Re: [ilugd] Possible Workshop at NIT Jaipur

2009-11-12 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Nandeep Mali n9986.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, An update on this. There was almost nil response (in fact just one) for speakers for this event. But we will still be going ahead with the workshop with the help of LUG-Jaipur members. It will be a hands on

[ilugd] linux-gamers: how about BYOFC

2009-11-12 Thread Linux Lingam
on monday past, read an interesting story of a *huge* game-fest at some local school. loads of youngsters played computer games, in a Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) festival. so, how about a Bring Your Own FOSS Computer (BYOFC) and let's hold a linux-games contest. er... that may include copyleft

[ilugd] how to convert an airtel pdf bill into a spreadsheet using FOSS tools or apps?

2009-11-12 Thread Linux Lingam
the pdf e-bill emailed by airtel to me saves paper, but i want to sort, filter, and mangle it. tried opening it with openoffice.org on my ubuntu 9.04 here, but it displays hex, maybe also because it's a password-protected file (more annoyance than security, but that's another matter). any clues

Re: [ilugd] how to convert an airtel pdf bill into a spreadsheet using FOSS tools or apps?

2009-11-12 Thread Linux Lingam
updated. see in-line: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: the pdf e-bill emailed by airtel to me saves paper, but i want to sort, filter, and mangle it. tried opening it with openoffice.org on my ubuntu 9.04 here, but it displays hex, maybe also because

Re: [ilugd] how to convert an airtel pdf bill into a spreadsheet using FOSS tools or apps?

2009-11-12 Thread Sudev Barar
2009/11/12 Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com: any clues on how i may convert it into a usable spreadsheet file? just tried PDFedit, but it can't do much with the 'standard-encrypted' file, even though the software offers a nice export to txt, and a pdf to xml option elsewhere. pdftotext

Re: [ilugd] how to convert an airtel pdf bill into a spreadsheet using FOSS tools or apps?

2009-11-12 Thread Sawrub
On 11/12/2009 05:55 PM, Sudev Barar wrote: 2009/11/12 Linux Lingamlinuxlin...@gmail.com: any clues on how i may convert it into a usable spreadsheet file? just tried PDFedit, but it can't do much with the 'standard-encrypted' file, even though the software offers a nice export to

Re: [ilugd] linux-gamers: how about BYOFC

2009-11-12 Thread Nandeep Mali
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: on monday past, read an interesting story of a *huge* game-fest at some local school. loads of youngsters played computer games, in a Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) festival. so, how about a Bring Your Own FOSS

Re: [ilugd] Possible Workshop at NIT Jaipur

2009-11-12 Thread Nandeep Mali
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: In case it is not already done, you could consider involving Dr. Manoj Joshi , Dept of CSE, in this event. Apart from nurturing open source at NIT Jaipur, he has been advocating use of FOSS alternatives in engg