[PLUG] will pune join the fun? campaign for document freedom?
dear all, have you see the buzz grow? 01. it started off with NITC hammering this open letter to TCS, Infosys, Wipro. these students, (and potential future employees of these companies?) demanded not just openness in software, but transparancy in software business dealings. read the letter here: http://fossmeet.in/node/128 02. then, this evening, a candle light vigil will be held in bangalore, the IT hub of india to the world to take this further: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_for_Document_Freedom#Candle_Light_Vigil_for_Document_Freedom and here http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsug-bangalore/2008-April/001435.html 03 meanwhile, the vidya college in thrissur also joined in: http://hiraneffects.blogspot.com/2008/03/dfd-08-request-considered-for-odf-as.html 04 anivar will hold a talk on this at barcamp bangalore http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_for_Document_Freedom#On_Barcamp_Bangalore_6 05. 57 campaigners have signed their names, and the open letter has gone to college noticeboards: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_for_Document_Freedom 06. The respectable Hindu newspaper has covered this news today, in bangalore and in delhi's edition. has this hit pune's dailies? 07. finally, groklaw has picked up the news too. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080414181840439 with the massive student-community in pune, the foss movement's stronghold there, and the active PLUG community, am all eager to have you share with the world what you guys intend doing. the overall objective: Many Eyeballs Make Shady Dealings Impossible. regards niyam -- niyam bhushan -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
[PLUG] rajmathur gnunified!
dear all, clicked a photo of raj mathur in a gnunify 08 teeshirt, that friji brought him from pune. http://www.flickr.com/photos/niyam/2280124036/in/set-72157603947953432/ this was at the daily freed.in managers' meet we've been holding this week, at the JNU campus. regards niyam bhushan -- niyam bhushan -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
[PLUG] gnunify 08 photos by niyam
dear all, please do check out photos of gnunify 08 on my account. could not click as many photos as i wanted to this time, so hope to group tag with your individual photos. http://flickr.com/niyam regards niyam -- niyam bhushan -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
[PLUG] teeshirt sharing idea
actually, jokes apart, you guys are stumbling across a great idea. why don't you publish the source files of the design of the teeshirt on your site. so anyone can paint or print or iron-on the design to their teeshirt wherever they like? ok, since you've started me on this (your fault) tell me, what in this universe is NOT transparant? isn't everything somehow transparant, depending on which part of the electromagnetic spectrum you choose. so what could be opaque to 'light' could be transparant to x-rays, and so on just drop being obsessed with what humans call 'light' and you'll see what i mean, if you excuse the pun. ok, endoftopic for me, you guys carry on and have fun.. :-) regards niyam -- niyam bhushan -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
[PLUG] foss.in 2007 at niyam's flickr with some PLUGGIES
dear all, photos from foss.in 2007 at my flickr account. you'll find quite a few pluggies who turned up for the event. loved catching up with you guys in bangalore. http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sets/72157603443744145/ :-) niyam bhushan -- niyam bhushan -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
RE: [PLUG] Xara Extreme
[manas typed:] http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ I like it. It would be great if someone who does graphics for a living / knows about such stuff made a comment. It can greatly aid conversations. Cheers, Manas hi manas, i installed xara xtreme 8 to 10 months ago on my ubuntu and played with it. also wrote to their developers about something and got a disappointing response after a delay of perhaps one month or more. tried importing and exporting some vector fileformats through xara but it could not handle it properly. soon, my initial excitement and enthusiasm for xtreme rapidly faded. i even forgot i had installed it until i saw your email. in contrast, inkscape has become a very mature graphic design software, in some ways exceeding even professional proprietary tools. the learning curve is small, the community is highly-response, and the buzz is very high. whether you are a designer, a user, a developer, or even a documentation-specialist, you can easily get involved with this project. the openclipart.org project is related with this. have successfully pulled off some professional assignments using inkscape, in the most demanding needs. hope this helps. :-) niyam -- niyam bhushan -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
[PLUG] Happy DiwaLinux !
Glowing Lamps, Goddess Lakshmi, and GnuLinux http://www.niyam.com/gnulinux/lfy/fy/FY-monthly-col.php?dec2k4 :-) niyam -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
[PLUG] PLUG M.O.A suggestion
dear friends in pune, just discovered this wonderful document by all of you: http://www.plug.org.in/plugmemo.php great stuff! wish to make some small suggestions, given the changing nature of our community worldwide. i hope you consider these suggestions in the right spirit, please feel free to discard them, and am quickly writing them down just to inspire you with ideas. you may word it whichever way you wish. a) please mention organizing and/or participating in regional, national, and international events . . . . the fact that you will hold events and public meetings that draw a large number of people is important. b) digital culture: promoting a digital culture derived from values around the gnu, foss, linux, copyleft, etc etc placeholder vision. this may be aspects of culture in written and verbal literature: fiction, non-fiction, courseware; in various media, such as television, film, websites, internet radio, newmedia, media interviews, etc; authored, procured, published, distributed under suitable copyleft or creative-commons licenses. c) adapt and evolve the same digital culture and value-systems around mobility and telecom. the handheld internet device is a much-bigger phenomenon than the desktop computer can ever be, yet our technology, values and philosophy have a much larger role to play in that domain. [openmoko, etc] [telecom is the key operative word here] d) digital rights management (drm) and privacy: this aspect of digital culture around gnu, linux, foss, etc., has a much greater impact on ordinary people and citizens of india, irrespective of their digital literacy or illiteracy, or even their education or social status. education, awareness, transformation around these values using technology and licenses is PLUG's role hope this helps. :-) niyam bhushan -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
Re: [LIG] [ilugd] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?
