Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Open Source your Office Spaces – Coworkable.com

2015-10-07 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் < citizenof...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > The question is not commercial or non commercials, it never fits into our > goals, > > With due respect to Thyagarajan's comments, I should not extend this thread. However, I am sure he won't mind me

Re: [Ilugc] Free Open Source - Complete Local Setup - Data Mining Software tool

2015-04-15 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Satya Prakash Prasad < satyaprakash.pra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Please let me know if there a free open source Data Mining Software which > can be used across an org. of over 100o people. > > you could check Talend Studio https://www.talendforge.org/ https:/

Re: [Ilugc] awareness class about FOSS

2014-12-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
> > > --- On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 6:10 PM, shamlik t > wrote: > | I got a chance to introduce about FOSS . it will be like 3 hour section > . > | i need some more material to do a good presentation .somebody please > | forward some links If you can give some idea about the type of audience, so

Re: [Ilugc] FSFTN becomes user friendly

2014-10-25 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Karthikeyan A K <77mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello People, > > While we still stick to the old and debate about top posting and same age > old things and live in the dead past, I have discovered a forum where there > seems to be nothing of those rules and talk of s

Re: [Ilugc] PhD in in Computers Science at IIT Madras / Chennai

2014-09-29 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Satya Prakash Prasad < satyaprakash.pra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately it does not works that way anyway .. Not sure if you > understood my question, I don't require degree but research institutes > does. Even companies do .. BTW I have self learned to write

[Ilugc] தமிழ் மென்பொருள் உருவாக்கும் மையம் (Tamil Software Incubation Centre)

2014-05-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends, Tamil Virtual Academy is setting up an incubation centre to assist tamil software development. for more details, please visit, http://www.tamilvu.org/coresite/html/cwincubation.htm would appreciate your help in spreading the word around -- esp. to various academic institutions, tami

Re: [Ilugc] Need to document the contributions of Free Software pioneers

2014-05-02 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all, as some (or many) might be aware, I am part of the faculty for M.Sc (CS-FOSS) online course, offered by Anna University. For the subject DIF7102 (Philosophy and Practice of FOSS), I could give the info about 10-15 foss contributors as assignment to the students for documentation / collatio

Re: [Ilugc] License of Text books of Tamil Nadu School Books

2014-04-23 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Guru Prasath wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Shrinivasan T >wrote: > > > Aren't the publicly funded textbooks by default in public domain? How can a > government say copyrighted? I am confused. > > Quoting from https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ "To copy

Re: [Ilugc] Tamil nadu government Switches to Linux

2014-04-10 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Gowtham Raam > wrote: >> >> https://oldpapyrus.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/tn-govt-goes-open-source/ > > > As part of NRCFOSS (nrcfoss.org.in) -- promoted and supported by Govt of India -- activities, CDAC has come up with BOSS, derived from Debian, which has bee

Re: [Ilugc] Tamil nadu government Switches to Linux

2014-04-10 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Gowtham Raam wrote: > > https://oldpapyrus.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/tn-govt-goes-open-source/ > > http://www.zdnet.com/indian-state-goes-for-open-source-2061981452/ This is a very ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae

[Ilugc] Fwd: Book release using FOSS

2013-12-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends, i would like to share the msg from ms. ambika, a student of anna univ M.Sc. (CS-FOSS) online course. Imbibing the FOSS spirit, she has used FOSS tools while helping the release of a book on Ramanujam. we should also appreciate the efforts of her husband Prof Vanchinathan in contribut

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] M.Sc FOSS Final Semester Project

2013-09-18 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear pavithran, On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:57 PM, pavithran wrote: > On 16 September 2013 15:34, Srinivasan Sundararajan > wrote: > > For the next batch (the admission is open) beginning in Oct 2013, I will > > try giving "your experience in working with your nearby LU

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-17 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
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Re: [Ilugc] [OT] M.Sc FOSS Final Semester Project

2013-09-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all, the Anna Univ M.Sc. CS-FOSS curriculum, syllabus and other details are available at : http://cde.annauniv.edu/MSCFOSS/ it may give you an overall idea of what the students are being taught (and expected to know). Since many of the students are working in some IT area, their knowledge level

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] M.Sc FOSS Final Semester Project

