Hi all,
I dunno if it's late in the day to be sharing about this or not but
saw this in my inbox recently. It was held recently in Ongario which
if memory serves correctly is nearby to montreal (2-3 hours by train).
If somebody can reach out to the ooni people maybe this might bring
awareness abou
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On 19/06/2017, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> I wish you a speedy recovery and a tolerable time until then. Best wishes
> from San Francisco.
Dear all,
Thank you for the kind words. I did push a small update yesterday
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/seizures-vigo-and-bi
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On 08/06/2017, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> Had spams 2 weeks back, was hospitalized for 2 weeks, doctors have
> told me 6 weeks more for full recovery hence regretfully I have to
> take back my bursary application. I do hope to follow up on what
>
Dear Friends,
Had spams 2 weeks back, was hospitalized for 2 weeks, doctors have
told me 6 weeks more for full recovery hence regretfully I have to
take back my bursary application. I do hope to follow up on what
happens in Debconf 2017 once I'm fully recovered by videos. Apologies
for any mistak
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On 16/05/2017, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:03 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>
>> I thought that was evident in the minutes, the minutes have the link
>> you want or did you want it in some other place as well ?
>
> The page currently only link
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On 16/05/2017, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 4:29 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>
>> See https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17/Meetings/2017-05-15 .
>> Please fix if something i.e. some content needs fixing. Once fixed,
>> maybe somebody can announ
Dear all,
See https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17/Meetings/2017-05-15 .
Please fix if something i.e. some content needs fixing. Once fixed,
maybe somebody can announce it on debconf-team ML.
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Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
My quotes in this email licensed und
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On 09/05/2017, Ian Jackson wrote:
> shirish शिरीष writes ("Re: [Debconf-discuss] McGill RVC and bicycle"):
>> Here are the lat long of both places as shared by osm -
>>
>> 45.55045, -73.55358 - Collège de Maisonneuve, 3800, Rue Sherbrooke
>> E
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>
> Dear Martin,
>
> While I don't know brouter, I did try osm but couldn't find any routes
> between the two places. I tried all the options, bicycle, foot and car
> , in some it goes into calculating mode and stays there forever
>
Brouter is this - http://brouter.de/brouter/
http://
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On 09/05/2017, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach shirish शिरीष [2017-05-08 22:50 +0200]:
>> Could somebody share how far that would be and if it would have
>> many turns ?
>
> openstreetmap.org and Brouter are your friends…
>
> --
> .'&#
Dear all,
Few months ago, there was talk of bicycles and Montreal being full of
bicycle paths.
While I did see
https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=mapzen_bicycle&route=45.5504%2C-73.5536%3B45.5658%2C-73.5538
Unfortunately, that link is to and fro Hotel Universal to the College,
whi
I have shared the advice and experience at
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17/Advice-for-newbies
Feel free to add it, correct it or even delete it if it makes no sense.
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Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0
http://cr
Dear Antoine,
Read your https://anarc.at/blog/2017-04-09-montreal-bsp-report/ ,
while I know some of the tools, not all, would be interesting if we
could have a similar sprint irrespective of whether stretch is
released or not.
At the very least, dissemination of the knowledge of the tools would
Dear all,
I should have shared this probably 2 weeks ago when proposal window
had just begin but the advice got triggered when a colleague asked as
any guidelines to follow. While I did share some things, I figured
later that bits of it might be relevant to the larger pool of people
who would atte
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On 24/04/2017, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 03:43:55AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> Another query, is the eatmydata-udeb available in net install image ?
>
> That's easy to figure out:
>
> https://cdimage-search.debian.org/
>
>
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On 24/04/2017, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [shirish शिरीष]
>> 3. Net install for minimal installations - Doing full installations is
>> very time-consuming. Here the usb disks as well as ATA/IDE are both
>> bottlenecks and a desktop install takes at least 30-45
Hi all,
Sorry, this would be a bit long -
As we are getting near to Debconf there are two workshops I would like
to see and both probably are part of Debian QA .
1. Installation report on installation failure - At times when you are
installing Debian either on too new hardware or too old, obsole
Hi all,
Call me naive, but I was hoping that somebody would have answers and
would also raise questions.
For instance, one point being, what if the airlines enters US
airspace, doesn't land in US but goes through there to Canada.
Wouldn't those airlines be also affected by this ban ?
I did have
Dear all,
How are we to know if we are affected by the ban or not ? Most
airlines, at least the low-cost ones I know don't have an e-mail id or
even if they have, they don't reply. I have experienced it . I have
tried the live chat option at some of the sites too and at times have
found that what t
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On 08/02/2017, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Jerome Charaoui dijo [Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 03:14:10PM -0500]:
>> This being said, I admit the "sleeping bag requirement" is perhaps not
>> stated correctly on the wiki.
