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Ubuntu 8.10 ISO
by Prashant Shah 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Those who need the Ubuntu 8.10 ISO email me off the list :)

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[COMMERCIAL] 3rd IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology, Pune, India
by Harshad Oak 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Dear Linuxers, Please note that the 3rd IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology will be held on 25-27 Nov 2008 in Pune. Pune is a short journey from Mumbai and the conference will certainly be well worth the travel. The conference this year has sessions on Ajax, Spring, Domain Driven Design, SOA, WebSockets, Scripting, HTML 5, Mock Objects, Java Persistence, Agile, Lean, GWT, OpenSocial and more... The speaker list consists of some of the most knowledgeable and reputed names in the field. Do have a look at the conference website < http://Conference.IndicThreads.com > for the latest list of speakers and sessions. Register soon to be assured of a place and also avail of the current discounted rates. [ http://conference.indicthreads.com/content/view/35/ ] Last but not the least, here's wishing you and your family a very happy diwali & a wonderful year ahead. Thanks, Harshad --- Founder, Rightrix Solutions, Oracle ACE Director, Sun Java Champion

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Fwd: [Freed] Final list of awards for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowships
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gora Mohanty <gora(a)sarai.net> Date: Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:17 PM Subject: [Freed] Final list of awards for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowships To: Free/Libre and Open Source Software Project List <prc(a)sarai.net> Cc: General Freed list <freed(a)lists.linux-delhi.org>, ILUGD main list <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org> Hello everyone, It gives us great pleasure to announce the list of fellows for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowship programme. The number of fellowships this year represents a dramatic increase from past years. We are thankful to NIXI, and in particular, to their CEO, Mr. Rajesh Aggarwal for their generosity in making so many fellowships possible. Below is the list of 21 awardees. The list is also available online at <http://www.sarai.net/fellowships/floss/2008-sarai-floss-fellowships-list> . We will be in touch with each of the fellows, and also with anyone who sent in a proposal by the coming weekend. Please feel free to write to me with any queries, and/or concerns. The final list is: 1. Debayan Banerjee/Sawood Alam: Joint award for OCR in Urdu, Bengali, etc., based on Google Tesseract 2. Abhishek Choudhary et al: Hindawi is a system to allow programming in Indian languages. This project proposes to build online courseware to introduce the various components of Hindawi, to improve the project documentation, create a syllabus around Hindawi, distribute live CDs, and hold lectures. 3. Hassath: Making of a short film using FOSS tools, documenting the process, and listing pros and cons of the applications. 4. Sachin Joshi: Integrating automated speech recognition (ASR) for Hindi into the Linux platform. 5. Aadil Kak: Kashmiri font completion, and localisation of KDE 4.2. 6. Friji Karthikeyan: Internet Radio framework, with interface to, and hosting on Giss.tv 7. Satya Komaragiri: Speech-to-text support in OLPC, with Hindi ASR. 8. Manu Konchady: FOSS online tutor to teach students new languages, using text-to-speech, and a web-based framework. 9. Ajay Kumar: Sahana client on Openmoko mobiles. Sahana is the disaster relief management system used for the Bihar floods, tsunami, etc. 10. Sangeeta Kumari: Maithili localisation of KDE4.2, Fedora, and the Chatzilla IM client. 11. Pranav Madhyastha / Sriram Chaudhary: Joint award to develop a system of machine translation (MT) from English to Hindi. This will consist of a web framework to assist improvement of the background engine, and work on an open-source MT engine, Anusaaraka. 12. Helen Mary: Open-source database, and tools to study mental retardation. 13. Kartik Mistry: Gujarati localisation of KDE 4.2, usability workshop, and some internationalisation work for KDE 14. Rajeev Sebastian: Indic text rendering in Scribus, a page layout (DTP) application, using the Harfbuzz library. 15. Shishir Sharma et al: Intelligent Transliteration from Romanised English to Hindi 16. Syed Shikeb: Urdu localisation of KDE 4.2. 17. Ravishankar Shrivastava: Chhatisgarhi localisation of KDE 4.2. 18. Sreeraj R: Adding feature to System Verilog support for ICARUS. System Verilog is a hardware description, and verification language (HDVL) used, e.g., to program FPGAs. 19. Srujanika: Addition to Oriya dictionary, including scientific and technical terms. 20. Shamail Tayyab: Web-based secure P2P. Promotes sharing in a community-based way 21. C S Yoganada: Extend Sagar (TeX) to Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Gujarati and Oriya Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ Freed mailing list Freed(a)lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/freed -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Linux Jobs
by Ashish Sirasao 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi, If you look up and see you will see cellular phone towers everywhere. These unmanned structures house wireless basestations which make the cellular network function. These structures are known as shelter. Powertech Automation Systems, Pune has teamed up with leading wireless infrastructure companies in India and developed an innovative solution which is used to monitor these shelters over GPRS network. The solution uses Linux for both the embedded side as well as server side. If you are looking for an exciting growth opportunity and like to work on Linux platform. Please send me a mail at ashish(a)powertechautomation.com We are looking for following skills: 1. Linux Device Drivers 2. C/C++ programming on small footprint linux 3. Serial Programing for : Modems, Bluetooth, IRdA, scanneres etc 4. Network administration / networking scripts 5. Server side programming using Java, Python 6. Apache/Jboss web server 7. Ajax programming 8. Mysql and other database programming 9. SSL/TLS/Crypto 10. C/C++ programming 11. High performance systems Thanks, Ashish

