[PLUG] [Event Report] GNU Make: FISAT, Angamaly, Kerala

2011-08-28 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, I had presented an introduction to GNU Make, "Dum Ka Biryani, Make for each other" [1] at "ICE-FOSS 2011" [2], August 26-27, 2011 at Federal Institute of Science and Technology [3], Angamaly, Kerala. The conference had talks, hands-on workshops, and project demos. There were interesting proje

Re: [PLUG] ITR filing w/o proprietary s/w

2011-08-28 Thread Mayuresh
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:12:23AM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > A problem that you already have noted, whatever efforts put in this activity > will run into trouble with changes required next year. Yes. Also to respond to Siddhesh's mail: We can first focus on the method rather than any i

Re: [PLUG] ITR filing w/o proprietary s/w

2011-08-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 29 Aug 2011 12:01:30 AM Mayuresh wrote: > While above option is open, I'd still invite technical suggestions on > feasibility to extract the computational and validation rules embedded in > those Excels to help write utilities of our own - or at least manually > apply them and create the

Re: [PLUG] ITR filing w/o proprietary s/w

2011-08-28 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Mayuresh wrote: > Let's try to deal with it technically. What would it take to create the > "xml" that one has to finally upload be prepared by hand? Its schema is > available. What needs to be extracted from their Excel is some > auto-computed fields' rules and s

[PLUG] Reminder: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Pune Meetup on 29 August 2011

2011-08-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Forwarding mail for Wikimedia- Pune meetup. Regards -Sudhanwa -- Forwarded message -- From: Ashwin Baindur Date: Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:39 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Pune Meetup on 29 August 2011 To: "Mailing list for Wikimedians in Pune, India" , wikimediaindia-l Cc

Re: [PLUG] ITR filing w/o proprietary s/w

2011-08-28 Thread Mayuresh
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:33:59PM +0530, jayant ogale wrote: > my openion is:- the solution to this problem is to file a writ petition in > the public interest not only for IT returns but for all the govt. documents. > court should make it compulsary foss compatibility , for all govt. sites. for

Re: [PLUG] ITR filing w/o proprietary s/w

2011-08-28 Thread jayant ogale
That time of the year, when invariably this frustration arises in many FOSS users' minds and invariably such discussion threads come up in various mailing lists and die down. Nobody knows how to change the system, or how to even wake it up to what horrendous choice they have made by forcing to b