[fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Rakesh Pandit
http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/?p=131 -- Regards, Rakesh Pandit Album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31489...@n04/sets/72157615833139726/ ___ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india

[fedora-india] Re: [Ambassadors] Please take care of freemedia requests for the Month of March, 2009.

2009-03-24 Thread susmit shannigrahi
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:37 PM, David Ramsey diamond_ram...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello Susmit, Greetings.  :) Thank you for your e-mails.  :) I was reviewing a user Devendra Vaja for an i386 DVD at this URL - https://fedorahosted.org/freemedia/ticket/285 Now, I am receiving this error -

Re: [fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Rakesh Pandit
2009/3/24 Debayan Banerjee wrote: 2009/3/24 Rakesh Pandit wrote: http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/?p=131 Perhaps we need to apply the same concept here at NIT Durgapur too. I would suggest to wait a month or so ... we need to check whether we really get some results. -- Regards, Rakesh

Re: [fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Rakesh Pandit
2009/3/24 Aanjhan R wrote: 2009/3/24 Rakesh Pandit wrote: http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/?p=131 Excellent! Just one clarification. Any reason why this selection of 16 students was done? Is it lab constraints or some such? The main aim was to select and give training only to those people

Re: [fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Debayan Banerjee
2009/3/24 Rakesh Pandit rakesh.pan...@gmail.com: I would suggest to wait a month or so ... we need to check whether we really get some results. From the few contributors we have here none are really class toppers or high CGPA students. Infact the ones that contribute here hardly ever go to

Re: [fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Debarshi Ray
Lovely report. Thank you. Have the students been told about this mailing list and, #fedora-india as well ? Wait, wait. You are in for a nice suprise. :-) Cheers, Debarshi ___ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com

Re: [fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Rakesh Pandit rakesh.pan...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/24 Debayan Banerjee wrote: 2009/3/24 Rakesh Pandit wrote: http://rakesh.gnulinuxcentar.org/?p=131 Perhaps we need to apply the same concept here at NIT Durgapur too. I would suggest to wait a month or so

Re: [fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, My thoughts below: --- On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Rakesh Pandit rakesh.pan...@gmail.com wrote: | The main aim was to select and give training only to those people who | have some sort of experience with programming and good aptitude. \-- What you need to test is attitude. --- |

Re: [fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Debayan Banerjee debaya...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/24 Rakesh Pandit rakesh.pan...@gmail.com: I would suggest to wait a month or so ... we need to check whether we really get some results. From the few contributors we have here none are really class toppers or

Re: [fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Debarshi Ray
| The main aim was to select and give training only to those people who | have some sort of experience with programming and good aptitude. \-- What you need to test is attitude. ... which is hard to convey to the teachers making the selection. You were probably just lucky. Yes, very much.

Re: [fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Debarshi Ray
Just one clarification. Any reason why this selection of 16 students was done? Is it lab constraints or some such? The main aim was to select and give training only to those people who have some sort of experience with programming and good aptitude. Moreover we want one to one interaction

Re: [fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Debarshi Ray debarshi@gmail.com wrote: And to minimise the loss of face in case the whole scam fell apart, and to reduce the exit through the back door phenomenon. :-) Like I mentioned in an earlier mail - this was an experiment (the results are still

Re: [fedora-india] National Institute of Technology workshop report

2009-03-24 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, My thoughts below: --- On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:56 PM, susmit shannigrahi thinklinux@gmail.com wrote: | Hmm, just a thought, If someone isn't a CS or EC student or isn't \-- The separation of departments is for easier administration. Unfortunately, in many colleges in India (that I

Re: [fedora-india] Re: [Ambassadors] Please take care of freemedia requests for the Month of March, 2009.

2009-03-24 Thread Rangeen Basu
You need two things 1. You must be a member of the Freemedia group in the FAS. Is this absolutely necessary because previously i used to login without this. But currently I am also unable to login. Has this been implemented recently? 2. You need to login with your FAS account. Tried it.

Re: [fedora-india] Re: [Ambassadors] Please take care of freemedia requests for the Month of March, 2009.

2009-03-24 Thread Shambo Bose
I think yes its absolutely necessary . regards, Shambo On 3/24/09, Rangeen Basu sherry...@gmail.com wrote: You need two things 1. You must be a member of the Freemedia group in the FAS. Is this absolutely necessary because previously i used to login without this. But currently I am also

Re: [fedora-india] Re: [Ambassadors] Please take care of freemedia requests for the Month of March, 2009.

2009-03-24 Thread susmit shannigrahi
1. You must be a member of the Freemedia group in the FAS. Is this absolutely necessary because previously i used to login without this. But currently I am also unable to login. Has this been implemented recently? yes last week, someone from US was super annoyed to find his home address

Re: [fedora-india] Re: [Ambassadors] Please take care of freemedia requests for the Month of March, 2009.

2009-03-24 Thread susmit shannigrahi
yes last week, someone from US was super annoyed to find his home address picked up by google from our trac and made public. So as usual a strongly worded letter followed. So we decided, we don't want this happen again and fedora's privacy policy also forbid that. So we had to implement

Re: [fedora-india] How many ...

2009-03-24 Thread Debarshi Ray
- who are now on Rawhide +1 - who use the local language desktop On and off. - who, during install fests and the like mention and demonstrate the local language desktop +1 - who follow the QA Days off the Fedora Planet and, are keen to get involved +1 Cheers, Debarshi

[fedora-india] Packaging wishlist

2009-03-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, I would very much like to package all these but since I haven't even gotten do proceed with existing reviews yet and here is the projects I have in mind. If you are looking for a few easy things to get started, look no further. Transmageddon - a very simple PyGTK app to convert from one