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Installation Festival Report
by Milind Oka 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Hi everyone, As all of you know, we had a small InstallFest in St. Mary's School Mazgaon, Mumbai. We successfully installed Linux (Fedora 25) in over 30 computers of the school's lab. Our group members came to the school around 1.30 PM. We were pleased to see our old memeber Rony already there. We really need more members from ML to participate in this movement. Sajida Madam from St. Mary's School, Fr. Jude, engineers and technicians from Ajuman-I-Islam were also present. The enthusiasm & patience of the school staff and engineers was commendable. The members namely Nilesh and Tayyab Sir, who reached the venue early, started copying the customised ISO image prepared by Rajeev to the USB thumb drives. We prepared 7-8 bootable Live USB and distributed it to the members and school staff. We started the install fest by doing a small demo installation on one of the computer in the lab. The technicians and teachers took notes as the install process progressed. Later everyone started the install process simultaneously on the computers, to our surprise the staff was successfull in installing linux with little help. Sajida Madam installed linux on two to three of the machines all by herself. We were mostly over seeing and helping them. Meantime we went to one of the class rooms to examine an education software named "eSense" by Navneet. It was browser based software so there won't be much problem in running it on Linux. Mr Walter, the software provider to school, has already talked to Navneet. Once Navneet comes up with Linux port, we can install linux in each classroom where one Windows 7 desktop runs this application at present. Otherwise we might need to port it. Rony pointed out that such smart school or digital school is only a marketing gimmick and it has nothing to do it with good education. Protecting schools from such commercialization is another social movement. At present we have to fucus on Free software movement. We can of course discourage schools on using such shiny tools in place of traditional methods when we interact with them. Benoy has come up with an idea of making such open source software as an alternative and distribute in schools. That is a wonderful project. We observed that eSense was only collection of videos based on text book lessons. We had another surprise visitor in the afternoon, Krishnakant of Digital Freedom Foundation, he came with Prajakta (a GNUKhata team memeber). Both were excited to see the enthusiasm of members. Rony was very happy to see Krishnakant after a long time. Krisnakant told about latest release of GNUKhata and that the software is now receiving nice response from government and private sector. "From next academic year, GNUKahata will be a part of curriculum in Kerala" he said. Mr Walter (School Software Provider) also showed interest in GNUKhata. He assured to offer it as an alternative to Tally. Fr Jude remebered that he had met Krishnkant long ago in IIT mumbai. Father Jude informed us that board provides a kind of exe file during exam. So we must write to board to send an alternative for it and ensure from them that there won't be any issues due to adoption of Free Software. He is going to write to state board about it. This is an important point and we must all take it seriously otherwise the schools will hesitate to adopt FOSS. Latif, from Osmanabad, was also present for the festival. We have great hopes from him. Our success certainly depend on how the movement is adopted in other parts of Maharashtra. We need many more people like Latif. Thanks to Latif and also thanks to Tayyab for bringing him. We completed everything before tea break. Post tea session was a relaxing time for all of us. We shared our experiences and chat. The festival ended with a group photo. Cheers !! Milind (Report is prepared from the inputs given by Raghavendra Kamath and other members)

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Call for speakers, June 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 10th June 2017, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Fwd: [Indlinux-hindi] LibreOffice Survey for Indian users
by G Karunakar 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Please fill survey, also forward to users/orgs you may know who actively use LibreOffice. Link to survey: https://goo.gl/forms/Uu40XqkKETqWsmno1 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar(a)indlinux.org> Date: Sun, May 28, 2017 at 11:07 PM Subject: [Indlinux-hindi] LibreOffice Survey for Indian users To: Indlinux group <indlinux-group(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: IndLinux Hindi <indlinux-hindi(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Hi, We are doing a survey to assess usage of LibreOffice and to gauge interest in building local community. Please forward further within your networks, esp where it can reach users beyond those in FOSS community. "This survey is being conducted to understand the use of LibreOffice software in India whether at Individual or an organizational level. Aim is also to build a strong community of users and volunteers in India by knowing if people are interested in contributing to the project in one or the other way, eg. sharing their experiences or helping other users. " Link to survey: https://goo.gl/forms/Uu40XqkKETqWsmno1 Regards, Karunakar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Indlinux-hindi mailing list Indlinux-hindi(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-hindi

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St Mary, We are Ready...
by Milind Oka 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Hi all Members, Here is a small update of St Mary Linux Migration. Today we reached exactly at 1 o clock to the St Mary school. Purpose of our visit was to have trial installation and testing for Saturday's Migration. Father Jude was talking to a group of parents near the gate. He welcomed all of us and instructed the non teaching staff to open the labs.. Also he gave us his laptop for Linux installation. We have decided to install Fedora-25 build, customized by our member Rajeev specially for Schools. Thanks to him for such a wonderful job done in a small amount of time. Rajieev's live image booted successfully but the installer had a permission issue and was not starting. Then we tried Ubuntu 16.04.2 and Fedora 25 plain image. Both got installed successfully on the lab machines. After that we got Rajeev's on-call support and we were able to diagnose and install the same on Fr Jude's laptop. Finally every thing is working and the laptop is ready. This means that Rajeev's image can now be used for Saturday's installation. Observations : 1. Fedora's partitioning tools in the default installer was confusing for us. As a workaround we used gparted.manually partitioned the disk. 2. There seems to be an error Notification about boot image crash but the system is working correctly. 3. We saw few errors during shutdown. Few suggestions : 1. Put Gparted in live image.. 3. Put gnome tweak tool. 2. Request to add some extensions by default namely top icons, dash to doc application menu. 3. Put some educational games. Today we had a special guest - Latif. Latif is from Osmanabad. He is well acquainted with Linux. He teaches Edu-BOSS in School. He is about to start this mission in nearby schools. We all will support him. All best wishes to him. Mostly Raghu and Tayyab performed all experiments, helped by Benoy. Benoy was busy but still managed to find some time and came for support. Latif and me were only testing different packages such as gimp, libre office etc. On Saturday we also can take part in installation, since 30 machines are to be switched to Linux (Fedora). To help us, Principal Fr Jude's Fernandes had called a Lab maintenance person Mr Dilip. Dilip curiously watched the installations and is ready to learn the skill in future. So let us tighten our belts for Saturday Installation Festival. This is really a proud moment for all of us here in GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai. Please do join us on Saturday at about 1:30 pm. We can complete all installations upto 4:30 - 5:00 pm All are welcome. http://www.mediafire.com/view/8o5mg00ac12nrys/SM01 http://www.mediafire.com/view/snk6dnjo5p7u2j9/SM02 http://www.mediafire.com/view/err4o1sp1sc6e0f/SM03 Thanks and Regards Milind

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Milestone:- Linux Migration at St. Mary’s School
by Rajeev R. K. 30 May '17

30 May '17

On 30-May-2017 2:20 PM, "Raghavendra Kamath" <raghavendr.raghu(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, On 2017 May 30 13:59:14, Joe Steeve wrote: > Ubuntu 16.04 ships with Unity. Canonical is abandoning unity in favour > of GNOME. In the next LTS, Ubuntu will ship with vanilla GNOME. I > strongly suggest that we dont put users through this shock. Lets > introduce them to vanilla GNOME from the start. I agree, you might also want to consider K.D.E plasma as it is close to windows paradigm, will make the transition easy. But this is just my opinion. The windows paradigm is anyways in plus at the moment, and has been ever since win8 and it's metro ui. So targeting it is anyways no longer useful. Plus, with the majority of systems defaulting to gnome, a distros like fedora that provides one of the cleanest gnome 3 desktops is ideal here. And it plays well with a centos server, providing long term stability and a rock solid platform for network infrastructure services. > I would also suggest that we consider Debian. Debian is far more mature > and stable. I agree with this too, I had only one concern though, we need to check if the newer machines are supported in Debian Stretch (or jessy?) In the last meeting, I noticed that Principal Jude's new machine had skylake processor and linux mint 17.3 was installed on it. Mint 17.3 being based upon Ubuntu LTS 14.04(which is from 2014) it lacks skylake support (As far as I know) So his audio was not working, We need to check if 'stretch' has a considerable newer kernel with support for recent hardware that the school is procuring. Another place where fedora scores. It closely tracks the current kernel releases, meaning it has the most complete hardware driver support, especially in categories like wifi, GPU (GPL) and motherboard integrated devices. Also I feel 2 gb ram mentioned in earlier email is a bit on the lower end. Please do keep in mind that anything we suggest will be perceived as linux experience, and if anything doesn't work or becomes a hassle for them, it will be a bad case for linux from their point of view. As they say first impression always matters, So please suggest specifications carefully. Which is why we are coordinating a test installer image to deploy at the school to see it's performance... Regards R. K. Rajeev Thank you -- Raghavendra Kamath Illustrator raghukamath.com -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Milestone:- Linux Migration at St. Mary’s School
by amit kokitkar 30 May '17

30 May '17

Hi All, Below are some points need to be consider before the initiate Migration. Points Details Remarks OS Flavour Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS Recommended system requirements: 2 GHz dual core processor or better 2 GB system memory 25 GB of free hard drive space Architecture 32 bit or 64 bit ? Additional Required Packages ?? Builtin Packages--Browser --- Chromium, Firefox Mail Client --- Thunderbird Office tools --- LibreOffice Media Player --- VLC player Image editor --- Gimp Any Server Services Required ?? Example:- Samba server, FTP server Add in case i missed anything. -- Amit 9867895689

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What is the plan for next meetup?
by Raghavendra Kamath 30 May '17