2013-09-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all, the M.Sc ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-15 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:41 AM, satyaakam goswami wrote: > > > My sincere apologies for posting the FDP/Workshop Event Report mails in > > ILUG-C in the recent times. > > Do not understand the apology why ? > > I agree. No need for apology. Posting such events will a) coax more members -- especial

Re: [Ilugc] Center for Tamil Software

2013-05-08 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
this is a meeting of the advisory group -- primarily to suggest possible actions and some basic framework. i presume there will be a bit more "back & forth" between TVA, ELCOT and IT Dept. we plan to recommend that a formal announcement be made and an open meet/workshop be held. srinivasan On Wed

Re: [Ilugc] Center for Tamil Software

2013-05-07 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
will update this list after attending the next advisory group meeting which is scheduled for 10th. in the meantime, i can collate any input i receive and present the same during our discussions. srinivasan. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Sr

Re: [Ilugc] Center for Tamil Software

2013-05-06 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
Dear shrini, you may recall that I had suggested that some of you meet up with dr. Nakkeeran, director of Tamil virtual academy.There is an advisory committee to recommend hardware and software for the incubation centre. A meeting is scheduled on 10th. Some of you could suggest the software set fro

Re: [Ilugc] Why India Should Use Open-Source Software

2013-04-08 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
> Hence, I conclude: "One distribution to bind them all!" One distribution to cater to every need might turn out to be a mega monolith -- just as the proprietary group tend to do: even if you want only two tasks to be done, they are bundled with 200 other things. this leads to increase in cost, up

Re: [Ilugc] M.Sc. CS-FOSS online distance education programme

2013-03-21 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thursday, March 21, 2013, Biju Balakrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > cant find the syllabus. > Who is the programme for? > what all will be covered? > > would like to get these insights before even looking into it. > *Biju > * > Pl visit 115.249.106.147/mscfoss/ and the menu items on curricula and sy

Re: [Ilugc] Two days FDP on FOSS in Dhaanish Ahmed College of Engineering, Near Padappai, Kanchipuram Dt.

2013-03-13 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
Thanks shakthi and Basker for their inputs. Srinivasan ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Two days FDP on FOSS in Dhaanish Ahmed College of Engineering, Near Padappai, Kanchipuram Dt.

2013-03-12 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear bhaskar, continue the good work. as you might have noticed, most of the students use turbo c, though i keep hearing from many lecturers that they have to motivated to shift to gcc. as usual, a sizeable number of lecturers themselves need to be educated/encouraged. And the students rarely list

Re: [Ilugc] Tamil computing and open source

2012-09-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay > wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Shrinivasan T > wrote: > > > >> we need more computer professionals to learn linguistic sk

Re: [Ilugc] Need help for organizing a SFD event in my college

2012-08-21 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear sriram, most of the time, FOSS events are getting confined to CS / IT. you could use the demo stalls to attract other depts : e.g., Scilab, Octave, QCAD. Hope you can talk to some of the friends in other depts to entice them or go thru you HoD. other demos could be (a) check thru sites of th

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] A short bio of Kenneth Gonsalves

2012-08-06 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Sundaram KR < sundaram.ramachand...@kggroup.com> wrote: > I will ensure that our college and Group KGISL and KITE College will > provide the base. Kenneth came here twice for the inaugural meet of ilugcbe > and subsequent meets. > > ...KRS > 9487163 zero three five

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] A short bio of Kenneth Gonsalves

2012-08-06 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
Dear jaganadh / shrini: Kenneth was among the prime motivators and organizers of the (first) "FOSS Conference" , initiated by ILUGC, held at MIT Campus and there was a followup at Thyagaraja Engineering College, Madurai. We could possibly revive -- have another this year. I hope some college could

Re: [Ilugc] Info about dear Kenneth

2012-08-04 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
kenneth -- born in 1953 (september, i think) survived by two daughtes and wife. Srinivasan. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] Robot programming in CBSE international curriculum

2012-04-30 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all, CBSE has introduced the chapter "Programming a Robo" in their international curriculum for IX & X, with the following topics : 1. ROBO Assembly 2. Programming a ROBO 3. TeProgramming a Robosting & debugging. 4. Prepare your ROBO Manual with applications. The learning objectives are : Assem

