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software freedom at the time India is debating privacy, data policy in the digital space
by GN 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

All the recent threats to digital netigens are arising due to ignoring the visionary warnings RMS gave us several decades ago. Whether it is a threat to privacy, or the dangers of cloud computing. The 'open source' vision though may have spread the development of technology, it failed miserably in adhering to the ethical and political dimensions of the movement. I think it is relevant to discuss such issues and awaken the community to why we still need to address the issues of software freedom. RMS will be in India during early 2019. Would any of you be interested in coordinating with me to check for a good venue and to find a host in the first week of January. The date will be around 7th of Jan, + or - one day. -- GN

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Fwd: [Events] Talk on "Cooperativism In The Digital Economy: Trends & Challenges" on 10th September , 2018 at 5.15 p.m| SJMSOM Auditorium – adjacent to I RCC/SOM
by jitendra 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Office Centre for Policy Studies <office.cps(a)iitb.ac.in> Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 10:25 AM Subject: [Events] Talk on "Cooperativism In The Digital Economy: Trends & Challenges" on 10th September , 2018 at 5.15 p.m| SJMSOM Auditorium – adjacent to I RCC/SOM To: <events(a)iitb.ac.in>, seminar(a)iitb.ac.in <student-notices(a)iitb.ac.in>, < staff-notices(a)iitb.ac.in> [image: Boxbe] <https://www.boxbe.com/overview> This message is eligible for Automatic Cleanup! (office.cps(a)iitb.ac.in) Add cleanup rule <https://www.boxbe.com/popup?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.boxbe.com%2Fcleanup%3Fkey…> | More info <http://blog.boxbe.com/general/boxbe-automatic-cleanup?tc_serial=42845674313…> ---------------------------------------- IMPORTANT To join the list send a mail to events-subscribe(a)iitb.ac.in To leave the list send a mail to events-unsubscribe(a)iitb.ac.in Policy on postings to this list is available at: http://lists.iitb.ac.in/policies/EVENTS_policy.pdf __________________________________________________________________ Your subscribed address in the mailing list Events(a)iitb.ac.in is jitendra.shah(a)iitb.ac.in Messages may get discarded if you post from any other email address. __________________________________________________________________ Dear All, The Centre for Policy Studies would like to cordially invite you for a talk by Michel Bauwens on “Cooperativism in the Digital Economy: Trends & Challenges”. Date : Monday, September 10, 2018 Time : 05:15 pm – 06:30 pm Venue : (SJMSOM Auditorium – adjacent to IRCC/SOM) Michel Bauwens is a well-known writer, researcher and theorist in the area of peer to peer (P2P) production, shared economy and digital cooperativism. He is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives (http://p2pfoundation.net) and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He is also research director of CommonsTransition.org, a platform for policy development aimed toward a society of the Commons. He has crafted a Commons Transition Plan for the city of Ghent in Belgium, after a similar project for Ecuador in 2014. He is also adviser to SMart, a fast growing European labour mutual for autonomous workers, seeking welfare reform, while considering biocapacity-based accounting mechanisms. We actively look forward to your presence on the occasion! Prof. Satish Agnihotri Head, CPS _______________________________________________ Events mailing list Events(a)iitb.ac.in http://lists.iitb.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/events -- jitendra

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All Day DevOps 2018/10/17
by Arun Khan 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

FYI / FWIW -- Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Raju Devidas <rajudev(a)disroot.org> Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 1:25 PM Subject: [ilugd] Organizing an All Day DevOps viewing party To: <ilugd(a)lists.hserus.net>, <meetup-group-ilugd-announce(a)meetup.com> Namaste Everyone, Some of us have been contacted regarding organization of a viewing party of the All Day Devops virtual conference. https://www.alldaydevops.com/ The dates for this 24 Hour virtual conference is October 17, 2018. About some background for the conference. All Day DevOps <http://www.alldaydevops.com/> is a free, online community event. Last year was its second year, and it included 5 simultaneous tracks, 96 sessions, and 4 keynotes - across all time zones, for 24 hours, absolutely no vendor pitches allowed. The 2018 conference on October 17 will feature 5 tracks and 100 half-hour sessions over 24 hours and the same no-vendor-pitch rules apply. [.... snip ....]