30 May '17

Hi, As per schedule our next meetup will be on 10th June. What is the plan for it, any talks or mini workshops? Rushabh's team had a presentation that was postponed in last meetup, Do you guys plan on having it in this meet? Also as some of you may know we are helping St. Mary's School (mumbai) to migrate from windows environment to linux on 3rd June. Someone (I think Benoy) had an idea that we should have a meetup there, those who attend can help us setup the workstations. We can make it a Install Fest. What do you guys think? Thank you -- Raghavendra Kamath Illustrator raghukamath.com

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How to verify digital signatures in Adhaar & other govt. pdf documents in linux?
by Raghavendra Kamath 25 May '17

25 May '17

Hi, As the subject line suggests, How do you guys verify digital signatures in pdf documents, mainly in e-adhaar pdf obtained from UIDAI website. As far as I searched the feature is not available in most of the libre pdf readers like evince or okular. There are some threads on internet that poppler(the pdf library) is going to get this feature soon. What do you guys do to validate the signature? Which software or workaround do you use? thank you -- Raghavendra Kamath Illustrator raghukamath.com

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List of Open Source Software
by Nilesh Ghavate 23 May '17

23 May '17

Hi Kindly find the list of open source software that can be used as an alternative in the school and colleges. Request you all to contribute to this. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0A3FpAh611RUXFjbmlWTkFsS3M/view?usp=shari… Regards, Nilesh

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Just heard about the hurd kernel
by asd.dhruva＠outlook.com 19 May '17

19 May '17

I just head about the Hurd kernel from a link from your website and I'm kinda curious about it. What exactly is the Hurd kernel and what are some of the advantage/disadvanges compared to linux?

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Is there a ransomware attack on Linux based OSes too?
by jitendra 18 May '17

18 May '17

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Writeup on Meetup on 13th May
by Rushabh Mehta 15 May '17

15 May '17

Hello all, Wrote a post on open source that also covers our meeting on 13th May. It is a summary of two discussions I had regarding open source last week. https://medium.com/@rushabh_mehta/thoughts-on-open-source-communities-eed6f… -- https://erpnext.com Twitter: @rushabh_mehta

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May 2017 meeting (Updated agenda)
by Joe Steeve 13 May '17

13 May '17

Hello All, The May 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG-BOM)", will be held on 13th May 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. 30 minutes - "Using F/LOSS software for Graphics Illustration" by Raghavendra Kamath. 2. 20 minutes - "Frappe framework" by Frappe Technologies private limited team. 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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May month meeting, Call for speakers
by Joe Steeve 12 May '17

12 May '17

The next meeting is on April 13th, 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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May 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 10 May '17

10 May '17

Hello All, The May 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG-BOM)", will be held on 13th May 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: 30 minutes - "Using F/LOSS software for Graphics Illustration" by Raghavendra Kamath. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Sad news -- one of our old members Dinesh Shah is no more
by Arun Khan 08 May '17

08 May '17

I just came to know that Dinesh Shah, one of ILUG-Mumbai's early members, is no more amongst us. He was on his bike and met with an accident (bus) -- that's all I know. Please share details if you have more info. Deepest condolences to his family from the ILUG Mumbai community. May his soul RIP. -- Arun Khan

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Proposal - Dedicate this Month's Meet-up "In memory of Dinesh Shah"
by Siji Sunny 06 May '17

06 May '17

Dear All, I would like to suggest, this month's ILUG-BOM meet-up to be dedicated in memory of Dinesh Shah. Organizers, pls consider this request and looking forward to see everyone in this meet-up. -- Siji Sunny

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Firefox getting old?
by Rushit Rakhasiya 04 May '17

04 May '17

Hello, We can argue or debate for months over it being old or outdated, but neither of those are actually true. We need to understand a simple fact that when we say “old” or “outdated” these days, its actually too early to claim that. The actual word that you should use is “ostracised” from the consumers. Please, let me elaborate my point here. Firefox is great browser that is used by many of “developers” because we understand the mechanics of the system inside that software. Plus, we all admire that fact thats its an important part of the open source community. But, a large number of user/consumers do not want a browser thats great. The follow that paradigm of popularity where Chrome stands on top. Lets say that browsers are cars. So people might know that HONDA is way better of a car than MARUTI, but service centres and after buy experience and popularity is way better for the MARUTI so people prefer MARUTI. Now, since people are using so many MARUTI cars there fore the accessories and spare parts for MARUTI are way more. Similarly, Chrome has become popular among customers, therefore, web developers ignore the other browser specifications in order to capture MAXIMUM market (not complete market). Just tried to explain the way I understand it. Thank you -Rushit Rakhasiya

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Firefox getting old?
by Rony Bill 04 May '17

04 May '17

Hello Friends, Firefox has been my favorite browser in Ubuntu but nowadays it does not provide functions that have a JavaScript () type buttons in forms. For example in the Vodafone site, after entering the mobile no, email and amount for payment, there is a submit button to go to the next page but it does not do anything. I have to use chrome to do this transaction. Is Firefox getting old and outdated? Regards, Rony.

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Exit Of Microsoft from School Education ?
by Milind Oka 03 May '17

03 May '17

Hi, On 27 may 2016, Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has given a reply to my notice. Maharashtra State Board was neglecting Open Source directives given by MHRD. Though the Circular in this regard was issued, it was published in the education booklet "Shikshan Sankraman" !. The circular as Important as this, which could have saved huge amounts for Schools, must have been given to Schools directly and it must have been given wide publicity in major news papers. The Board's claim that by putting a note - "Schools and Colleges can use Open Source Software" on index page, they have followed directions given by MHRD is ridiculous. In the remaining pages of the reply, Board has given photocopies copies of the changes they have made in 2016-17 text books to be printed soon, and they have clarified further that Open Source can be used in "Theory as well as in Practicals" which is very important. Note that MHRD has used the word "PREFER" while Board is cleverly using "CAN" ! Anyway, I assume that this is only a symbolic exit of Microsoft from State's Schools Education. This covers State Schools and Junior Colleges in Maharashtra. But University Education too is compelling degree colleges to use proprietary software. Situation is somewhat better in Engineering courses but in the courses such as Computer Applications (TYBcom), there are softwares like MS Excel and Visual Basic. Also there are direct questions in the examination on the commands used in Excel and VB. I am going to send similar letter to Mumbai University too. Also the course MS-ACIT has been made mandatory for teachers. This course is exclusively an advertisement of Microsoft and other other proprietary software. Since after removing proprietary software from school. This course, which itself is a violation of MHRD notification, becomes meaningless for teachers. Hence appropriate changes are necessary in this course curriculum. We have to follow this matter in Education Department. I request all to help Schools in Maharashtra aware of the purpose and significance of this change and make open source movement stronger. Otherwise it will remain only on paper. http://www.mediafire.com/view/seufdy593ocbaiu/Notice_To_SSC-HSC_Board.jpg http://www.mediafire.com/view/uccych8u0hnqt6g/Notice_To_SSC-HSC_Board_%28Re… http://www.mediafire.com/download/nouxfd9a1hxnwd4/MHRD_-_Remove_Microsoft.p… -- Milind

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CM on Education...
by Milind Oka 27 Apr '17

27 Apr '17

Hi, Hon CM is going to answer questions from School/College Students about Improving Education System. Please forward the following link to students, especially to those who have realized the benefits of open source. Last Date is 2nd May 2017. https://www.mahanews.gov.in/Home/MahaNewsHome.aspx Thanks and Regards, Milind

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[Commercial] "i want 2 do project. tell me wat 2 do" workshop, May 20, 2017 @reservedbit, Pune
by Shakthi Kannan 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

Greetings! I am organizing a one-day workshop for people interested in getting started in working with free and open source software. The workshop details are as follows: Venue: reserved-bit 337, Amanora Chambers, (Above Amanora Mall), Hadapsar, Pune Date: Saturday, May 20, 2017 Time: 1000 to 1800 IST You can register at the following site, which includes more details about the workshop. https://www.instamojo.com/reservedbit/i-want-to-do-project-tell-me-wat-to-d… If you would like to share the poster, please use the following link: http://shakthimaan.com/images/2017/may-book-workshop-reserved-bit/ShakthiKa… Regards, SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Reg. monthly meetings
by Rushit Rakhasiya 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

Hello Sir, I am new to the mailing list. I read the THREAD about a whatsapp group, and I would love to be a part of it. Heres my contact number - 9757075007 Very happy to be a part of the mailing list. Thank you. -Regards Rushit Rakahsiya (rushit.rakhasiya2010(a)gmail.com <mailto:rushit.rakhasiya2010@gmail.com>)

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April month meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

Hello all, April month's meeting will be held on 8th April, 15:00 to 16:00, at: Frappe Technologies Private Limited, D/324 Neelkanth Business Park, Vidyavihar West, Mumbai, Maharashtra - 400086, India The agenda for the meeting: 1. "Introduction to Regex": R. K. Rajeev, 30 minutes 2. "Introduction to Yocto project": Joe Steeve, 30 minutes 3. Discuss way forward: as long as people are interested, and as long as the host can tolerate us ;) I welcome you all to the meeting. -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Mumbai Hackathon and Monthly Meetings
by Milind Oka 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

Hi all, We four of us from mailing list visited DBIT. The hackathon was awesome ! 50+ teams gave presentations (three times the last year number !). Majority of the Open source projects were Android and web based. Hackathon and other such events can play a significant role in promoting open source but we need to be in touch with the participants. So we must try to bring students to this mailing list. I know there are many members here who can guide them properly. Rushabh introduced a few of his team members, Neil, Nabin and others. We had some discussion about the venue of our meetings with DBIT. We found DBIT faculty really enthusiastic. A good news is that we have got permission from the head of the institution to conduct our monthly meetings. It seems that the institute is determined to promote open source. Tayyab sir and few other Profs of DBIT will soon join (or might have already joined) the mailing list. We talked to few students who instantly agreed to join the list. As pointed out by a few members the list is not known to many students and open source lovers. Through monthly meetings and other events like hackathon we should try to get more members here. Hackathon is indeed a great initiative Frappe ( https://frappe.io/about <https://frappe.io/about> ). Thanks to Rushabh. Rushabh, will you please upload a few snaps of the hackathon ? I think Joe can finalize the first meeting schedule and announce here around 2/3 April. Rajeev R K (on Regex) and Joe are the speakers. Also additional one hour may be kept for suggestions and discussion about future plans/meetings. Regards, Milind