>>
>> If people are comfortable sleeping directly on the cot fabric, or with
>> o
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On 02/02/2017, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 02:14:55PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> >
>> > Could there be possibility of renting air mattress/sleeping bag as
>> > both cut quite a bit into the baggage allowance ?
>>
>> Over the years, I've learned to travel light
Hi all,
Sorry @holger.
Made beginnings of a wiki page
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Debconf17/Pre-Conference_Important_Dates
Maybe the naming could be better .
While pollo has shared that the dates needed would probably be known
next week, made so that it's always available on the wiki.
As a p
Hi all,
While it is pretty early days yet, I was looking at the on-site accommodation.
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17/Accomodation
I also have put up an initial page about the weather as I kept on
coming back to weather whenever I thought of montreal and forgot to
write about it.
https
Dear all,
Been thinking about this for a long long time so please bear.
Last year while I personally enjoyed what was called the Open Day very
much, I couldn't help feeling overwhelmed by activities around there.
Even though when it was told/shared by someone that Open Day has
watered down quite
Dear all,
I was trying to put up a mail at mail...@lists.debconf.org -
Mail address taken from the lists homepage -
https://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo
Just a minute after sending the mail, got a mailman 550 error saying -
The response from the remote server was:
550 5.1.1 : Recipient a
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On 06/01/2017, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> shirish शिरीष dijo [Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 02:13:24PM +0530]:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been thinking about Open Day in Canada. I saw this sometime
>> back and thought maybe it might be a good fit
>>
>> https
Hi all,
I have been thinking about Open Day in Canada. I saw this sometime
back and thought maybe it might be a good fit
https://code.blender.org/2016/11/blender-2-8-project-status/
Extract from the blog post -
Tangent Animation, Canada (2+)
This Toronto+Winnipeg based animation studio recently
HI all,
I added some bits about visa as it seems there is only one generic
visa for people who would need visa to visit Canada which I have
shared at -
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17/Visa#Find_out_which_document_you_need
I shared both the visa application form and the document checklist
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On 05/01/2017, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just made two pages about Medical and Clothing at
> https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17
>
> I didn't knew what to write in either, for clothing have shared that
> it might be bit cold hence have shared
Hi all,
Just made two pages about Medical and Clothing at
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17
I didn't knew what to write in either, for clothing have shared that
it might be bit cold hence have shared about layering but not in
detail.
About medical services around the venue is a mystery hen
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On 24/12/2016, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:54 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>
>> I dunno if this is a bug in lurker or somewhere else but librejs
>> complains -
>
> I doubt the DebConf folks have customised lurker so you should file a
> bug
Getting qrcode to generate is/was easy -
[$] aptitude show python-qrcode
Package: python-qrcode
Version: 5.3-1
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Priority: optional
Section: python
Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 120 k
Depends: python-six, py
Hi all,
Have added some ideas about possible day trips at
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Debconf17/DayTrip
Although early, gives more time for people to sort out things. It
isn't comprehensive/exhaustive at all. In fact, there could be some
interesting rail rides to nearby interesting places which
Hi
all,
I dunno if this is a bug in lurker or somewhere else but librejs
complains -
List of blocked JavaScript in
https://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20161219.152910.ede30580.en.html
Whitelist
This script is detected as inline, nonfree, defining functions or
methods, and the re
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On 20/12/2016, Jonathan Carter wrote:
> On 19/12/2016 21:54, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> These are the questions I had asked of Canadians as debconf will be
>> happening there (in the context of demonitization which took place in
>> India)
>>
>> https
Hi all,
These are the questions I had asked of Canadians as debconf will be
happening there (in the context of demonitization which took place in
India)
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/demonetisation-indian-state-and-world/
The queries/questions are as under -
1. How much of C
Hi all,
Had seen talks of LAN games. Maybe 0ad could be another one that could
be thought of/setup as a game.
Just saw it recently got IRC op like services
http://trac.wildfiregames.com/changeset/19007
This is in alpha 22 , should be released soonish.
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Regards,
Shirish A
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From: shirish शिरीष
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 17:18:34 +0530
Subject: Re: [Debconf-discuss] personal debian badges to use on our website ?
To: alberto fuentes
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On 08/12/2016, alberto fuentes wrote:
> This look like a really good idea. I st
Dear all,
From the last debconf I really like the badges that were made
From debconf16 experience this is how things work/ed for me -
a. Debconf registration opens (this year it was good 4 months in
advance, 19th March 2016)
b. Complete registration
c. Get confirmation email that registration
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On 07/12/2016, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> Hello Shirish
>
Hello Cate,
>
> I’m not sure it will work.