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Requesting help in formatting the system.
by sriram g 02 Sep '18

02 Sep '18

Hi All, I'm Sriram, based out of Chennai. I have my laptop which is dual boot (windows and Linux drivers). I would like to format my system and keep a fresh Linux os (Ubuntu or anything else). I'm looking for Linux users group to whom I can take my system. Requesting your help in sorting this. Thanks Sriram.

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September 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Hello All, The September 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 8th September 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 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. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. Using git - Mr.Nilesh, Mr.Tayyabali Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Comprehensive list of open source education tools
by Rushabh Mehta 25 Aug '18

25 Aug '18

I just discovered that Scratch now has a web version ! https://beta.scratch.mit.edu/ <https://beta.scratch.mit.edu/> Is there a comprehensive list of F/OSS education tools and games? The articles that Google throws up are very old and so is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open-source_educational_video_games <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open-source_educational_video_games> Please share if you find a curated list!

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August Meet Summery
by Milind Oka 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

The meeting started exactly at 3 pm.In the beginning, speaker Sooraj Dhanuka explained the terms Blue Ocean and Red Ocean. Most of the attendees were not aware of these terms. "Blue ocean" is a slang term for the uncontested market space for an unknown industry or innovation. Blue oceans are sectors associated with high potential profits.In an established industry, companies compete with each other for every piece of available market share. The competition is often so intense that some firms cannot sustain themselves. This type of industry describes a red ocean, representing saturated market share bloodied by competition. Sooraj then gave lot of examples of how the Blue oceans gradually became Red. Later, he gave examples of FOSS related blue oceans and the opportunities for startups. He descirbed his own experience when he tried to explore those sectors.It was an interesting speech, especially for students who could take some inspiration from Sooraj. In the next session we had lot of discussion on various activities that ILUG-BOM would like to initiate. The team asked new participants about what they really expect from ILUG meets. It was then decided to conduct sessions for Students, Teachers and Computer Novices on basic skills like - using Linux,using Libre Office, creating Word Press Websites etc.

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Fwd: Considered UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you
by Dhruva lokegaonkar 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

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August 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Hello All, The August 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 11th August 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 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. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. 60 minutes: "FOSS & Blue Oceans" - Sooraj Dhanuka Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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My Presentation on FOSS & Blue Oceans
by Sooraj Dhanuka 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Hi All, Please find the link to the presentation here: https://www.slideshare.net/navindhanuka/foss-blue-oceans Best Regards, Sooraj Dhanuka

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Multiseat setup
by J T Dsouza 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Has anyone done a multi seat setup? I am trying to do it with lightdm which is supposed to have built in ability for multiseat. I am able to get two mouse pointers but not independent. I get two keyboards but working as one. Both screens are controlled by one user with one single login instead of getting two independent lightdm login greeters. my lightdm.conf [LightDM] start-default-seat=true #[Seat:*] [Seat:0] xserver-command=/usr/bin/X :0 xserver-layout=HDMI [Seat:1] xserver-command=/usr/bin/X :1 xserver-layout=VGA my xorg.conf (relevant parts) Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "HDMI" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" # Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" # InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" # InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection #Section "ServerLayout" # Identifier "VGA" # Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 # Screen 1 "Screen1" 1367 0 # InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" # InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" #EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "kbd" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "LG" ModelName "20MK400H-BB" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "LG" ModelName "20MP48HB-BB" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz", ### <percent>: "<f>%" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "Accel" # [<bool>] #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>] #Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>] #Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str> #Option "AccelMethod" # <str> #Option "DRI3" # [<bool>] #Option "DRI" # <i> #Option "ShadowPrimary" # [<bool>] #Option "TearFree" # [<bool>] #Option "DeleteUnusedDP12Displays" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "amdgpu" BusID "PCI:6:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz", ### <percent>: "<f>%" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "Accel" # [<bool>] #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>] #Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>] #Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str> #Option "AccelMethod" # <str> #Option "DRI3" # [<bool>] #Option "ShadowPrimary" # [<bool>] #Option "TearFree" # [<bool>] #Option "DeleteUnusedDP12Displays" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card1" Driver "amdgpu" BusID "PCI:6:0:1" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Card1" Monitor "Monitor1" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [PLUG] Debconf 20/21 in India
by Siji Sunny 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