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April meeting, call for speakers
by Joe Steeve 26 Mar '17

26 Mar '17

Hello all, It has been decided that we'll meet on the 8th of April, at 15:00, at Frappe Technologies Private Limited, https://frappe.io/ . The meeting is for an hour. Would any one like to give a talk. We could either have a single 1-hour talk, or two 30-minute talks. Depending on the voluteers. -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Mumbai Technology Meetup -SUNDAY 19th March, 2017
by Siji Sunny 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Date : 19th Feb, 2017 Venue : DirectiPlex, Andheri East Agenda : a) Time: 11.00 am - 11.45 am Session: Dynamic cloud infrastructure with Packer, Terraform and Ansible,By Mehul Ved b) Time: 12.00 pm - 12.45 pm Session: Debugging in DevOps by Srujan Akumarthi c) Time: 1.15 pm - 2.00 pm Session: Production Readiness by Vikram Sreekumar d) Time : 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm Session: Deploying Microservices and Containers with DC/OS orchestration on Azure container service Speaker: Maninderjit Bindra Coding Sessions Time: 3.00 pm - 8.00 pm Docker Birthday : Docker Workshop, Mentors, Fun :-) Target Audience : Newbies to Docker. Please get your own internet connection Register : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mar-2017-mumtechup-devops-rootconf-prelude-doc… -- Siji Sunny

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Reg. monthly meetings
by Joe Steeve 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

Hello all, Does this group have monthly meetings? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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[Commercial] Need PHP dev(s) for projects
by Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Hi everyone, Anyone interested in working on PHP projects on freelance/project bases? Anyone you may know who is interested and not on the list? Please connect. Looking for only Mumbai based devs. Thanks & regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System Pvt. Ltd. +91 98213-11906 http://shahmicro.com

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Workshop on R
by Milind Oka 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Hi, SIWS college Mathematics Department is conducting a one day Workshop on "Computational Mathematics and Statistics with R" on 4th March 2017. For registration, kindly see http://docdro.id/UroswJ9 Speakers : Dr Ajit Kumar (ICT) Dr Ameya Bhowmick (ICT) Thanks Milind

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Hi All
by ashish kakar 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hi guys, My name is Ashish Kakar. I'm from Mumbai. I just joined this mailing group. I had tried searching for a Linux User Group in Mumbai earlier but without much success. Today I got some free time at work so I decided to try again et voila! I have been using Linux for a couple of years now (5-6) but I cant say I'm an expert yet. I have tried Mandriva, Ubuntu, Slax (briefly), Fedora, CentOS in that order and currently I don't have any OS (not even Windows) on my laptop. I'm curious about a few distros like Gentoo and Arch. Anyways, do we have any meetups? I would love to be there. Ashish

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Hi
by ashish kakar 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Hi guys, Been unwell for the past few days so couldn't reply earlier. Also, I sent 2 messages in the"top-posting" format. Apologies for that. I'm using hotmail and it automatically posts messages in that format. Henceforth, I will make sure that the replies are in the quoted format (will have to figure out how to do it in hotmail). Which mailing agent do you generally use? But I have to say our landing page http://www.glug-bom.org/ is super-efficient. You can't get more efficient than that. I also checked out the landing page of Pune Linux User Group http://www.plug.org.in/. It's quite simple and efficient as well. I wanted to attend the meetup tomorrow but my boss has called me to work and I hate to disappoint my boss. Saturdays is usually working for me so attending the meetups will be difficult but I'll be there when my boss lets me off. Again sorry for the mess up. Ashish.

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PIL for Open Source in Education - Update
by Milind Oka 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

Hi, In last month's proceedings, Hon High Court passed an important order to make appropriate changes in School/College curriculum for academic year 2017-18 ( in view of Notification dated 17 June 2014 which advises states to adopt open source on priority) Government has formed an experts committee for this implementation. The report is expected before 8 March 17. So next date is kept on 31 March 2017. Another good news is that Prof Kannan of 'Spoken Tutorials' seems to be one of the members in the committee. Prof Kannan, being a strong supporter of open source, has been putting great efforts to promote open source. He himself says that obsolete curriculum is the biggest problem in ICT education. Also he has signed our on line petition for Mandating Open Source. His work will be meaningful if open source is effectively implemented through curriculum. Now we can definitely expect a report from the committee suggesting mandatory adoption of Open Source in Education in strong and clear words. Best wishes to Prof Kannan and his team. Earlier, Mr Krishnakant Mane and DFF filed a similar PIL in order to have a greater impact of the original petition. The two petitions will now be joined (Probably on 31 March). Original petition is representing students and teachers while Krishnakant is representing Visually impaired students and students in rural areas in particular. Lots of thanks to Krishnakant. Hon High Court Order on 8 Dec : http://docdro.id/pM73elw MHRD Notification which High Court Order refers : http://docdro.id/aPc7MSF -- Regards Milind

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[X-POST/COMMERCIAL] Humble Bundle deal for Unix and Linux books from O'Reilly
by Arun Khan 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

There is a humble bundle deal for O'Reilly Unix and Linux books. For US$15 you get a whole bunch of O'Reilly Unix/Linux e-books titles. You can carry them along on a pen drive :) They are DRM free but respect the author's and publisher's copyright. Please don't put them up in public; instead make a purchase and choose where your money goes. Read more at <https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle> Njoy, -- Arun Khan (I have no commercial affiliation with the Humble Bundle)

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Open source C++ programs
by Uday Khedker 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

I am looking for some programs for performing empirical measurements of a new method of static analysis for resolving virtual function calls. My rough requirements are: * The programs should be publicly available (the credibility measurements on programs that they cannot see. * The programs should be real applications, preferably not very large (say upto 20KLoC). * They should have a liberal use of virtual functions. * They should be compilable by gcc/g++. * They should have dependencies on special libraries or other programs. The build progress should be simple. Ideally, the usual sequence of `./configure' followed by 'make' should do the trick. * They should be reasonably clean programs. Some C++ features are compiled in an obscure manner by gcc/g++ and we seem to be spending much more time in fighting the IRs produced by these obscure compilations than in the actual problems at hand. Spec benchmarks have troubled us a lot on this front. We are looking at the programs on sourceforge and github but there are no easy ways of identifying such programs. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks and regards, Uday Khedker. -- signature.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Uday Khedker, Professor Department of Computer Science & Engg. IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India. Email : uday(a)cse.iitb.ac.in Homepage: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~uday Phone : 91 (22) 2572 2545 x 7717, 91 (22) 2576 7717 (Direct)

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and now debian does me in ...
by Mayuresh Kathe 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

hi, i had been working with the high resolution of the console as delivered with ubuntu server distribution, hated it, but had to make do since i couldn't find material which could show me a way to switch off the 'vga' mode. last night, i migrated away from ubuntu, it's too big for my tastes. on debian jessie, and this too has that same high resolution console. i have tinkered around with the console-setup and grub files which only afforded me a regular console on grub, but after grub transfers command to the operating system, i am still stuck with a high resolution console. is there any solution for this problem? and ah, yes, i still work at the console, no x11 for me. thanks, ~mayuresh

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Linux kernel -- Silver Jubilee
by Arun Khan 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

August 25, 1991, it was released to the world as a "hobby" ... Slide deck by e-Week showing the evolution of the Linux kernel from 1991 (10K lines of code) to 2016 (22M lines of code) <http://bit.ly/2bfvxxA> Today, it is everywhere, from the smallest device to the biggest mainframe and beyond the boundaries of our planet. Linus Torvalds and *all* the contributors to Linux - what a legacy you have created and what a wonderful gift you have given to human kind! Hats off to all. -- Arun Khan

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[OT+XPOST] Linux T-Shirts for SysAdmin Appreciation Day
by Arun Khan 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

FWIW, July 29, 2016 was the SysAdmin Appreciation Day. Here are some interesting T-Shirts to celebrate the Day <http://www.tecmint.com/linux-tshirts-system-administrator/> My favorites #1 and #3. Njoy, Arun Khan

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Petition Update : Date extended
by Milind Oka 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Hi, The supporter count has crossed 600 and a good news is that the last date for giving inputs is extended up to 16th August by MHRD. Hope we will reach a reasonable count. Let us tighten our belts for a stronger movement. Thanks all our members and special thanks to those who initiated it. Regards, Milind

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Petition Published on Change.org
by Milind Oka 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

Hi all, I have just published. The site link http://kerala.skoool.in seems not working. We have to rectify or omit the link Both left-right alignment is not available so the paragraphs are only left aligned. Made few parts bold and also included bullets wherever appropriate. The petition has time bound so it is mentioned in the beginning. Please go through and review for typo and other changes. https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-mandating-use-of-free-and-open-source… ---Milind

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Fwd: [PLUG] DebConf16 video archive available
by Arun Khan 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Forward from PLUG list. Would like to draw your attention to a talk by Keerthanan Krishnan "A_Billion_People_And_Even_More_Phones.webm" The presentation provides current information about FOSS in Kerala; they could be cited in the petition for inclusion of FOSS in the education system. -- Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amey Abhyankar <sco1984(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 3:05 AM Subject: [PLUG] DebConf16 video archive available To: plug-mail(a)plug.org.in Hello, Video recording archive from Debian conference 2016 is now available at = http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/debconf16/ Feel free to watch,download & share the sessions. This was the 1st DebConf in African continent.

