Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-03-07 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:57, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: [snip] Ok, without dwelling too much into the history of all this, can we start afresh? :) Can this wiki be used as the knowledge base for ILUGD from now on? How about pointing wiki.linux-delhi.org to the IP of the server where

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-03-07 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Raj Mathur wrote: OK, what needs to be done on my side to bring the wiki into the linux-delhi.org domain? Is it as trivial as pointing wiki.linux-delhi.org to your IP? Yes, that should be all. It would break all the links though(lug-delhi.org/wiki to linux-delhi.org/wiki). But that

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-03-07 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 08 March 2007 00:34, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: [snip] So could you set up the A record for now, and I will slowly move the content to the new site while putting in url redirectors along side? Done. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur           [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-21 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, I gave a talk on Shakthimaan! The Indian Challenge of FLOSS Advocacy on Saturday, January 20, 2007 at the regular ILUGC (chennailug.org) meet. The paper and the presentation are available at: http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/shakthimaan-paper/ The presentation is released under the

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-10 Thread Viksit Gaur
--- Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you realise who you are talking to? No. And frankly, I couldn't be bothered to google everyone I exchange emails with on the off chance that they're not gassing. You have someone who's done tons for a particular cause - but at the time of

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-09 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, On 1/9/07, Viksit Gaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh? So you put something up without knowing if its ever going to be used at all? That is something advocacy should take care of, by FOSS members. Web crawlers are also useful in this regard ... (1) I always find my documentation online

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-09 Thread Viksit Gaur
That is something advocacy should take care of, by FOSS members. Web crawlers are also useful in this regard ... (1) How exactly do you see web crawlers advocating a new resource to newbies? Don't you think they need something to crawl first, possibly pages which talk about what the new

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-09 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Raj Mathur wrote: Sandip had setup a Wiki on lug-delhi.org which is pointed to from linux-delhi.org. I don't recollect any offer to merge it into the main linux-delhi.org web site, so it remains under a separate domain. Exactly, while there is a knowledgebase link setup from the front page

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-09 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, On 1/9/07, Viksit Gaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How exactly do you see web crawlers advocating a new resource to newbies? Google search returns documentation pages from wiki sites? Lets see you _do_ it. See further statements for what I mean. Hmmm ...

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 09-Jan-07, at 12:22 PM, Viksit Gaur wrote: That should not matter. Oh? So you put something up without knowing if its ever going to be used at all? yes group or wiki, which the Indian community (that I have seen) at large are not exposed to, Really? Which 'Indian' community are

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 09-Jan-07, at 2:39 PM, Viksit Gaur wrote: Seriously. Why don't _you_ step out from the ranks of what you assume are people with no initiative and show some yourself? do you realise who you are talking to? Shakthi is known as a one-man lug - a dynamic powerhouse who spends all most all

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-09 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, On 1/10/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you realise who you are talking to? Thanks for the compliment. Let us not deviate from the topic of discussion. Our discussion is about wiki, and growing the use of ILUGD-wiki. Let us stay focused on the tasks ahead of us in helping

[ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-08 Thread Viksit Gaur
Hi, This is to start a new thread to follow up on the Initiatives at ILUG-D email. As I can see now, the twiki which used to exist on linux-delhi doesn't anymore. Question: Do we need such a wiki on linux-delhi.org? - How many people would use it? -- Well? - What would they use it for? --

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-08 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 January 2007 03:15, Viksit Gaur wrote: Hi, This is to start a new thread to follow up on the Initiatives at ILUG-D email. As I can see now, the twiki which used to exist on linux-delhi doesn't anymore. Question: Do we need such a

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-08 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, My thoughts below: On 1/9/07, Viksit Gaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - How many people would use it? -- Well? That should not matter. When you start with something new, like a user group or wiki, which the Indian community (that I have seen) at large are not exposed to, it takes time for

Re: [ilugd] Wikis, e-zines and collaboration at ILUG-D

2007-01-08 Thread Viksit Gaur
--- Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should not matter. Oh? So you put something up without knowing if its ever going to be used at all? group or wiki, which the Indian community (that I have seen) at large are not exposed to, Really? Which 'Indian' community are you talking