> at bottom :- > > On 07/08/2018, Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar(a)alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 08:19:49AM +0530, Rigved Rakshit wrote: > >> Thanks everyone for submitting the bid for DebConf in India. > >> > >> If we are thinking of IIT Mumbai as a venue for DebConf 20, then we need > >> to > >> make sure that IIT Mumbai gives us solid WiFi and mobile carrier signals > >> in > >> the campus. During the Mini-DebConf there, we had big issues with > >> internet > >> connectivity. This is something which we can easily fix with help of > >> current students. > > > > As someone who works in IIT Bombay and a member of Debian, I can make > > this happen. We have quite a big operation in IITB with regard to FOSS > > push, and Debian is one of our major work items. > True, our experience with IIT Mumbai (and FOSSEE team) was amazing and organized 4-5 OpenSource events (including MIniDebConf) in last couple of years and all went well. As mentioned by Rigved, there was few challenge from the connectivity point of view, which I believe we can address very smartly, since we have enough time to plan. My company is working in the domain of Wireless Network/Internet, so getting a dedicated high speed Fiber connectivity for the event won't be a challenge. > > >> We have good volunteer numbers in Pune and Mumbai combined, for on the > >> ground support before the event (if it does happen). Also, Mumbai has > >> many > >> hotels to accommodate a large contingent and the IIT campus is large > >> enough > >> to accommodate multiple parallel tracks. Plus, we have many good > >> sightseeing places nearby the city. > > > > Indeed. I'll be happy to facilitate and participate. > > > > Kumar > > -- > > Kumar Appaiah > > > > > > We would be counting on you Kumar as well as people from IIT-B, people > from Mumbai LUG for your co-operation in making this a reality but > first we would need to do whole lot of minidebconfs to increase the > bench-strength and making people more aware about Debian and free > software practices. > I completely agree with you, we will be able to schedule 1-2 MiniDebConf in Mumbai before 2020. @rigved , @lugmum team, I think we should initialize this in our next Monthly meeting. > > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल > My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com > EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 > > -- Siji Sunny

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Should http be banned or blocked?
by Rony Bill 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Dear Friends, With http being insecure and a magnet for injected ads, shouldn't the http protocol be completely banned or blocked internationally and nationally and https be the norm? Regards, Rony.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [PLUG] Debconf 20/21 in India
by Rigved Rakshit 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Thanks everyone for submitting the bid for DebConf in India. If we are thinking of IIT Mumbai as a venue for DebConf 20, then we need to make sure that IIT Mumbai gives us solid WiFi and mobile carrier signals in the campus. During the Mini-DebConf there, we had big issues with internet connectivity. This is something which we can easily fix with help of current students. We have good volunteer numbers in Pune and Mumbai combined, for on the ground support before the event (if it does happen). Also, Mumbai has many hotels to accommodate a large contingent and the IIT campus is large enough to accommodate multiple parallel tracks. Plus, we have many good sightseeing places nearby the city. Adding Mumbai LUG to CC. On Mon 6 Aug, 2018, 17:57 akshat, <akshat-pg8(a)iiitmk.ac.in> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 6:46 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> In-line :- >> >> On 06/08/2018, Skool!lookS <look.kool(a)guruvision.com> wrote: >> > Kerala is a better place according to me. >> > >> > In 52 years of life thus far I found no other complelling reason to >> > reach there despite it being called "God's Own Country". >> > >> > It may change with this option... Debcon may be irrelevant for me, >> > Kerala isn't..! >> > >> > >> >> Can you stop insulting and put the proper name 'Debconf' rather than >> 'Debcon' . >> >> It's insulting. >> > > I second that, always mention it with a proper name DebConf. > > >> Also you took a thread which is happening in debian-india and plugging >> it in 'plug-in' . Is this some ploy to drive some traffic to 'plug-in' >> ? >> >> That's like taking somebody's code and claiming it as yours :( >> >> If you have no interest in Debconf then nobody is stopping you from >> visiting Kerala now or in October/November . >> >> FSF does their thing every year, even Amrita University does a free >> software program every year, it doesn't need a Debconf to appreciate >> what Kerala has to offer. You will find more free software activities >> which happen there all the time, at least much more to what Pune does. >> >> > >> > -- >> > Consultant Spirituel >> > >> > Guruvision Inc. >> > >> > -- >> > "Science is nothing more than an understanding of the way the world >> > is and why it is that way.. (it) is the method we use to try and >> > postulate a minimum set of assumptions that can explain, through a >> > straighforward logical derivation, the existence of many phenomena >> > of nature .." -- From "The Goal" by E.M. Goldratt >> > _______________________________________________ >> > plug-mail mailing list >> > plug-mail(a)plug.org.in >> > http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail >> > >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल >> My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 >> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ >> http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com >> EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 >> _______________________________________________ >> plug-mail mailing list >> plug-mail(a)plug.org.in >> http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail >> > > > > -- > Akshat Singh > [PG-8 IIITM-Kerala] > Pune > > Mob.: +91-8806963718 > Webpage: akshat.info <http://akshat.info> > > -- Best Regards, Rigved