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Fwd: [Mini DebConf India] [Announce] Mini Debian Conference Pune 2016
by Rigved Rakshit 17 Jul '16

17 Jul '16

Hi, Any help is appreciated! :) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: miniDebConfPune <minidebconfpune(a)openmailbox.org> Date: Thu 23 Jun, 2016, 01:00 Subject: [Mini DebConf India] [Announce] Mini Debian Conference Pune 2016 To: <in.mini(a)lists.debconf.org> Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce *mini Debian Conference Pune on 30 and 31st July, 2016. * We are proud to be hosting it at *College of Engineering, Pune (CO**EP)**. * COEP has a history of good FOSS contributors and with the upcoming conference, we hope to add to its legacy. It has also hosted a mini Debian Conference way back in 2010 and this year mini Debian Conference returns where it started, in Pune. This is our second mini Debian Conference of the year. The first one happened in Mumbai in January 2016 [5]. *Dates:* 30th & 31st July, 2016 *Venue*:College of Engineering Pune, Wellesely Rd, Shivajinagar, Pune-411 005. Maharashtra, INDIA. Be a part of this mini Debian Conference Pune as a speaker by submitting a Talk/Workshop. We have started accepting proposals now. *Call for proposals (CFPs) is on and will end by 23 July, 2016, 23:59:59 IST.* For submission guidelines and info on how to send your proposals please refer to the website [3] *We are looking for sponsors* to help us make this year's event a roaring success! We have a great sponsorship proposal for Interested organizations looking to sponsor the event. Interested parties should contact us on [4] We are also looking for volunteers who can look after tasks such as designing posters, logos etc. If you want to volunteer for any of the above mentioned tasks or even tasks apart from them, feel free to mail us on [4]. More details will soon be updated here on mailing list [2] as well as on the website [3] and social media portals. . Help us *spread the news* about mini Debian conference Pune by sharing this mail on various other mailing lists and social media portals. Also share the news with your friends,family and colleagues. We hope you all will *join us in celebrating a successful community* that has grown in leaps and bounds since the operating system's initial announcement. *Looking forward to see you all* at mini Debian Conference Pune. On behalf of the Debian India community, *Team miniDebConf Pune* --------------------------------------------------- [1] https://wiki.debian.org/MiniDebConfPune2016 [2] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/in.mini/ [3] http://in2016.mini.debconf.org/ [4] minidebconfpune(a)openmailbox.org [5] https://wiki.debian.org/MiniDebConfMumbai2016 _______________________________________________ in.mini mailing list in.mini(a)lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/in.mini -- Best Regards, Rigved

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Petition Update
by Milind Oka 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Hi, 47 Supporters so far. Thanks Nagarjuna for your comments and support. I met Krisnakant today. He appreciated the petition drafted by Rushabh, JT and others. He has assured his active participation in this activity along with his gnukhata team - Ishan, Navin, Abhijit, Sachin and Vinita. We have decided to take small informal sessions in schools and colleges for students/teachers to boost the activity. At the same time we will try to get supporting letters from some well known schools and colleges stating that these institutions themselves do not want proprietary softwares and want to use FOSS. Letters will be sent to MHRD along with petition & signatures. (I know few such institutions, krisnakant also knows a few. He is going prepare a draft in couple of days. So we can get it printed quickly on letter head after convincing them). We know it is difficult to do all this in such a short amount of time but let us try. (Orators are welcome !) Regards, Milind PS : My Project on college/school management in FOSS is kept aside for a couple of months.

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Stitch In Time
by Milind Oka 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

National Education Policy 2016 : " For the first time, the Government of India is embarking on a time-bound grassroots consultative process, which will enable the Ministry of HRD to reach out to individuals across the country through over 2.75 lakh direct consultations while also taking input from citizens online " - http://mhrd.gov.in/nep-new We all know the benefits of FOSS and also the miserable state of FOSS in our country. Needless to say that the root cause lies in ICT Education. The draft, which is available for download, does not give any importance to open source. It only refers it once or twice. Please do send email to nep.edu(a)gov.in by 31st July 2016, in order that Free and Open Source Software would play the central role in ICT Education. Even a one-line email supporting FOSS in ICT Education will count. Kindly share it on other Linux groups and other places. Thanks and Regards Milind

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My suggestions for Petition on Change.org
by Milind Oka 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Hi, Rishabh, JT and Arun have already given important points, In addition to that please consider the main line roughly as follows. 1] Use of FOSS or BOSS must be made mandatory for ICT Education or in any activity in education. (They are making sanskrit mandatory as per input draft) Only recommendation or preference has not worked so far. Educational Institutions can easily find loopholes. 2] A separate and independent body to ensure that it is implemented properly. 3] Proper and effective platform for complaints regarding Violation of Open Source Policy. Also please let us know who is working on first draft of petition to avoid duplication of work. To be frank, I am not very good at drafting otherwise would have prepared it. Please forgive. I think we can upload the petition latest by 15 July so that sufficient number of signatures can be obtained till 30th July.. Regards, Milind

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[JOB][OT] Linux/DevOps/C++ opening
by Rohan Menezes 03 May '16

03 May '16

Hi, If you are interested in a DevOps opportunity that leverages your skill in writing C++ on Linux as evidenced by contributions to open source projects like LibreOffice, then please send your resumes to jobs(a)niocs,co.in Regards, RM

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[jobs] Silver Arc Solutions an immediate opening for a Linux Sys/Net Admin
by Arun Khan 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

Silver Arc Solutions (SAS) has a Linux Sys/Net Admin opening. Please note -- our location is in Mumbai Western suburbs and this position does not carry any relocation package. What are we looking for -- a person with the following traits: ** An inherent go getter with a strong "can do" attitude. ** Takes assignments and completes them on time. ** Is *not* afraid of the Command Line Interface. ** 2-3 years experience in Linux System/Network Administration (i.e your eyes don't glaze at the sound of lsof, losetup, netstat, ifconfig etc.) ** Knows how to read/write shell scripts ** Is willing to spend personal time learning new things and close deficiency gap between what s/he knows and that what the job requires. ** Knowledge of Virtualization (Xen, KVM, LXC), openStack, Docker, Python, Django framework a plus. What's in it for you ** Work environment like a R&D lab. ** An opportunity to "explore" and learn new things. ** Data Center grade server and networking hardware. You get the opportunity to do hands on admin on these systems. ** Work on assignments that use the latest technology in the open source world (virtualization, cloud computing, SDN etc.) ** Small team so you own a big piece of the Wheel rather than be a small cog. ** Exposed to both Admin as wells as Development work -- great place to get started on the DevOps path. ** Salary commensurate with (a) the Knowledge/Skills that you bring with you and (b) a verifiable track record (references) that shows your ability to deliver on time. Please send your resume (PDF format) to jobs <at> silverarc <dot> biz if you see yourself a fit. If you know anyone who would be a good fit please pass this along to them. ** Free lancers welcome to work on a project deliverable basis **with us Thanks very much and regards, -------------- Arun Khan For Silver Arc Solutions, (India) Pvt. Ltd. We do IT with Open Source! 8&9, Marble Arch, Central Avenue, Santacruz (W), Mumbai 400054, INDIA (Tel.) +91 22 6741 4774 * (Mob.) +91 98697 46836 email: arun.khan(a)silverarc.biz * website: www.silverarc.biz

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Fwd: Protests March 20-22 against DRM in HTML
by GN 12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16

Looking for a coordinator who can do this -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Protests March 20-22 against DRM in HTML Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 01:51:37 -0500 From: Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org> Reply-To: rms(a)gnu.org To: nagarjun(a)gnowledge.org CC: johns(a)gnu.org [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The FSF wants to organize protests at the international offices of the W3C. One of these is in Pune. Would you like to help organize protests in Pune? You don't have to go there personally yourself. The specific request is for people to take a photo of themselves at the W3C office with a No DRM in HTML sign. Holding a demonstration at the office during the Cambridge W3C meeting (3/20 - 3/22) is ideal, but just taking a photo in front of the office and sending it to us (before 3/20) will be helpful too. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.

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Six women who are using Raspberry Pi to do really wonderful things.
by Royce Pereira 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

A bit belated for women's day, but worth a read .... On International Women's Day, we are celebrating six women who are using Raspberry Pi to do really wonderful things. https://plus.google.com/+raspberrypi/posts/RPkZQ8vgAi1

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Mumbai Hackathon 2016
by Neil Trini Lasrado 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Hello friends, We're Frappé Technologies, we're based in Mumbai, and most of the work we do is open source. We want to push open source in India. We are organising a Open Source Hackathon on 26th & 27th March 2016. The idea of the Hackathon is simple, there's no catch, just contribute to open source, or make your own open source project. You don't need to use some API or anything like that. We have collaborated with Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla for hosting this hackathon. There is a prize pool of INR 50,000/- In case anyone wishes to collaborate with us in organising this hackathon, feel free to get in touch with me. For more info and registration please visit https://mumbaihackathon.in/ <https://mumbaihackathon.in/> Do follow us on twitter to stay updated about the event. Our twitter handle is @mumbaihackathon . Do tweet us in case you have any queries. @neilLasrado

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The f*ck command to fix your CLI mistakes
by Arun Khan 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

It kind of fixes (best guess) your CLI mistakes. Details here <https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck> -- Arun Khan

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[X-POST] Planning meeting for Mini-Debconf Mumbai 2016 over IRC
by Rigved Rakshit 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Hello, We will be having an IRC meeting at 22:00 IST tomorrow (24th Jan, 2016). Anyone interested in helping out with the event, please join the #debian-in channel on OFTC. For those of you new to IRC, you can use the following link to connect to the channel: https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=debian-in -- Best Regards, Rigved

