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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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