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Happy to join in ILUG-BOM Linuxers list
by Baskar Selvaraj 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

Hi all, Myself S. Baskar, an active member from ILUG-Chennai since 2005 who is more passionate about Linux/FOSS. A Linux/FOSS user since 1997. I came to know that, few users in this group are interested in creating a custom spin using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I have been creating custom spins based on various Linux distro for educational purpose. I hope I can share this experience with ILUG-BOM members if they are interested. A few days after the release of Ubuntu 18.04, I have created a spin based on LUbuntu 18.04 for Libraries. More information can be found in the below link. I can provide a copy of the spin for the group for experimentation. http://www.digimat.in/downloads/Digital-Library-OS-for-NPTEL-SWAYAM-local-c… S. Baskar

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Call for speakers, August 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 11th August 2018, 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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Ubuntu 18.04 Custom Image
by Milind Oka 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

Hi, I came across two recent blogs on how to create custom build for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. https://www.google.com/amp/s/linoxide.com/linux-how-to/create-custom-live-c… https://news.softpedia.com/news/you-can-now-create-your-own-ubuntu-18-04-lt… We do have two custom images, Fedora and Debian ( Thanks to Rajeev and Raghu). But Ubuntu is also a very popular distribution. Few schools may request ILUG -Team to install Ubuntu in future. It is difficult to build custom image for an average user. Also there is no proper help or documentation. We can even arrange a session in our monthly meetings and try it there itself. If our experts come together, then surely success will be ours Would anyone like to take the initiative ? Thanks and Regards Milind

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opportunity for a FOSS consultant or company
by GN (Nagarjuna G) 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

Gnowledge is seeking help from a FOSS consultant or a company to create a progressive web app for gstudio project. Https://github.com/gnowledge/gstudio Please reply to me off list if any of you want to help me finding the right agency. Of course, it will be a free software released under AGPL licence. -- GN gnowledge lab HBCSE TIFR

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[Workshop] Kubernetes workshop at BigBinary Pune on 10th August.
by Rahul Mahale 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

Hello, BigBinary is organizing one day Kubernetes workshop in Pune on 10th August 2018. For registration and details please check event link https://www.townscript.com/e/kubernetes-bigbinary-workshop https://github.com/bigbinary/kubernetes-workshop -- Thanks, Rahul Mahale. http://twitter.com/Rahul_Mahale

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July 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hello All, The July 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 14th July 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 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. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. Discussions on ILUG-BOM activities Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Call for speakers, July 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 7th July 2018, 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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June 2018 meeting cancelled
by Joe Steeve 09 Jun '18

09 Jun '18

Hello All, On account of heavy rains, today's meeting is cancelled. -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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June 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

Hello All, The June 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 9th June 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 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. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. Discussions on ILUG-BOM activities Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Stunning portraits of open source revolutionaries
by Arun Khan 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

