[Ilugc] Project idea: Integrating a compiler as a plugin for browser.

2009-07-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: a group of students from PSG Tech (guided internally by one of their lecturers) are interested in working on an open source project on Integrating a compiler as a plugin for an open source browser. the plan is to start some preliminary studies / learning of tools / works over the next few

Re: [Ilugc] Project idea: Integrating a compiler as a plugin for browser.

2009-07-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: open source browser is Firefox or Chrome, right? yes, at least to begin with. compiler is something which goes down to machine code? yes. This sounds interesting (has all the cool keywords to trigger interest) I

Re: [Ilugc] final year project

2009-07-24 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.comwrote: I should have been more specific. If implementation-wise they are different (if the developer sees a reason for it), it is ok. Otherwise, they would all be the same. 1. If someone wants to know how to write a text

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: while there is considerable resistance from HoDs and other staff members re FOSS projects, there have been a number of projects done in the past three years. I have been requesting the students / staff to give me brief details, but the response has been sparse and sporadic. i think it is

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [Ambassadors] Event in SRM

2009-08-11 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.comwrote: FYI! -- Forwarded message -- From: Salvadesswaran P.S. salvadesswa...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:44:10 +0530 Subject: [Ambassadors] Event in SRM To: fedora-ambassadors-l...@redhat.com,

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [Ambassadors] Event in SRM

2009-08-12 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Bharathi Subramanian sbhara...@midascomm.com wrote: One SRM student atteneted this month meet and I requested him to get more info about this event. I hope, I may get some info by this week end. Do you have the mail id of Dinesh? Dinesh had made a posting in

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Foss becomes mandatory in Anna University Coimbatore

2009-08-20 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.comwrote: we have already done several workshops for teachers in the coimbatore region. We find them far more motivated and interested than teachers of other regions in Tamilnadu. -- coimbatore academic culture is

Re: [Ilugc] help in data mining

2009-09-01 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:29 PM, PalaniKannan K kpalanikan...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I need suggestions and help from you .. I have four different online bioinformatics web servers eg. BLAST, PFAM, COG, PRODOM (Online database servers) I need to send same query to four servers and

[Ilugc] Software Freedom Day celebrations

2009-09-07 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: apart from the ILUG-C event at Birla Planetarium on 19th, a number of events are being organized at various colleges and other institutions as part of Software Freedom Day celebrations. [Jaya FOSS Club in Chennai, Sona Tech in Salem, CSI-CDAC Chennai session for school teachers, to name a

Re: Re: [Ilugc] do you need a CMS?

2009-09-09 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Prem Kurian Philip p...@songbirdtech.comwrote: From: Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com I understand that the shift to plone (from mambo) was because of the better (portal)user - friendly features. My experience with Drupal, Joomla and Plone: Both

[Ilugc] NRCFOSS stall at SFD

2009-09-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends : NRCFOSS team would like to set up a stall. Focus will be on EduBOSS (the school version of BOSS including subject contents), some of the eGov related applications (especially with localisation rural deployment implications). We also look forward to interactions with the visitors

Re: [Ilugc] NRCFOSS stall at SFD

2009-09-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
2009/9/14 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் citizenof...@gmail.com Hi Friends, dear friends : NRCFOSS team would like to set up a stall. Focus will be on EduBOSS (the school version of BOSS including subject contents), some of the eGov related applications (especially with localisation rural

Re: [Ilugc] NRCFOSS stall at SFD

2009-09-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:27 PM, balachandar muruganantham mbchan...@gmail.com wrote: srini, can you point to some information about EduBOSS? i cannot find in bosslinux.in site. I have used edubuntu. is it similar? EduBOSS is yet to be released. It contains a subset of applications which

Re: [Ilugc] [TAMTRANS] discussions on tamil translation

2009-10-21 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Vinod Parthasarathy vinnytrycl...@gmail.com wrote: 2 To me, depending on the context where I would find this sentence, the english translation varies. Assuming this sentence is in the context of a directory-file structure in a running operating system, I

