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TDIL Seeking Feedback on BOSS
by Siji Sunny 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Forwarded Mail : --- Dear All, Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme initiated by DeitY, GOI prepared draft advisory for DCS&D, NICSI & user departments for promoting use of Language CD & Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS) in government departments. Download draft advisory <http://www.tdil.mit.gov.in/pdf/Advisory_IL_Support_Draft_v_2.pdf> We hereby request you to send your feedback at *tdilinfo.dit(a)deity.gov.in <tdilinfo.dit(a)deity.gov.in>* Thanks and Regards, Indian Language Technology Proliferation and Deployment Centre -- Siji Sunny

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[X-POST] Registrations live for the Mini-DebConf Mumbai 2015
by Rigved Rakshit 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Hello everyone, Registrations [1] are live for the 2015 Mini-DebConf [2], to be held at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai on the 17th and 18th of January. If you have any questions, you can mail them to the Mini-DebConf India Mailing list [3] or drop into our IRC channel #debian-in [4] on the OFTC network. Looking forward to have you at the event. [1] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mini-debconf-mumbai-2015-tickets-15022071420 [2] http://in2015.mini.debconf.org/ [3] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/in.mini/ [4] https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=debian-in Warm Regards, Rigved

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[INTERNSHIP/JOBS] Position: Internship :: Linux Systems and Network Administrator.
by Arun Khan 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

Position: Internship :: Linux Systems and Network Administrator. At Silver Arc Solutions, we have a couple of Internship positions in the Linux Systems and Network administration area. We are looking for individuals who are self starters, have a thirst for knowledge and are willing to learn. The internship program varies from 3 to 6 months depending upon individual aptitude and progress in assignments. Upon successful completion of the Internship program, individuals will be inducted as “Trainee Systems and Network Administrator.” Experience: Freshers 3 to 6 months hands on exposure to the Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) tools and basic shell scripting. You should have done at least one Linux installation on your own, understand the basic concepts of disk partitioning and the configuration of video, audio and network components in a computer. Personality: Quick learner, multi-tasking, hands on and proactive. Ability to anticipate needs and implement improvements in processes a plus. Communication: Must be able to articulate your thoughts in English and prepare detailed documentation and/or presentations of the tasks undertaken. Education: BCA, MCA, B.Tech CS, B.Tech IT or equivalent. Certification: None. Job Location: Mumbai Western Suburbs. Stipend: NONE during the internship period. Relocation Package: NONE. What you are expected to learn during the internship period: 1. Installation, administration, troubleshooting setups of major Linux distribution. 2. A broad knowledge of the Linux command line tools specific to system and network administration. 3. bash/sh – develop scripts to automate administration tasks. 4. Networking - LAN, WAN, VPN, subnets, supernets, CIDR, routing, Unix/ Linux/ Windows inter-operability. 5. Install and configure services like DNS, DHCP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, NFS, Proxy Server, and Samba. 6. Monitoring and analyzing system logs. Create summary reports on errors and warnings. 7. Data backup - automation and management of backups. 8. Security - securing Linux and MS Windows hosts. After successfully completing the internships, you will be working in the following areas: 1. Directory Services (LDAP/Samba4 Active Directory). 2. Host/Network monitoring using Host/Network monitoring tools like Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti, openNMS. 3. Management of multiple systems with ansible, salt. 4. Knowledge of SELinux, AppArmor. 5. Knowledge of php and/or python. 6. Virtualization (KVM, openVZ, LXC, Docker) and more. Interested individuals, please fill out the form below: <http://preview.tinyurl.com/sas-req-201412> Please note: do *not* respond to the mailing list or to the email id herein. Only those who fill up the form will considered for the short list for personal interview. About Us: Silver Arc Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd. is located in the western suburbs of Mumbai, India. We are a multi-faceted consulting company providing cost effective turnkey solutions in Information Technology, Management Information Systems and Telecom projects. We offer a work environment that will always keep you technically challenged and provide opportunity for technical and personal growth. Thanks and regards, -- Arun Khan

