Software Movement of Maharashtra(FSMM) step up and take the stage, drawing the audience's attention towards the more intangible aspects of "Freedom" as it applies in a digital world. Using a variety of examples like Facebook's thankfully-failed FreeBasics Initiative, they explained how the importance of Freedom reaches far beyond just the ability to study and modify the code of the software that we may run(or in some cases, likely runs us). They also touched on the rather depressing statistics showing that India's high rate of female engineering enrolment does not translate to a corresponding rate of involvement in the IT world, with barely 30% of the internet user-base being women. Such issues are deep, social questions with a lot to be said on all sides, and while they aren't necessarily technical issues, but technology and especially FOSS can play a part in evolving solutions for them. KK from DFF then threw in an interesting counter-example, where almost 90% of the contributors to GNUKhatha, the financial accounting system being developed as a tally alternative, were women. The meeting ended with the audience breaking up to partake in refreshments, but the discussions did not. The tea session saw lively discussion on the various topics raised during the meeting, and also a lot of planning on how to take some of the ideas forward, especially with identifying avenues for collaboration between ILUG-BOM, DFF and FSMM. We even had a interesting side discussion on the importance of software documentation, with Achilles advocating a moderate approach to encouraging developers to write documentation and KK advocating that developers who didn't write docs should get their pay docked ;-D All in all, a most engaging meeting, full of knowledge exchange and transfer of ideas, and loads of audience interaction. This summary, by its very nature has to leave out a lot of what happened, but i hope that i have touched on the most important and interesting bits of the meet. As always, please feel free to add in any bit that i may have missed and that you feel is important and needs to be placed in the record. P.S. : I believe that after i left, there was another round-chair discussion with a focus on the activities leading up to the Software Freedom Day, and since i wasn't there, i am pasting below, verbatim, Milind's excellent synopsis of the post-meet. -- Milind's Post After the meeting we had an informal discussion about how ILUG-BOM,DFF,FSMM and DBIT can join hands and make free software movement even stronger. It was decided to meet often as the activities was to be done on large scale basis. The primary goal would be reaching schools and colleges of Mumbai and migrate them to free software. There was a discussion on preparation of lab mauals, text books and other open resources in digital form and distributing them to schools. Krishnakant agreed to offer help in accounts and CAD content. Raghu informed everyone about Rushabh's proposal of organizing a workshop for teachers on Software Freedom Day (16th Sept 2017) and take this opportunity to inform about GNULinux and FOSS. Also make them aware about the Migration, why it was important and how the four organizations unitedly willing to help them as a social mission. Everyone supported the proposal. Raghu agreed to make poster and the content would be provided by Siddharth. A quick distribution of other work would be done on separate group made for this workshop where the volunteers would be added. The workshop would be from 2 pm to 5 pm in DBIT and before that a meeting of volunteers would take place. The discussion ended at about 7 pm. -- End Milind's Post Thanks and Regards R. K. Rajeev Ph : +91-9323802020

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[Positions] SFLC.in is looking for a technologist.
by GN 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

SFLC.in is looking for a Technologist. Please do spread the word. Job Description We are looking for a talented and self-motivated engineers to join us as a resident technologist and become a defender of digital freedom. If you love technology, policy, law and their combined impact on society, this is a good opportunity for you to make a career out of your passions. Responsibilities • Develop applications and tools to support and enhance research and campaign about digital rights. • Help our lawyers and researchers understand deeper technological aspects of the research that they undertake. • Administer GNU/Linux servers and workstations. Support our staff in using free software tools for their work. • Maintain liaison with free software and technology communities for collaboration and promoting SFLC.in’s work. • Organize technology meetups and events. • Represent SFLC.in at conferences and meetings (domestic or international) and promote our work. Eligibility • Strong experience in setting up, maintaining and administering GNU/Linux systems and networks; Troubleshooting problems. • Understanding of free software (FOSS): the technology, the ideology and the community. • Ability to read and understand code. Nice to have • Love for Debian GNU/Linux (or its derivatives). • Experience in developing web applications using free (as in freedom) technologies. • An eye for free alternatives to popular but non-free software. • Strong understanding and practice of cryptography, anonymity and privacy tools. • Experience in community building. Note • Compensation will be commensurate with experience. So candidates with any amount of experience can apply. How to Apply Interested candidates are requested to forward their applications with a cover letter and the latest resume in a free document format (.pdf/.odt/.txt) to apply -at- sflc -dot- in with the subject line – “Application for Technologist“. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position of filled. For any enquiries and clarifications regarding this position, feel free to contact Sarath at 011-43587126.

