Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/07/2009 08:10 AM, shirish wrote: in-line :- On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 01:43, Sudhanwa Jogalekarsudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: A. It is not very clear if you are posting MOM or writing a blog. Where MOM ends and where your thoughts start... not very clear. Rather it is completely mixed

Re: [PLUG] Software Freedom Day celebrations on 19th September, any plans?

2009-09-07 Thread shirish
addition in-line :- On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:26, Aditya Godboleaag.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:53 PM, shirishshirisha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,     Software Freedom Day is coming on 19th September. Can we do something about it? Few ideas :- a.  Give sessions about

[PLUG] FOSS meeting with secretary school education (Govt of Maharashtra)

2009-09-07 Thread Chetan Kumar
Hi there was some discussion about MS involvement in training of govt teachers. Here is a report on the meeting of FOSS people with the govt officials http://manuknkra.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/foss-meeting-with-secretary-school-education-government-of-maharashtra/ Cheers Chetan

[PLUG] Software Freedom Day on 19th September

2009-09-07 Thread Amit Karpe
Hello all, Following are points which we had discuss for Software Freedom Day at PLUG meeting. These are just points, base on further discussion we have to organize SFD event. The main idea was to have decentralized event. So more people should come forward and should organize event at

[PLUG] Proposal for SFD celebration

2009-09-07 Thread Rishikesh ऋषिकेश
Hi All, As mentioned in minutes of meeting of PLUGhttp://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/minutes-of-plug/meeting held on 5 September 09 that we (PLUG and Lokayat) will celebrate the SFD. Here is the proposal. Please suggest changes/improvements. Program 1

Re: [PLUG] Proposal for SFD celebration

2009-09-07 Thread shirish
in-line :- 2009/9/7 Rishikesh ऋषिकेश rishikesh.miss...@gmail.com: snip To finalize the SFD celebration plan, a meeting will be held at Lokayat Hall on Thursday, 10 September 09 at 7:30 PM. Thanks Rishikesh 9423507864 -- Our website http://www.lokayat.org.in Our blog      

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Manas Alekar
2. Regarding the question of MOU, I think the government would quite like to agree about shifting to free software. The main question for them is 'how'. The issue is not what software they use to train the teachers, but whether it is feasible for them to go through this process logistically

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Manas Alekarmaale...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Regarding the question of MOU, I think the government would quite like to agree about shifting to free software. The main question for them is 'how'. The issue is not what software they use to train the teachers, but

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Manas Alekarmaale...@gmail.com wrote: I hate to say this, but would can we recommend that the government go the FOSS way with a clean conscience? Nautilus still breaks once in a while when I update it. Evolution backends die on me randomly when I try to connect

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 06:52:28 Sriram Narayanan wrote: When it comes to huge organisations with inertia, corporate or otherwise, such things matter. +1 to that. Reliability and stability matter a lot indeed. If you use a stable distro like RHEL/CentOS 5, which has guaranteed

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi, Sorry, its a long rant... On Tuesday 08 September 2009 06:58:36 Aditya Godbole wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Manas Alekarmaale...@gmail.com wrote: I hate to say this, but would can we recommend that the government go the FOSS way with a clean conscience? Nautilus still breaks

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread म . हा . सा . ग . र
May be i am opening another door for a chat on different direction here... but, is the government which is spending thousands of crores on feeding different bureaucratic schemes... spending any money on *systems deployment* training for systems like Linux... if not they are just running the

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Optionally using google calendar to also mark PLUG events?

2009-09-07 Thread Navin Kabra
Shirish, I'm not sure I've understood what you are really looking for, hence asking for some clarifications inline: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:27 PM, shirish shirisha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 16:56, Navin Kabranavin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: snipped Hi Navin, There's

[PLUG] Fwd: [BangPypers] Python Doc or Examples in Hindi

2009-09-07 Thread Navin Kabra
FYI. This was posted on the BangPypers (bangalore python users group) and indlinux-hindi mailing list. Sounded like something PLUG, and PythonPune users might be able to contribute to. -- Forwarded message -- From: Carl Trachte ctrac...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:27 AM

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread म . हा . सा . ग . र
http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/index.jsp http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/specs.jsp http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp --

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread म . हा . सा . ग . र
2009/9/8 म.हा.सा.ग.र o.s@guruvision.com: May be i am opening another door for a chat on different direction here... but, is the government which is spending thousands of crores on feeding different bureaucratic schemes... spending any money on *systems deployment* training for systems

Re: [PLUG] Software Freedom Day celebrations on 19th September, any plans?

2009-09-07 Thread shirish
in-line :- On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 06:33, Manas Alekarmaale...@gmail.com wrote: e. Contribute to free software. Submit a bug, fix one, add a feature, write a howto, etc. etc. Decrease the need to talk and show-off by making the software itself compelling for the users. How about a