[ilugd] ilugd planet

2008-02-21 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
As the ILUGD planet is down for quite a while and there doesn't seem to be any ETA on when it is coming up, I have resurrected the old lug-delhi planet at http://planets.sandipb.net/ilugd/ . It is still a WIP though. - Sandip ___ ilugd mailinglist -- i

[ilugd] New project on FLOSS

2008-02-21 Thread Vinay Sreenivasa
Hello all, Greetings from IT for Change! ITfC (IT for Change) is a non-profit organisation located in India. ITfC envisions a society capable of, and comfortable with, innovative and effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a tool, to further goals of social change.We

Re: [ilugd] freed.in 2008 photos already!

2008-02-21 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linux Lingam wrote: > > > > thanks sandip, > > good stuff. > > > > any chance you'll be here in delhi, and therefore for freed.in? > > Well, I am in Delhi this week. Would definitely drop in. Would be good > t

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-21 Thread waseem ahmad
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Kristian Erik Hermansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the USA, some schools get every Microsoft product, excluding > Microsoft Office, for free. Does this not happen in India? It's > called the MSDNAA program. correct me if I am wrong. Microsoft gave ever

[ilugd] get your creativedot teeshirts...

2008-02-21 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, i have a very few and limited set of creativedot teeshirts which will offer at rs 200 at freed.in. maybe i've run out of a few teeshirt-sizes, so get them before they all disappear. check out the design and style here: http://creative.linux-delhi.org/?q=node/810 regards niyam -- niya

[ilugd] Microsoft set to open up software

2008-02-21 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Microsoft has announced that it will open up the technology of some of its leading software to make it easier to operate with rivals' products. The technology giant is to publish key software blueprints on its website. It also promised not to sue open source developers for making that software ava

[ilugd] teeshirts: freed.in, and ilug-d

2008-02-21 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, you might grab some teeshirts of freed.in at rs 200 and teeshirts of 'allyourbase' (yeah! that classic ilug-d teeshirt) for rs 275 and the earlier-mentioned creativedot teeshirt at rs 200. so come loaded at the freed.in event fri-sun 22feb-24feb nothing beats a late geeky, valentine gif

[ilugd] weather forecast during freed.in

2008-02-21 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, we expect quite a few people from outside delhi, and the weather's changed rather dramatically over the last one week. the JNU campus is large, open, and green. thankfully, unlike freed.in 2007, this time the weather's all-clear (atleast from weather underground's forecast). so dress com

[ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days

2008-02-21 Thread nkapoor
Fri 22-Feb-2008: ILUG-D activity in last 7 days: = New/recent events: 0 Total events: 71 = New Discussion forum postings: 0 Total postings: 976 ===

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-21 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:02 AM, waseem ahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > correct me if I am wrong. Microsoft gave every of it's product to > school for educational purposes only. Yes. Almost everything in standard MSDN and more (checked builds)... > Were students allowed to copy the packa

Re: [ilugd] teeshirts: freed.in, and ilug-d

2008-02-21 Thread G Karunakar
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear all, > > you might grab some teeshirts of freed.in at rs 200 > and teeshirts of 'allyourbase' (yeah! that classic ilug-d teeshirt) for rs > 275 > and the earlier-mentioned creativedot teeshirt at rs 200. & thats l