Re: [Ilugc] ilugc_Thoothukudi

2012-03-18 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi : glad to know about your interest. you could contact Mr. Suthan <83su...@gmail.com> [Attn.: Suthan, I presume you are still around that parts. You could share your thoughts, wisdom and experience.] you could also check with colleges in the vicinity -- I am sure Bhaskar would have set up FOSS L

Re: [Ilugc] MS Cloud operations in TN

2012-03-08 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/9/12, technocraze wrote: > On 3/8/2012 10:44 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: >> as a person with fair amount of experience with dealing with govt >> officials in various states I can assure you that the argument that >> 'neighouring state is doing this so our state should do it' is the >> surest

Re: [Ilugc] MSCFOSS

2012-02-20 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:32 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: > > I am not questioning the policy. Since the course is related to FOSS and > offered in distance mode > people who never attended any tech degree courses may be interested in the > course. > Considering that it may be good if non-tech degree h

Re: [Ilugc] [tech help] calling out for help from ubuntu system administrators

2012-02-19 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 2/19/12, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 05:31 -0800, Karan Ahuja wrote: >> Looking forward to cool server admin book recommendations > > a small suggestion - try nginx instead of apache. It is much easier to > use and configure. The default configuration alone should suffice f

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-25 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
I think we have to differentiate between (a) teaching FOSS, rather, imparting FOSS knowledge and (b) enabling the colleges to conduct FOSS courses that are part of the FOSS curriculum. Anna Univ colleges are expected to send the teachers to attend Faculty Development Programmes. In a number of such

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 1/25/12, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > I hope you noted that I mentioned the exceptions to the rule. Kumaran > and Benedict are among the 15 people I mentioned. > -- Yes, I know that people like you are aware of the exceptions. May be 15 in your case, and 50 in my case. I just wanted the member

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
rs in this list will help out to volunteer and expand the "volunteer" group by involving their colleagues and interested students. Srinivasan CDAC/NRCFOSS On 1/25/12, Srinivasan Sundararajan wrote: > On 1/25/12, Shakthi Kannan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> --- On Tue, Jan 24,

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 1/25/12, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM, A. Naseer Ahmed > wrote: > | i take the effort to teach both for the staff members who are > | interested, by doing Workshops for past two years in our campus and > | out of campus. > \-- > > Can you provide a link t

Re: [Ilugc] BOSS Wins Over Windows In Tamil Nadu

2011-11-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:13 AM, pavithran wrote: > Great victory , lets help BOSS meet its expectations :) > > thanks for the news item and the help offers/wishes. initially, the BOSS team members are working with the Dept of IT, and then spread out to other depts -- Agri, Forest, etc., Of cours

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-01 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Arun SAG wrote: > 2011/8/31 రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ > > > >Can we do anything for this? > > > > > > Yes, You can send an email to Dr. Santhosh babu IAS chairman of ELCOT. > The > contact numbers and email addresses

Re: [Ilugc] Distro

2011-08-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:04 PM, 0 <0...@0throot.com> wrote: > > >> Also, for privacy reasons, many people including me might be hesitant to > >> give postal address. Is there a place where one could get a copy of BOSS > >> Linux ? > >> > > > > http://bosslinux.in/downloads . > > > > My question wa

Re: [Ilugc] Distro

2011-08-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:19 PM, 0 <0...@0throot.com> wrote: > > Also, for privacy reasons, many people including me might be hesitant to > give postal address. Is there a place where one could get a copy of BOSS > Linux ? > > ___ > ILUGC Mailing List: >

Re: [Ilugc] Distro

2011-07-31 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:44 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > > > > Did anyone try BOSS Linux > > IMNSHO it is crap. > > > you could check the latest version 4.0. i would, however, suggest that yoy give your postal address and ask for a copy. you can send a mail to bossli...@cdac.in or to my id srin

Re: [Ilugc] About Fossis

2011-05-11 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear vivek On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:50 AM, vivek r wrote: > Hello everyone, > > FOSSIS - Forum for Open Source Software and Information security is a > user group / club started by the students of our university. all the best for your efforts. hope you involve the juniors & students from diff

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Server SetUp in My School

2011-04-19 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Kumaran R wrote: > > > Dear all, > Today, I have installed CentOS in a Xeon server for my school (Bhavan's > Rajaji Vidyashram) for running a PHP application. > I also had a good discussion with my IP (Informatics Practices) teacher > about implementing Linux i