Re: [Ilugc] Carte Blanche - Computer Society of MIT

2009-11-12 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:58 AM, sivakumar bharadhwaj calms...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Mr. kapil, 1. *showing them how to instal* I feel one of the stumbling blocks for installing linux (atleast for an average, regulat XP user, who has never installed anything on his own - they form atleast

[Ilugc] FOSS in Indian University curricula

2010-04-08 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends : as you might be aware, NRCFOSS worked with Anna Univ to get two FOSS electives in the curriculum since 2006. So far, about 3000 students have taken the courses successfully in B.E. (Comp Science), B.Tech (Information Technology) and MCA. Anna Univ Coimbatore will be having FOSS as

Re: [Ilugc] Advocating foss for final year college project

2008-05-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 5/14/08, Parthan SR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: senthilraja P wrote: Thanks. Basically, even though the students are interested, they are handicapped because of lack of basic skills required for a foss project. Some example i can quote are: * Lack of knowledge of SVN. (its one of

Re: [Ilugc] Search Yahoo! -- Top Posting

2008-05-29 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 5/30/08, Mano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WHats the view here about thread hijacking? This ones been hijacked! Am trying to hijack it a second time. What is the difference between thread hijacking and starting a new thread -- to respond to some observation in an old thread (the said

Re: [Ilugc] to start iilugc in sri krishna college of engg tech coimbatore

2008-06-29 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 6/30/08, sathis kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hai i am sathis kumar systems manager for sri krishna college of engg tech , coimbatore. our college interested in using open source software. Now we are in the process of setting up separate open source lab and open source wireless

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] : Phoneix Design Contest

2008-07-18 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 7/18/08, Ramanathan Muthaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting from the website, PHOENIX: Physics with Homemade Equipment and Innovative Experiments Phoenix is developed using Free Software tools and distributed under GNU GPL. NRCFOSS had conducted a workshop on Phoenix for Physics

Re: [Ilugc] need of the hour...to know

2008-09-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 9/21/08, தியாகராஜன் [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am carefully drafting this letter, so that eventually i am making sure that i am not raising an attack or defame to any individual or an organization. In any part of this mail, i wish not to hurt some one or a particular organization. ...

Re: [Ilugc][OT] need of the hour...to know

2008-09-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 9/23/08, Thiagu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well [ This is not related to GNU/ LINUX but for the List ] I just want to clarify , atleast 3 thiagarajan's are in this list, Often interacting with strong comments dear salem thyagu : strong comments need not be shunned -- more often they come

Re: [Ilugc][OT] need of the hour...to know

2008-09-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 9/23/08, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the NRC-FOSS office is open 6 days a week. Reports of all it's activities as well as accounts are available for inspection. You are also most welcome to meet Prof Krishnan or Prof Srinivasan at any time. We are all very eager to hear

Re: [Ilugc] Students Project - suggestions

2008-09-29 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
I understand that many colleges are asking / allowing the students to project in the college itself. Of course, many students have their own systems and tend to work from them. Some of the issues : a) installation of the distro and the relevant additional packages. -- while it is desirable to

Re: [Ilugc] new LUG in Bengaluru

2008-10-17 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 10/17/08, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, for those luggies who are in Bengaluru: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru/ I am visiting KLES's College of Engg., Technology, Belgaum next week to give a talk on FOSS and discuss about their FOSS activities. They are

Re: [Ilugc] new LUG in Bengaluru

2008-10-17 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 10/17/08, Parthan SR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ILUG-Bangalore is as of now an enthusiasts and discussion group and we are pretty new to get involved in such things. It would be a better idea to involve FSUG Bangalore in this as they have more physical presence and have been quite

[Ilugc] FOSS for voting?

2008-11-18 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi: might be of interest to some of our members: http://www.openvotingconsortium.org srinivasan, nrcfoss. ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message.

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Seminar on Sat 29th Nov 2008

2008-11-20 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 11/20/08, Vivek Rajagopalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clashes with the last day of Foss.In 2008. The schedules are up http://foss.in/2008/schedules/ Regards, Vivek agreed. but the target audience is primarily newbies -- most of them are outside the ambit of FOSS.IN. We also would like

Re: [Ilugc] Need contributors for a open source project.