dear all, so looks like the community has gravitated towards upcoming.yahoo.com and that solves our problem. one final issue: exactly what is the url for discovering all foss and foss-related events in dinai at upcoming.yahoo.com for instance, when i visit the site, it naturally defaults to 'delhi' as my location, and lists events i am not interested in. on searching for 'foss' events in 'india' i get a list of two events, foss.in and the chennai event. the bangalore barcamp is not listed. sigh! signal to noise ratio needs soem work. one single url for the foss community will do wonders. philip, what's your take? :-) niyam -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
Re: [LIG] [ilugd] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?
On 10/30/07, Philip Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/10/2007, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and linux-india.org recommended by kishore bhargava. I'd suggest just adding events to upcoming.org and tagging them with foss and india (optional). I could write up a pipe that gets you all foss events in india from there as an RSS feed or JSON or possibly ical. This can be imported into any site that wants to display it. We'll also have pretty maps ;) i think this truly addresses and solves the problem. then all LUGs can feed it into their sites, users can subscribe to the RSS feeds, kenneth won't need a volunteer to populate the nrcfoss sites, and well, the pretty maps are great for guys like me with no geo-magnetic sense in my forehead. so, the quick fox jumps over the lazy blue moon. :-) between a choice for linux-india.org and the above site, i vote for upcoming.yahoo.com with the pipe from philip. +1 what's your vote? the only task left will be to prod everyone to submit upcoming or planned events to upcoming.yahoo.com site. one last question: the compiled info on the site/page. can we specifically mention the cc-by or cc-pd or other license or public domain dedication to that compilation? niyam -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
Re: [LIG] [ilugd] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?
Ok, I second the vote, and here are your feeds: JSON: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=4jphZveG3BG0fLa9jknRlg_render=json RSS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=4jphZveG3BG0fLa9jknRlg_render=rss And if all you want is a simple HTML unordered list that you can stick into your page, use this: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=4jphZveG3BG0fLa9jknRlg and apply your own CSS rules. Philip PS: The pipe page is here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=4jphZveG3BG0fLa9jknRlg Anyone can view the source, but to modify it, you'll have to clone it first. Let me know if you make changes and would like them to get back into the primary pipe. wow! this is so fantastic, this is one flew over the cuckoo's nest under the blues moon! :-) a big hand of applause for philip for sorting out the site and pipes for the indian foss community. way to go! next steps: 1) various LUG and foss admins, would recommend you take the pipes and the feeds and dose them to your respective sites. 2) rahul, you could consider asking your staff to submit event-entries to this site, and then feed it back to your openitis.com site. 3) periodically, a few of us, including i, will send reminders out on mailing lists, requesting people to submit their event details to this url. okie dokie, let's roll with the details. so don't tell me we've only got foss.in and chennai's event happening. we've got: barcamp in bangalore in november freed.in feb 2008 linuxasia new avatar in feb gnunify osscamp delhi placeholders.. whoever has the details, please add them to the site. :-) -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
[PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?
dear all, am googling since two days, can't find a complete and/or comprehensive list of foss or foss-related events scheduled for 2008. i know the number of events are growing. we have: 1.mashups, 2.OSSCamps, and similar 3.CII-partnered events, 4.leading national events 5.LUG-created regional events 6.academia/college events 7.commercial events but where's the list. or of tentative schedules. for example, some random excess: a) openitis.com mentions foss.in in december, and an event in florida. wow! but no mention of their own event in delhi in feb 2k8. http://www.openitis.com/openitis/events.php b) neither does the other site mention this: linuxasia.net c) gnunify does not mention its tentative or finalized schedules on its site or wiki: http://gnunify.pbwiki.com/ d) the freed.in banner or site does not mention the tentative schedule for feb-end 2008. e) NRCFOSS website's forthcoming events sections mentions events past, dead, and gone: http://nrcfoss.org.in/index.php?option=com_contenttask=categorysectionid=1id=22Itemid=2 would expect more constructive effort from nrcfoss f) ilug-d website, after it re-directs, mentions events held in sep07. g) fsf website has no link on their homepage to events at all: http://fsf.org.in/ h) CII ICT section has no list http://cii.in/menu_content.php?menu_id=477 i) PLUG site mentions no list of events in india http://plug.org.in/ j) redhat's events page spouts forth an error 404 http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/events/ k) all the colleges and academia across india which love to sport foss events, can't find 'em either. why list our schedules? 1. we can better coordinate our events with no overlap. for example, pune's mashup overlapped with mumbai's IIT weekend event. freed.in just skirted overlapping with linuxasia2008 thanks to a random phone call. 2. we can better use resources, since freed.in and pune's event, show how different regional communities can come together to collaborate on events. speakers, especially international speakers, could get to see our sub-continent on a discount while event-hopping :-) 3. our community has become too big and diverse to be addressed by just one event, or two. ;-) 4. placeholder for more so resolution: as a community, where do you figure we create a wiki, twiki, or similar site, where we encourage everyone to publish their final or tentative event schedules? over to you guys. :-) niyam -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
Re: [ilugd] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?