>
> 1-
>
> visa@ requires some mail exchange to establish the purpose of visa: There
> are many “random” requests from user who have absolutely no idea what it is
> Debian or Free S
Dear all,
I am not a programmer, just a user.
I was going through the pain points and suggestions I had given
(either publicly or/and privately) to improve debconf flow, maybe part
of it could be implemented the upcoming year.
While it was too late then to improve the existing process, we
probab
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On 01/12/2016, Jose M Calhariz wrote:
>
> Hi, I started talks in my job about attending DebCamp and DebConf.
> There are dates about sponsor accomodation? I think it should be from
> 31 of July until 13 of August, but I hould like a confirmation before
> booking the aeroplane ticket
Hi all,
I sat down today and after looking in some detail, was able to create
an album. Now it asks for properties of the album.
https://gallery.debconf.org/main.php?g2_itemId=63196&g2_view=core.ItemAdmin&g2_subView=core.ItemEdit&g2_editPlugin=ItemEditAlbum
I did all the things. I tried to uploa
Hi all,
I understand it is very early days but still, was online and saw a
couple of news articles which seemed to be interesting.
Although, have to admit I don't know how useful (or not) would it be
for those attending the conference in 2k17.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2016/11/04/canada-
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On 10/09/2016, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
> Tracking them might be useful though, because travelers might be able to
> attend additional events close to (time wise and distance wise) to
> DebConf. Might also make it easier to tell your boss "Oh sorry I can't
> attend Som
Hi all,
I was recently granted access to gallery.debconf.org . I have been
trying to make an album but that is fruitless. I get authentication
failure and get - Your change cannot be completed due to a loss of
session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging
out and logging b
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On 26/07/2016, Michael Banck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 07:01:02PM +, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> I was looking at the schedule https://debconf16.debconf.org/schedule/
>>
>> and in that I saw Bdale Garbee's talk on 3rd july which was on
Hi all,
I was looking at the schedule https://debconf16.debconf.org/schedule/
and in that I saw Bdale Garbee's talk on 3rd july which was on menzies
9 but I don't see his talk in the videos shared at
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/debconf16/
.
Did the talk not happen
Hi all,
I was downloading a video and saw this -
[$] wget -c
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/debconf16/Developing_plugins_for_FreeRTC.webm
--2016-07-25 00:46:10--
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/debconf16/Developing_plugins_for_FreeRTC.we
Hi all,
Are there any debconf-stragglers who are still residing in Cape Town.
If yes, there is a smallish favor I have to ask of you. If any of you
in the next few days, were to go near/around Longmarket Street there
is a place called Eastern Food Bazaar
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/42188942
Hi all,
I gave an on-the-fly presentation in the recent debconf held at
Debconf, Cape Town, South Africa.
I got some feedback stating that for some people (especially
non-native english speakers) it isn't/wasn't easy to piece the story I
am/was sharing at that time.
http://meetings-archive.debia
Hi all,
Are there any people who would be living in cape town after debconf in
cape town (CPT) ? I'm here till the 13th. If there aren't then would
book some $hostel although would prefer debian people :) .
Please let me know off-list one way or the other by 7th July late evening .
Looking forwa
I mis-read (intentionally) it as -much-as-you-can-walk thing. Hopefully we
get more people for this ;-)
On 25 Jun 2016 06:11, "Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)"
wrote:
> Hi Shirish
>
> On 24/06/2016 20:50, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> > at bottom :-
> >
> > On 24/06
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On 24/06/2016, Tomasz Buchert wrote:
> On 24/06/16 14:36, Eugene Zhukov wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Bernelle Verster
>> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > Graham (ginggs) and myself (indiebio) and my two dogs are avid
>> > parkrunners. We are going to the Greenpoint parkrun to
Hi all,
I tried to figure out vodacom prepaid plans ( I didn't register) just
to have an overview of what sort of charges could I expect to pay.
I went to
http://www.vodacom.co.za/vodacom/shopping/plans/plans?planType=Airtime%20plan&paymentMode=Prepaid
and from details of the voice-only plans i
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On 23/06/2016, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 23.06.2016, 12:55 -0500 schrieb Gunnar Wolf:
>> Bernelle Verster dijo [Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 06:38:38PM +0200]:
>> > Hi
>> > (...)
>> > We went to Curry Quest for lunch today, was delicious -
>> > http://www.eatout.co.za/venue/
Hi all,
While I do not know how the travel bursary reimbursements will be done
at the end of the conference, either through cash (like last year) and
if I do not want to carry such a large amount as cash, can anybody
tell/share what options there are to send money to self or home
cheaply and legal
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On 15/06/2016, Bernelle Verster wrote:
> The joking reply: Shirish, surely nothing in South Africa is as bad as
> a Delhi-belly???