2008-12-10 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear prakash: you could create a wiki page in nrcfosshelpline (if you haven't done already) giving more details -- info on specs, brief explanation for some of the terms, etc. the link could be given in this mail list. in fact, others who are more knowledgable could add their bit. Srinivasan.

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf -09 - Feb 27,28,Mar 1

2009-01-26 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
can we quickly activate an email id a la i...@fossconf.,,, -- so that we could alert various colleges thru email and respond to their queries. srinivasan, nrcfoss. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address

[Ilugc] fossconf 09 brochures posters

2009-02-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: the fossconf 09 brochures and posters can be collected from AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chromepet, Chennai. those who are interested may kindly contact me thru mail srinivasan at au-kbc dot org or by phone 9444302439 or AU-KBC numbers : 2223 2711 / 4885 / 6958 /

Re: [Ilugc] Need a Library Management System

2009-02-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
my colleagues (Senthil Anand and Hariram Aathreya) have set up Koha at MIT Library and at Roja Muthaiah Library. As Kenneth pointed out, Tamil version is also available. Dr Tamizhchelvan from Sri Ramakrishna Engg College could be another resource person -- particularly for Coimbatore region.

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-02 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் citizenof...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mr.Prakash, You must be aware we are doing foss activity as a voluntary gesture not a commitment duty which is assigned to you, i would further reiterate that you have the moral responsibility in reaching us, rather than

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-02 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, Prakash A S asprakas...@gmail.com wrote: And upto my knowledge, in NRCFOSS we dont have any interaction with new comers reg how to follow the FOSS culture. I discussed with her reg this issue. She prepared her in OO; But saved as a ppt format. I would like to clear them that, we

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: please excuse me for responding to a mail which has no connection to the current thread. On 3/3/09, Common Man kilpauk.kandasw...@gmail.com wrote: Plz can someone tell me where can I get BOSS DVD's.I don't know where else to ask? dear friend: 0. am not sure how much you are into FOSS

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் citizenof...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mr.Srinivasan Soundrarajan So i can expect some facts as well to http://annauniv-tamilnadu.blogspot.com/2009/01/nrcfoss-are-you-there_30.htmlfrom your NRCFOSS capacity , open discussion in this mail. Since the attitude

Re: [Ilugc] Re: No college opt FOSS curriculam-ramada...@amachu.net

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, ashok samrat samrat.asho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, IMHO most of the curriculum offered as FOSS is counter productive based on a outdated syllabus.It didnt help in moving people to Linux and for even people who were introduced to Linux it was tiresome. The elective mode, in a

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, Prashanth Mohan prashmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Mr Srinivasan, May I ask what I did to invite your scorn? :-). hello prashanth: i thought i was putting myself alongside with you -- you get associated with FOSS and later you join some organization which is not in the good books

Re: [Ilugc] Re: fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/4/09, Sarad AV jtrjtrjtr2...@yahoo.com wrote: I wouldn't be surprised if you suggested waterboarding. Sarad. From: Ravi Jaya ravi.goglob...@gmail.com should I have the pleasure of pre-empting kenneth : TOP POSTING!!! Sarad, avoid it in future. Srinivasan.

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-04 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/4/09, Prakash A S asprakas...@gmail.com wrote: I dont like to stop this thread just like that. Upto my knowledge, there is a person can possibly stop this thread with +ve conclusion here - Mr.Bharathi. enough of this I think. Bharathi had already said STOP. Don't reply to this thread.

Re: [Ilugc] OSI Days Event

2009-03-11 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Bharathi Subramanian sbhara...@midascomm.com wrote: OSI Days organizers are also looking for students volunteers to help the visitor. Interested students can contact: atanu.datta at gmail they are also keen to have students / staff to attend the sessions.

Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia

2009-03-27 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM, LinuXpert Academy supp...@linuxpertacademy.com wrote: Does NRC-FOSS commercially providing the setup for institutions alongwith the hardware box or has any institutions already using your foss lab server. just require for information purpose only. S.

Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia

2009-03-27 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Prakash A S asprakas...@gmail.com wrote: The first and third para from Srinivasan sir reply, it clearly shows that Mr.Baskar have lots of controversies from his words..:( - dear prakash: Baskar has come up with a version of FOSS Lab Server -- as he felt

Re: Re: [Ilugc] Anna University Syllabus and NRCFOSS

2010-07-09 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:03 PM, prakash srinivasan asprakash...@rediffmail.com wrote: If it is possible, you may provide more info here about who are the other institutions, AUKBC-NRCFOSS role, Other's role, current structure of NRCFOSS,.etc. So that they can understand the complete

Re: [Ilugc] Anna University Syllabus and NRCFOSS

2010-07-20 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends: FOSS propagation has multiple aspects. While many of the active LUG members would like to have correct FOSS inducted in correct manner, the ground realities have to be taken into account. At the outset, FOSS cannot be a subject in the strict curriculum sense. The concept of

Re: [Ilugc] Software Freedom Day 2010 at Birla Planetarium

2010-08-12 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:20 AM, baskar k baskar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:39 AM, dinesh kumar stardi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, we are celebrating software freedom day. at our college on

[Ilugc] CDAC BOSS Team interactions with some ILUG-C members (on 12th aug)

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
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

[Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends : am adding some brief info about BOSS and allied activities at CDAC. Srinivasan. NRCFOSS/BOSS CDAC. --- A brief note on BOSS and related activities: As part of NRCFOSS project CDAC Chennai had brought out Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS),-- BOSS GNU/Linux --

Re: [Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: Does BOSS has a mailing list? The links at http://bosslinux.in/join-us/cdac/join-us/boss-suport are not working. thanks for pointing out the missing links. since some revamp work is on, some of the links are unavailable

Re: [Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 PM, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.comwrote: and this link too https://portal.otc.nic.in/ -Satya satya: could you indicate the menu/path thru which you got to this link? thanks, srinivasan. ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

Re: [Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
2010/8/16 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் citizenof...@gmail.com Hi, Just curious, Does boss source is open?... i mean , is the source code is available in any hosted repos?. if so, can any one point me the url. Last year there was a discussion on the seeking source of boss at ilug-delhi. read

Re: [Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:51 PM, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.comwrote: and this link too https://portal.otc.nic.in/ First i landed on this page this page http://www.mit.gov.in/content/free-and-open-source-software , by searching open source on the MIT website , then the next link in

Re: [Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/16 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் citizenof...@gmail.com Kindly enlighten me how to download boss code and compile it from scratch then!!. Hi Thyagarajan, BOSS is not an application to compile it from source/scratch.

[Ilugc] [JOB] Urgent requirement for System Developer - Linux with One the leading MNC at B'lore

2010-08-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
got the following info in one of my mails. those interested could contact the recruiter directly. with best wishes, srinivasan -- from : hi...@dcspl.com hi...@dcspl.com We are pleased to introduce ourselves as a fast growing recruitment consultancy firm engaged

[Ilugc] Octave for control systems

2010-08-26 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: got some queries regarding the capability of Octave vis-a-vis Matlab, especially re Control Systems applications. would like to get in touch with those working with Octave (espcially Chennai and nearby) to get info on their experience in practical implementations. please contact me at

Re: [Ilugc] ILUG-Coimbatore

2010-09-27 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:20 PM, ganessh kumar rp rpganesshku...@gmail.com wrote: thank u magesh.. ill do that . hi jaganadh . im from ramanathapuram cbe and im studying in Amrita college . is there any active ILUG-CBE . i searched and got two such groups but they are inactive for more

Re: [Ilugc] ILUG-Coimbatore

2010-09-27 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:02 PM, JAGANADH G jagana...@gmail.com wrote: If enough people are there and any body willing to give some space we can have mmonthly meeting Coimbatore colleges -- especially the self-financing engg colleges -- have a positive reputation of working in collaboration,