Re: [Ilugc] List of 74 Indian Colleges from Indian where we have GNU/Linux Users and FOSS activities

2011-04-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
sorry for the error. normally, i interleave the response or delete the old stuff. this time, missed the deletion. srinivasan. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] List of 74 Indian Colleges from Indian where we have GNU/Linux Users and FOSS activities

2011-04-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
bhaskar, linux expert systems, should be able to add many more colleges -- especially the ones where he had set up FOSS Labs and/or conducted FOSS programs. i am also compiling a list -- though it has slightly different entries, with lecturer focus than student contact. will get back to you, i hop

Re: [Ilugc] ILUG-Coimbatore

2010-09-27 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:02 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: > If enough people are there and any body willing to give some space we can > have mmonthly meeting > > Coimbatore colleges -- especially the self-financing engg colleges -- have a positive reputation of working in collaboration, e.g., they were

Re: [Ilugc] ILUG-Coimbatore

2010-09-27 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:20 PM, ganessh kumar rp wrote: > thank u magesh.. ill do that . > > hi jaganadh . im from ramanathapuram cbe and im studying in Amrita college > . > is there any active ILUG-CBE . i searched and got two such groups but they > are > inactive for more than two years. if n

[Ilugc] Octave for control systems

2010-08-25 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: got some queries regarding the capability of Octave vis-a-vis Matlab, especially re Control Systems applications. would like to get in touch with those working with Octave (espcially Chennai and nearby) to get info on their experience in practical implementations. please contact me at or

[Ilugc] [JOB] Urgent requirement for System Developer - Linux with One the leading MNC at B'lore

2010-08-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
got the following info in one of my mails. those interested could contact the recruiter directly. with best wishes, srinivasan -- from : "hi...@dcspl.com" We are pleased to introduce ourselves as a fast growing recruitment consultancy firm engaged in the recrui

Re: [Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Arun SAG wrote: > 2010/8/16 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் > > > >Kindly enlighten me how to download boss code and compile it from > scratch > > >then!!. > > > > Hi Thyagarajan, > > BOSS is not an application to compile it from source/scratch. BOSS is an > operating sys

Re: [Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:51 PM, satyaakam goswami wrote: > > > and this link too https://portal.otc.nic.in/ > > First i landed on this page this page > http://www.mit.gov.in/content/free-and-open-source-software , by searching > open source on the MIT website , then the next link in the search wa

Re: [Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
2010/8/16 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் > Hi, > > Just curious, Does boss source is open?... i mean , is the source code is > available in any hosted repos?. if so, can any one point me the url. > Last year there was a discussion on the seeking source of boss at > ilug-delhi. > read more: > http://www

Re: [Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 PM, satyaakam goswami wrote: > > and this link too https://portal.otc.nic.in/ > > -Satya > > satya: could you indicate the menu/path thru which you got to this link? thanks, srinivasan. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.

Re: [Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Arun SAG wrote: > > Does BOSS has a mailing list? The links at > http://bosslinux.in/join-us/cdac/join-us/boss-suport are not working. > > thanks for pointing out the missing links. since some revamp work is on, some of the links are unavailable (some structural

[Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-15 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends : am adding some brief info about BOSS and allied activities at CDAC. Srinivasan. NRCFOSS/BOSS CDAC. --- A brief note on BOSS and related activities: As part of NRCFOSS project CDAC Chennai had brought out Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS),-- BOSS GNU/Linux -- der

[Ilugc] CDAC BOSS Team interactions with some ILUG-C members (on 12th aug)

2010-08-15 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
Dear friends: I had invited a few of the ILUGC members for an interaction session with BOSS Team at CDAC Chennai and the meeting was held yesterday (thursday 12th aug 2010) 4:00 p.m. My basic objective was to expose my colleagues to the favor of LUG members (their expertise and experience) and exp

Re: [Ilugc] Software Freedom Day 2010 at Birla Planetarium

2010-08-12 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:20 AM, baskar k wrote: > Hi all, > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:39 AM, dinesh kumar wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Shrinivasan T > wrote: > > Hi, we are celebrating software freedom day. at our college on sept > > 18th and you could do your demonstration at