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September 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

Hello All, The September 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 9th September 2017, 15:00 to 16:00 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. 15 minutes: Introductions 2. 1 hour: "How I came to write a full-fledged OSS product with RDD(README-Driven Development)" - Achilles Rasquinha 3. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Mozilla is giving away Rs 1cr to Indian Open Source Projects
by Rushabh Mehta 31 Aug '17

31 Aug '17

Hello all, Check this out: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/30/1-crore-fund-support-open-source-p… Seems like the most interesting thing to happen in the open source scene in India since at least a decade :) Lets hope this helps us kickstart many open source projects!

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Call for speakers, September 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

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

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Monthly Meeting Summary - 12th August 2017
by Milind Oka 17 Aug '17

17 Aug '17

Monthly Meeting Summary - 12th August 2017 The meeting started with Gimp talk by Raghavendra Kamat. In fact everyone wants to play with shapes and colors right from childhood days. Apart from that, basic image processing is everyday need of Digital Age. We often need to work with Image formats and their conversion. Uploading i card size photos in applications, résumé etc. Without appropriate tools and proper guidance this can be too difficult or even impossible for avarage user. Fortunately we had more student attendees. They certainly enjoyed the expert's tips. It is true that anyone can practice and teach elementary gimp usage. But learning basics from a professional artist is really a different experience. We felt this difference when Raghu started experimenting with sample images. He showed how to colorize original black and white image with various color tools. He finally gave a demonstration of masking, where he changed the face of a person in image, keeping the same body. The transformation was so homogeneous that it was impossible to suspect any manipulation. Of course he warned the students not to misuse this skill. In the next session, Joe put a propsal of celebrating Software Freedom Day (16 September). He suggested to arrange an install festival, a hackathon and FOSS exhibition in DBIT. The idea was to invite students and teachers of schools and colleges of Mumbai. Although the idea was welcome by DBIT Profs and students, it could be difficult to arrange everything in a short amount of time. So we put the proposal to DBIT for further discussion. In the last session, Nilesh showed the lab manuals that he has prepared with the help of students. Nilesh and his students team have made a wonderful job. The students had even gone to a few schools. But the principals of junior colleges are not yet confident to migrate. As per his teams feedback, the only problem they faced was Tally and .net. We need to study alternatives to these softwares further. As far as schools are concerned there seems no problem in State or CBSE board. - Milind

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Linux load average -- technical explanation + background.
by Arun Khan 09 Aug '17

09 Aug '17

Stumbled upon this blog. It gives a nice explanation of what the 'uptime' numbers mean + it's history/background on the Linux OS platform. <http://brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html> -- Arun Khan

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Who has @ilugbom twitter handle access?
by Raghavendra Kamath 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Hello everyone, We are in a process of updating the website (http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/) for our group. We are slowly building and improving the website. We have given link of the old twitter account (https://twitter.com/ilugbom which seems to be of our group) in the footer of the website, This account seems to be inactive now. Can we have the acces to this account? Is it handled by someone from our group? If someone is willing to manage it then it is more than welcome. New updates and recent events can be posted to this twitter handle. Note: We have the source for our website in this gitlab repo - https://gitlab.com/ilug-bom/www.ilug-bom.org.in If anybody wants to contribute by writing articles, improve the website, or just want to help by proofreading then just request access or send a pull request. Thank you -- Raghavendra Kamath Illustrator raghukamath.com

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[Commercial] Looking for Hardware Partners
by Mandar Joshi 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

Hello, I am looking for hardware partners who can provide installation and support for a video monitoring framework I have developed. If you are interested, please contact me off the list. You can find details about the product on http:///www.czarsoftech.com Regards Mandar Joshi

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August 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Hello All, The August 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 12th August 2017, 15:00 to 16:00 IST. Venue: IT Lab 5, First Floor, D - 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. Basics of GIMP & Image editing - Raghavendra Kamath 2. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Call for speakers, August 2017 meeting
by Raghavendra kamath 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