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[X-POST] Call for sessions - Mini-DebConf Mumbai 2016
by Rigved Rakshit 24 Jan '16

24 Jan '16

Hello, The next Mini-DebConf India will be held on 30th & 31st Jan, 2016 at Directiplex, Mumbai. If anyone wants to take a discussion-oriented talk or a workshop around Debian, please contact us on the Debian India Mailing list (CCed in this email). Detailed schedule will be made available at the website: http://in2016.mini.debconf.org/ . -- Best Regards, Rigved

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[X-POST] Mini-DebConf Mumbai 2016
by Rigved Rakshit 23 Jan '16

23 Jan '16

Hello, We are happy to announce that this year's mini-DebConf Mumbai [1] will be hosted at the office of EIG, Directiplex! Dates: 30th & 31st Jan, 2016 Timings (on both the days): 09:00 to 19:00 Venue: Directiplex, next to Andheri subway, Old Nagardas road, Andheri (E), Mumbai - 400069 We will be concentrating of fixing bugs in Debian at this year's mini-DebConf and discussing how best to organise the Debian community for a possible future DebConf in India! ;) If anyone wants to organise any discussion-oriented session or workshop around Debian at this Mini-DebConf, please contact us on the Mini-DebConf India mailing list [2]. Registrations are free of charge and anyone can attend. Only spot registrations will be taken and are subject to availability. We are looking for sponsors and volunteers to help us make this year's event a roaring success! Interested parties should contact us. More details will soon become available on the website [3]. We hope you all will join us in celebrating a successful community that has grown in leaps and bounds since the operating system's initial announcement. On behalf of the Debian India community, Rigved --- [1] https://wiki.debian.org/MiniDebConfMumbai2016 [2] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/in.mini/ [3] http://in2016.mini.debconf.org/

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Marathi Program On Bharat Operating System
by Milind Oka 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

MAHACHARCHA on DD Sahyadri Topic : Digital India Aani BOSS Pranali - Part II Thursday 21-JAN-2016, 7:15 PM to 8:00 PM (After Marathi News) (Repeat Telecast : next day 22 Jan 2016 at 9:00 am) (Dish TV #878, TataSky #785, Airtel #559, Videocon #784, Sun Direct #656, Reliance #900, DD Free Dish #31, DEN # 825) Anchor : Shri Kumar Ketkar Participants : Mr.Sunil Chavan, Mr.Milind Oka and Mr.Prahlad Chippalagatti. BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) - India's own Operating System. Please spread this message in all your groups so as to reach the masses. Thanks Mind Oka, Prahlad Chippalagatti Mathematics Dept. S.I.W.S. College Wadala Mumbai - 400031 (Part - I was telecast on 24 Dec 2015)

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Sir, the whole country is burning and you are dreaming award for spoken tutorials !
by Milind Oka 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

An Open Later To Prof Kannan (IIT Mumbai) https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1638439573087646&id=10000…

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Ian Murdock, co creator of Debian passes away
by Arun Khan 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Sharing this sad news. -- Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mayuresh Date: Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:04 PM Subject: [PLUG] Ian Murdock, co creator of debian passes away To: PLUG <plug-mail(a)plug.org.in> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/31/ian-murdock-a-tribute-to-… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock Debian was named after Debra Lynn (his then girlfriend), and himself (Deb and Ian) He was just 42 and cause of his death is not made public.

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Printing problem on boss-linux
by Milind Oka 02 Jan '16

02 Jan '16

Hi, In my efforts to push FOSS in schools and colleges, I am distributing free and open source softwares in schools and colleges. All projects are uploaded on source forge. However I am facing some printing problem executing JAVA code on bosslinux. I usually print output directly on A4 paper and suppress print dialog. I wrote the program before I knew BOSS and was working nicely on windows. On BOSS, the program executes properly but the default output comes on letter size instead of A4. This trims some left, right, top and bottom content. I tried various code snippets to pro grammatically set the paper A4 but it does not work. I am using cups-pdf and the pdf print is also having the same problem. I thought first that it was a problem specific to boss but a friend of mine sent me this. =================== [Forwarded from Sanjay Patil] Yes, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=88286#c12 The crucial information is the geographical location, i.e. the second part of a locale name, for example: en_GB is English for Great Britain => A4 paper en_US is English for United States => Letter paper I think that without an existing geographical location (in particular for "C" or "POSIX") it is just not possible to set another paper size than what is the default in the PPD. Or the fallback should be at least "A4" (if avialable in the PPD) because I think that A4 paper is more often used in the whole world than Letter. ============================== Has anybody come across this. Will you please run the following java code on any other linux version and let me know how it works or send me the pdf output ? I have already set the default data so just run the Java file and press the [Print Attendance] button. You will get 23 page document. Only one page will do for testing. pdf output will be best. http://sourceforge.net/projects/hsc-formcreator/ Thanks and regards Milind

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Open Source Hackathon
by Rushabh Mehta 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

Dear all, We are planning to do an open source hackathon sometime in March in Mumbai and willing to sponsor reasonable prize money (50k)? The hackathon will have a theme of improving / documenting / making help videos for an open source project or making a new one. Anyone interested in collaborating? We will also need a venue, we are thinking of a college. Anyone has leads please write back to me. Thanks! best, Rushabh

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Help required in installing Ubuntu alongside Windows 10
by Royce Pereira 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Hi, I have a Windows 10 PC with was installed in 'legacy' mode (not EFI). I shrunk my C: to create free space of 25Gb for Ubuntu. I created a 64 bit Ubuntu bootable USB pendrive. For booting from the pendrive, I select the boot mode at the BIOS splash screen I have tried both 'USB drive' and 'EFI-USB-drive'. I tried to install Ubuntu 15.1 but the free space is always marked 'unusable'. Before this I'd got a warning that the installation was started in EFI mode, but target installation is non-EFI, and if I force it I won't be able to switch OSs. But this warning is not appearing subsequently, only my freed partiton is showing 'unusable'. Is there a way install Ubuntu into the created free space in such a situation? Thank You! -- Best Regards, -- Royce Pereira

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WHY BOSS ? My Strategy may be wrong but ...
by Milind Oka 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

Hi all, My strategy may not be acceptable to IT experts. May be because I am a teacher and not a software professional. But I have realized how we are being exploited by proprietary giants. I would think promoting FOSS is not my cup of tea. So I waited several years with the hope that FOSS will be everywhere soon. But that was a mistake. I thought there were experts all from IIT, TIFR and IISC. They are all capable of bringing FOSS and will make our country proud and digitally independent. But my observation taught me that linux has become a style statement. Working on terminal was considered as difficult and something that a common man should not do and stick to Windows. All young experts (few exceptions) are now looking for Google, Oracle packages rather than working in villages and teaching poor people. The fight now has come to a common man like me who cannot speak in technical jargons like you but works little bit on computers. The problem seemed political and not which linux is good or bad. It is a political fight and not technical so your question which is better seems irrelevant to me. How we can attack those hard skin politicians is my problem. You take a round in Mantralaya and you will observe that almost everyone is paid by Mircrosoft. In a FOSS workshop in IIT, I saw a FOSS expert (fed by government and Microsoft) giving polished lectures and saying that today we can write an operating system in a couple of days. A student asked, sir how many OS's have you written ? That was quite an embarrassing question for him ! I heard about BOSS on 31 Jan 2015. I searched on internet and was shocked ! It was 2006 when BOSS started. I saw government itself fooling people by praising BOSS everywhere but in small news papers and also not willing to implement it. The name BHARAT is a magical name. So on 31 Jan 15, I decided to exploit it. Perhaps that is the strongest point of my activity. I just checked that BOSS is workable. I am a common man and I have been using BOSS 5.0 (Anokha) straight 10 months without touching windows, doing all the work and little programing. Of course without anti virus. So I can show bharat proudly on my laptop or desktop at my home and in my workplace (SIWS college) doing all regular work. Showing Tiranga waving on it ! It is a child of our motherland (don't be upset, I know it is not fully Indian but for a common man I do say it). Even if her child is ugly, mother still loves it. Mother will never discard her child but nourish it accepting as it is. That is my simple view and surprisingly it works as I expected. If you give thousand lectures on FOSS. People will clap and give you flowers and thats all. If there are only lectures, Microsoft will arrange parties one after the other. They are not at all worried. But I am doing installations and that is too in education institutes It is something that Microsoft won't like. See my condition - Use free Result software only after installing BOSS in your school or college on at least two computers and also work is to be done on BOSS only. We have already tested the whole result process on BOSS. (Also for other linux versions, there is a chance that school/college heads may refuse installing other OS. But Bharat as an official government OS and also recommended for schools, they cannot openly resist it, if teachers demand) We cannot install BOSS on all PC's simply because Microsoft product names are there in syllabus. So on the other hand, my PIL exactly prays that - remove proprietary names from curriculum. Government will try to prolong the PIL. But I am prepared for that also. I am waiting for politicians to pronounce BHARAT, they have to do it (reluctantly) because it is a part of "make in india". I have done correspondence with PMO requesting to advertise BOSS on television since BOSS is a part of "Make in India". They are not responding and also not denying my request ! Another RTI is ready to be filed in a couple of weeks to PMO as a part of my fight. Note that I can collect important government documents supporting BOSS. Which is not possible for other linux flavors. Now that government has official support for boss, said that it is perfect, (I have official letters from government) so that will work nicely in court not the reality. If I fight for Ubuntu or FOSS in general, I am not going to win. For example, they will bring thousand ( paid) experts claiming in court that Ubuntu is inferior to Windows. They will not dare to say Bharat is bad and Microsoft is good in public, it will affect their political TRP ! Also their own documents (incorrectly !) say that BHARAT is the best system in the world ! But it is going to work in the court. Our legal system is like that. I think I am going to trap them in their own net. My lawyer Shree V P Patil is a retired justice (72). He is a great person. At this age he is working with me day and night without charging any fees. When he says that we are surely going to win, certainly that makes some sense ! My aim is clear. Removing proprietary software from this country, literally by any means, boss or otherwise. After that we will discuss which linux flavour to use or use different falvors for different work etc. You people can decide better than me. I am just unable to answer your technical questions. Your suggestions may not be in accordance with my plan, implement them in your own way. I am really happy. If you believe in my path, please do join us. For the time being, BOSS is a perfect partner for me and may be to a common man like me. I am going to fight. I am just doing my duty as a teacher, nothing else. There are forks and we all are free to choose any. regards and best of luck. Milind

