[PLUG] Let's take diaspora to every campus in and around Pune

2014-02-14 Thread Praveen A
What is Diaspora? Diaspora is social networking platform build as Free Software and run by people who care about freedom and privacy. See http://diasporafoundation.org Why Diaspora? Freedom of speech and expression is fundamental to any democracy. When people are always watched they would not da

Re: [PLUG] Still no _good_ devnagari terminal in sight?

2013-12-03 Thread Praveen A
2013/11/30 Shridhar Daithankar : > On Saturday, November 23, 2013 10:35:34 AM Mayuresh wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:00:09AM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: >> > NCST had >> > >> > which I do not know if they still su

[PLUG] [X-post] Fwd: Debian Project News - July 8th, 2013

2013-07-25 Thread Praveen A
Congratuations Nitesh on your first package in debian! Happy to see a new contributor from India! He is an engineering student from Bangalore. Hope this inspires more of his friends to start contributing! Thanks also to your mentoring efforts to bring in new contributors. If any of you or your frie

[PLUG] [Job] Opening at Fairphone for android/low level expert

2013-06-23 Thread Praveen A
Position Opening Open source junkie, Amsterdam-based - If you want it, apply ASAP :-) #Fairphone has a strong focus on open source, #openhardware and #opendesign practices. We are looking for an #opensource junkie to extend the team to mature our open source strategy, engage with our open source

[PLUG] Save poddery.com - running our own diaspora pod, prism spying program, privacy etc

2013-06-11 Thread Praveen A
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Last month's meeting (wheezy release party) we discussed about diaspora and I mentioned we are going to run a fund raising campaign to buy server hosting and run our won pod. We have launched the campaign two days back. Please see http://savepod

[PLUG] Fwd: [ilugd] RIP Atul

2013-06-03 Thread Praveen A
Atul Chitnis will be remembered and missed. Thanks for foss.in and bringing so many people to Free Software world. RIP. -- Forwarded message -- From: Gaurav Mishra Date: 2013/6/3 Subject: [ilugd] RIP Atul To: ilugd Just came to know from twitter. Atul Chitnis is no more http:/

Re: [PLUG] Request for Support on Open Source Contribution

2013-06-01 Thread Praveen A
2013/5/29 Harish Navnit : > Good Morning , > > I sent a mail yesterday regarding request for support. I wasn't a part of > the mailing list back then. I am now posting the same mail again as I am > not sure if the previous mail was posted on the mailing list. I am eagerly > waiting for a response.

[PLUG] Rails Girls Summer of Code

2013-06-01 Thread Praveen A
Rails Girls Summer of Code helps Rails Girls students get into Open Source. Just like in Google Summer of Code and Ruby Summer of Code, students will be paid so they're free to work on Open Source projects for a few months. Unlike those programs, the Rails Girls Summer of Code is about helping stu

Re: [PLUG] [CoFSUG] Debian Wheezy Release Party tomorrow

2013-05-15 Thread Praveen A
2013/5/10 Arun Khan : > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Praveen A wrote: >> Join us for #Debian #Wheezy release party in #Pune >> >> When: Saturday 11th May, 5:00 pm >> >> Where: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony, Pune >> >> Room No 704,

Re: [PLUG] [confirmation] PLUG meeting on 11th May, 4pm @SICSR

2013-05-06 Thread Praveen A
2013/5/3 Manjusha Joshi : > Hello,* > > *PLUG meeting for month of May 2013 is scheduled on next Saturday 11th > May, 4:00 pm @ SICSR While celebrating wheezy with MSc FOSS students yesterday (https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2596575), Karunakar suggested we could do a party at this coming PLUG m

[PLUG] Fwd: [smc-discuss] Fwd: Student Proposals Now Being Accepted for Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-04-24 Thread Praveen A
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Hrishi" Date: Apr 23, 2013 1:14 AM Subject: [smc-discuss] Fwd: Student Proposals Now Being Accepted for Google Summer of Code 2013 To: "Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing" < disc...@lists.smc.org.in> Hi all, Please find our applicati

[PLUG] Fwd: {ABACUS} Fwd: SMC got selected as a Google Summer of Code 2013 mentoring organization