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how to make money with free software
by Kenneth Gonsalves 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-money-with-free-software.… -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Sourabh Daptardar 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

LinkedIn ------------ GNU/Linux, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Sourabh Accept Sourabh Daptardar's invite: https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/391744198/u7P5kYX0/ ------------------------------------------ What is LinkedIn and why should you join? http://learn.linkedin.com/what-is-linkedin/ ------ (c) 2008, LinkedIn Corporation

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Sourabh Daptardar 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

LinkedIn ------------ GNU/Linux, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Sourabh Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/391744364/zCqtLrMF/ ------------------------------------------ What is LinkedIn and why should you join? http://learn.linkedin.com/what-is-linkedin/ ------ (c) 2008, LinkedIn Corporation

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Commercial] Quality Engineer openings at Red Hat, Pune
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:18 AM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Commercial] Quality Engineer openings at Red Hat, Pune To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> My apologies if you are receiving this twice, I guess the other mail address hit moderation ~sankarshan Description: Capable of independently handling testing for one or more areas in a software product / component from Red Hat. Role includes collaborating with developers / software engineers in debugging aspects of components. Demonstrated expertise in usage of automated test infrastructure and / or scripting languages. Has developed test cases and has general understanding of testing processes Essential Responsibilities: + Developing Test Plans + Developing Test Cases + Creation, maintenance and enhancement of documentation to assist debugging and modification of Test Suites + Working on and extending Test Automation Tools + Executing Tests and Analyzing Failures + Participation in weekly team meeting and coordination of activities and tasks with functional teams Qualifications: + Bachelors Degree in IT or Computer Science or equivalent + Around 2 years of related experience (or an equivalent combination of the above) + Programming Skills in Python and related Scripting Languages + Prior knowledge of existing Open Source Automated Testing Framework CV to be sent to careers-in at redhat dot com with 'Quality Engineer' in the subject line. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Commercial] Software Engineer positions at Red Hat, Pune
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:19 AM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Commercial] Software Engineer positions at Red Hat, Pune To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> My apologies if you are receiving this twice, I guess the other mail address hit moderation ~sankarshan Note: There are multiple positions for the description below. Red Hat is looking for an experienced engineer with a strong technical background to work on software engineering for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The position requires working on system internals including creating tooling related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux system internals. Proficiency in creating and using APIs. Understanding of system ABI and standards are required as part of the role. Capable of working with upstream Open Source projects and building community around tools created. The current position of Software Engineer is expected to possess the following skills: * Demonstrated expertise in at least one object oriented programming language (Python or Ruby) with some experience of other technologies, scripting languages, databases and software engineering * Familiarity with init systems * Must be familiar with the general software development release cycle, source management and defect management methodologies in Linux environment * General awareness of RPM internals * General awareness of SystemTap or related tools * Familiarity with POSIX guidelines * Understanding of configuration management principles * Exposure to Free and Open Source Software Development Process * The candidate is required to have 1+ year of relevant work experience CV to be sent to careers-in at redhat dot com with 'Software Engineer' in the subject line. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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ayttm workout at foss.in
by Philip Tellis 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

The ayttm team is proposing a workout at foss.in to accelerate the development pace of ayttm. We're actively looking for new developers to join the team. All currently active developers are from India, and more would be better. If you're not familiar with ayttm, check http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/ We need people to work on protocols, network related stuff, UI stuff, icon and emoticon design and more. If you're interested, join the ayttm-users@ mailing list (linked from the homepage) and state your intention there. You'll also need to register as a workout participant at foss.in. -- hello world

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