http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/community/events is one road to take, nah! too generic. would be great to have an india or india-centric list to which ilnuxjournal could link. upcoming and/or facebook is another. facebook? i think they got bought over by microsoft. also wonder how easy is it for people to view, add, edit, or comment *without* registering to their service. nah! personally, i would not recommend facebook to anyone serious about foss, but you can tar me for that later. so far my opinion on this, for myself, still stands. sorry. so no flames or whatever on this, let's stick to the topic at hand. Point of course is that most of the FOSS events in India don't have the time or energy to chalk out a media/public face plan that would ensure greater and organised participation from delegates and speakers well let's try to actively solve this problem. here's what we could do: a) figure out one central place where anyone anywhere can log in and list an event. should this be a wiki/twiki site? please respond, and let's try to finalize this within 2 or 3 days. this way, we don't have to go through this awkward x-posted mailing thread. b) every fortnight or month, we could send out an email reminder on mailing lists to register events at this public repository. i volunteer to do this to the few mailing lists am subscribed to, but others interested could help and spread the word. c) similarly, those who list out events, such as openitis or nrcfoss or others, could be requested, nudged, prodded, or as a last resort pushed :-) to list or link to this list, so everyone knows what's happening where and when. d) events that i attend, have decided to photo-document using a cc-by or liberal license. this am doing at flickr. am doing this in the hope of giving faces to names to so many many people quietly working and doing valuable little things in the foss community of india. this according to me, is the one solid way of correcting the 'reality-distortion' of having a handful of demonic-gods and ego-maniacs tending to usurp the indian foss community. let the community lead. let the community be known. let everyone in the community be given their recognition. of course, everyone else is also encouraged to give as many pixelled faces to the indian foss community as possible. i'd like to call this the 'fossbook' :-) and we could use flickr, picasa, or whatever else you've got. LFY had its moments to emerge as the consolidated calendar site, but I'd daresay that they have lost it LFY has lost *to some extent* on their initial credibility, goodwill, and momentum, but so far, hope springs eternal. :-) currently, they're great for spiking up responses on mailing lists ;-) they also need a new direction beyond the 'linux' pond into the bigger ocean of foss and beyond. rahul is trying that with LFY's new avatar. unfortunately, it is still a long, slow, work-in-progress, which it shouldn't be. they seemed to have honed in on their positioning for their event, but i wish they'd sharpen and focus more on the core essence of all things foss and linux, the valuesystem. if they get that part right, they'll rock in all dimensions, and also figure out how to squarely and responsibly handle microsoft and other proprietary players without allowing them to ride on LFY's shoulders to damage the foss community. (drink-and-drive policy). okay enough said! back to the list. if we decide where to host this list, we could get off this mail-thread immediately. the list must encourage and allow tentative schedules and 'to be decided' entries, just so we have an early heads up. some suggested fields: event name. dates/schedules venue contact people website mailing list/forum/wiki past events links target audience expected numbers objective event-type: sponsored, or community-driven entry: registration, paid, mixed, rent-a-crowd... :-) :-) niyam -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
Re: [LIG] [ilugd] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?
we've got two shortlisted sites: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/calendar/ It might be best to keep add to it, than re-invent the wheel. [snip] Kingsly and linux-india.org recommended by kishore bhargava. the nrcfosshelpline site is more populated but alas, no way for anyone to log in and submit an event, or so it seems. the linux-india events module seems to have a rather clunky interface, and so far the only event it lists is foss.in. however, anyone can log in to submit an event. so which one, or which other, do you guys recommend? :-) n -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
[PLUG] [x-post] 211 photos of pune mashup by niyam
dear all at PLUG, thank you for such a wonderful foss-community event at the 'pune mashup + more'. great buzz and excitement! as always, the full-credit for the event goes to the untiring efforts of the pune linux users group volunteers, making this event a success. check out some pixels captured at the event, here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sets/72157602504374518/ those from plug, please add names, work details, and hyperlinks to websites, of people not identified in the photos. the foss community in india has so many wonderful people. that's what makes the community a community, eh!? :-) niyam bhushan -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