2013-04-15 Thread Praveen A
All students interested in Indian language computing projects get ready to apply with smc (check the list of organizations selected this year too). -- Forwarded message -- From: "Hrishi" Date: Apr 9, 2013 12:47 AM Subject: {ABACUS} Fwd: SMC got selected as a Google Summer of Code

[PLUG] Fwd: Debian joins Free & Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women

2013-04-08 Thread Praveen A
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Mònica Ramírez" Date: Apr 8, 2013 4:40 AM Subject: Debian joins Free & Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women To: Free & Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women == The GNOME Found

[PLUG] Save Poddery.com campaign - looking for interested people

2013-04-05 Thread Praveen A
Hi, I hope you all know about diaspora project to create a decentralized social network where users have privacy and control over their personal data. So far we have got the code in pretty good shape (basic features like sharing status, photos, hash tags and private messages are there). We still n

Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi broad

2013-03-08 Thread Praveen A
2013/2/27 पारस : > Hi All, > I am planing to buy "Raspberry Pi" broad. > Is any buddy know the official distributor of it in India. > I heard that, there is one company in Bangalore, official distributer of > the board. > I google it but didn't get any link. > Is any body have any idea. I bought 2

Re: [PLUG] Proposal for change from the current state of the list.

2013-01-29 Thread Praveen A
2013/1/23 Sudhanwa Jogalekar : > Dear Pluggies, > > We are all aware of the mailing list issues and various threads about the > same. > > After going through them and considering list-members reactions, there > were lot of discussions off-list with moderators and many others about > the issues. Fi

Re: [PLUG] Mailing list issues - Quick vote

2013-01-25 Thread Praveen A
2013/1/9 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay : > I have been reading this thread for a while. And, not just this > iteration. There are a couple of things which leave me a bit upset. > One, the original email from Sudhanwa left more issues un-addressed > than it did by way of explanation. The exposition was mo

Re: [PLUG] Creator of RSS passes away

2013-01-25 Thread Praveen A
2013/1/21 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay : > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Praveen A wrote: >> Was Martin Luther King breaking the law when he broke >> segregation law? > > There's a bit of tautology in the above statement. I wanted to say, when he boarded the bus, but

Re: [PLUG] Mailing list issues - Quick vote

2013-01-25 Thread Praveen A
2013/1/5 Thin Rhino : > The issue is been dragged on for ages and I also see a lot of confusion on > what is expected. A quick vote should help. > > A: Open up the list completely, no moderation > B: Remove restrictive moderation, keep basic moderation in place > C: Let it be as it is, no change >

Re: [PLUG] Creator of RSS passes away

2013-01-21 Thread Praveen A
2013/1/18 Amarendra Godbole : > [...] > > I have read all articles about him, and still maintain my belief - > Robin Hoods like him do more harm than good. Probably Free Software > needs folks like him, not Open Source. ;-) I guess. That is why we need Free Software and not Open Source ;-) -- പ്

Re: [PLUG] Creator of RSS passes away

2013-01-21 Thread Praveen A
2013/1/15 ag@gmail : > Thanks for this article - from various reading I had the same opinion. I > think social activists should as well stop playing Robin Hood... They do more > harm to the open software movement than good by such antics! I disagree. He is an inspiration. It is like the civil ri

Re: [PLUG] Creator of RSS passes away

2013-01-21 Thread Praveen A
2013/1/18 ag@gmail : > So do I read it something like this: While walking on the street, I found an > unlocked door to a bar and walked in, grabbed a bottle of vodka, gulped it > down, and walked out. I was caught, since I was 17. > > Now blame the bar for having its door unlocked or the person w

Re: [PLUG] Creator of RSS passes away

2013-01-14 Thread Praveen A
Can we get together and talk about his work as tribute? One of us can make a presentation, we can listen to some of his talks/interviews together and think about ideas to take his work forward. Anyone up for it? 2013/1/14 Mayuresh : > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-inter

[PLUG] Fwd: [Edu-WG] linux/opensource sessions in KTC Vidya Niketan

2012-11-28 Thread Praveen A
If anyone is interested, contact Minto. -- Forwarded message -- From: Minto Joseph Date: 2012/11/26 Subject: [Edu-WG] linux/opensource sessions in KTC Vidya Niketan To: edu...@lists.pirateparty.org.in Hello, I am talking with someone who is working along with KTC Vidya Niketan,

Re: [PLUG] Need volunteers to make Ubuntu 10.04 live cd/usb with custom software in it