I would like to take a session on "Basics of Gimp & Image editing in linux" It would cover basis of gimp such as introduction to interface, doing common tasks such as resizing image, compressing image, cropping adding text, basic retouching etc. It would be a 30 min talk, members may bring their laptops to work during the talk. Let me know if you guys are interested in this. thanks -- *Raghavendra Kamath* *Illustrator* *m: +91 9867272640* *w: raghukamath.com <http://www.raghukamath.com/>*

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Call for speakers, August 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 28 Jul '17

28 Jul '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 12th August 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/

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Inherit Ownership and Permissions
by Rony Bill 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

Dear Friends, In Linux is there a way in which new files or folders created in a directory will inherit the directory's owner and group with the same permissions too? The new files or folders are currently getting created with the user and group of the user who created them. I want all the new data to have user:group and permissions of the parent directory. I have tried different things like suid sgid sticky bit and even mounting the folder with a certain uid, gid and umask but new data does not inherit the same. Thanks and Regards, Rony.

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Fwd: [OpenWrt-Users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL filter for Squid
by Arun Khan 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

FWIW, this might be useful to folks using multiple openWRT+Squid. -- Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nishant Sharma <codemarauder(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:47 AM Subject: [OpenWrt-Users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL filter for Squid To: openwrt-users(a)lists.openwrt.org Hi, We are excited to invite early users to test drive Charcoal (http://charcoal.io) - a Squid URL Rewriter for distributed proxies. It has come out of our need of managing ACLs for 100+ proxy servers on OpenWRT/LEDE running at our customer offices across the geography of India. We are releasing it in the hope that it will be useful for users who have to manage multiple proxy servers everyday. Devices that we have tested it on are: - PCEngines ALIX - PCEngines APU - PCEngines APU2 - Mikrotik Routerboard RB951Ui-2HnD Releases that we have tested it on are: - OpenWRT 14.07 - OpenWRT 15.05 - LEDE 17.01 Charcoal is designed to help administrators manage access rules for the proxies at just one place with a GUI, instead of editing configuration of individual proxy servers. The architecture is API key driven client-server, where a squid url-rewrite helper contacts server to query access controls for the incoming requests. Current features: ----------------- - Supports Squid 2.x and 3.x - 70+ pre-existing domains blacklist - Custom destination groups/categories - Custom source groups for IPs and Networks (usernames in the pipeline) - As of now only domain filter support (no full url filtering) - API key driven Configuration: -------------- - Download the helper from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hopbox/charcoal-helper/master/squid/charc…. - Make sure IO::Socket (perlbase-io) module for Perl is installed. - Add following lines to squid.conf after downloading the helper: url_rewrite_program /path/to/charcoal-helper.pl YOUR_API_KEY url_rewrite_children X startup=Y idle=Z concurrency=1 YOUR_API_KEY for our hosted Charcoal service can be requested by filling in the form at http://charcoal.io or writing in to charcoal(a)hopbox.in. The credentials for login to https://active.charcoal.io to manage the ACL will be emailed along with YOUR_API_KEY. License: -------- URL Rewrite helper for squid is licensed under GPLv2.0 while Charcoal Server is licensed under AGPLv3.0. GIT Repo: --------- Squid URL Rewrite helper can be downloaded from https://github.com/Hopbox/charcoal-helper Git repository for Charcoal Server is at https://github.com/Hopbox/charcoal Regards, Nishant _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list openwrt-users(a)lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users

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Logo for ILUG-BOM
by Raghavendra Kamath 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

Hi Linuxers, I made a logo for our group. I have used the tux created by Larry Ewing [http://isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/]. The logo is free to use anywhere in any medium, and I intend to release it under CC-BY-SA license [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/]. Since the file size is a bit larger than attachment limit of this mailing list, I have uploaded it on my server. You can download the png and svg file from the link below. Png file -> https://raghukamath.com/backstage/linuxers/ilug-bom-logo.png Svg source file -> https://raghukamath.com/backstage/linuxers/ilug-bom-logo.svg Thank you -- Raghavendra Kamath Illustrator raghukamath.com

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Summary of July 2017 Meetup
by Raghavendra Kamath 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

