Dear All Is any of you interested in participating in content development for Commonwelath Computer Navigators course being developed by COL under the guidance of Wayne Mackintosh, Education specialist. You will join the world community and give the free open source software movement a boost. do write to me and i will forward it to wayne mackintosh. regards sreedher
On 5/1/07, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Minutes of the ILUG-Delhi meeting on Sun., 29th April > Date: Tuesday 01 May 2007 17:38 > From: Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello everyone, > > The last ILUG-Delhi meeting held at the JNU Bio-Informatics Centre on > Sun., 29th April. The meeting was pretty well attended, with about 22 > people present. Here are the minutes: > > 1. E-zine: Atul Jha presented the latest version of the E-zine on the > site http://ezine.linux-delhi.org. There is currently only one article > available online, though apparently there are some eight original > articles available with Atul. Many people expressed concern with the > fact that little visible progress was being made on the e-zine, > despite the fact that it has now been discussed at several ILUG-Delhi > meetings. The latest round of problems was due to unfamiliarity with > Drupal, and shortcomings in it. A list of action items were drawn up > (please see at the bottom), and it was agreed that there would be more > active e-zine discussions on this list. > > 2. http://code.indlinux.net: Raj Mathur presented the facilities > available on this server, provided by the NRCF, AU-KBC, primarily for > IndLinux work. The same server currently also hosts several IndLinux > sites (http://indlinux.org, http://indlinux.net), and a site for > NewsRack (http://newsrack.in). http://code.indlinux.net itself has a > GForge installation that allows the hosting of open- source > projects. The projects should ideally have some relation to Indian > language computing, but projects with a significant impact on India, > or with a strong participation by developers in India. However, we are > *not* considering large-scale hosting along the lines of > http://sarovar.org. > > Gora Mohanty then presented an outline of many of the projects that > are on the site. Most of them are in an alpha/pre-alpha state, though > several also have useful code on them right now. Project > administrators, developers, documentation writers, and web designers > are invited to participate by signing up on the site. > > 3. Indian language URIs: Gaurav Mishra presented an interesting talk > on the possibility of Indian language URI's, e.g., > http://www.रफ़्तार.com. The typed Unicode URI is > converted on the fly into a "Punycode" ASCII representation, which is > the site that is actually registered. This scheme is far from > complete, e.g., it is not yet possible to have Indian-language > equivalents for the three letter, top-level domains, e.g., .com, and > there are phishing risks opened up (did you notice that there was a > nukta on the pha in the above URI). The talk, along with earlier > presentations, will soon be made available online. > > 4. Election for ILUG-D office: Next month will see the election of a > new panel of ILUG-D office-bearers. Detailed rules for the elections, > along with a list of the positions, and their associated > responsibilities, will be posted soon. Any ILUG-Delhi member in good > standing (remember that you will need to re-register at the election > meeting) is eligible to contest as many posts as they wish, and can > also choose to nominate another member. Peejay (peejay (at) hotpop > (dot) com) has kindly consented to be the election officer, so please > feel free to send him nominations now. Nominations will close *two* > days before the elections, so that Peejay can vet the list, and it can > be publicised. I also strongly encourage anyone planning on running to > declare this publicly on the list, prepare a manifesto, and plan to > speak at the first meeting in May (please see below). > > 5. Forthcoming meetings: We propose to have two meetings in the month > of May, with tentative dates being the 2nd, and 4th Sundays, i.e., May > 12th, and 26th. The first meeting will allow prospective candidates to > present their manifestos, as well as including planning for Freed > [sic!] 2007. The second will be the annual general body meeting > (AGBM), including the elections. It is also possible to fit in > technical talks in the meetings, but please send me submissions now, > instead of at the last minute. > > 6. Freed 2007 (Freedom in Technology and Software): That is right, we > have changed our name! The idea is to aim at a larger population than > just Delhi, and is in keeping with our plans to make this really a > community event, rather than one restricted to ILUG-D. These ideas, > the name, and the tagline came out of several intensive sessions of > brainstorming with the help of Rajesh Lalwani, a public relations > consultant who is working with us. Here are the highlights of the > plans for Freed 2007, with details to come up soon on the website: > > (a) We would like every FOSS enthusiast in the country to help out > in the event. So, besides circling the dates of 28th, and 29th > September, 2007, on your calendars, please put your hands up. You > can sign up on the mailing list for event planning by sending mail > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single word > Subscribe in the subject line. [The list names may change to > reflect the new event identity, but don't worry -- if that happens > you'll be transparently migrated to the new list] > > (b) With Rajesh's help, we plan to have a much more active > publicity campaign, targeting groups that would potentially be > interested in the event, including academia, government bodies, and > non-governmental organisations. > > (c) We will also be carrying on a more intensive media campaign, > with at least one formal press conference a couple of days before > the meeting. > > (d) Official spokespeople for the event are: Sudev Barar, Kishore > Bhargava, and Prof. Andrew Lynn. > > 7. Action items: > > (a) E-zine: Atul Jha, and Anand Shankar, with help from other > people as needed, will do the following over the next three weeks, > i.e., a week before the AGBM: > > o Involve other people, particularly Vivek Khurana, in > solving technical problems with Drupal, and the site. > > o Prepare a roadmap for the next three bi-monthly issues, > which will include a workflow that will allow the > identification of possible contributors to running the > e-zine, and a timeline for the publication of each issue. > > o Communicate more actively over this list, so that this can > be a shared, sustainable effort. > > (b) Freed site: Kishore Bhargava. To be up this week. We need to > finalise on a conference management application, and send out > announcements by the end of this week. > > Regards, > > Gora > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Dr. R. Sreedher Drector Commonwealth Educational Media centre for Asia C5/4 Safdarjung Development Area, Ground Floor, New Delhi 110016 91 11 26537146 Fax 91 11 2653 7147 Res: B1/43 Ground Floor rear Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 Cell No: 09810778473 Phone:011 26535649, 26850669 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