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Fwd: Invitation to join Fedora 21 release party AT Mumbai
by Rahul Bhalerao 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com <pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:11 PM Subject: Invitation to join Fedora 21 release party AT Mumbai To: india(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, Nagarjuna <nagarjun(a)gnowledge.org> Cc: Rahul Bhalerao <b.rahul.pm(a)gmail.com> Hi All, As most of you know we got an awesome Fedora 21 release on 9th Dec. [1] Fedora 21 is special release specifically when we say its happening after 1 year and under the Fedora.Next initiative. There is lot to talk and share about Fedora 21 including features, design, what works best and what does not. Lets gather to celebrate first release party in India at HBCSE TIFR on 21st Dec 2.00pm and make most of it. See Event page [2] for more details and registration. The event is open and free to all but still its good to know the numbers for better organisation of event. Hence do register. If any problem feel free to drop an email or call me or Rahul [3] Feel free to forward this invitation on relevant mailing lists. Best Regards, Pravin Satpute 9881038402 7506020910 (Rahul) 1. http://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-21/ 2. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fedora-21-release-party-tickets-14972818102 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:RahulBhalerao

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Free ebooks daily from Packt Publishing until Christmas !
by Royce Pereira 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Hi, Packt Publishing is offering a free eBook daily until the 24th December 2014. Plenty of excellent books on Raspberry pi, Linux, Beaglebone, Android etc. Grab them at this link: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/christmas-countdown -- Royce

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[X-POST] Mumbai Tech Meetup, Vashi - December 2014
by Mehul Ved 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Hello, This month we are having a Mumbai Tech Meetup at JustUnfollow office in Vashi. So far we have a session on building a Linux Kernel. Date: 14th December 2014 Time: 11:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. More details are available on http://www.meetup.com/Mumbai-Technology-Meetup/events/219033613 We have more slots available for talks, get in touch if you're interested in giving a talk. -- With Regards, Mehul Ved

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Debian : how to disable that VGA console mode?
by Mayuresh Kathe 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

Hello, Debian 7.6.0, even at the console level, sets up my display in some high resolution mode. Any way to disable this so called high resolution VGA mode? Thanks, ~Mayuresh

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Debian : 7.6.0 : x86_84 : installs cleanly but fails to boot
by Mayuresh Kathe 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

Hello, I have an HP AiO 18 which runs Ubuntu 14.10 successfully. It is my first attempt at Debian 7.6.0 under my x86_64 machine. While the install process went well, the first boot just doesn't happen. The boot-up menu is shown and when I select the first item; Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64, the screen just blanks out. There are no boot messages, nothing. The num-lock indicator lights up and then goes out. After waiting a while, I tried the caps-lock key, it's responsive by way of the indicator going on and off. On hitting ctrl+alt+del the system just reboots without going through the usual system shutdown sequence. Any ideas about how I could resolve this? Thanks, ~Mayuresh

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Report of workshop at Adarsh Vidyalaya school by FSMM
by Vikram Vincent 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

Greetings! The workshop had around 18 participants and 8 volunteers. We had Venkatesh Hariharan give the opening talk followed by an immersive hands-on session on kturtle by Richa Mishra. The afternoon session on games by Rajeev R.K. was the icing on the cake. Thanks to the school management who sponsored the entire workshop. -- Vikram Vincent

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Announcing the Mini-DebConf Mumbai 2015 CFP
by Rigved Rakshit 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hello everyone, The 2015 Mini-DebConf [1], to be held at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai on the 17th and 18th of January, is now seeking presenters. The call for papers is now out (started on 26th January) and registrations will open soon. If you are interested in presenting papers / talks or conducting workshops / hands-on sessions, please submit an abstract of 100 to 200 words describing the topic, including its relevance to Debian, to this email address: debian [at] shieldofachilles [dot] in Please provide links to the code, if it is Free Software. If you have any questions, you can mail them to the Mini-DebConf India Mailing list [2] or drop into our IRC channel #debian-in [3] on the OFTC network. Looking forward to have you at the event. [1] http://in2015.mini.debconf.org/ [2] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/in.mini/ [3] https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=debian-in Warm Regards, Rigved

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Learn to 3D Print today at the Makers Asylum, Bandra. 7pm to 9pm.
by Siji Sunny 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Maker's Asylum holding a session on 3D printer today evening, at their maker's space Bandra. https://www.facebook.com/events/1520389738223466/ -- Siji Sunny

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Quantom OS - Material Design + Linux
by Siji Sunny 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

The quantom OS team is developing an operating system based upon Linux which conforms to Google’s Material Design guidelines. The focus will be on creating a stable and easy-to-use operating system with a heavy emphasis on well-thought-out design. http://quantum-os.github.io/ -- Siji Sunny

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Open Hardware Meetup, 23rd Nov- Updated schedule
by Siji Sunny 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