Hey linuxers We had an awesome meetup last saturday, here is a brief summary of the meet. Rushabh took a session on frappe framework which is used in Erpnext application. We also had some guests who are faculty in local college. You can download Rushabhs presentation from the link here [https://www.dropbox.com/s/53j8f4ruumvd4h4/frappe-framework.pdf?dl=0]. It has all the details and screenshots of the applications UI. Rushabh began by explaining what a web framework is and why they started building a framework instead of using an existing one. You can also read the full story here [https://frappe.io/story] Rushabh explained what is included in the full stack framework and then talked about the UI aspect of the framework, it includes a lot of functionality and one can say it follows the “batteries included” approach of python. It has features such as List views Form views, invoices, mail integration, its own scheduler and background process handler, resource & user managment, kanban style cards similar to trello, calendar, storage like google drive, anything that you can think of which aids ERP. Collaboration is also easy and it has a very granular level of permision settings. Rushabh said that their future goal is making erpnext a standalone application with the help of electron framework. They are also trying to swith to pure javascript and less python. The second part of the meet was discussion with the faculty members about promoting FOSS more in junior colleges. The teachers expressed concerns about training required for migration. There was a lengthy discussion about how to tackle the problem. They also provided us with the existing journals and syllabus. Teachers informed us that the online exams use a tool built on .net and wanted to know how that can be migrated. They suggested that we should target 11th std and also schools and slowly introduce FOSS one step at a time. Thank you -- Raghavendra Kamath Illustrator raghukamath.com

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{Job Posting} Looking for PHP developers
by Siji Sunny 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

We @ Mobile Embedded Labs Pvt.Ltd, Looking for PHP programmers (Interns, Freshers or with 1-2 year Experience). The person need to work with LAMP stack and Larvel frame-work. If interested, Pls share your updated profile on contact(a)melabs.in -- Siji Sunny

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July 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

Hello All, The July 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG-BOM)", will be held on 8th July 2017, 15:00 to 16:00 IST. Venue: IT Lab 5, First Floor, D - 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. 1 hour - Frappe framework and ERPNext, Frappe technologies private limited team. 2. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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talk on open data , using opensource GIS and sustainability
by jitendra 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

*I suggest we include this talkTitle*: Open data for Sustainability *Abstract*: In this talk the speaker will present why spatial data is important for quantifying efforts put in the conservation. How Open data can help in assessing the sustainable practices or help in planning sustainable practices in conservation. The presenter will also speak about Western Ghats Bio diversity portal and Lake Management and Monitoring system built using Open Source GIS tools and updated using Open Data. Presentation Duration : 30 mins Interaction for Q&A : 15 mins Presenter is part of a team that is conducting a workshop in Wild Life Institute of India,Dehradun in the third week (17th to 20th) Reference Presenter : Mr Gowtham G web: www.kaiinos.com blog: blog.kaiinos.com

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Fwd: [hackerspace-mumbai] Invitation for Bitcoin & Blockchain Technology event at IIT Bombay
by Arun Khan 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Might be worthwhile attending. Arun ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Danny Carroll" Date: 29-Jun-2017 06:01 Subject: [hackerspace-mumbai] Invitation for Bitcoin & Blockchain Technology event at IIT Bombay To: <hackerspace-mumbai-announce(a)meetup.com> Cc: > Guys and Girls, an interesting talk by one of the worlds leading thinkers in the cryptocurrency space. Don't miss it. > > Bitcoin technology has been designed to provide a layer of trust over the internet. This layer of trust is not only enabling many possibilities for different industries but also >enhancing their performance by adding fundamentally new capabilities. The new buzz word Blockchain has given us a complete shift to an era of programmable assets, >enabling trust online, ownership of digital data, money, identity, and contracts. Today, every industry is finding capabilities and asking itself how it should leverage >blockchain to improve their processes. > > The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay is organizing its first event on Blockchain & Bitcoin with Auxesis Group to bring together the representatives from the banking, >insurance, public service companies, startup founders, and bitcoin enthusiast. > > We welcome you at our event on "Blockchain: From disruptive concept to business-ready solution" to know from the experts how blockchains are transforming these > trillion dollar industries across the globe. > > Date: July 1st, 2017 > Timing: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM > Venue: IIT Bombay, Powai, India > > Please register online to get your free entry pass: <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bitcoin-blockchain-from-disruptive-concept-to-…> > > About Auxesis: Auxesis Group is among The Top 100 most Influential Blockchain company across the globe with offices based in Mumbai, London & San Fransico. >Auxesis has built an enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure called AuxLedger, focused on production-readiness: security, performance, and scalability. The company > has powered many decentralised applications on a network tailored to the specific needs of an industry and use case. Auxesis blockchain solutions are working live > with over 50 million users and transacted millions of dollars for the clients in Banking, Insurance, and Public sector. > > About E-Cell, IIT Bombay: The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay serve as a link between the various subsystems of startup ecosystem. It is pursuing this vision from > past 18 years and it has grown to become India‘s largest entrepreneurship promoting organisation. It caters an audience of more than 100 thousand directly through its > initiatives with our reach exceeding to over 1 million students, corporate, Entrepreneurs and HNIs‘ PAN India. >

