9 Feb
2011
9 Feb
'11
6:48 a.m.
Dear All,
As you may be aware, VPM, Thane is trying to bring KohaCon11 the
annual conference of the international Koha community to India this
year.
The Koha community has decided to conduct a online vote to decide
where to host this years conference. This is separate from the show of
support on Koha's wiki page & will be the decider.
The voting closes on 17th Feb 2011.
Request you all to please visit following link and vote for VPM, Thane
as your first choice.
http://survey.web2learning.net/limesurvey/index.php?sid=15529&lang=en
Please request all your friends and colleagues also to vote for VPM,
Thane by visiting the above link. We need all the support we can get..
Regards,
Koustubha Kale
Anant Corporation
Contact Details :
Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes
Naka, Thane (w),
Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601.
TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109
Mobile : +919820715876
Website : http://www.anantcorp.com
Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2
9 Feb
9 Feb
7:08 a.m.
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 12:18 +0530, Koustubha Kale wrote:
As you may be aware, VPM, Thane
a few words on what is VPM and why Thane in preference to Kolkata and
why this groups is asked to vote (I have never seen a single post on
Koha in this group).
--
regards
KG
http://lawgon.livejournal.com
Coimbatore LUG rox
http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/
7:50 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon(a)thenilgiris.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 12:18 +0530, Koustubha Kale
wrote:
Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane is a educational trust based in Thane on
outskirts of Mumbai. ( www.vpmthane.org ). It has schools and colleges
providing education to about 15000 students.
VPM, Thane is a big proponent of FOSS. It uses FOSS on most of its
800+ computers and servers. It has also conducted many GNU/Linux
workshops and seminars.
Through its project Granthalaya.org ( www.granthalaya.org ) VPM, Thane
intends to create bibliographic union database of holdings of all the
public libraries in Konkan area including Thane. Vidya Prasarak Mandal
intends to help the participating libraries for computerizing their
holdings by providing them an open source library software Koha for
the purpose. Through this project VPM, Thane already has helped many
libraries digitize their catalouges and computerize their operations.
For this purpose VPM, Thane has been involved with the Koha community
and desires to bring the Koha conference with its worldwide community
of developers and librarians to its campus in Thane. This will benefit
the students, staff, libraries and FOSS users in the region, hence the
mail requesting support to the GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai
I hope you will support and participate in this initiative..
Regards,
Koustubha Kale
Anant Corporation
Contact Details :
Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes
Naka, Thane (w),
Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601.
TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109
Mobile : +919820715876
Website : http://www.anantcorp.com
Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2
As you may be aware, VPM, Thane
a few words on what is VPM and why Thane in preference to Kolkata and
why this groups is asked to vote (I have never seen a single post on
Koha in this group).
-- 
10:36 a.m.
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 13:20:50 Koustubha Kale wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon(a)thenilgiris.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 12:18 +0530, Koustubha Kale
wrote:
Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane is a educational trust based in Thane
on outskirts of Mumbai. ( www.vpmthane.org ). It has schools and
colleges providing education to about 15000 students.
VPM, Thane is a big proponent of FOSS. It uses FOSS on most of its
800+ computers and servers. As you may be aware, VPM, Thane
a few words on what is VPM and why Thane in preference to Kolkata
and why this groups is asked to vote (I have never seen a single
post on Koha in this group).
-- It has also conducted many GNU/Linux
workshops and seminars.
Hmm. I seemed to have the missed the announcements on this list then.
Through its project Granthalaya.org ( www.granthalaya.org ) VPM,
Thane intends to create bibliographic union database of holdings of
all the public libraries in Konkan area including Thane. Vidya
Prasarak Mandal intends to help the participating libraries for
computerizing their holdings by providing them an open source
library software Koha for the purpose. Through this project VPM,
Thane already has helped many libraries digitize their catalouges
and computerize their operations. For this purpose VPM, Thane has
been involved with the Koha community and desires to bring the Koha
conference with its worldwide community of developers and
librarians to its campus in Thane. This will benefit the students,
staff, libraries and FOSS users in the region, hence the mail
requesting support to the GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai
I hope you will support and participate in this initiative..
Regards,
Koustubha Kale
Anant Corporation
Contact Details :
Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes
Naka, Thane (w),
Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601.
TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109
Mobile : +919820715876
Website : http://www.anantcorp.com
Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2
--
Rgds
JTD
11:23 a.m.
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 16:06 +0530, jtd wrote:
so have I (btw, please trim your posts)
--
regards
KG
http://lawgon.livejournal.com
Coimbatore LUG rox
http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/
It has also
conducted many GNU/Linux
workshops and seminars.
Hmm. I seemed to have the missed the announcements on this list then. 
11:56 p.m.
Greetings,
On 2/9/11, jtd <jtd(a)mtnl.net.in> wrote:
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 13:20:50 Koustubha Kale
wrote:
Publication from one of the conferences conducted:
http://vpmthane.org/pub_2006_linux/home.htm
Hmm... Yes Shri. Koustubha is too modest about his contributions to
the FOSS Movement.
He has been the leading light of FLOSS in Thane in terms of execution
and operation of FOSS project and not just stopping at Proof of
Concept as many educational institutions do.
I will be forever grateful to him for allowing me to work with him
during our foray into RHCS (High Availability -- Redhat -- erm..
