Re: Please congratulate GSoC'ers directly (was Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009)

2009-04-24 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 24 April 2009 11:24:00 Rahul Sundaram wrote: Sure but assuming that SoC considers "stickiness" as a major measure of their success, it is only fair to evaluate it on that regard. I forget the exact figure, but google's statistics show that the 'sticki

Re: [Ilugc] Fate of MySQL, the fate of Open Source?

2009-04-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/23/2009 04:41 AM, Mano wrote: MySQL has forked: https://launchpad.net/drizzle drizzle isnt really a fork, its something to try and hit the market most keenly looking at sqlite sort of really-basic db stuff. Its mostly done in sync with internal mysql staff, and was well blessed by Sun.

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: X Server on Xen

2009-04-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/23/2009 12:39 AM, Ashish Verma wrote: Its now working, I guess X was just taking time to startup. When I left the latptop for sometime after startx, it came up in the second console (the normal message). Do you know the file that controls as to which console which terminal should comeup. Li

[Ilugc] Build Prototype - Enterprise as a Device Swarm.

2009-04-24 Thread Antony
Hello, I am newbie to this user group. i got interested in this group after i met the group in chennai trade center for an open group seminar. I am not sure this is the right forum, but please tell me if this is not the right forum for this. I am interested in developing applications based

Re: [Ilugc] Google's Recruitment info

2009-04-24 Thread Bhargav Prasanna
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, magesh wrote: > > hi friends > i came across this blogpost today > about the google's internship > hope it may be useful for our students > > here is the link > > http://simonmathieu.blogspot.com/2009/04/google-interns-recruitment-process.html Good thing they st

Re: Please congratulate GSoC'ers directly (was Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009)

2009-04-24 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 24 April 2009 16:04:50 Ajay Kumar wrote: > > didn't you write some code for show at f**k.in? > > X( - I did sing and dance. http://www.vimeo.com/2551000 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=IN&hl=en-GB&v=4dTfiPPgmzY > > Ref: http://kushaldas.in/2008/12/23/making-of-kde-song-video/ > > You ar

Re: Please congratulate GSoC'ers directly (was Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009)

2009-04-24 Thread Ajay Kumar
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > > didn't you write some code for show at f**k.in? > > X( - I did sing and dance. http://www.vimeo.com/2551000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=IN&hl=en-GB&v=4dTfiPPgmzY Ref: http://kushaldas.in/2008/12/23/making-of-kde-song-video/ Yo

Re: Please congratulate GSoC'ers directly (was Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009)

2009-04-24 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 24 April 2009 11:24:00 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Okay, maybe I'm just playing the devil's advocate here - do you really > > blame the students for not sticking around? Perhaps they found a better, > > interesting project - there's no rule that they have to dedicate > > themselves to one p

Re: Please congratulate GSoC'ers directly (was Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009)

2009-04-24 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 24 April 2009 11:32:23 Ajay Kumar wrote: > > Just curious. Were you continuing your contributions between the last > > summer and this summer where GSoC was not running? Either way, I would > > like to hear more about the students experiences. > > Yes. From the last year, I have been work

[Ilugc] Google's Recruitment info

2009-04-24 Thread magesh
hi friends i came across this blogpost today about the google's internship hope it may be useful for our students here is the link http://simonmathieu.blogspot.com/2009/04/google-interns-recruitment-process.html -- magesh Life is "just tryin out things to see if they work" http://magesh.geexh