2012-11-23 Thread Praveen A
2012/10/21 Praveen A : > Hi folks, > > As discussed earlier here, we have installed Debian GNU/Linux on lab systems > of Hutatma Rajaguru school in Pandav Nagar with help from many volunteers > from here (Anand, Aditya, Chitra, Sagar to name a few). There are some > systems th

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta3 release

2012-11-16 Thread Praveen A
2012/11/6 Arun Khan : > [2] What is the procedure for filing bug reports? To date we have > followed the guidelines listed here > If we don't get any > acknowledgement then how should it be interpreted? Can you share the content of the email? May be you mis

Re: [PLUG] Need volunteers to make Ubuntu 10.04 live cd/usb with custom software in it

2012-10-23 Thread Praveen A
2012/10/22 Raju D. Vindane : > I am interested, I have done this for quite a few times. I can create ubuntu > distros with custom softwares on it. Let me know in a personal mail for any > help regarding this. Thanks! I will connect with you offlist. -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to ke

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta3 release

2012-10-23 Thread Praveen A
2012/10/21 "Arun Khan (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान)" : > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Praveen A wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> How about we do a debian installer test day? > > The last weekly build that I have tried 20/Aug/2012 fails to install > grub at the very e

[PLUG] Fwd: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta3 release

2012-10-21 Thread Praveen A
Hi folks, How about we do a debian installer test day? We have to download the new images and try it out on as many different hardware as possible. We can also try installer in different languages in virtual machines. Those who don't want to touch their existing installations can install it on a U

[PLUG] Need volunteers to make Ubuntu 10.04 live cd/usb with custom software in it

2012-10-21 Thread Praveen A
Hi folks, As discussed earlier here, we have installed Debian GNU/Linux on lab systems of Hutatma Rajaguru school in Pandav Nagar with help from many volunteers from here (Anand, Aditya, Chitra, Sagar to name a few). There are some systems there running with N Computing's proprietary thin client t

Re: [PLUG] Need volunteers for GNU/Linux installation at Hutatma Rajguru School in Pandav Nagar (near SICSR)

2012-10-12 Thread Praveen A
2012/9/16 Praveen A : > Hi, > > We are planning to teach Free Software to students of Hutatma Rajguru > School in Pandav Nagar (near SICSR). They have agreed to let us > install GNU/Linux on their lab systems. We are going to install > GNU/Linux on 29th September. We'll als

Re: [PLUG] [CoFSUG] Re: Need volunteers for GNU/Linux installation at Hutatma Rajguru School in Pandav Nagar (near SICSR)

2012-09-22 Thread Praveen A
2012/9/20 sagar gaikwad : > Hi..! My name is Sagar Gaikwad. I am currently studying in TYBTech(Comp) in > COEP. I would like to conduct a lecture on this event. Also eager to help > during installations. Hi Sagar, It was nice meeting you yesterday! I'll connect you with the rest of the team. Che

Re: [PLUG] Need volunteers for GNU/Linux installation at Hutatma Rajguru School in Pandav Nagar (near SICSR)

2012-09-21 Thread Praveen A
2012/9/17 Manoj Aswani : > I also wanted to start something like this in my hometown but moved to Pune > 4 months back. > > I would surely like to contribute in this initiative as I was looking for > interested people in this mean time. Thanks Manoj for your interest. I'll connect you with the res

Re: [PLUG] [CoFSUG] Meeting on 21st Sep , regarding Linux Installation in nearby school

2012-09-21 Thread Praveen A
2012/9/18 Praveen A : > 1.However about 9-10 people, including myself, have voluntereed for the > task. > So we all thought of meeting in person , get to know each other, distribute > the tasks among ourselves. > > The meeting details are : > Venue : Coep Boat Club Canteen.

