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Kontalk messenger (Re: [X-POST] January Meetup)
by Praveen A 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

For those who were not present at the meetup, kontalk is a Free Software replacement for whatsapp - you can chat with anyone if you know their phone number using a data connection (cheaper sms for many people). See http://kontalk.org Currently it is available only on android. Their next version would support XMPP and it would make it easy to get it working on other platforms. Karan asked me how they would know if my contact has a kontalk account if they don't store everyone's number? I asked the upstream and he confirmed my guess. When you register your number, the server sends you an sms to confirm your number and the number is discarded. A one way hash of the number is used as username (like storing passwords, the server can never guess the number based on the hash). So when you want to talk to someone in your phone contact list, the client will make a hash and send it to the server to find the public. The public key of the user will be signed by the server and all communications will be end to end encrypted. Only way to spy would installing apps on the users' phones. This is simply brilliant, the encryption solution we have been waiting for, as easy as whatsapp! Cheers Praveen 2014/1/18, Rigved Rakshit <r.phate(a)gmail.com>: > Hello, > > There might be connectivity issue at the venue. It is advisable to > have a backup Internet connection handy. > > Best Regards, > Rigved > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [X-POST] January Meetup
by Rigved Rakshit 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

Hello, > I was thinking of keeping the January meetup on 12th Sunday. This is because 19th Sunday has the Mumbai Marathon. What does everyone think about this change? > > Also, for the Linux meetup, there'll be a presentation on Debian packaging. I meant January meetup and not December meetup in the subject line! Best Regards, Rigved @Sent from my smart-phone

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Fwd: Happy New Year...
by Dhruv Baldawa 12 Jan '14

12 Jan '14

Hi All, Would anyone like to help/volunteer with this? and any pointers would be helpful :-). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ambuja Salgaonkar <ambujas(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:01 PM Subject: Happy New Year... To: Dhruv Baldawa <dhruvbaldawa(a)gmail.com> Hello Though very belated, hope you will appreciate this as a gesture of restarting the interaction that had started during the last month. May I know the updates of your last meeting? My college colleagues are ready to host FOSS lectures. Do let me know what best could be done. Thanks and reply awaited Regards -Ambuja -- Dhruv Baldawa (http://www.dhruvb.com)

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CfP Open for RootConf 2014
by Mehul Ved 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Rootconf is a conference targeted at system administrators. As per their website: """Rootconf is a conference on web and cloud infrastructure. It is targeted at companies who are struggling to scale the effectiveness of their developer teams and performance of their web stacks.""" If you'd like to speak on a topic, you can submit your proposal on https://funnel.hasgeek.com/rootconf2014/ -- With Regards, Mehul Ved

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Study on the Culture of FOSS in India
by Indivar Jonnalagadda 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

Hey, My name is Indivar Jonnalagadda, I am a student at TISS, Mumbai. I'm contacting you with regards to my dissertation which is a study of FOSS culture in India. Basically I want to look at the ideas of FOSS developers/enthusiasts regarding themes like intellectual property rights, internet, innovation & collaboration and also look at how these ideas are linked to the practices of FOSS. As part of my study I wish to interview developers and advocates of FOSS. That is why I'm posting to this mailing list. If anybody is interested in sharing their experiences and views on FOSS in India, please get back to me at indivarj(a)gmail.com. Based on your convenience and preference we could either have an interview over telephone/skype or in person. Thanks. I'm looking forward to speaking to some of you. Regards Indivar Jonnalagadda (+919819172401)

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[X-Post] conf.kde.in details
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