Re: [Ilugc] Anna University Syllabus and NRCFOSS

2010-07-20 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends: FOSS propagation has multiple aspects. While many of the active LUG members would like to have "correct" FOSS inducted in "correct" manner, the ground realities have to be taken into account. At the outset, FOSS cannot be a "subject" in the strict curriculum sense. The concept of kno

Re: Re: [Ilugc] Anna University Syllabus and NRCFOSS

2010-07-09 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:03 PM, prakash srinivasan < asprakash...@rediffmail.com> wrote: > > If it is possible, you may provide more info here about who are the other > institutions, AUKBC-NRCFOSS role, Other's role, current structure of > NRCFOSS,.etc. So that they can understand the complete str

[Ilugc] FOSS in Indian University curricula

2010-04-08 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends : as you might be aware, NRCFOSS worked with Anna Univ to get two FOSS electives in the curriculum since 2006. So far, about 3000 students have taken the courses successfully in B.E. (Comp Science), B.Tech (Information Technology) and MCA. Anna Univ Coimbatore will be having FOSS as c

Re: [Ilugc] Carte Blanche - Computer Society of MIT

2009-11-12 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:58 AM, sivakumar bharadhwaj wrote: > Dear Mr. kapil, > > 1. *showing them how to instal* > > I feel one of the stumbling blocks for installing linux (atleast for an > average, regulat XP user, who has never installed anything on his own - > they > form atleast 40 % of the

Re: [Ilugc] [TAMTRANS] discussions on tamil translation

2009-10-21 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Vinod Parthasarathy < vinnytrycl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2 > > To me, depending on the context where I would find this sentence, the > english translation varies. Assuming this sentence is in the context of a > directory-file structure in a running operating system,

Re: [Ilugc] NRCFOSS stall at SFD

2009-09-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:27 PM, balachandar muruganantham < mbchan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > srini, > can you point to some information about EduBOSS? i cannot find in > bosslinux.in site. I have used edubuntu. is it similar? > EduBOSS is yet to be released. It contains a subset of applications

Re: [Ilugc] NRCFOSS stall at SFD

2009-09-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
2009/9/14 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் > Hi Friends, > > dear friends : > > NRCFOSS team would like to set up a stall. Focus will be on EduBOSS (the > > school version of BOSS including subject contents), some of the eGov > > related > > applications (especially with localisation & rural deployment > >

[Ilugc] NRCFOSS stall at SFD

2009-09-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear friends : NRCFOSS team would like to set up a stall. Focus will be on EduBOSS (the school version of BOSS including subject contents), some of the eGov related applications (especially with localisation & rural deployment implications). We also look forward to interactions with the visitors (

Re: Re: [Ilugc] do you need a CMS?

2009-09-09 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: > From: Srinivasan Sundararajan > > >I understand that the shift to plone (from mambo) was because of the > better > >(portal)user - friendly features. > > My experience with Drupal, Joomla and Plone: >

Re: [Ilugc] do you need a CMS?

2009-09-09 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
2009/9/9 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் > > > Wait wait wait, the list goes far far and faar long, please go to list of > groups at http://www.linux.org/groups/ and find how many of them in CMS, > nice to see lot of PHP based CMS. > > I understand that the shift to plone (from mambo) was because of the b

Re: [Ilugc] do you need a CMS?

2009-09-08 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
2009/9/9 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் > Hi, > > > > Sorry to hijack this thread, a matter of foot note, NRCFOSS may also > have > these objectives as vision, they are using Mambo for their website , a cms > written in Php. > > cheers, > > Thyagarajan > bosslinux.in portal and portal for nrcfoss phas

[Ilugc] Software Freedom Day celebrations

2009-09-07 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: apart from the ILUG-C event at Birla Planetarium on 19th, a number of events are being organized at various colleges and other institutions as part of Software Freedom Day celebrations. [Jaya FOSS Club in Chennai, Sona Tech in Salem, CSI-CDAC Chennai session for school teachers, to name a f

Re: [Ilugc] help in data mining

2009-09-01 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:29 PM, PalaniKannan K wrote: > Hi all, > > I need suggestions and help from you .. > I have four different online bioinformatics web servers > eg. BLAST, PFAM, COG, PRODOM (Online database servers) > > I need to send same query to four servers and fetch the results of