SESSIONS: 10.00 am - 10.40 AM Sandhi by Mushir and Akshay Sandhi is being developed to serve as an open source alternative for proprietary data acquisition and control applications. It uses graphical programming concepts. 10.50 am - 11.30 am FreeEDA by Ambikeshwar and Fahim FreeEDA (previously known as Oscad) is an open source EDA tool for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design. It is an integrated tool built using open source software such as KiCad, Ngspice and Scilab . 11.30 - 12.15 pm: Open PLC and Anuduino by Nivedita and Akshay OpenPLC, the first fully open source Programable Logic Controller. Anuduino is a micro-sized, Arduino compatible USB development board 12.30 pm 1-.30 pm: Open Source Toolchain for Digital Manufacturing by Anool Mahidaria Learn how OS tools like Inkscape, FreeCad, KiCad have made it very easy to manufacture products. And how MakerSpaces can help in the process. Lunch : 1.30 pm - 2.30 pm 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm: IoT Overview and Applications using Open Hardware by Sachin Pukale + 3.30pm - 4.45 pm: IoT demo by Anand George Showcasing 5 demos involving littleBits, Espruino, Tessel, BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi 5.00 pm -6.00 pm : The Debian Way of Open Source Hardware by Siji Sunny Introduction to open source hardware boards and getting started with Debian on ARM -- Siji Sunny

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Fwd: World Toilet Day and Free Software
by Vikram Vincent 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram(a)gmail.com> Greetings on the occasion of World Toilet Day! You might be wondering as to what the relationship between the two is :) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/world-toilet-day-2014-lack-sanitation-leaves-women… While there is no direct correlation, I would suggest that people who are interested can use this occasion to use OpenStreetMap and map out the location of toilets in your vicinity. Also map out whether there are toilets for women and how hygienic they are. While it is good to go on the streets with brooms and clean the place it is more important to provide a sewage system where none exists and improve the ones which do exist. So please help out with a small part. Thanks -- Vikram Vincent

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Drupal Freelancer
by Rahul Mahale 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hello, If any one working on Drupal and ready to do a Project in Drupal 7.0, Please Contact me Off-list ASAP Thanks -- Rahul.R.Mahale. http://rahulmahale.wordpress.com/

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[Commercial] Junior Linux Administrator
by Joel A Divekar 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hi All There is a urgent opening for a Junior System Admin at Games2Win.com and job description  is shared over here http://games2winmedia.com/2014/11/13/junior-linux-administrator/ Do also check other openings on their career pages and share it with your friends too.   Regards Joel Divekar Mumbai, India Mob : +91 9920208223 Blog : http://joeldivekar.blogspot.com/ Linkedin : http://www.linkedin.com/in/joeldivekar Slideshare : http://www.slideshare.net/JoelDivekar

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November Mumbai Linux Users Group Meetup
by Rigved Rakshit 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Hello, Date: 23rd November, 2014 (Sunday) Time: 12:00 to 18:00 IST Venue: IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India RSVP: http://meetu.ps/2CdMn0 Entry is free of charge and anyone can attend. Event schedule (may change later): 1. Open Source Toolchain for Digital Manufacturing: How OS tools like Inkscape, FreeCad, KiCad have made it very easy to manufacture products. And how MakerSpaces can help in the process. - Anool Mahidharia 2. Open-Source Hardware - The Debian way: Introduction to open source hardware boards and getting started with Debian on ARM. - Siji Sunny Hope to see some of you there! Best Regards, Rigved

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Mini-Debconf Mumbai 2015 and Volunteers Meeting
by Rigved Rakshit 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Hello, I am glad to announce that we will be hosting a mini-Debconf at IIT Mumbai on 17th January, 2015 and 18th January, 2015. Details: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/MiniDebConf2015/Mumbai We are having a volunteers meeting at the Mumbai University Kalina campus on Saturday, 15th November from 12:00 to 14:00. Anyone who's interested in helping with the mini-Debconf preparations, please feel free to attend. Best Regards, Rigved

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FOSS India - Update
by Rushabh Mehta 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Dear all, Finally managed to find most of the important articles / blog posts: https://gist.github.com/rmehta/51f814190e59873113d2 Could not find any background about the FOSSEE labs @ IITB - anyone has a timeline / blog pls post. — There are 5 main threads: 1. FOSS in Kerala 2. Linux Distribution by PCQuest 3. IndLinux 4. NRCFOSS in TN 5. Events: Linux Bangalore / FOSS.IN / Open Source India Days Btw if anyone has links / blogs on the ground reality of FOSS implementation of IT@School in Kerala, please post. @rushabh_mehta https://erpnext.com

