Dear friends: I had invited a few of the ILUGC members for an interaction session with BOSS Team at CDAC Chennai and the meeting was held yesterday (thursday 12th aug 2010) 4:00 p.m.
My basic objective was to expose my colleagues to the favor of LUG members (their expertise and experience) and expose the LUG team as to what is happening at BOSS centre ; discuss briefly about BOSS 4.0 development / testing and ways to broadbase the community involvement. I thank the members * who visited us and shared their views, and gave their valuable suggestions. [* Ma Sivakumar, Raji Seetharaman, Raman, Srinivasan, Sri Ramadoss & Vijayakumar -- have i got the list right?] Queries/Suggestions/ Discussions during the meeting: ?? BOSS Download : packages & source, and user manual could be downloaded from bosslinux portal ?? BOSS content vis-a-vis Debian/Ubuntu, etc. : suitable documentations are in the offing ; inputs from BOSS team and from agencies we interact with will be suitably demarcated in the repository (to enable testing/adaptation/enhancement) ?? BOSS repository, access to portal, etc.: after shifting to the new premises (at TIDEL Park), the setup and portal revamp is on to enable external access (initially with commit restricted to inhouse group). Some wiki pages, tracking mechanisms are being activated. The version control (subversion) mechanism currently active in a limited manner is being reworked. ** NRCFOSS portal (http://nrcfoss.org.in) redesigned to include pages on FOSS packages, resource persons, etc. ** Student projects : the portal could provide a platform for project related interactions & uploads. The colleges could be asked to take the responsibility of monitoring the students while CDAC/NRCFOSS could provide the organizational stamp (issuing certificates) and enable community experts to contribute. [The LUG members also participated in the discussion we were having with a set of Professors from Colleges -- inviting the colleges to come up with suggestions for a committed plan of action] ** Involvement of BOSS team in LUG activities : some members are already in the LUG ; a few of the BOSS team members (e.g., from Bengaluru - Open Office, Mumbai - Orca) are part of the FOSS groups related to the packages they work on ; sharing queries/responses, participation in LUG events, etc., will be taken up I hope this will kindle more cohesive interactions with useful contributions/responses from NRCFOSS/BOSS team. thanks and best wishes Srinivasan. Dr. S. Srinivasan Project Scientist NRCFOSS/BOSS CDAC Chennai. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