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Today, 24 Dec - Mahacharcha - DD-Sahyadri - 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm - Welcome BOSS and FOSS
by Milind Oka 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

Hi all, Please watch today's 'Mahacharcha' on 'Free and Open Source Software' (Discussion program in Marathi) Along with Hamara and other efforts to promote FOSS, let us promote 'Bharat Operating System' also. We should also welcome it. Topic : DIGITAL INDIA AANI BOSS PRANALI - PART - 1 Date : 24 Dec 2015 Time : 7:15 pm - 8:00 pm (45 Minutes) Place of Telecast : Doordarshan Kendra, Worli, Mumbai - 30 Kindly share this post to all. Thanks to Mumbai Doordarshan and all FOSS supporters.

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Today, 24 Dec - Mahacharcha - DD-Sahyadri - 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm - Welcome BOSS and FOSS
by Milind Oka 24 Dec '15

24 Dec '15

Hi all, Please watch today's 'Mahacharcha' on 'Free and Open Source Software' (Discussion program in Marathi) Along with Hamara and other efforts to promote FOSS, let us promote 'Bharat Operating System' also. We should also welcome it. Topic : DIGITAL INDIA AANI BOSS PRANALI - PART - 1 Date : 24 Dec 2015 Time : 7:15 pm - 8:00 pm (45 Minutes) Place of Telecast : Doordarshan Kendra, Worli, Mumbai - 30 Kindly share this post to all. Thanks to Mumbai Doordarshan and all FOSS supporters.

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[job] Help in making rpm/deb/brew packages
by Rushabh Mehta 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Hi all, We have a shell script that helps us install mariadb, nginx, node, redis, python2.7, libjpeg, wkhtmltopdf and other pre-requistes. We would like to build standard packages for installation on rpm, deb and brew based systems. Here is the link to the script: https://github.com/frappe/bench/blob/master/install_scripts/setup_frappe.sh The bench command should be available after the package is installed. Your contribution will be open source with your authorship. We will help / collaborate with your on any queries. This is a paid job, I have also posted on upwork.com but would love to work with someone in Mumbai! best, Rushabh -- @rushabh_mehta https://erpnext.com

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A free eBook daily from Packtpub.
by Royce Pereira 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

Hi, Just a heads up.....Packtpub has been offering a free eBook everyday for a while now. Today's eBook is 'Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects'. You can get it here: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning 21 hours left to get it, at the time of writing this post :-) Keep checking back for a different eBook daily! Cheers.

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KK's crowd funding campaign is closing soon
by Pirate Praveen 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/news/funds-crunch-blurs-his-visi… https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lab-for-digital-freedom-foss-training-de… Support and spread the link on social media -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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[Commercial] - Job Opening in Technical Support at Red Hat Pune
by Suhas Prabhu 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Hello Friends, I am hiring for L1 to L3 Technical Support positions in Red Hat Pune. *We are conducting a Hiring Event on coming Saturday 5 Dec 2015 only for those who are referred by internal employees.* *If anyone is interested in a career with Red Hat, please send me your resumes on suhasprbu(a)gmail.com <suhasprbu(a)gmail.com> or suhas.prabhu(a)redhat.com <suhas.prabhu(a)redhat.com>. I will do the initial screening and if suitable send you the referral link to apply. Only those who get the link and apply will be eligible for the Walk-in event.* *You will get an invite through the system for the event as a confirmation. So hurry and send me your resumes if interested.* Can someone forward this email to Pune Linux Users group as my membership to the mailing list is not working for now ? ================================================================ The job profile would be as below: Job summary The Red Hat Global Support Services team is seeking a highly skilled Technical Support Engineer with excellent technical and customer service skills to provide support for our enterprise subscription customers. In this role, you'll become an expert with Red Hat technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and our storage and cloud solutions, and provide technical support for customers primarily through the phone and internet. You will be responsible for performing basic investigation and troubleshooting to resolve difficult customer issues quickly and effectively. Your customers will often include other engineers, so we'll need you to develop your technical skills by becoming a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and getting up to speed with our storage system. Primary job responsibilities - Provide technical support to Red Hat enterprise customers - Diagnose problems, troubleshoot customer issues, and develop solutions to technical issues - Exceed customer expectations by providing outstanding customer service - Consult with and develop relationships with in-house engineers and developers to promote creative solutions and improve customer satisfaction - Contribute to the global Red Hat knowledge management system while working on customer issues Required skills - 1- 5+ years of Linux experience in the enterprise sector with excellent administration skills - Thorough knowledge of the Linux kernel, networking, and memory management - Troubleshooting skills and a passion for problem solving and investigation - Ability to work with conflicting priorities, initiate problem solving, and maintain a customer-centric focus ==================================================================================== - SuHaS

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Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
by Siji Sunny 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

The Raspberry Pi Zero is half the size of a Model A+, with twice the utility. A tiny Raspberry Pi that’s affordable enough for any project! - 1Ghz, Single-core CPU - 512MB RAM - Mini HDMI and USB On-The-Go ports - Micro USB power - HAT-compatible 40-pin header - Composite video and reset headers https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/ -- Siji Sunny

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[OT/HWCOMMERCIAL] Linux compatible hardware looking for new homes.
by Arun Khan 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

Greetings, I have a bunch of fully functional hardware but not enough space to keep them, so time for winter cleaning :) 1. Several server grade 10/100 NIC various chip set (DEC, Intel, 3Com), drivers in main stream Linux kernel. Rs. 100/ea 2. Several PCI VGA cards with drivers in mainstream Linux kernel. Rs. 50/ea 3. HP Pro Curve 2650 48 port 10/100 L2 managed switch with VLAN, trunking functionality etc. Rs. 7,500 For detailed specs visit [a] 4. Thin Client cabinets (mini ITX boards) never used. Purchased @ Rs. 2500/- asking Rs. 1800/- 5. 15" LCD monitors 4:3 ratio.VGA only max. res 1024x768 Rs. 100/- 6. 17" LCD monitor 4:3 VGA only max. res. 1280x1024 Rs. 300/- 7. Several desktop grade 400-450 W SMPS Rs. 50/ea. All items -- As Is Where Is. Cash & Carry. Interested persons please contact me off list to inspect the goods and make appointment. [a] http://goo.gl/zZS0fO -- Arun Khan (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान)

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Onil Maurya invited you to check out Dropbox
by Dropbox 15 Nov '15

15 Nov '15

Hi there, Onil Maurya wants you to try Dropbox! Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos with you anywhere and share them easily. Accept invite[1] Thanks! - The Dropbox Team ____________________________________________________ If you prefer not to receive invites from Dropbox, please go here[2]. Dropbox, Inc., PO Box 77767, San Francisco, CA 94107 [1]: https://www.dropbox.com/l/PWXhMxsCAnKmExF7iHdejq?text=1 [2]: https://www.dropbox.com/l/Z0w6QAg27NXAY3AL1ubawi?text=1

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Jordan Hubbard & Kovid Goyal on Open Source
by Rushabh Mehta 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

Hello everyone, Jordan Hubbard (co-creator) of FreeBSD was here couple of weeks ago to talk on open source. He had lots of wisdom + pragmatic advice on open source. What really got me was the fact that he was reading and writing thousands of emails a day at the peak of his involvement. We always tend to under-estimate the amount of energy put in by the founding members / core teams of successful projects. Here is the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyo7ji4fwJs&list=PL3lFfCEoMxvxxZY1gTmfB2bj6… Our very own, Kovid Goyal also gave an insightful talk on how he sustains the Calibre project along with lots of useful tips. Again its just inspiring to see the amount of impact a single person / small team can make: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kTdV_6SRZ0&list=PL3lFfCEoMxvxxZY1gTmfB2bj6… Would recommend both the talks to all open source enthusiasts. And rest of the talks at the ERPNext Conference on the play list if you are interested. We hope more teams come forward to host such events. Happy weekend! best, Rushabh

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what does ilug-bom stand for?
by Mayuresh Kathe 18 Oct '15

18 Oct '15

hello, me being one of the founding members of the ilug-bom group find it difficult to imagine that there needs to be a separate group to manage meetups for gnu/linux activities. we started ilug-bom under the able leadership of dr. nagarjuna with the explicit goal of unifying all efforts conducted towards discussion and advocacy of gnu/linux in and around mumbai. i believe we as a group have been in existence since 1997~98 and have had a great term in the earlier years, just can't understand why it has slacked off big time now. is it because of an over abundance of material available via a simple google search? or is it because someone did something terribly wrong along the way that youngsters found it necessary to diverge and form newer, independent groups? personally, i have been away for a really long time due to health issues, and then, when i did return around 1.5~2 years back, everything seemed so weird and desolate that i could not figure out the reasons. hope we all can regroup and move forward as a single unit and clear goal of doing what we are going to do here-on. perhaps, as dinesh shah had once mentioned, we lack a formal vision and mission statement for our existance. looking forward to more activity in a focused manner. best regards, ~mayuresh