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Foss becomes mandatory in Anna University Coimbatore

2009-08-20 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > we have already done several workshops for teachers in the coimbatore > region. > We find them far more motivated and interested than teachers of other > regions > in Tamilnadu. > -- > coimbatore academic culture is quite live and t

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [Ambassadors] Event in SRM

2009-08-12 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Bharathi Subramanian < sbhara...@midascomm.com> wrote: > One SRM student atteneted this month meet and I requested him to get > more info about this event. I hope, I may get some info by this week > end. Do you have the mail id of Dinesh? Dinesh had made a postin

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [Ambassadors] Event in SRM

2009-08-11 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > FYI! > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: "Salvadesswaran P.S." > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:44:10 +0530 > Subject: [Ambassadors] Event in SRM > To: fedora-ambassadors-l...@redhat.com, fedora-in...@redhat.com > > Hi, > > I got

Re: [Ilugc] anna univ affliated curriculum does not allow to do 5th sem proje in OpenSource, need help

2009-08-07 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: while there is considerable resistance from HoDs and other staff members re FOSS projects, there have been a number of projects done in the past three years. I have been requesting the students / staff to give me brief details, but the response has been sparse and sporadic. i think it is

Re: [Ilugc] final year project

2009-07-24 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > > > I should have been more specific. If implementation-wise they are > different (if the developer sees a reason for it), it is ok. > Otherwise, they would all be the same. > > 1. If someone wants to know how to write a text editor, the po

Re: [Ilugc] Project idea: "Integrating a compiler as a plugin for browser".

2009-07-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > "open source browser" is Firefox or Chrome, right? yes, at least to begin with. > "compiler" is something which goes down to machine code? > yes. > This sounds interesting (has all the cool keywords to trigger > interest) I felt that th

[Ilugc] Project idea: "Integrating a compiler as a plugin for browser".

2009-07-22 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: a group of students from PSG Tech (guided internally by one of their lecturers) are interested in working on an open source project on "Integrating a compiler as a plugin for an open source browser". the plan is to start some preliminary studies / learning of tools / works over the next fe

Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia

2009-03-27 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Prakash A S wrote: > > > The first and third para from Srinivasan sir reply, it clearly shows that > Mr.Baskar have lots of controversies from his words..:( > > - dear prakash: Baskar has come up with a version of FOSS Lab Server -- as he felt that the colleges h

Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia

2009-03-27 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM, LinuXpert Academy < supp...@linuxpertacademy.com> wrote: > > > Does NRC-FOSS commercially providing the setup for institutions alongwith > the hardware box or has any > institutions already using your foss lab server. > > just require for information purpose only.

Re: [Ilugc] OSI Days Event

2009-03-10 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Bharathi Subramanian < sbhara...@midascomm.com> wrote: > > > OSI Days organizers are also looking for students volunteers to help > the visitor. Interested students can contact: atanu.datta at gmail > they are also keen to have students / staff to attend the sess

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-04 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/4/09, Prakash A S wrote: > > > I dont like to stop this thread just like that. Upto my knowledge, there is > a person can possibly stop this thread with +ve conclusion here - > Mr.Bharathi. > > enough of this I think. Bharathi had already said " STOP. Don't reply to this thread." [sorry Bhar

Re: [Ilugc] Re: fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/4/09, Sarad AV wrote: > > > > I wouldn't be surprised if you suggested waterboarding. > > Sarad. > > From: Ravi Jaya > > should I have the pleasure of pre-empting kenneth : TOP POSTING!!! Sarad, avoid it in future. Srinivasan. ___ To unsubscri

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, Prashanth Mohan wrote: > > Hello Mr Srinivasan, > > May I ask what I did to invite your scorn? :-). > > hello prashanth: i thought i was putting myself alongside with you -- you get associated with FOSS and later you join some organization which is not in the good books and some guys st

Re: [Ilugc] Re: No college opt FOSS curriculam-ramada...@amachu.net

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, ashok samrat wrote: > > Hi all, > > IMHO most of the curriculum offered as FOSS is counter productive > based on a outdated syllabus.It didnt help in moving people to Linux > and for even people who were introduced to Linux it was tiresome. > The elective mode, in a sense, came due to