[PLUG] Fwd: [CoFSUG] Meeting on 21st Sep , regarding Linux Installation in nearby school

2012-09-19 Thread Praveen A
-- Forwarded message -- From: "lokesh walase" Date: Sep 18, 2012 10:16 AM Subject: [CoFSUG] Meeting on 21st Sep , regarding Linux Installation in nearby school To: Hi all, 0.Praveen A had sent a mail regarding "Need volunteers for GNU/Linux installation at

[PLUG] Need volunteers for GNU/Linux installation at Hutatma Rajguru School in Pandav Nagar (near SICSR)

2012-09-15 Thread Praveen A
Hi, We are planning to teach Free Software to students of Hutatma Rajguru School in Pandav Nagar (near SICSR). They have agreed to let us install GNU/Linux on their lab systems. We are going to install GNU/Linux on 29th September. We'll also be teaching them Free Software every Saturday. if you wo

[PLUG] Chamba Storyboarding meeting

2012-08-25 Thread Praveen A
Hi, I hope you folks already heard about chamba open movie project. If not you can learn more about it here http://www.chambaproject.in/wiki/ Tomorrow (26th Aug Sunday) we are meeting near Shaniwar wada to work on storyboard (it is one of the steps in animation movie making where each scene is dr

[PLUG] SMC hack party this weekend

2012-07-06 Thread Praveen A
Hi folks, I will be hosting a hack party at my home in Magarpatta City this weekend. We will be working on typesetting a book in latex, we can also work on translations or setting up diaspora/friendica/libertree or any other tasks you want to work. You can call me on 95 six 1 7 four 57 one two if

Re: [PLUG] बेडियन फॉर नेटबुक्स...

2012-04-18 Thread Praveen A
2012/4/18 मःसागरः : >> Why do you have to configure X again? Did it take a smaller resolution? > > that is true, instead of full 1366x__, it dropped me to 1024x768 and > in that too text looks sufficiently streched to think reconfiguring X. hmm. /etc/X11/xorg.conf is where you can change it. I thi

Re: [PLUG] बेडियन फॉर नेटबुक्स...

2012-04-18 Thread Praveen A
2012/4/18 मःसागरः : > sure, eeepc 1215B, with 320 GB of hard disk... > > another interesting thing, as I was attempting to load kubuntu just > few minutes back alongside debianKDE  that I installed last evening > (which did not come to my expectations because lot of things are > intelligible by my

Re: [PLUG] बेडियन फॉर नेटबुक्स...

2012-04-16 Thread Praveen A
2012/4/14 मःसागरः : >> Any specific reason for you to chose LILO over grub? > > any specific purpose for which I should opt grub? grub is default, meaning it is preferred. >>> networking configuration / status indication is not as clean as I have >>> seen in Mandriva and then Mageia... >> >> How

Re: [PLUG] बेडियन फॉर नेटबुक्स...

2012-04-13 Thread Praveen A
2012/4/13 मःसागरः : > basically system installation leaves you in a lurch if you choose LILO > instead of GRUB as a boot loader, + there are many more issues e.g. Any specific reason for you to chose LILO over grub? > networking configuration / status indication is not as clean as I have > seen i

Re: [PLUG] बेडियन फॉर नेटबुक्स...

2012-04-13 Thread Praveen A
2012/4/13 मःसागरः : > several problems discovered over the peiod of last few days... > > instead of blaming debian, i would simply call it sheer lack of luck > (combinetrics) that debian need not (does not) figure positively in my > immediate future usable distribution for my netbook... > > with al

Re: [PLUG] [CoFSUG] [Event] Debian utsav round two

2012-03-30 Thread Praveen A
[posting to plug as well] 2012/3/30 shirish शिरीष : > Hi all, >  COEP presents Debian Utsav Round two > > Venue     : COEP FOSS Lab, 2nd Floor ENTC Section > Dates      : 31st March 2012 and 1st April 2012 > Timings  :  from 10:00 onwards. We have a conflict with another event at COEP, so we are

[PLUG] Fwd: Debian Project News - March 20th, 2012

2012-03-26 Thread Praveen A
Dear Abdul, Welcome as a new package maintainer! You were already contributing with packaging sessions, glad to see your name in this list! Everyone give a big hand to Abdul, another contributor from Pune, keep up the good work folks! We should see more names in every Debian Project News! Pravee

[PLUG] Mapping Pune Bus routes

2012-03-21 Thread Praveen A
Hi, Would anyone be interested in Pune Bus Routes mapping project? There is already work done for Chennai, see http://busroutes.in/chennai/ If you are interested in this project add your name on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pune/Bus_Routes I have some experience mapping for OSM but haven't

[PLUG] Fwd: Debian Utsav in SICSR

2012-02-24 Thread Praveen A
-- Forwarded message -- From: meha!! Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:41:54 +0530 Subject: Debian Utsav in SICSR To: cofsug at googlegroups.com Hello friends, I would like to invite you for the *Debian Utsav*. Debian is one of the more known GNU/Linux distributions. It is the foundati

Re: [PLUG] Debian Utsav 2012

2012-02-08 Thread Praveen A
2012/1/26 Praveen A : > [cross posting - use debian-dug-in for general discussions, use > individual lists for specific events] > > Debian Utsav is celebration of Debian Folks - meet at one place, eat, > drink and work on Debian! Just decide a place and time and add it > here. Co

Re: [PLUG] Why I'm a Pirate!