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FOSS Landscape and History in India
by Rushabh Mehta 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

Dear all, I am working on an article to map the FOSS landscape in India. I spent some time going through archives of the various groups / Wikipedia pages and websites. What I see is a fragmented group of individual enthusiasts and contributors, either working individually or in companies that support / use FOSS and of course having a lot of flame wars. The Linux Archives India have a tag line "All The Dirty Laundry Unfit to Wash in Public" From what I gather, the PC magazines of the mid-90s were critical in getting FOSS (via Linux) in India and there were a few mailing lists that cropped up in the late 90s (the earliest archives I found are from 98. This list itself was formed in 2001). I guess there were some fights about naming (who owns ILUG v/s Bharat LUG etc) and the mailing lists were mostly about sharing tips regarding installation, drivers and networking troubleshooting. In Chennai CDAC was established in 1998 and they started promoting FOSS in local universities and then branched off into NRCFOSS and launched the Bharat Operating System (BOSS) in 2007 (anyone using it??) that had built in localisation for Indian Languages. These days NRCFOSS is supposed to be working on a “SAAS based delivery stack for cloud computing” but can’t find any evidence of it. (Your tax payer money!!) In Bangalore, the community was driven by the very inspirational Atul Chitnis and Kenneth Gonsalves who got some “movement” going on with the FOSS.IN events (from 2001 to 2004) which I have heard (second hand) that were instrumental in introducing FOSS to a large number of people. I also heard they had an ugly spat. Bangalore is also home to VTiger CRM, a popular Open Source project (or is it Chennai? I heard it was run by the Zoho group, can anyone confirm?) State of Kerala (where A is for Activism) has been on the forefront of FOSS implementation (atleast in the PR) and the state legislature has also moved to get FOSS implemented in government. As per Wikipedia FSF India was established in Kerala in 2001 and the movement is largely led by Satish Babu who is the director of ICFOSS. They seem to be the most progressive in terms of FOSS implementation and there are a lot of News Items on how they have successfully used FOSS in many Gov activities (power to them!). (Interestingly the ICFOSS website has a “Director” menu link instead of “About Us” as if the Director and the organization are the same thing!). Kerala is also the home to the formerly open source Fedena school ERP project, which is un updated in a while and and I think its not open anymore. In Mumbai we have Nagarjuna from Homi Bhabha who runs the Gnowledge Lab from 2007 (still can’t figure how its different from a wiki!) and has also been active in promoting One Laptop Per Child and other FOSS projects in India. Also in Mumbai is the very inspirational Krishnakant Mane who runs the GNU Khata project in IIT Mumbai (funded by ICFOSS?). Did not find any post on the history of GNU Khata but the mailing list is since 2009, so I assume it has been around since 2006-7? Ironically Mumbai is the only city that has some “projects” (in Mumbai, we do, we don’t talk) including our ERPNext (sorry for the plug) which was started in 2006 but the repo is from around 2008. Speaking of Projects, the NRCFOSS website has a number of projects listed, but like spent tax payer money it seems to be hard to find any public repository or mailing list for any of them. Also sometime, I am guessing since Facebook and mobile explosion (2007), the focus has moved from Linux to a more broader (and some might say evil) “Open Source” - note the renaming of popular blogs and events (Linux Asia is now Open Source India, Linuxforu is now Opensourceforu) and focus has now “shifted” to cloud based technologies like “OpenShift” and also there has been some movement in the Android space (Aakash tablet, again anyone seen the repos?). Also the “free thinking” community has also moved to other technologies like Python which have a reasonable community and some traction in the universities (SciPy). I am not covering the commercial space yet. The Open Source India (OSI Days) event is happening this weekend in Bangalore and I am not sure if they even bother to post on these lists. Wipro has pledged to staff its Open Source Unit to 10,000 (yay!). And not to mention the hundreds or may be thousands of Open Source development shops that have sprung up all over India (esp in Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad) servicing Open Source projects on Elance and similar and mostly doing HTML / CSS / PHP based customization. The poor guys who don’t get respect for their taste but still manage serve many small businesses and keep the world moving. In terms of contributors, I see some really brilliant individual contributors to various projects, many of whom have now moved to the west but their names still crop up in mailing list archives. There is a FOSS Community of India page on the wikia site that has a “hall of fame” section which is sadly unmaintained but has a list of many individual contributors (and probably some of them are spammed or self-promoted) I guess this mail itself has become the article - I am sure I have missed a whole bunch of important stuff so please send your comments and thoughts. (specially the old timers!) Thanks! best, Rushabh @rushabh_mehta https://erpnext.com