Fascinating and enlightening. <quote> Faces of Open Source is a photography project that takes the people of the open source community as subjects. Notable and unsung heroes of the open source coding world, people who dedicate themselves to license free creation and the democratization of technology, are presented in stunning black and white portraiture. </quote> Read more https://www.zdnet.com/article/stunning-portraits-of-open-source-revolutiona… Here is a picture gallery of contributors to Open Source; Peter Adam's work [1] http://facesofopensource.com/ [1] http://facesofopensource.com/artist-statement/ -- Arun Khan

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Fwd: [Workshop] Debian Packaging - 09th and 10th June 2018
by Pirate Praveen 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Workshop] Debian Packaging - 09th and 10th June 2018 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 18:43:31 +0530 From: Dhanesh Sabane <dhanesh95(a)disroot.org> To: plug-mail(a)plug.org.in CC: sagarg(a)technisia.in, praveen(a)debian.org [Tl;DR at bottom] Aloha! The FOSS world is huge and everyday new ideas are born and new software is written. But how do these software end up on Debian? How is it made possible for us to just run `apt-get install foo` to install these software? Well, the answer to these questions is packaging[1]. This workshop is aimed at answering questions like these, in depth, and also help everyone build packages for Debian. To help us all with packaging, we've invited a distinguished personality from the Debian Project, Pirate Praveen. Praveen is a Debian Developer and maintains a lot of packages in the Debian project. You can find out more about Praveen on his Debian wiki page.[2] The workshop will be held at Reserved-bit[3]. This workshop is open to all and there are no registration fees. However, note that we have limited seating capacity at the venue. Seating arrangement will be on a first-come-first-serve basis. The workshop will span over two days (09th June and 10th June 2018), so everyone can be rest assured that all the points will be covered in depth. Don't forget to bring your laptops! TL;DR: ========= *Event* - Debian Packaging Workshop *Dates* - 09th and 10th June 2018 *Time* - 10 AM to 05 PM *Venue* - Reserved-bit, 337, Amanora Chambers (Above Amanora Mall), Hadapsar, Pune *Fees* - No fees [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging#What_is_a_.22package.22.3F [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Praveen%20A [3] http://reserved-bit.com/ Regards, -- Dhanesh B. Sabane https://dhanesh95.gitlab.io

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Good Linux/FOSS Books For Migrated Schools
by Milind Oka 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi, As you already know, ILUG-BOM have migrated two schools in Mumbai to Linux/Open Source. There is a query from these schools for a list of appropriate computer books for coming academic year. There is an excellent project - Computer Masti by, IIT Mumbai, where Open Source Computer Books are being created and released under 'creative commons'. Intially copyrights belonged to InOpen technologies, now they are taken over by Next.Education. https://www.computermasti.in/ I really appreciate IIT-B and FOSSEE teams for their commendable projects. It seems that the project now is maintained nicely by Next.Education without violating the Open Source Policy. I suppose that they do not depend upon government funds now to grow. These books will definitely be a great help to all the schools migrated to open source. So I think we can surely recommend these books to all schools. But this solves the problem of most of the CBSE/ICSE schools who generally do not have budget restrictions. On the other hand, students of many state board schools come from weaker sections of the society. They cannot even spend 250 Rs for a book. Our two schools also come in these category. ( They are aided, but IT section is unaided, so even salary of teachers is paid by school management). While talking to ILUG team, Fr Jude of St Mary school said "We cannot charge more than 500 Rs for computer fees, then how to pay licences of commercial softwares ?" So lack of funds is the prime reason for them to migrate. They are expecting from us something like a small booklet costing around 50-75 Rs for each std so that students can afford it. Kindly give your suggestions. TIA Milind

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Call for speakers, June 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 30 May '18

30 May '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 9th June 2018, 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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[OT] Spam Tabs in Browser
by Rony Bill 25 May '18