2012-01-31 Thread Praveen A
2012/1/31 म.हा.सा.ग.र : > Perhaps you have not met a old thinking type shop owner (or a > producer) who think he is going to keep doing the same thing till > death becomes him/her.  And then there are usual marketting > adventurers who keep using that as their main interest is to stoke or > keep th

Re: [PLUG] Why I'm a Pirate!

2012-01-30 Thread Praveen A
2012/1/26 म.हा.सा.ग.र : > It usually is conscious decision made by an individual whether to use > something or not when product of workmanship has reached him/her > without him/her being directly aware of the antecedants of the > ownership and/or roots of the product > > nobody can be immediately a

[PLUG] Debian Utsav 2012

2012-01-28 Thread Praveen A
[cross posting - use debian-dug-in for general discussions, use individual lists for specific events] Debian Utsav is celebration of Debian Folks - meet at one place, eat, drink and work on Debian! Just decide a place and time and add it here. Come join in any one listed at http://wiki.debian.org/

Re: [PLUG] Why I'm a Pirate!

2012-01-24 Thread Praveen A
2012/1/21 Praveen A : > Why I'm a Pirate! Another video everyone should watch, this time about megaupload shutdown http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIsfwhww0SA -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them;

Re: [PLUG] Why I'm a Pirate!

2012-01-24 Thread Praveen A
2012/1/21 Praveen A : > 2012/1/21 Praveen A : >> Why I'm a Pirate! One more in this series from author of 'The Alchemist', Paulo Coelho http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/20/welcome-to-pirate-my-books/ "Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever w

[PLUG] Why I'm a Pirate!

2012-01-24 Thread Praveen A
Why I'm a Pirate! Dear copyright industry, I'm a pirate. I'm the typical user you are fighting. I'm downloading everything and not giving you one single penny. I don't even attend concert. You hate me and it's reciprocal. When I discovered high-speed Internet, I was a naive young innocent. I was

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Project Ideas for College Project

2012-01-24 Thread Praveen A
2012/1/3 ajax7...@gmail.com : > 1. Android Application ( suggest application that is not free) Android app for diaspora/friendica. Diaspora has an app already, but it is just a wrapper around the web interface, a full-fledged app would be good. But you may have to work on the server side api too,

[PLUG] Fwd: Please come to Pune Wikipedia hackathon in February

2012-01-15 Thread Praveen A
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sumana Harihareswara Date: 2012/1/12 Subject: Please come to Pune Wikipedia hackathon in February To: debian-dug...@lists.debian.org I'd like to invite you to a Wikimedia technical event in Pune, 10-12 February 2012.  Registration link & other info:

[PLUG] A beautiful talk about freedom box

2011-11-21 Thread Praveen A
James Vasile of FreedomBox foundation talks about importance of privacy. Its a long speech but I strongly recommend everyone download it and watch it completely. He explains things in easy to understand language with lot of examples. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്

[PLUG] Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21

2011-11-17 Thread Praveen A
Late last night, word began to spread around the tech community that one of Diaspora‘s four co-founders, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, had passed away. With much sadness, we’ve now confirmed this terrible news with the Diaspora team. The news is incredibly jarring, to the point that much else I could say esc

Re: [PLUG] Video of Linus Talking about Indian contribution

2011-11-10 Thread Praveen A
2011/11/10 Swapnil Bhartiya : > Extracted the chunk where Linus talks about India. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=worGBIx-pdU I don't know why you removed this video, removing the video after sharing the link publicly is a bad idea, many people now get to see "the user removed this video" at t

[PLUG] How do you visualize an alien?

2011-11-08 Thread Praveen A
How would you visualize an alien? My friend Bal shares his views on what he thinks an alien should look like http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/Vh5i1DLBM9DI/en/189676/ You can share with us how you think an alien should be like and participate in Chamba Swathanthra Cinema Project (http:/

[PLUG] Is Occupy Wall St. really an "open source protest?"