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anyone has any ubuntu swag?
by Mayuresh Kathe 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

hi, does anyone out here have any ubuntu swag with them? just got myself a new thinkpad, thought of decorating it with ubuntu stickers, and i seem to have misplaced my set. been unable to purchase anything off the ubuntu shop, someone else been lucky? ~mayuresh

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BarCamp Mumbai -Oct11, Sunday
by Siji Sunny 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

Date : Oct 11, 2015 Sunday Venu - Maker's Asylum, The Great Oasis, Plot No: D-13, 1st Floor, MIDC Marol Industrial Area Andheri East Mumbai, Maharashtra 400093 http://www.barcampmumbai.org/bcm15/ -- Siji Sunny

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[X-POST] ERPNext Conference 2015 - Invitation for students
by Anand Doshi 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Hi everyone, We have a few seats left at our conference to be held on 9th October at Mumbai. Hence, we have waived off the entry fee for students. We welcome you to join us at the event and hear from one of the open source legends, Jordan Hubbard: co-creator of FreeBSD Unix, and Kovid Goyal: the creator of Calibre e-book converter. Please RSVP at conference(a)erpnext.com and bring your student ID card with you on the day of the conference. More details at https://conf.erpnext.com. Best, Anand Doshi ERPNext

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[X-Post] ERPNext Conference 2015
by Anand Doshi 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

Hi everyone! We are excited to announce the ERPNext Conference 2015 on October 9th in Mumbai. The first half is about how Open Source Software is changing the world. Jordan Hubbard, co-creator of FreeBSD Unix will be the keynote speaker. We also have Kovid Goyal, the creator of Calibre, as a guest speaker. The second half will be about new developments in ERPNext and talks by its users. In summary, this is a great opportunity for open source enthusiasts to meet, share ideas and network with the community of a successful open source project from India. We wish that you could make it and participate in this humble event. Please drop us an email to conference(a)erpnext.com if you have any questions. More info at: https://conf.erpnext.com/2015 The entry fee is Rs. 600 and it includes lunch. Thanks for reading. -- The ERPNext Team

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Victory for OPEN SOURCE ?
by Milind Oka 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

Hi, See the reports in HT, DNA (14 Sept 15) government has decided to implement boss in all government domain. Thats not all, BOSS 6.0 is available for download from bosslinux.in !! Do not sit quietly now. Be ready with spare computer and review it and report bugs to CDAC. Spread this voice loudly ! BOSS Free CD scheme seems started again. (the get FREE CD button was locked for a long time) I am extremely happy !! What about you guys ? Waiting now for Key Video "Ye Bharat Ki Shan Hai, Duniya Me Pehechan Hai !" to be shown on TV channels. regards Milind Oka

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Microsoft develops it's own Linux distro to run MS Azure's networking hardware
by Arun Khan 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

The cancerous Linux [a] has reached the company's networking (lymph) nodes! It is now running Azure's networking hardware! <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_developed_its_own_lin…> <http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-showcases-the-azure-cloud-s…> [a] <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/> -- Arun Khan (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान) "If you do not come out of your shell, you are just a nut." Sadhguru -- Arun Khan (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान) "If you do not come out of your shell, you are just a nut." Sadhguru Kevin Veroneau -- hugely into UNIX technologies, not just Linux. I've dabbled with the demons, played with the Sun, and now with the Penguins. Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device

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Facebook Joins as Full Member of the Unicode Consortium
by Siji Sunny 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Ref: Unicode Mail-list The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that Facebook has joined as a full member. Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them. We look forward to their contributions to Unicode projects and are grateful for their financial support of the consortium’s work. Full members of the consortium have a vote in all technical committees, and in the governance of the consortium. See the complete list of members <http://unicode.org/consortium/members.html>. http://blog.unicode.org/2015/09/facebook-joins-as-full-member-of.html -- Siji Sunny

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MiniDeb Conference Pune -Aug 29 & 30
by Siji Sunny 19 Aug '15

19 Aug '15

Date :Aug 29 & 30 Venue : College of Engineering Pune, Wellesely Rd, Shivajinagar, Pune-411 005. Maharashtra, INDIA. Contact : minidebconfpune(a)openmailbox.org CFP is Open and will end by 10th Aug,2015. -- Siji Sunny

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Makers Asylum Mumbai- Looking for funding through indiegogo
by Siji Sunny 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

Dear All, Makers Asylum founders recently put an funding proposal at Indiegogo- "Save our community MakerSpace in Mumbai" https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-our-community-makerspace-in-mumbai#… Requesting all you to do your best to make the Maker's Space alive in Mumbai/India. *Story of Makers Asylum Mumbai* - "We started about two years ago, operating from a closet-sized garage <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ0ZtF5wYFY> in the suburbs. We had one 3D Printer, power and hand tools that were donated by well-wishers. We had a handful of members that gathered to build tables, simple machines and toyed around with electronics. People started to share knowledge and materials to build projects together." Challenges The good part is that we’ve ignited the Maker Movement in India. The bad part — we’ve lost the space we’ve called home for the last six months. The design school that let us use a portion of their cafeteria for our activities needs us to vacate. We have till August 31. In order to continue feeding the hungry community of Makers, we need to find a new space to rent, and soon! For our community, the risk of losing the space means projects being abandoned midway, practical learning being put on hold and tinkers left without the access to tools that make their ideas grow. -- Siji Sunny

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Mumbai Technology Meetup -DevOps Special, 26th July
by Siji Sunny 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Date : Sunday, 25th July 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM Venue : Directiplex, Next to Andheri Subway, Old Nagardas Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai Schedule : *Time 12.00 pm - 1.00 pm* Topic : Continuous Integration - Practical Considerations Speaker: Swapnil Gawas *Time: 1.00 pm - 2.00 pm* Topic: Security Containers: how Snap CI leverages containers to safely run thousands of builds a day Speaker: Sahil Muthoo *Time: 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm* Topic: Docker Orchestration for Developers Speaker: Augustine Correa -- Siji Sunny

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[X-Post] ERPNext Conference 2015
by Pratik Vyas 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Hey! We are excited to announce the ERPNext Conference 2015 on October 9th in Mumbai. This is a great opportunity for ERPNext users, developers and open source enthusiasts to meet, share ideas and network with the community. For this conference, we are delighted to have Jordan Hubbard, the co-creator of the FreeBSD project, CTO at iX Systems and former Director of Unix at Apple as our guest speaker. Please reply to this thread or drop us an email to conference(a)erpnext.com if you have any questions. https://conf.erpnext.com/2015 The entry fee is Rs. 500 and it includes lunch. -- The ERPNext Team

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IoT Meetup @ Makers Asylum
by Siji Sunny 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

IoT Meetup sponsored by Intel - Date : July 29, 2015, 5 p.m to 7 p.m. Venue : 4th Floor,Tower 2-A,One Indiabulls Centre, Senapati Bapat Marg,Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra 40001 Description: Intel offers you a comprehensive solution to get you started on your maker’s journey. The Intel® IoT Development Kit is a complete hardware and software solution that includes an Intel IOT development board and starter kit including Yocto* Linux* system, Eclipse* and Intel® XDK IDE, IoT Cloud Analytics, a set of libraries, and more. Find out more about the Intel® IoT Development Kit and get your questions answered by Intel experts. Reg: https://www.instamojo.com/MakersAsylum/event-iot-meet-up-sponsored-by-intel/ -- Siji Sunny

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GNU/Linux-Women
by A. Mani 05 Jul '15

05 Jul '15

A Google+ Community for discussions on free software and experience of women in free software by women: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116724551469739970001 It is a women only space. Best A. Mani Prof(Miss) A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/ http://about.me/logicamani sip:girlprofessor@ekiga.net

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[JOB] Help ERPNext build the next generation open source platform for SMBs
by Rushabh Mehta 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Dear all, We have an opening for a software developer to work on the Frappe + ERPNext project in our office in Mumbai. Remote is also okay. ERPNext (https://erpnext.com <https://erpnext.com/>) is one of the biggest open source projects to originate out of India and is now backed by a robust user (https://discuss.frappe.io <https://discuss.frappe.io/>) and developer community (https://github.com/frappe/erpnext <https://github.com/frappe/erpnext>) and is financially sustainable. We are now looking to expand our team to take the platform + product to the next level. We work on a home grown stack (https://github.com/frappe/frappe <https://github.com/frappe/frappe>) built on Python, JS and HTML/CSS. If you think this is something you want to work on, please help us know you by filling out a form at: https://about.frappe.io/join-us <https://about.frappe.io/join-us> best, Rushabh -- @rushabh_mehta https://erpnext.com

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Seeking a Technology Consultant for Comet
by Chandita Mukherjee 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

Hello friends I think you people would know the sort of person we are seeking for Comet. Here is a job description, please forward around. *Technology consultant* *Job Description* Looking for an IT professional in web based technologies, to help set up outreach activities on the Internet. Will work on website with open source CMS and explore allied social media possibilities for the organisation. The work starts immediately. *Profile of Organisation* Comet Media Foundation (*www.cometmedia.org <http://www.cometmedia.org/>*) *Desired Profile of Candidate* A person with a passion for education and social change, conviction in Free Software philosophy, and sensitivity for graphic design. The person should be capable of initiating and sustaining activities independently and her/his past work portfolio would be what we'd like to see. *Experience* 3-5 years *Educational qualification* For us capability counts, not educational background. If this looks promising, apply with your CV to *chandita(a)cometmedia.org <chandita(a)cometmedia.org>*. *Location* Mumbai ================================= Chandita Mukherjee Phone +91 22 2287 6033 / +91 98205 09179