Re: [Ilugc] List of 74 Indian Colleges from Indian where we have GNU/Linux Users and FOSS activities

2011-04-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
bhaskar, linux expert systems, should be able to add many more colleges -- especially the ones where he had set up FOSS Labs and/or conducted FOSS programs. i am also compiling a list -- though it has slightly different entries, with lecturer focus than student contact. will get back to you, i

Re: [Ilugc] List of 74 Indian Colleges from Indian where we have GNU/Linux Users and FOSS activities

2011-04-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
sorry for the error. normally, i interleave the response or delete the old stuff. this time, missed the deletion. srinivasan. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Server SetUp in My School

2011-04-19 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Kumaran R kuma...@techie.com wrote: Dear all, Today, I have installed CentOS in a Xeon server for my school (Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram) for running a PHP application. I also had a good discussion with my IP (Informatics Practices) teacher about

Re: [Ilugc] About Fossis

2011-05-11 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear vivek On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:50 AM, vivek r vividvi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, FOSSIS - Forum for Open Source Software and Information security is a user group / club started by the students of our university. all the best for your efforts. hope you involve the juniors

Re: [Ilugc] Distro

2011-08-01 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:44 PM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.comwrote: Did anyone try BOSS Linux IMNSHO it is crap. you could check the latest version 4.0. i would, however, suggest that yoy give your postal address and ask for a copy. you can send a mail to bossli...@cdac.in or

Re: [Ilugc] Distro

2011-08-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:19 PM, 0 0...@0throot.com wrote: Also, for privacy reasons, many people including me might be hesitant to give postal address. Is there a place where one could get a copy of BOSS Linux ? ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

Re: [Ilugc] Distro

2011-08-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:04 PM, 0 0...@0throot.com wrote: Also, for privacy reasons, many people including me might be hesitant to give postal address. Is there a place where one could get a copy of BOSS Linux ? http://bosslinux.in/downloads . My question was in relation to the

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-01 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/31 రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ nani1o...@gmail.com Can we do anything for this? http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc Yes, You can send an email to Dr. Santhosh babu IAS chairman of ELCOT. The contact

Re: [Ilugc] BOSS Wins Over Windows In Tamil Nadu

2011-11-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:13 AM, pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com wrote: Great victory , lets help BOSS meet its expectations :) thanks for the news item and the help offers/wishes. initially, the BOSS team members are working with the Dept of IT, and then spread out to other depts -- Agri,

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 1/25/12, Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, --- On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM, A. Naseer Ahmed sunas...@gmail.com wrote: | i take the effort to teach both for the staff members who are | interested, by doing Workshops for past two years in our campus and | out of campus.

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
out to volunteer and expand the volunteer group by involving their colleagues and interested students. Srinivasan CDAC/NRCFOSS On 1/25/12, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/25/12, Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, --- On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 1/25/12, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: I hope you noted that I mentioned the exceptions to the rule. Kumaran and Benedict are among the 15 people I mentioned. -- Yes, I know that people like you are aware of the exceptions. May be 15 in your case, and 50 in my case. I

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-25 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
I think we have to differentiate between (a) teaching FOSS, rather, imparting FOSS knowledge and (b) enabling the colleges to conduct FOSS courses that are part of the FOSS curriculum. Anna Univ colleges are expected to send the teachers to attend Faculty Development Programmes. In a number of

Re: [Ilugc] [tech help] calling out for help from ubuntu system administrators

2012-02-19 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 2/19/12, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 05:31 -0800, Karan Ahuja wrote: Looking forward to cool server admin book recommendations a small suggestion - try nginx instead of apache. It is much easier to use and configure. The default configuration alone

Re: [Ilugc] MSCFOSS

2012-02-20 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:32 PM, JAGANADH G jagana...@gmail.com wrote: I am not questioning the policy. Since the course is related to FOSS and offered in distance mode people who never attended any tech degree courses may be interested in the course. Considering that it may be good if