2011-10-16 Thread Praveen A
If you do a google search of "Occupy Wall St."+"open source," you'll find a lot of interesting reading. While there is some discussion of the technology and techniques used by the protestors, there is far more philosophizing about the open, leaderless, amorphous nature of the protests and the "fork

[PLUG] The Deadly Microsoft Embrace

2011-10-14 Thread Praveen A
The Tamil Nadu government is adding costly MS software to laptops meant for poor students. It could cost Rs 10,200 Crore and hamper student growth Sai Manish New Delhi "Diplomatic observers point out to the stopover of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Chennai on July 20-21 when she met Ja

Re: [PLUG] Blender workshop at Red Hat Office Pune, Sunday 9th October

2011-10-05 Thread Praveen A
2011/10/3 Praveen A : > Introductory session by Vipul. > > Details, registration at > http://www.chambaproject.in/wiki/index.php/Blender_Workshop,_Pune,_Oct_9 We are waiving off the fees! Just pay for your lunch! -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your governm

[PLUG] Fwd: Blender workshop at Red Hat Office Pune, Sunday 9th October

2011-10-03 Thread Praveen A
Share it with any of your friends who might be interested. -- Forwarded message -- From: Praveen A Date: 2011/10/3 Subject: Blender workshop at Red Hat Office Pune, Sunday 9th October To: We create Chamba movie! , We help run Chamba project! Introductory session by Vipul

Re: [PLUG] [diaspune] "Debian Packagin session" (rubygems translation) at VIT, Pune

2011-09-29 Thread Praveen A
2011/9/21 Praveen A : > We are planning to keep a Debian Packaging  session at VIT this Sunday (25th > September) 11:00 am onwards. A long overdue update, I thought some of the participants will send an update :( Saket, Adwait, Kumar and Amit if you are reading this, I still hope to se

[PLUG] Fwd: [diaspune] "Debian Packagin session" (rubygems translation) at VIT, Pune

2011-09-23 Thread Praveen A
-- Forwarded message -- From: karim memon Date: 2011/9/21 Subject: [diaspune] "Debian Packagin session" (rubygems translation) at VIT,Pune Hi all, We are planning to keep a Debian Packaging  session at VIT this Sunday (25th September) 11:00 am onwards. Main focus would be to help

[PLUG] Fwd: Congratulations to Vipul for winning innovation award!

2011-09-17 Thread Praveen A
-- Forwarded message -- From: Praveen A Date: 2011/9/14 Subject: Congratulations to Vipul for winning innovation award! To: We create Chamba movie! , We help run Chamba project! From everyone at Chamba project, a hearty congratulations for winning this award! http

Re: [PLUG] Ruby on Rails workshop this Saturday at SICSR

2011-07-20 Thread Praveen A
2011/7/14 Praveen A : > We will also have a > little discussion on diaspora Shravan Aras created this diaspora intro video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuWjSpicph0 which was shown before we started the workshop. Note: You can watch this video without flash if you go to http://youtube.com

[PLUG] Ruby on Rails workshop this Saturday at SICSR

2011-07-14 Thread Praveen A
Hi, Pune diaspora community invites you to a workshop on Ruby On Rails by Shreyank Gupta at SICSR this Saturday at 3 pm. We will also have a little discussion on diaspora and possible projects folks can take up after learning ruby on rails. If you want to see a new feature or want to change an exi

Re: [PLUG] Discussion session on benefits to students contributing to Free Software at VIT, Sunday 3rd July 10 am

2011-07-05 Thread Praveen A
2011/7/1 Parag Shah : > > Hi Praveen, > > I have an online learning community where I try to help students learn > computer science topics within a supportive online community, and in the > process also document their learning by creating open source projects and > blogging their reflections. Nice

[PLUG] Discussion session on benefits to students contributing to Free Software at VIT, Sunday 3rd July 10 am

2011-06-30 Thread Praveen A
"Why should I contribute to Free Software?" There is one obvious benefit if one believes in Free Software as an idea or they are Free Software users. We will discuss some other benefits which may not be obvious. Some of the points to highlight are, - Working with best programmers in the world

[PLUG] Pune Diasora Meetup on saturday 18th June 10 am at COEP boat club

2011-06-13 Thread Praveen A
Diasora is a new Social Network built with privacy and full control over users' data. It is funded by internet users around the world and built by Free Software community. This project was inspired by Prof Eben Moglen of Software Freedom Law Center and started by 4 students Maxwell Salzberg, Daniel

[PLUG] GNU/Linux written in javascript!