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A lower costing 64-bit PC to run Ubuntu!
by Mayuresh Kathe 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Hi, I've been mostly with laptops and AiOs till date, all failed prematurely (actually, soon after the warranty period). Environmental conditions in my area (highly corrosive air; as I live right next to a creek) lead to internals being damaged faster than expected. Have decided to not waste a lot of money any more, would prefer to go for lower costing assembled desktops in the range of INR. 20 ~ 25 thousand. I solicit suggestions and recommendations for a good hardware configuration. Line of work is mostly Web software (primarily JavaScript), using multiple browsers (Firefox, Chrome) and SublimeText. Prefer to use Ubuntu (latest available). Thanks, ~Mayuresh

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Last Day to submit your proposal for PyCon India 2015
by Deep Sukhwani 31 May '15

31 May '15

Hi, Call for Proposal for PyCon India 2015 closes today. Don't miss the opportunity to deliver a talk/workshop on your Python expertise in PyCon India 2015. Hurry! Submit your proposal today! You can submit your proposals here https://in.pycon.org/cfp/pycon-india-2015/proposals/ Thanks, PyCon India Team

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IT positions at TISS
by Alpesh Gajbe 28 May '15

28 May '15

http://www.tiss.edu/lefttop/jobs-tenders/administrative-positions/positions… -- With Regards Alpesh Gajbe

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[Offtopic][Jobs] Freelance Python Developers
by Trevor Warren 19 May '15

19 May '15

Folks, I am developing a few modelling tools and am looking for Freelance Python Developers to help out with a few backend modules. This will be a paid gig. The incumbent would need to have very strong Python development skills. Experience with Python/MySQL, Python/R would be highly appreciated. Development outfits/organizations needn't apply. Drop me a note at trevor(a)practicalperformanceanalyst.com <mailto:trevor@practicalperformanceanalyst.com> if you are interested. Cheers, Trevor

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CHIP - $9 ARM Computer
by Siji Sunny 12 May '15

12 May '15

CHIP - ARM based Single-board Computer , coming with a 1GHz processor(Allwinner R8), 512MB RAM, 4GB storage, 802.11B/G/N WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-com… -- Siji Sunny

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Remider : Debian8 release party and Mumbai technology meetup -26th April(Tomorrow)
by Siji Sunny 25 Apr '15

25 Apr '15

Hello All, Looking forward to meet you tomorrow. The event is starting by 11:00 in morning. Kartik Mistry(Debian Developer) is leading the debian8 release party. We will be having Debian8 install fest too. Pls bring your laptop if you want to install debian8 into it. Am in the process of creating an Debian Jessie ARM Rootfs, compatible RaspberryPi or any other ARM7 development board. SO if anyone interested pls come with the board. Pls find the detailed schedule @ http://www.meetup.com/Mumbai-Technology-Meetup/events/221813556/ and get your free ticket (its mandatory) from http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mumbai-technology-meetup-april-2015-scalability… -- Siji Sunny

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[X-POST] [COMMERCIAL] Internship at Hamaralinux.org
by shirish 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Hi there, Want to find out how a GNU/Linux distribution actually happens, what all goes into making a distribution and be paid to do it ? Have you ever worked on some open-source project, only to realize that the potential is huge and dunno how to relate it to others ? Have you ever been called crazy because what you know of life is that it's an abstraction of the TUI/CLI and that's the only way life is worth living . If any or all of the above rings true, drop us a mail. We are looking for individuals :- a. Who eat,drink, sleep and shit Open-Source b. Who have a thousand and one ideas about what is wrong in today's computing and have made some efforts to change them. c. Who have at least have some idea of what a VCS (Version Control System) is, and at the very least has made an account on one of such public hosting sites and has contributed some time and effort to one or more public projects. If it's a patch or a pull request it is preferable. Duration :- The position is of 6 months . Place :- This could be a mix of on-site and remote internship. The company is based in Gurgaon. The intern would have to manage travel to-and-fro from Delhi to wherever they live. Allowance :- Rupees ten thousand per month. Look forward to hearing from you on careers(a)hamaralinux.org -- Shirish Agarwal, Community Lead, Hamaralinux.org

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April Mumbai Linux Users Group Meetup
by Rigved Rakshit 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

Hello, Date: 26th April, 2015 (Sunday) Time: 11:00 to 17:00 IST Venue: Directiplex, near Andheri Subway, Andheri (E), Mumbai, India RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Mumbai-Technology-Meetup/events/221813556/ Entry is free of charge and anyone can attend. We are having a Debian 8 Release Party and a Ubuntu 15.04 Release Party as well. Hope to see some of you there! Best Regards, Rigved PS: Apologies for the double-email but some details were missed out in the previous forwarded email.

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Changed router, now Static IP configured raspberry pi not connecting.
by Royce Pereira 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

Hi, I have a raspberry pi, configured with a static IP address, that was working well with my older (ADSL)router (supplied by my ISP, MTNL). Yesterday I replaced my router with a D-Link DSL-2750U. I could configure it so that my PCs got connected to the Internet over LAN and Wi-Fi. But when I connected the raspberry pi (wired RJ45) it does not show up on the network. The router web page also does not list it. (I think only DHCP clients are shown anyway). I also used a windows program called ipscan24, but the pi does not show up there too. It's a headless pi, with no keyboard or display connected Both routers have the same gateway and basic IP address structure (192.168.1.xx). Is there anything I could do at the router end to get the pi to connect, or is re-flashing the SD card the only option? Thanks!

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April Mumbai Debian Users Group Meetup
by Siji Sunny 11 Apr '15

11 Apr '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Rigved Rakshit" <r.phate(a)gmail.com> Date: 08-Apr-2015 8:15 pm Subject: April Mumbai Debian Users Group Meetup To: "_List_Debian_Indian_Users" <debian-dug-in(a)lists.debian.org> Cc: Hello, Date: 26th April, 2015 (Sunday) Time: 10:00 to 19:00 IST Venue: Directiplex, near Andheri Subway, Andheri (E), Mumbai, India Meetup.com group: http://www.meetup.com/Mumbai-Technology-Meetup/ Entry is free of charge and anyone can attend. We are having a Debian 8 Release Party! Hope to see some of you there! Best Regards, Rigved

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India announces open source policy- Big win for FOSS
by Siji Sunny 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

The government has announced open source policy which is applicable to all Government organizations under the Central Governments and those State Governments. Key highlights of government’s open source policy include: – All future Requests for Proposals (RFPs) of eGovernance projects shall include a mandatory clause for considering Open Source Software (OSS) as a preferred option in comparison to Closed Source Software (CSS). Suppliers shall provide justification for exclusion of OSS in their response. - Government Organizations shall ensure compliance with this requirement and decide by comparing both OSS and CSS options with respect to capability, strategic control, scalability,security, life time costs and support requirements. – GoI shall establish suitable support mechanism for the available OSS that includes Institutional Mechanism, Partnership with Industry, Academia and OSS Community. You can download it from - http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/policy_on_adoption_of_oss.… -- Siji Sunny

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Arduino Day celebration-Mumbai (March28)
by Siji Sunny 27 Mar '15

27 Mar '15

Date : March 28, Saturday Venue : Maker's Asylum Some of the Arduino projects up for display for show and tell tomorrow: 1. StethoCardiogram - device which measures Heart beats and ECG at same time. Digital pendulum - accelerometer attached to the simple pendulum bob, helps to study mechanical vibration by Sameer Meshram 2. A gaming console to play games from the multiple smartphones by SaiKiran Gunda 3. ARDUINO as analog to digital converter for signal acquisition module, transmit digital signal via Bluetooth to the computer for further processing by Pravin Shende 4. Controlling of the robotic limb by MATLAB via Bluetooth. Image processing for detecting the human hand and its movement which then control the robotic limb by Pankaj Lengare 5. WAND (Wound Analysis Device) is a low cost portable, non invasive perfusion measurement device which produces blood flow maps by imaging the wound by Indranil Chandra 6. Badminton playing ROBOT Arduino is used to Drive the motor (wheel) of robot and it is also used to control the pnuematic control of bot. Two bots are created to play the game of Badminton in Robocon game by Prashant Upadhyay KULLY 7. Vehicle Data logger cum tracker with help of arduino, gps receiver and GMS shield. With just a miss call any one can track their respective vehicle. It can be also used in public transport tracking (especially bus). Can be also used to track logistics by Swanand Sapre 8. Interfacing the arduino to an android phone via Bluetooth using the hc05 Bluetooth module, thereby enabling a remote robot to be controlled via your phone. Accelerometer from the phone to send real time orientation to the arduino, thereby enabling to control the robot using only phone tilts by Swapneel Datta 9. A bot which moves in any directions using android phone's bluetooth technology.The bot had Arduino DUE mounted on it which along with HC 05 and a motor driver circuit which made it a car which can be controlled by any andriod phone having Sensoduino App installed in it. This app can render the accelerometer and gravtity sensors to show the co-ordinates and acoordingly these are sent to the bot via HC-05 to help the bot move by Ashay Kully -- Siji Sunny

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Hackaday Worldwide at Maker's Asylum
by Siji Sunny 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Venue : 4th Floor, Tower 2A One Indiabulls Centre, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400012 3pm-7pm Saturday 21th March Price: Free Hackaday and Maker’s Asylum are bringing the Bring-A-Hack tradition to Mumbai! Come hang out with friends in Hardware, Making and Hackaday! We will have soft-drinks and pizza and hacks. Bring your blinky demos and sign up for a lightening talk *(5 minutes or less)*. More details and registration visit : http://www.makersasylum.com/events/ -- Siji Sunny

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