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் wrote: > > Dear Mr.Srinivasan Soundrarajan > > > So i can expect some facts as well to > > http://annauniv-tamilnadu.blogspot.com/2009/01/nrcfoss-are-you-there_30.htmlfrom > your NRCFOSS capacity , open discussion in this mail. Since the attitude (especially in

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: please excuse me for responding to a mail which has no connection to the current thread. On 3/3/09, Common Man wrote: > > Plz can someone tell me where can I get BOSS DVD's.I don't know where else > to ask? > dear friend: 0. am not sure how much you are into FOSS and how much knowledgeab

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-02 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, Prakash A S wrote: > > And upto my knowledge, in NRCFOSS we dont have any interaction with new > comers reg how to follow the FOSS culture. I discussed with her reg this > issue. She prepared her in OO; But saved as a ppt format. I would like to > clear them that, we dont have any idea

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-02 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் wrote: Dear Mr.Prakash, > > You must be aware we are doing foss activity as a voluntary gesture not a > commitment duty which is assigned to you, i would further reiterate that > you > have the moral responsibility in reaching us, rather than expecting us to > re

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-02 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/2/09, Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் wrote: > > Hi , > > I am curious to know how much copies of microsoft powerpoint bought by > NRCFOSS till this day. Probably obtaining this answer may be helpful in > giving a ball pot of how many slides would have been produced [It is not a > good assumption tha

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-02 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
as a member of NRCFOSS , and presumably with some responsibility for our team, I apologise for the use of powerpoint in geetha's presentation. attn.: prakash : i agree with your statement that she is new to our team, but the collective responsibility is ours. i don't think your long justification/

Re: [Ilugc] Need a Library Management System

2009-02-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
my colleagues (Senthil Anand and Hariram Aathreya) have set up Koha at MIT Library and at Roja Muthaiah Library. As Kenneth pointed out, Tamil version is also available. Dr Tamizhchelvan from Sri Ramakrishna Engg College could be another resource person -- particularly for Coimbatore region. There

[Ilugc] fossconf 09 brochures & posters

2009-02-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: the fossconf 09 brochures and posters can be collected from AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chromepet, Chennai. those who are interested may kindly contact me thru mail or by phone 9444302439 or AU-KBC numbers : 2223 2711 / 4885 / 6958 / 6959. If advance notice is g

Re: [Ilugc] Few suggestions for fossconf "Project Demo".

2009-02-14 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 2/14/09, praba karan wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Prakash A S > wrote: > > > Hello all. > >But they did not yet upload their source code in > > internet. I asked them to upload their code to the open source world and > > get/call the contributions from community

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf -09 - Feb 27,28,Mar 1

2009-01-26 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
can we quickly activate an email id a la "i...@fossconf.,,," -- so that we could alert various colleges thru email and respond to their queries. srinivasan, nrcfoss. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subje

Re: [Ilugc] Need contributors for a open source project.

2008-12-10 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
dear prakash: you could create a wiki page in nrcfosshelpline (if you haven't done already) giving more details -- info on specs, brief explanation for some of the terms, etc. the link could be given in this mail list. in fact, others who are more knowledgable could add their bit. Srinivasan. ___

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Seminar on Sat 29th Nov 2008

2008-11-20 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 11/20/08, Vivek Rajagopalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Clashes with the last day of Foss.In 2008. > > The schedules are up http://foss.in/2008/schedules/ > > > Regards, > Vivek > agreed. but the target audience is primarily newbies -- most of them are outside the ambit of FOSS.IN. We also wo

[Ilugc] FOSS for voting?

2008-11-18 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi: might be of interest to some of our members: http://www.openvotingconsortium.org srinivasan, nrcfoss. ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Ilugc] School Teachers need guidence

2008-11-07 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 11/8/08, siva moorthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Many school teachers were transforming their academic syllabus into > presentation and documents. They were showing more interest in > teaching students in a practical way. but i seems they were not > recognized. And the teachers network did n

Re: [Ilugc] new LUG in Bengaluru

2008-10-17 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 10/17/08, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The ILUG-Bangalore is as of now an enthusiasts and discussion group and > we are pretty new to get involved in such things. It would be a better idea > to involve FSUG Bangalore in this as they have more physical presence and > have been qu

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