Re: [Ilugc] MS Cloud operations in TN

2012-03-08 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/9/12, technocraze technocr...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/8/2012 10:44 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: as a person with fair amount of experience with dealing with govt officials in various states I can assure you that the argument that 'neighouring state is doing this so our state should do it'

Re: [Ilugc] ilugc_Thoothukudi

2012-03-18 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi : glad to know about your interest. you could contact Mr. Suthan 83su...@gmail.com [Attn.: Suthan, I presume you are still around that parts. You could share your thoughts, wisdom and experience.] you could also check with colleges in the vicinity -- I am sure Bhaskar would have set up FOSS

[Ilugc] Robot programming in CBSE international curriculum

2012-04-30 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all, CBSE has introduced the chapter Programming a Robo in their international curriculum for IX X, with the following topics : 1. ROBO Assembly 2. Programming a ROBO 3. TeProgramming a Robosting debugging. 4. Prepare your ROBO Manual with applications. The learning objectives are :

Re: [Ilugc] Info about dear Kenneth

2012-08-04 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
kenneth -- born in 1953 (september, i think) survived by two daughtes and wife. Srinivasan. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] A short bio of Kenneth Gonsalves

2012-08-06 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
Dear jaganadh / shrini: Kenneth was among the prime motivators and organizers of the (first) FOSS Conference , initiated by ILUGC, held at MIT Campus and there was a followup at Thyagaraja Engineering College, Madurai. We could possibly revive -- have another this year. I hope some college could

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] A short bio of Kenneth Gonsalves

2012-08-06 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Sundaram KR sundaram.ramachand...@kggroup.com wrote: I will ensure that our college and Group KGISL and KITE College will provide the base. Kenneth came here twice for the inaugural meet of ilugcbe and subsequent meets. ...KRS 9487163 zero three five Great

Re: [Ilugc] Need help for organizing a SFD event in my college

2012-08-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear sriram, most of the time, FOSS events are getting confined to CS / IT. you could use the demo stalls to attract other depts : e.g., Scilab, Octave, QCAD. Hope you can talk to some of the friends in other depts to entice them or go thru you HoD. other demos could be (a) check thru sites of

Re: [Ilugc] Tamil computing and open source

2012-09-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: we need more

Re: [Ilugc] Two days FDP on FOSS in Dhaanish Ahmed College of Engineering, Near Padappai, Kanchipuram Dt.

2013-03-12 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear bhaskar, continue the good work. as you might have noticed, most of the students use turbo c, though i keep hearing from many lecturers that they have to motivated to shift to gcc. as usual, a sizeable number of lecturers themselves need to be educated/encouraged. And the students rarely

Re: [Ilugc] Two days FDP on FOSS in Dhaanish Ahmed College of Engineering, Near Padappai, Kanchipuram Dt.

2013-03-13 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
Thanks shakthi and Basker for their inputs. Srinivasan ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] M.Sc. CS-FOSS online distance education programme

2013-03-21 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thursday, March 21, 2013, Biju Balakrishnan wrote: Hi, cant find the syllabus. Who is the programme for? what all will be covered? would like to get these insights before even looking into it. *Biju * Pl visit 115.249.106.147/mscfoss/ and the menu items on curricula and syllabus

Re: [Ilugc] Why India Should Use Open-Source Software

2013-04-08 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
Hence, I conclude: One distribution to bind them all! One distribution to cater to every need might turn out to be a mega monolith -- just as the proprietary group tend to do: even if you want only two tasks to be done, they are bundled with 200 other things. this leads to increase in cost,

Re: [Ilugc] Center for Tamil Software

2013-05-06 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
Dear shrini, you may recall that I had suggested that some of you meet up with dr. Nakkeeran, director of Tamil virtual academy.There is an advisory committee to recommend hardware and software for the incubation centre. A meeting is scheduled on 10th. Some of you could suggest the software set

Re: [Ilugc] Center for Tamil Software

2013-05-07 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
at 4:49 AM, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: Dear shrini, you may recall that I had suggested that some of you meet up with dr. Nakkeeran, director of Tamil virtual academy.There is an advisory committee to recommend hardware and software for the incubation centre

