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

21 Sep '18

All the recent threats to digital netigens are arising due to ignoring the visionary warnings RMS gave us several decades ago. Whether it is a threat to privacy, or the dangers of cloud computing. The 'open source' vision though may have spread the development of technology, it failed miserably in adhering to the ethical and political dimensions of the movement. I think it is relevant to discuss such issues and awaken the community to why we still need to address the issues of software freedom. RMS will be in India during early 2019. Would any of you be interested in coordinating with me to check for a good venue and to find a host in the first week of January. The date will be around 7th of Jan, + or - one day. -- GN

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Fwd: [Events] Talk on "Cooperativism In The Digital Economy: Trends & Challenges" on 10th September , 2018 at 5.15 p.m| SJMSOM Auditorium – adjacent to I RCC/SOM
by jitendra 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Office Centre for Policy Studies <office.cps(a)iitb.ac.in> Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 10:25 AM Subject: [Events] Talk on "Cooperativism In The Digital Economy: Trends & Challenges" on 10th September , 2018 at 5.15 p.m| SJMSOM Auditorium – adjacent to I RCC/SOM To: <events(a)iitb.ac.in>, seminar(a)iitb.ac.in <student-notices(a)iitb.ac.in>, < staff-notices(a)iitb.ac.in> [image: Boxbe] <https://www.boxbe.com/overview> This message is eligible for Automatic Cleanup! (office.cps(a)iitb.ac.in) Add cleanup rule <https://www.boxbe.com/popup?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.boxbe.com%2Fcleanup%3Fkey…> | More info <http://blog.boxbe.com/general/boxbe-automatic-cleanup?tc_serial=42845674313…> ---------------------------------------- IMPORTANT To join the list send a mail to events-subscribe(a)iitb.ac.in To leave the list send a mail to events-unsubscribe(a)iitb.ac.in Policy on postings to this list is available at: http://lists.iitb.ac.in/policies/EVENTS_policy.pdf __________________________________________________________________ Your subscribed address in the mailing list Events(a)iitb.ac.in is jitendra.shah(a)iitb.ac.in Messages may get discarded if you post from any other email address. __________________________________________________________________ Dear All, The Centre for Policy Studies would like to cordially invite you for a talk by Michel Bauwens on “Cooperativism in the Digital Economy: Trends & Challenges”. Date : Monday, September 10, 2018 Time : 05:15 pm – 06:30 pm Venue : (SJMSOM Auditorium – adjacent to IRCC/SOM) Michel Bauwens is a well-known writer, researcher and theorist in the area of peer to peer (P2P) production, shared economy and digital cooperativism. He is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives (http://p2pfoundation.net) and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He is also research director of CommonsTransition.org, a platform for policy development aimed toward a society of the Commons. He has crafted a Commons Transition Plan for the city of Ghent in Belgium, after a similar project for Ecuador in 2014. He is also adviser to SMart, a fast growing European labour mutual for autonomous workers, seeking welfare reform, while considering biocapacity-based accounting mechanisms. We actively look forward to your presence on the occasion! Prof. Satish Agnihotri Head, CPS _______________________________________________ Events mailing list Events(a)iitb.ac.in http://lists.iitb.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/events -- jitendra

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

05 Sep '18

FYI / FWIW -- Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Raju Devidas <rajudev(a)disroot.org> Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 1:25 PM Subject: [ilugd] Organizing an All Day DevOps viewing party To: <ilugd(a)lists.hserus.net>, <meetup-group-ilugd-announce(a)meetup.com> Namaste Everyone, Some of us have been contacted regarding organization of a viewing party of the All Day Devops virtual conference. https://www.alldaydevops.com/ The dates for this 24 Hour virtual conference is October 17, 2018. About some background for the conference. All Day DevOps <http://www.alldaydevops.com/> is a free, online community event. Last year was its second year, and it included 5 simultaneous tracks, 96 sessions, and 4 keynotes - across all time zones, for 24 hours, absolutely no vendor pitches allowed. The 2018 conference on October 17 will feature 5 tracks and 100 half-hour sessions over 24 hours and the same no-vendor-pitch rules apply. [.... snip ....]

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

02 Sep '18

Hi All, I'm Sriram, based out of Chennai. I have my laptop which is dual boot (windows and Linux drivers). I would like to format my system and keep a fresh Linux os (Ubuntu or anything else). I'm looking for Linux users group to whom I can take my system. Requesting your help in sorting this. Thanks Sriram.

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September 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Hello All, The September 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 8th September 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. Using git - Mr.Nilesh, Mr.Tayyabali Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

25 Aug '18

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

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August Meet Summery
by Milind Oka 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

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

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

14 Aug '18

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August 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Hello All, The August 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 11th August 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. 60 minutes: "FOSS & Blue Oceans" - Sooraj Dhanuka Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

11 Aug '18

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

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Multiseat setup
by J T Dsouza 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

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

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

08 Aug '18

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

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

08 Aug '18

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

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

07 Aug '18

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

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

03 Aug '18

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

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

31 Jul '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 11th August 2018, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Ubuntu 18.04 Custom Image
by Milind Oka 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

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

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

24 Jul '18

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

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

24 Jul '18

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

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July 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hello All, The July 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 14th July 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. Discussions on ILUG-BOM activities Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