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Call for speakers, July 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 8th July 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/

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leveraging open-source as a public institution
by jitendra 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/leveraging-open-source-public-institut…

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Who has @ilugbom twitter handle access?
by Anurag 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

On Jun 14, 2017 16:08, "Rajeev R. K." <rajeevrk(a)gmail.com> wrote: I'm in for some proofreading and maybe even some light articles even. How do i get access? Hi Rajeev, just sign up with gitlab.com and send a request to join that gitlab group. Anurag

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Riot app and matrix standard for instant messaging, voice & video calling
by Pirate Praveen 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Riot app and matrix standard for instant messaging, voice & video calling: Free Software, standards based and decentralized replacement for services like WhatsApp, Telegram and Skype. It has one to one or group messaging with end to end encryption for better privacy. Even though WhatsApp claims they do the same, their app being proprietary, we cannot verify their claim. Riot app is Free Software and its source code is available for anyone to verify the claim. Its audited by NCC Group, a professional security research company. With end to end encryption, only the people you share can see your information, the service provider will only see encrypted data, which they can't decrypt without encryption keys. Its like you press the button and lock a car's door, anyone can lock the door, but once locked only the person with the key can open it. Brute forcing would require huge computing power making it practically not possible. We are forced to use WhatsApp even if we don't like it because our friends are on WhatsApp and we are locked to it. With matrix free standard, we can use any app, service or even run our own server. People who try to bridge it to other services or use Free Software clients gets banned by WhatsApp. Imagine this situation, if BSNL were the only mobile service provider and Jio customers could not talk to BSNL customers, would Jio be this popular? Would BSNL and other providers be forced to match Jio offers? We as customers benefited because GSM is a Free Standard and anyone can compete with better services. We can switch providers without losing our contacts. In case of WhatsApp, even if you like Telegram, and use it, you cannot talk to WhatsApp users using Telegram. So it appears who have a choice of apps, in practice that choice is meaningless. Matrix is like GSM standard. You can get a matrix account from any service provider like diasp.in, disroot.org or matrix.org like you can buy your sim card from any provider like BSNL, Airtel, Idea etc You can choose any app, your sim is not locked to a phone model. The most feature rich app is riot, which you can install from riot.im for android, iOS and ant desktop (GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac). There are command line apps like Weechat (with plugin). Pidgin also has some basic support for matrix. Anyone can create a app for matrix standard with better features. Same for the server, anyone can write a server software with better features and performance than the current synapse software. Anyone can take these software and run a matrix server and host it in any country. We have hosted diasp.in in Noida. There are servers located in countries with better privacy laws like Germany. Once you create a matrix account and install riot app, you can join #ilug-bom:matrix.org room. https://matrix.to/#/#ilug-bom:matrix.org Some matrix servers like diasp.in, disroot.org allow registering from their website. Servers like matrix.org and tchncs.de allows registering directly from riot app. You can enter your matrix server in riot app when you login.