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Workshop for FOSS newbies (Was: Re: Require l10n resource people for session on 23 Nov 2014)
by Vikram Vincent 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

Hello, This is an invitation to the FOSS workshop on 23 November 2014 (Sunday) at Adarsh Vidyalaya organised by Kerala People's Education Society (KPES) and Free Software Movement Maharashtra (FSMM). If you are planning to participate then please do RSVP either +91 9920028691 or +91 9960844421. Admission free but seats limited to the number of systems in the lab. The schedule is below. Do forward this to anybody whom you feel will benefit from this session. Regards Vikram Vincent 1. Introduction to free software philosophy 10.30 am to 11.00 am 2. Educational FOSS tools for schools 11.00 am to 1.00 pm 3. Lunch Break 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm 4 .Games on GNU/Linux 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm 5 GNU Linux users’ Group (GLUG) formation 3.00 pm to 3.30 pm

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] FOSS Landscape and History in India
by Uday Khedker 09 Nov '14

09 Nov '14

Hi Rushabh, I guess we are quite keen on engaging with the local community. We have been conducting rather well attended annual workshops (roughly 50 participants) in the hope of fostering engagements with the community at large. However, our experience has been that it is difficult to build a sustainable engagement because it requires a very specific background and the overheads of background building could be high. We have tried to engage the external student community for their B.E. projects but by the time they build the background to be productive, it's almost the time for them to graduate and then the continuity of the project suffers. All this has forced me to restrict the explorations and give up on the ambition of taking the ideas to their logical conclusion in the form of submitting code patches to GCC. The problem is that in the kind of explorations we want to do, even an adhoc code for experimentation comes late in the picture and a sensible publicly shareable (and understandable) code comes much much later. So I have no clue how to engage with people who can work on this only part time with most of their time and energy being taken away by their day job which cannot be compromised because paapee pet kaa sawaal hai :-) In any case, I will be happy to give talks and should be able to pitch it at different levels depending upon the interest and the background of the audience. I would be happy if this could lead to a long term association. If there is a reasonable number of people who wish to explore the option of engaging with us, I will be happy to host the talks at IIT Bombay (and they could well be on a Saturday or a Sunday). My Ph.D. students would be happy to showcase what they are doing although I am afraid there is nothing that would look entertaining unless one is curious about the behind-the-scene activities of how programs are made to work :-) Thanks and regards, Uday Khedker. 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 : Office - 91 (22) 2572 2545 x 7717, 91 (22) 2576 7717 (Direct) Res. - 91 (22) 2572 2545 x 8717, 91 (22) 2576 8717 (Direct) On Sunday 09 November 2014 10:30 AM, Rushabh Mehta wrote: > > It seems that the IITs do not seem keen on engaging the local community > in these projects. Some ideas that cross my mind are hosting events, > talks on all the different projects for all categories (beginners / > intermediate / advanced) on a regular basis. Also it might be a good > idea to host all projects on GitHub / similar so that people can quickly > find out what is really happening. (The first things I want to see in a > FOSS project is the Issue list/ mailing list and Commit Log!) …. I am > sure the increased transparency would help the project too… I think this > could be a great opportunity to seed a FOSS community here in Mumbai > (results may come later)… >

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Require l10n resource people for session on 23 Nov 2014
by Vikram Vincent 09 Nov '14

09 Nov '14

Hello, A full day workshop on various FOSS technologies is being conducted for newbies by Free Software Movement Maharashtra along with Kerala People’s Education Society’s( KPES) at Adarsh Vidyalaya at Chembur on 23 November 2014. Of this there will be a one hour session on localisation in Hindi, Marathi and Malayalam from 2-3pm. Please send me an email off-list if you can help lead this session. Thanks -- Vikram Vincent

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any distro implementors around?
by Mayuresh Kathe 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

hello, i need a specialized gnu/linux distribution for a non-commercial project. distribution characteristics are roughly summarized at; https://github.com/mayureshkathe/manix anyone out here capable and willing enough to work under the guidance of highly experienced mentors (not just me) should contact me off-list. candidates will be interviewed and tested hands-on before being selected. this will be paid work. ~mayuresh

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[Commercial] Freelancer-WxPython
by Siji Sunny 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hello All, We are looking for a freelancer, who can work with WxPython (UI development). Interested people, pls contact off-list. -- Siji Sunny

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