04 Jul '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 7th July 2018, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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June 2018 meeting cancelled
by Joe Steeve 09 Jun '18

09 Jun '18

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

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June 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

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

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

07 Jun '18

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

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

07 Jun '18

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

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

01 Jun '18

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

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

30 May '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 9th June 2018, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

25 May '18

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

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

22 May '18

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

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Book to learn openstack
by Augustus Johnson 17 May '18

17 May '18

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

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Thanks for the talk today.
by Dhruva lokegaonkar 12 May '18

12 May '18

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

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

10 May '18

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

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May 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 07 May '18

07 May '18

Hello All, The May 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 12th May 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. "Getting started with embedded Linux" - Siji Sunny Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Summary of April Meetup
by Milind Oka 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

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

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ERPNext Summer of Code
by Rushabh Mehta 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

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

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

12 Apr '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 14th April 2018, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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April 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Hello All, The April 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 14th March 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. 60 minutes: "Using GPG" - R.K.Rajeev 3. Floor open for relevant discussions Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

11 Apr '18

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

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

05 Apr '18

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

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

01 Apr '18

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

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

21 Mar '18

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

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Anybody using Dart?
by Joe Steeve 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

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

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

09 Mar '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 10th March 2018, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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February 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

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

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

12 Feb '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 10th February 2018, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Jude in Mumbai Mirror
by GN 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

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

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

14 Jan '18

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

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January 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Hello All, The January 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 13th January 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

27 Dec '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 13th January 2018, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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linux installation
by Bharath Kumar 24 Dec '17

24 Dec '17

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

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

12 Dec '17

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

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

06 Dec '17

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

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

06 Dec '17

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

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

06 Dec '17

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

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

05 Dec '17

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

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About password strength
by Arun Khan 25 Nov '17

25 Nov '17

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

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The Munich tragedy
by sudheer k Muhammed 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

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

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

10 Nov '17

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

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November 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

Hello All, The November 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 11th November 2017, 15:00 to 16:30 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. 1 hour: "How to make a .deb package" - Praveen, Debian developer. 3. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Excerpts of lat meeting
by Prahlad C 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

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

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

01 Nov '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 11th November 2017, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

16 Oct '17

Hello All, There has been a small confusion in the planning and here is the updated agenda. The October 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 14th October 2017, 15:00 to 17:00 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. 1.5 hour: Introducing FOSS to teachers 1. Installing GNU/Linux 2. Basic usage 3. Common day to day tools (Web browsing, documents, spreadsheets, presentations) Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

15 Oct '17

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

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October 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Hello All, The October 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 14th October 2017, 15:00 to 17:00 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 15 minutes: Introductions 2. 45 minutes: Introduce teachers to FOSS 3. 60 minutes: "Introduction to Docker" by Mr.Joel Divekar Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

04 Oct '17

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

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

28 Sep '17

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

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

22 Sep '17

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

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Linux Localization Video
by Navin Dhanuka 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

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

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

16 Sep '17

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

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

16 Sep '17

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

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

14 Sep '17

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

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

14 Sep '17

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

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

12 Sep '17

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

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

07 Sep '17

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

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September 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

Hello All, The September 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 9th September 2017, 15:00 to 16:00 IST. Venue: IT Lab 4, 3rd Floor, A - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 15 minutes: Introductions 2. 1 hour: "How I came to write a full-fledged OSS product with RDD(README-Driven Development)" - Achilles Rasquinha 3. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

31 Aug '17

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

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

28 Aug '17

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

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

17 Aug '17

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

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

09 Aug '17

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

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

05 Aug '17

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

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

04 Aug '17

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

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August 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Hello All, The August 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 12th August 2017, 15:00 to 16:00 IST. Venue: IT Lab 5, First Floor, D - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. Basics of GIMP & Image editing - Raghavendra Kamath 2. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

01 Aug '17

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

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

28 Jul '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 12th August 2017, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Inherit Ownership and Permissions
by Rony Bill 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

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

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

14 Jul '17

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

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

14 Jul '17

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

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

12 Jul '17

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

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

07 Jul '17

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

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July 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

Hello All, The July 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG-BOM)", will be held on 8th July 2017, 15:00 to 16:00 IST. Venue: IT Lab 5, First Floor, D - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 1 hour - Frappe framework and ERPNext, Frappe technologies private limited team. 2. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

05 Jul '17

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

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

29 Jun '17

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

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

21 Jun '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 8th July 2017, 15:00 to 17:00, at Don Bosco Institute of Technology. Would anyone like to give a talk? -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

19 Jun '17

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

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

15 Jun '17

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

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

13 Jun '17

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

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June 2017 meeting minutes
by Raghavendra Kamath 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

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

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

13 Jun '17

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

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June 2017 meeting
by Joe Steeve 10 Jun '17

10 Jun '17

Hello All, The June 2017 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG-BOM)", will be held on 10th June 2017, 15:00 to 16:00 IST. Venue: IT Lab 5, First Floor, D - Wing, Department of Information Technology, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Kurla (W). 10 min from Vidyavihar Station (W). Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fRQoetu97Vp Agenda: 1. 1 hour - "Live CD building using fedora tools" by Rajeev R K. 2. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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

06 Jun '17

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

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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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