Re: [Ilugc] Center for Tamil Software

2013-05-08 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
this is a meeting of the advisory group -- primarily to suggest possible actions and some basic framework. i presume there will be a bit more back forth between TVA, ELCOT and IT Dept. we plan to recommend that a formal announcement be made and an open meet/workshop be held. srinivasan On Wed,

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-15 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:41 AM, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.comwrote: My sincere apologies for posting the FDP/Workshop Event Report mails in ILUG-C in the recent times. Do not understand the apology why ? I agree. No need for apology. Posting such events will a) coax more members

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] M.Sc FOSS Final Semester Project

2013-09-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all, the M.Sc ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] M.Sc FOSS Final Semester Project

2013-09-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all, the Anna Univ M.Sc. CS-FOSS curriculum, syllabus and other details are available at : http://cde.annauniv.edu/MSCFOSS/ it may give you an overall idea of what the students are being taught (and expected to know). Since many of the students are working in some IT area, their knowledge

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] M.Sc FOSS Final Semester Project

2013-09-18 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear pavithran, On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:57 PM, pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 September 2013 15:34, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: For the next batch (the admission is open) beginning in Oct 2013, I will try giving your experience in working with your

[Ilugc] Fwd: Book release using FOSS

2013-12-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends, i would like to share the msg from ms. ambika, a student of anna univ M.Sc. (CS-FOSS) online course. Imbibing the FOSS spirit, she has used FOSS tools while helping the release of a book on Ramanujam. we should also appreciate the efforts of her husband Prof Vanchinathan in

Re: [Ilugc] Tamil nadu government Switches to Linux

2014-04-10 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Gowtham Raam professionalgr...@gmail.comwrote: https://oldpapyrus.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/tn-govt-goes-open-source/ http://www.zdnet.com/indian-state-goes-for-open-source-2061981452/ This is a very ___ ILUGC

Re: [Ilugc] Tamil nadu government Switches to Linux

2014-04-10 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Gowtham Raam professionalgr...@gmail.com wrote: https://oldpapyrus.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/tn-govt-goes-open-source/ As part of NRCFOSS (nrcfoss.org.in) -- promoted and supported by Govt of India -- activities, CDAC has come up with BOSS, derived from

Re: [Ilugc] License of Text books of Tamil Nadu School Books

2014-04-23 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Guru Prasath apras...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: Aren't the publicly funded textbooks by default in public domain? How can a government say copyrighted? I am confused. Quoting from

Re: [Ilugc] Need to document the contributions of Free Software pioneers

2014-05-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all, as some (or many) might be aware, I am part of the faculty for M.Sc (CS-FOSS) online course, offered by Anna University. For the subject DIF7102 (Philosophy and Practice of FOSS), I could give the info about 10-15 foss contributors as assignment to the students for documentation /

[Ilugc] தமிழ் மென்பொருள் உருவாக்கும் மையம் (Tamil Software Incubation Centre)

2014-05-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends, Tamil Virtual Academy is setting up an incubation centre to assist tamil software development. for more details, please visit, http://www.tamilvu.org/coresite/html/cwincubation.htm would appreciate your help in spreading the word around -- esp. to various academic institutions,

Re: [Ilugc] PhD in in Computers Science at IIT Madras / Chennai

2014-09-29 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Satya Prakash Prasad satyaprakash.pra...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately it does not works that way anyway .. Not sure if you understood my question, I don't require degree but research institutes does. Even companies do .. BTW I have self learned to write

Re: [Ilugc] FSFTN becomes user friendly

2014-10-25 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Karthikeyan A K 77mi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello People, While we still stick to the old and debate about top posting and same age old things and live in the dead past, I have discovered a forum where there seems to be nothing of those rules and talk of

Re: [Ilugc] awareness class about FOSS

2014-12-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
--- On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 6:10 PM, shamlik t tshaml...@gmail.com wrote: | I got a chance to introduce about FOSS . it will be like 3 hour section . | i need some more material to do a good presentation .somebody please | forward some links If you can give some idea about the type of

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