25 May '18

Hello Friends, Off late I have observed that when visiting some websites (Clean ones), especially where a form is to be filled, a spam advts tab opens in the browser. It happens in Android as well as Ubuntu in Firefox. In my Ubuntu laptop, I was on a sports shopping site and just when I clicked on Buy Now, it opened a spam page, even playing an advt video. What is this new phenomenon happening? Regards, Rony.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser
by Chirag Wazir 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hi, As Richard says, the problem is probably due to MTNL's irritating habit of injecting Ads. I have never seen them do a full page one - i.e. usually I saw small popups - but I have had the URLs blocked for a couple of years now, so I suppose they have "progressed". Regarding Rony's question "Is there any setting in my router that can reduce this?". Yes. You need to block some URLs/IPs on your router. My list is as follows: 203.94.227.141:3000 203.94.227.141:80 203.94.227.140:80 203.94.243.40:80 adphonso.com:80 phozeca.com:80 Where the setting will be depends on your router - on my D-Link it's "Advanced Setup" => "URL Filter" -- Chirag Wazir http://chirag.freeshell.org

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Book to learn openstack
by Augustus Johnson 17 May '18

17 May '18

Hi, I want to deploy openstack in our environment so I want to learn it. Please suggest a good book I can read to learn it. Thanks, Augustus.

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Thanks for the talk today.
by Dhruva lokegaonkar 12 May '18

12 May '18

My friend Sudesh has also joined the mailing list, and will hopefully also join us the the future meetings. Also I just saw the new mailman interface. It looks much better and it's more inviting to new users. -- Dhruva Lokegaonkar dhruva(a)lokegaonkar.in

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restructuring curriculum and Textbooks for the academic year 2019-20
by Milind Oka 10 May '18

10 May '18

Applications are invited for selection of members of Board of Studies for restructuring curriculum and Textbooks for the academic year 2019-20 and onwards, This is for Std 11 and 12. This includes IT (Information and Technology) where we all are focusing. Link to apply online : https://www.research.net/r/bosnew11-12std This is a great opportunity to shape the future of lacs of students of Maharashtra. I request our members to apply and help the state to frame the best possible curriculum in IT. Earlier, the last date was 5 may. It is now extended to 10 may. Thanks and Regards Milind

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May 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 07 May '18

07 May '18

Hello All, The May 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 12th May 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 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. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. "Getting started with embedded Linux" - Siji Sunny Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Summary of April Meetup
by Milind Oka 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Meeting started at exactly 3 pm. We had some new members. Dhruv, a young student who has been using Linux for last four years. He shared his experience of installing Linux for the first time and also using Linux in School. Ashish, another newcomer, who is an experienced sysadmin and programmer, said that he has been pushing FOSS in his company. We were happy to see an old ILUG member Prof Kumar from IIT-B who is also a Debian developer. After the initial introduction, Rajeev started with the basic introduction of gpg. he explained how symmetric and asymmetric encryption works, the concept of secret keys. he explained how symmetric encryption is coupled with asymmetric encryption in the gpg to optimise performance. Rajeev showed us how to set-up gpg key pairs and also how to share the public key with other users, he then gave a demonstration of how to encrypt, decrypt and sign a document with gpg. He explained the concept of the web of trust and how to import and sign gpg keys of others. After the demo, there was a small question and answer session. ( Prepared by Raghu and Tayyab) Thanks and Regards -- Milind

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ERPNext Summer of Code
by Rushabh Mehta 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Hello all, We are glad to announce that ERPNext is organising ESoC - ERPNext Summer of Code, inspired by GSoC. You get to spend one summer with some of the top open source developers in India and be a part of the large open source community. Why should you apply? - Get experience working on real-life projects. - Get mentored by some of the top developers in India. - Be a part of Open Source Communities. - Build your resume and increase your chances of getting a job. - Did not get into GSOC, don't worry, you will get a better experience here. - Earn a stipend of Rs 20,000 per month, on completing your tasks. How to Apply? - Select one (or multiple) projects listed out here. - Go through the tasks listed down for them in the “issues” section of the repository. - Register for the event! (PS: also go through the terms once) So why waste any more time? Go to https://erpnext.org/esoc and register. And while you’re at it, also spread the word to others! Have any more queries? Drop an email to esoc(a)erpnext.org. Thanks! best, Rushabh