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June 2017 meeting minutes
by Raghavendra Kamath 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Hi linuxers, As per our usual schedule we had a small meetup on 10th June at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. This week Rajeev gave a talk on "How to build a Fedora Workstation Live install media". This was the same method that was used to create a custom image for St. Mary's Schools linux install fest. This time there were fewer attendees due to some members opting out due to work related and personal commitments. We reached D.B.I.T around 2.45 pm, Tayyab Sir was already present and arranged a Lab for us. While Rajeev was busy setting up his laptop, which we nicknamed "Survival Kit", rest of us were having some casual discussion about the install-fest and other happenings in Linux world. Rajeev began the talk by explaining the setup required to build a custom image in fedora. He introduced us to a utility called Mock [1], which is like an evolution of chroot and is used to build live images of Fedora, Centos, Mageia, RHEL & Openstack images. There are various mock config files templates available targeting the above mentioned platforms that we can edit and customize to build our live images. One important thing to note is that the release of fedora image that you are trying to create should match the release that you are running. Rajeev also explained to us the new strategy that fedora uses to provide a faster installation and deployment. Fedora live images are nothing but compressed system images, which are then copied to the target machine, instead of installing the application on the target machine the installation and setup is run while creating the live image itself and the actual install process, which is now handled by the utility called "liveinst", is uncompressing this system image and copying it to the target file system. Inside the mock chroot, the instruction for the install process and system image creation is provided by something called kickstart files [2], which in addition to bash commands has it's own set of syntax. All the instructions such as, name of the user, file system size, repositories to add, name of the applications to include, any custom packages, and post and pre-install scripts that needs to be run is specified in this kickstart file. Based on the instruction of the kickstart file, anaconda (fedora's install utility) installs the packages for you. The livemedia-creator utility is used to combine the all these actions and create a bootable live disk image. Rajeev also showed us how he created the custom plymouth boot animation for using the schools logo. Although what we have reported here is just a quick overview of the session (and may be slightly out of order), Rajeev explained the process very nicely and in a in-depth manner. The session had various casual discussions, which included topics like firewalld, iptables, apt vs dnf for caching updates locally, a bit of emacs vs vim, Flash, DRM and W3C's inability to curtail them :) Overall it was a fun session. Also we thank for D.B.I.T for the space and providing tea and coffee for us. We hope to see everyone in next meeting, which is scheduled on 8th July. ** links [1] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/wiki [2] https://github.com/rhinstaller/pykickstart/blob/master/docs/kickstart-docs.… -- Raghavendra Kamath Illustrator raghukamath.com

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Self hosting Git, IM, VoIP and Screen share
by Revant Nandgaonkar 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Recently I came across a project https://yunohost.org, It's a FOSS app like cpanel, uses letsencrypt certificates and is extendable by installing apps. I've setup a vps and it's working great! Our server hosts Gogs for git, Baikal for Card/CalDAV and Rainloop as webmail. It comes with many free services installed, includes MetronomeIM ( https://lightwitch.org/metronome) as xmpp server and Mail server (postfix/dovecot). LDAP service is also configured for all apps installed and a single sign on system is also available across hosted services. I was able to login to this self hosted xmpp server using Empathy, Pidgin, AstraChat (Android with VoiP), Conversations (Android) There are xmpp multi user chatrooms (groups) possible. The main practical benefit I see in using MetronomeIM and Empathy is screen sharing. We are able to do free, unlimited screen shares! Revant

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June 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 10 Jun '17

10 Jun '17

Hello All, The June 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG-BOM)", will be held on 10th June 2017, 15:00 to 16:00 IST. Venue: IT Lab 5, First Floor, D - 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. 1 hour - "Live CD building using fedora tools" by Rajeev R K. 2. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Website for ILUG-BOM
by Raghavendra Kamath 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Hi everybody, Now that we are having the meetings on every second Saturday. I think we should have a central place to post updates, announcements pictures recorded sessions etc for archiving purpose and also for convenience of others in the group. Do we have a website? I searched but I couldn't find it. I think we have the domain http://ilug-bom.org.in/ which has a note pointing to the mailing list. What do you guys think about creating a website? It can be static, generated via Jekyll or pelican. Rushabh had an idea of hosting from GitHub pages, I think it is good idea if hosting space is a problem. In my opinion having a website will surely help newcomers, to know what kind activities happen in the group, before they subscribe to the mailing list. I also noticed that there is a twitter handle - @ilugbom, although it seems dormant now. Do we know who has the access to this account? It will be nice if we can tweet the recent happenings in the group such as the PIL by Mr. Milind What do you guys think? -- Raghavendra Kamath Illustrator raghukamath.com

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