Centos -- Cluster Suite) and His configuration of Software RAID + DRBD
+ LTSP
His RHCS with DRBD+CLVM+GFS+LVS (Linux Virtual Server) for Desktop
usage is something to be admired especially when viewed through the
prism of uncertainty then and with an extremely constrained budget.
Not to mention his home-grown NAS solution.
It is still running with more or less original production config files.
Full Disclosure: Yes, I was administering a part of the setup he
speaks about for some period of time few years back.
Pitch for Thane: Thane is extremely well connected to Mumbai, Pune,
Nashik, Navi Mumbai etc.
There are a huge number of educational other institutions along the
Mumbai Pune expressway which need Koha and .possibility and
willingness to participate
We have a huge commercial technical pool of Linux/Unix/datacenter
Engineers in and around Mumbai who we can tap upon. Talk of FSF India,
whose Dr. Nagarjuna delivered keynote in the Linux Thane 2006. Redhat,
CDAC Mumbai (erstwhile NCST) and many others participated which also
had a something on Indian language computing.
VPM's Chairman Dr. V. V. Bedekar has supported fully the efforts of
Lat Prof. R. K. Joshi during the passing of Unicode pages for many
Indian scripts at the Unicode Consortium.
CDAC-Mumbai has fantastic Gems in Open source for example Indix.
Please support KohaConf Thane.
Regards,
Rajagopal
Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane is a educational trust based in Thane
on outskirts of Mumbai. ( www.vpmthane.org ). It has schools and
colleges providing education to about 15000 students.
Hmm. I seemed to have the missed the announcements on this list then.
>
10 Feb
10 Feb
6:10 a.m.
On Thursday 10 February 2011 05:26:21 Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
Greetings,
On 2/9/11, jtd <jtd(a)mtnl.net.in> wrote:
Old stuff. Nothing more after that, atleast on the website.
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 13:20:50 Koustubha
Kale wrote:
Publication from one of the conferences conducted:
http://vpmthane.org/pub_2006_linux/home.htm Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane is a educational
trust based in
Thane on outskirts of Mumbai. ( www.vpmthane.org ). It has
schools and colleges providing education to about 15000
students.
Hmm. I seemed to have the missed the announcements on this list
then. Hmm... Yes Shri. Koustubha is too modest about his
contributions to
the FOSS Movement.
He has been the leading light of FLOSS in Thane in terms of
execution and operation of FOSS project and not just stopping at
Proof of Concept as many educational institutions do.
We are interested in people in the public space, not merely those who
do FLOSS business. I am speaking in the context of a conference, I
have no problem with anyone having a FLOSS business Or with Shri.
Koustubha Kale. I am sure everyone else on the list will concur.
I have never heard or seen a single public announcement of any FLOSS
even in Thane.
Nor ANY public discussion on this conference being organised in Thane.
Google throws up exactly one mail.
The 2006 event announce is not in my archive (since Sept 2006) either,
But since Dr. Nagarjuna was there, I presume some announcement would
have been made.
I will be forever grateful to him for allowing me to work with him
during our foray into RHCS (High Availability -- Redhat -- erm..
Centos -- Cluster Suite) and His configuration of Software RAID +
DRBD + LTSP
His RHCS with DRBD+CLVM+GFS+LVS (Linux Virtual Server) for Desktop
usage is something to be admired especially when viewed through the
prism of uncertainty then and with an extremely constrained budget.
Not to mention his home-grown NAS solution.
It is still running with more or less original production config
files.
Full Disclosure: Yes, I was administering a part of the setup he
speaks about for some period of time few years back.
Nice to know of your personal equation with whoever, but we are
talking of public contributions.
Pitch for Thane: Thane is extremely well connected to
Mumbai, Pune,
Nashik, Navi Mumbai etc.
Ok
There are a huge number of educational other institutions along the
Mumbai Pune expressway which need Koha and .possibility and
willingness to participate
Ok
We have a huge commercial technical pool of Linux/Unix/datacenter
Engineers in and around Mumbai who we can tap upon.
Talk of FSF
India, whose Dr. Nagarjuna delivered keynote in the Linux Thane
2006. Redhat, CDAC Mumbai (erstwhile NCST) and many others
participated which also had a something on Indian language
computing.
Ok
VPM's Chairman Dr. V. V. Bedekar has supported fully the efforts of
Lat Prof. R. K. Joshi during the passing of Unicode pages for many
Indian scripts at the Unicode Consortium.
Ok
CDAC-Mumbai has fantastic Gems in Open source for example Indix.
Please support KohaConf Thane.
Regards,
Rajagopal
An open approach towards public participation is very neccessary for
such things.
As I see it, nobody that I know of are involved in this effort. If
there are others, I for one would like to know them.
--
Rgds
JTD
21 Feb
21 Feb
6:43 a.m.
Hello,
Thanks for voting for VPM, Thane in Koha conference voting. Due to all
your support, we have topped the voting by a substantial majority.
We are looking forward to your continued support and participation in
making the Koha Conference 2011 at VPM, Thane a grand success.
I will keep you posted about all the developments regarding the conference..
Regards,
Koustubha Kale
Anant Corporation
Contact Details :
Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes
Naka, Thane (w),
Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601.
TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109
Mobile : +919820715876
Website : http://www.anantcorp.com
Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2
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