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Call for speakers, April 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 14th April 2018, 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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April 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Hello All, The April 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 14th March 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 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. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. 60 minutes: "Using GPG" - R.K.Rajeev 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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{Job Posting} Linux/Networking - Freshers/Experienced
by Siji Sunny 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

Dear All, We are looking for freshers/experienced people to work on Linux, Open Source Technologies and Networking, who's ready to learn new things and work with well-funded fast growing start-up environment. Location - Mumbai Pls share your resume to hr(a)sugarboxnetworks.com -- Siji Sunny

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[commercial] [xpost][hiring]: NIPFP is looking to hire Research Programmers on a full-time in Delhi
by atul jha 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Hi All, NIPFP are looking to hire Research Programmers on a full-time The tools involved here are Linux, MySQL, R, time-series analysis, longitudinal data analysis and geo-spatial analysis [example <https://ajayshahblog.blogspot.in/2018/03/estimating-impact-of-draft-drone.h…>], machine learning. We are at the frontiers of R programming including releasing open source R packages [fxregime <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fxregime/index.html>, eventstudies <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/eventstudies/index.html>]. Details about announcement: https://ajayshahblog.blogspot.in/2018/04/announcements.html -- Atul Jha www.atuljha.com @ koolhead17 <https://twitter.com/koolhead17>

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[xpost] Cloudflare announces DNS Resolver 1.1.1.1 (on 4/1)
by Arun Khan 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

Cloudflare announces public DNS servers 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 on 4/1 (April 1). NO -- it’s not an April Fool’s joke. Scroll down to the end of the blog. https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-resolver-1-1-1-1/amp/ Don’t believe it? Pinch yourself and test it out! -- Arun Khan

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Fwd: [CoFSUG] COEP FOSSMeet: Registrations are open
by Pirate Praveen 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [CoFSUG] COEP FOSSMeet: Registrations are open Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:12:16 +0530 From: अभिजित Abhijit <abhijit13(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: cofsug(a)googlegroups.com To: cofsug <cofsug(a)googlegroups.com> Dear All, COEP is organising it's first every FOSSMeet on 7th and 8th April (Sat-Sun) 2018. The website is up at https://foss.coep.org.in/fossmeet/ <https://foss.coep.org.in/fossmeet/> The registrations for non-COEPian attendees are open at https://www.townscript.com/e/coep-fossmeet18/booking <https://www.townscript.com/e/coep-fossmeet18/booking> Enter the world of Opestack, Firefox, Wordpress, Blender, Docker, Git, Virtual Reality, DevOps, jQuery, IoT, Beaglebone, Debian, Go and a lot more. With 22 sessions (Talks, workshops and fun) the event will definitely be fruitful for everyone. Each venue has a limited capacity and the seating will be on a first com basis. Hurry and register yourself before the tickets get over! Please forward this message to all your LUGs, ILUGS, FSUGs and interested communities. Cheers, Abhijit A M COEP -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CoFSUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cofsug+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:cofsug+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to cofsug(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:cofsug@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/cofsug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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Anybody using Dart?
by Joe Steeve 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Hello All, Does anyone on this list use Dart professionally? I am just trying to see if there is any adoption, locally. And if there is, how it went. -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Call for speakers, March 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 10th March 2018, 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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February 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Hello All, The February 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 10th February 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 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. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. 1 hour: "Introduction to Python" - Nilesh Ghavate 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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Call for speakers, February 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 10th February 2018, 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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Jude in Mumbai Mirror
by GN 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

My mentor, friend and digital freedom fighter https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/city-columns/jt-dsouza-the-thin… -- GN

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Series of Articles on Open Source Movement in Marathi
by Milind Oka 14 Jan '18