Hi, Happy new year to you all. Please forward this email to various Linux/FOSS user groups in your city, college any where you think it should reach. Thank you in advance. We are very excited to announce the second edition of conf.kde.in, the biggest KDE conference in India. This three day conference scheduled in February will bring together Qt developers, KDE contributors, open source enthusiasts and users from all across the nation. The event will give you the opportunity to learn, share, contribute, innovate and create while providing you endless possibilities with Qt/KDE technologies. conf.kde.in is an excellent platform for you to learn about FOSS and start contributing to it. The participants will be introduced to the KDE community, and shall also be given an overview of the latest developments in it. The talks, interactive sessions shall help strengthen your basis and shall familiarize you with what it’s like to be a part of the KDE community and help you to contribute to KDE SC and maybe for future participation in programs like Google Summer of Code and Season of KDE. Last year, KDE was the largest participating organizing in GSoC with a selection of 60 students.The sessions will range from the beginner to the advanced level, to facilitate all kinds of participants. *Talks* There shall be a vibrant gamut of talks at the event; ranging over a variety of technical as well as non technical talks covered by members of the KDE community from the extremes of India as well as the world. Be a witness to this cultural as well as intellectual infusion of ideas and experiences, of knowledge and guidance; by people from different walks of life, all with a common passion - open source, KDE; ready to ignite the same passion in you through their words and their minds. 1. How I got involved in KDE and How to attack a problem - Sujith H 2. Hacking on KStars: Progress and challenges - Rishab Arora 3. One app to rule all your media - Sinny Kumari 4. KDE unlike a coconut - Smit Shah 5. Plasma Workspace 2: Little introduction - Bhushan Shah 6. Baloo - Metadata and Search - Vishesh Handa 7. Cute (Qt) C++ idioms - Nikhil Marathe 8. Qt Project - Frederik Gladhorn 9. Language learning with KDE - Samikshan Bairagya 10.Effective Open-Source Speech Recognition in Your Application - Peter Grasch 11.Where KDE is and where it is going - Jos Poortvliet 12. C++11: A Language Renaissance - Kévin Ottens The above is the incomplete list of talks, we are adding more talks as we get confirmation from the speakers. The updated list of talks can be found at http://kde.in/conf/accepted-talks. Every speaker at conf.kde.in is a bonafide contributor to KDE, some of them contributing over a decade. Attending the conference will give you the opportunity to meet seasoned open source contributors, discuss with them, exchange ideas with them, learn from them and also teach them something new. Many of these contributors work for great companies (which themselves are involved in various open source projects) like Mozilla, openSUSE, Red Hat, Blue Systems, ThoughtWorks, KDAB, Digia etc. Also you will find that many of these contributors were students until recently. *Wondering what KDE/Qt is?* KDE is one of the largest international free software community. It has an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and OS X systems. KDE is known for its Plasma Workspace, an environment provided as the default working environment on many Linux distributions, such as Kubuntu, Pardus, and openSUSE. To find more information about KDE, please visit http://www.kde.org/ Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software with a graphical user interface (GUI) and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as command- line tools and consoles for servers. Qt is most notably used in Adobe Photoshop Elements, Skype, VLC media player, VirtualBox, Dassault DraftSight and Mathematica, and by the European Space Agency, DreamWorks, Google, HP, KDE, Lucasfilm, Autodesk Maya, The Foundry's Nuke, Panasonic, Philips, Blackberry applications, Samsung, Siemens, Volvo, Walt Disney, Animation Studios and Research In Motion. Qt runs on multiple platforms which include Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, Embedded Linux, Blackberry 10, Android, Sailfish and Ubuntu Phone OS. To find more information about Qt, please visit http://qt-project.org/ *Details about conf.kde.in*: Venue: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar Date: 21st - 23rd Feb, 2014 Time: 9 AM - 6:30 PM The registrations for the conference are now open. Please register yourself here (http://cki2014.doattend.com/) and avail the “Early Bird” discount till 15th Jan. There are limited seats so hurry up! You will find accommodation options at http://conf.kde.in/accommodation. We are working very hard to make conf.kde.in 2014 a huge success. And it will happen with the help of your participation. Looking forward to meet you all. Stay tuned for regular updates about this event on our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/kdeindia) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/kdeindia) page. For any queries, feel free to reach us at conf(a)kde.in Cheers, Pradeepto -- Pradeepto Kumar Bhattacharya KDE e.V. Board of Director | Proud KDE Contributor The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org

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Diaspora meetup on Jan 11, 3 pm at HBCSE and my Mumbai trip
by Praveen A 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

With recent revelations of NSA spying on all communications they can get their hands on, it is all the more important for us to build technological solutions like federated social networks, encrypted email etc. Diaspora is an an important solution to this critical problem facing all of us. But as it is a social network, along with technical part, we need to take it to the masses. So if you are keen about protecting your privacy, join us in this campaign and lets together plan how far we can take it. RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Diaspora/Mumbai-IN/1078062/ Also if any of you are interested in technical contributions like packaging diaspora for debian or developing features for diaspora (it is a ruby on rails application), let me know. Btw, I will be in Mumbai from 9th to 24th Jan and I would like to visit as many campuses as possible to promote free software, free culture, privacy, internet freedom etc. If you have contacts with any schools or colleges, connect with me. A little about me, I contribute to debian and maintains many ruby libraries needed for diaspora. You can see the current status of diaspora packaging at http://people.debian.org/~praveen/diasbar/ I used to be a Senior System Administrator with Red Hat in Pune. Now I'm just travelling around India promoting digital commons and meeting friends. 4 of my recent campaigns 1. Pirate Cycling https://poddery.com/tags/piratecycling 2. Kids on Computers free software lab setup at Assam https://poddery.com/tags/kocassam 3. Diaspora setup at Acharya Narendra Dev college in Delhi https://poddery.com/tags/andcdiasportal 4. Diaspora Yatra https://poddery.com/tags/diasporayatra http://yatra.diasporafoundation.org Looking forward to meeting you all. -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution.

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[X-POST] December Meetup
by Rigved Rakshit 29 Dec '13

29 Dec '13

Hello, I was thinking of keeping the January meetup on 12th Sunday. This is because 19th Sunday has the Mumbai Marathon. What does everyone think about this change? Also, for the Linux meetup, there'll be a presentation on Debian packaging. Best Regards, Rigved @Sent from my smart-phone

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mumbai Debian Users' Group Meetup
by Praveen A 29 Dec '13

29 Dec '13

2013/12/8 Rigved Rakshit <r.phate(a)gmail.com>: > Hello, > > So, I know that there are some Debian activities that take place in > Pune. But I have not come across anything happening in Mumbai. So, I > wanted to know if anyone in Mumbai is interested in starting some > Debian activities (or have these already started?). I will be in Mumbai from 9 to 24 Jan and I would like to meet the community and share what I have learned. I can take debian packaging workshops if anyone is interested to learn and start contributing to debian. -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution.

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Linux Users Group Meetup
by Rigved Rakshit 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hello, This month's Linux Users' Group meetup can take place at Directiplex. Details: Date: 22nd December, 2013 (Sunday) Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Suggestions for sessions are welcome. We also need one session for the Spotlight session (showcasing a Linux distribution). Let me know if anyone has any suggestions for the event. Best Regards, Rigved

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