@Bernelle Well, it's not my job to compare infectious maladies ;), but
just to share there was a mad caper black comedy movie of the same
name .
htt
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On 14/06/2016, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Just to add: A "Hepatitis A" vaccination is recommended for South
> African cities (at least in Germany it's recommended). It has a
> tendency to spread with water.
>
> --
> Debian Developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev
Hi all,
Just wanted to know the what is the status quo of the showmebox
initiative that Bernelle had. Has there been any participation either
locally or internationally for the showmebox initiative or has this
been deferred ?
I ask as I saw https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/DebianDay and
ht
Hi all,
I have a query -
While I understand the web of trust which is one of the major parts of
keysigning and the process is detailed at
https://www.debian.org/events/keysigning . Where it fails me is that
WoT has little or no value to a person who doesn't want or have any
uploading rights to th
Hi all,
Few weeks back, I had applied for international debit card. Soon I got
one. Reading the literature which came with the card, came to know
that the card works on magnetic strip technology when used
domestically and uses chip-and-pin or Online Debit System as shared in
https://en.wikipedia.o
Hi all,
All of the above was pretty useful so I just dumped it at
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Clothing_and_Dress_code . For
the record, the only time I'll be nude will be at a nudist camp ;)
otherwise the clothes remain :)
While it is some days out, I needed to know if I would need
Hi all,
I have made a link for clothing in debconf in logistics. I tried to
figure out if there was something in either the debconf-discuss or
debconf-team archives but was only able to dig out past threads,
nothing about the current event. And I don't want to blindly re-use
the instructions which
Hi all,
I saw https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/ParticipantAssistance
but it's empty. Can somebody fill in as to what roles are there in
being part of the team here ?
--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0
http://creat
Hi all,
While people should explore as many weather online resources, here's
one I found which gives averages about countries and cities with some
statistics. weatherbase.com
For instance, here's from my city vis-a-vis Cape Town, South Africa -
Pune, India -
http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/we
On 05/06/2016, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> see
> http://www.statista.com/statistics/193533/growth-of-global-air-traffic-passenger-demand/
>
a bit more "ammunition"
http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2016-02-04-01.aspx
--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal
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On 04/06/2016, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Steven Chamberlain wrote:
>> Michael Prokop wrote:
>> > "The U.S. Diplomatic Mission to South Africa informs U.S. citizens
>> > that the U.S. government has received information that terrorists[...]
>>
>> *sigh* a similar notice was post
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On 02/06/2016, Bernelle Verster wrote:
> hi
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Keerthana Krishnan
> wrote:
>> Wow, that sounds like a great idea if done! It showcases the versatility
>> of
>> Debian beautifully, but is it possible to pull it together?
>
> I would like to try. :) I
Hi all,
Warning - Would be slightly longish mail. Apologies for noise.
Maybe it's too late in the day but for quite sometime I had been
thinking/dreaming if we could have/show-cased Debian running on
various hardware doing different things, unusual things . While Debian
on the desktop, workstatio
Dear all,
A bit longish mail, sorry about that.
After lot of legwork, finally got a visa but not of the dates that I
wanted. As can be seen from my arrival and departure dates, I'll be in
Cape Town for almost 17 days but the visa I got is only of 10 days.
For last couple of days, I have been try
Dear all,
I'll be traveling to South Africa for an open-source conference
(debconf) for which I'll get my flight-tickets reimbursed at the end
of the conference. Could/Would this reimbursement be in anyway equated
to remuneration ?
http://www.vfsglobal.com/southafrica/india/conference_visaapplica
Hi all,
As a potential attendee, I had talked with Gunnar (off-list) on the
possibility of Indian cooking. I had also involved Bernelle as I
thought s/he would probably know about sourcing Indian spices but as
most Indians live in Durban it seems it would be difficult to source
those spices. Cape
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On 06/05/2016, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> Bernelle Verster writes:
>
>> Please add your thoughts, ideas, suggestions to the wiki page, or on
>> this thread, regardless of if you plan to attend or not.
>
> If you'd like me to reprise the 'Understanding Debian' talk I've given
> before at De
Hi all,
I made a page with my conversations with Bernelle (sometime ago) which
clears the air somewhat for a prospective traveler coming to South
Africa to not just be for the conference but also have a bit of
holiday with/on her/im and expenses s/he can expect .
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Deb
Hi all,
First of all a big thank you to the video team for covering debconf 13
and making debian users around the world accessible to the various
challenges before Debian, both on the technical aspect as well the
community and governance aspect as well. I was not there but from the
videos I was abl
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