14 Jan '18

Dear all, From new year, Loksatta, one of the leading newspapers in marathi, (Express Group) has started a weekly series of articles on Open Source Movement. The articles will be published on every Monday. The writer is Mr Amrutaunshu Nerurkar. This series is really going to help in creating awareness about FOSS among ordinary people. First two articles have already been published and I found them quite impressive. On behalf of ILUG, I thanked the author for his efforts and invited him to our group and meetings. Giving his response below. ----- ---- नमस्कार. तुमच्या ईमेल बद्दल खूप आभार. तुम्ही माझा लेख वाचलात आणि तो तुम्हाला आवडला हे ऐकून फार आनंद झाला. पुढील लेखांमधूनही मी तुमच्या अपेक्षांना खरा उतरेन अशी आशा बाळगतो. या लेखमालेला जास्तीत जास्त वाचक वर्ग मिळवून देण्याच्या आपल्या प्रयत्नांसाठी मी आपला मनापासून आभारी आहे. तुमचं निरीक्षण अगदी बरोबर आहे. आपल्याकडे शासकीय आणि शैक्षणिक स्तरावर ओपन सोर्स सॉफ्टवेअरच्या संशोधन अथवा वापराबद्दल खूप अनास्था आहे. तुमच्या मुंबई लिनक्स ग्रुपचे या बाबतीतले प्रयत्न अत्यंत कौतुकास्पद आणि अभिनंदनीय आहेत. तुमच्या एखाद्या मासिक बैठकीला उपस्थित राहण्याचा मी निश्चित प्रयत्न करेन. पहिल्याच लेखात म्हटल्याप्रमाणे मी स्वतःला या विषयातला तज्ज्ञ समजत नाही. मी फक्त या विषयाचा अभ्यासक आहे. त्यामुळे मी तुम्हाला किती मार्गदर्शन करू शकेन मला माहित नाही पण मला स्वतःला काही नवीन नक्कीच शिकता येईल. असो. या लेखमालिकेला पूरक असा ब्लॉग लिहिणे मी चालू केले आहे. जस जसे माझे लेख लोकसत्तामध्ये प्रकाशित होत जातील त्यांची एक प्रत मी या ब्लॉग वर सुद्धा (लोकसत्ता इ-पेपर च्या माध्यमातून) प्रसिद्ध करेन. यामुळे कोणास मागील लेख वाचायचे असतील तर एकाच ठिकाणी त्यांच्या सर्व लिंक्स उपलब्ध होतील. तसेच मी या ब्लॉगवर वेळोवेळी काही पूरक दस्तावेज किंवा लिंक्स प्रसिद्ध करेन ज्या माझ्या लेखांशी निगडित असतील पण शब्दमर्यादेमुळे वर्तमानपत्रातील लेखांमध्ये समाविष्ट होऊ शकल्या नसतील. https://mahajalache-muktayan.blogspot.in/ या संकेतस्थळावर हा ब्लॉग उपलब्ध आहे जो तुम्ही follow करू शकता. तसेच आपल्या ग्रुप मधील सर्व कार्यकर्त्यांना व परिचितांना सुद्धा जर ही लिंक पाठवलीत तर आपला ऋणी राहीन. धन्यवाद. अमृतांशू नेरुरकर

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January 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Hello All, The January 2018 meeting of "Indian Linux User Group, Mumbai (ILUG- BOM)", will be held on 13th January 2018, 15:00 to 16:30 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. 30 minutes: Introductions 2. Floor open for relevant discussions. Everyone is welcome :) -- Joe Steeve HiPro IT Solutions Private Limited http://www.hipro.co.in/

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Call for speakers, January 2018 meeting
by Joe Steeve 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

Hello All, The next monthly meeting is on 13th January 2018, 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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linux installation
by Bharath Kumar 24 Dec '17

24 Dec '17

Hi ILUG Mumbai, Greetings ! I would like to install linux on my "HP" laptop. downloading the huge size of the operating system (1.5 GB) is not practicable. It is a 64-bit intel processor with 8GB RAM and 1000GB hard-disk. I cannot shift to "installation from pen-drive" mode after pressing F2. Can you please help me ?? I will come to your place with my laptop and get linux installed. I stay in Koparkhairane , Navi Mumbai. Is there any linux installation expert near-by ?? Even if your member stays far away from my place, I will come. Please suggest me an appointment. I ready to even completely delete windows and install linux in my laptop. Thanks, Bharathkumar AV

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