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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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