2011-05-17 Thread Praveen A
Javascript GNU/Linux PC Emulator bellard.org/jslinux/ This is really crazy! It even has emacs! Fabrice Ballard is also the creator of ffmpeg and qemu. Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permis

[PLUG] 3 new debian contributors from COEP

2011-05-03 Thread Praveen A
It is with great pleasure I announce 3 new debian contributors from COEP (College of Engineering Pune). I'm happy to see last minidebconf and follow ups producing more contributors. Last year minidebconf India was hosted by COEP and we had an elective on FOSS Development ( http://www.fosscommunity.

[PLUG] Mini DebConf India 2011 planning has started

2011-03-26 Thread Praveen A
Folks, We are looking for volunteers to help us make this event possible, we have expanded our coverage to 4 cities this time. For more details and signing up, see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/MiniDebConf2011 Looking forward to active participation from all of you. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീ

[PLUG] Fwd: [smc-discuss] Free Software ( sharing knowledge ) is in human nature - an example

2011-03-09 Thread Praveen A
-- Forwarded message -- From: ashik salahudeen Date: 2011/2/27 Subject: [smc-discuss] Free Software ( sharing knowledge ) is in human nature - an example To: Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78514#c19 The above is a l

[PLUG] Santhosh gets a place in Wikipedia language committee

2011-03-02 Thread Praveen A
I'm really happy to see Santhosh's work getting international recognition. Hope recognitions like these would help highlight the amazing work he has been doing all the while. All the best to Santhosh. Praveen [Foundation-l] New members of Language committee Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com Mon F

Re: [PLUG] Sintel Open Movie as part of Shamiana Short Film Festival in Pune on 24th February 8 pm

2011-02-25 Thread Praveen A
2011/2/25 Praveen A : > We remembered the contributions of Vinay Pawar (Zoyd) to Sintel and > blender software and observed one minute of silence in his memory. Blender team added a note about Vinay's contributions in 2.54 beta release "In Memoriam: Vinay Pawar We've he

Re: [PLUG] Sintel Open Movie as part of Shamiana Short Film Festival in Pune on 24th February 8 pm

2011-02-24 Thread Praveen A
2011/2/23 Praveen A : > More and RSVP > http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128378767230183 > > ISHANYA Mall > Airport Road, Yerwada > Poona, India me, Minto and Shravan went there from chamba team. We got a good opportunity to talk about Open Movies and Chamba project. Shamia

[PLUG] Sintel Open Movie as part of Shamiana Short Film Festival in Pune on 24th February 8 pm

2011-02-23 Thread Praveen A
More and RSVP http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128378767230183 ISHANYA Mall Airport Road, Yerwada Poona, India There are other short films also in the festival. See Indian Express news story http://epaper.indianexpress.com/IE/IEH/2011/02/21/ArticleHtmls/21_02_2011_586_035.shtml?Mode=1 Than

Re: [PLUG] Contribute to Chamba Swathanthra Cinema project

2011-01-02 Thread Praveen A
2010/12/23 Praveen A : > We will be having chamba focus track at fossmeet and planning to get > all chamba artist in NIT campus. It would be great to partner with > gnunify as well. Indian Express has a story on Chamba project http://expressbuzz.com/states/kerala/open-source-animation-mo

Re: [PLUG] Contribute to Chamba Swathanthra Cinema project

2010-12-23 Thread Praveen A
2010/11/9 Praveen A : > Chamba project (http://www.chambaproject.in) is an ambitious effort to > create a Swathanthra (Free/Libre) Animation Movie by pooling in > contributions from people around the world and funding artists > directly. We have got pretty good response from man

Re: [PLUG] Confirmation: Wikipedia:Meetup /Pune3 on Monday Dec. 13, 2010 6:30 pm @ SICSR

2010-12-08 Thread Praveen A
2010/12/7 Sudhanwa Jogalekar : > You are all invited for the meetup. Do join in. Please add your name to the wiki page if you are coming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune3 - Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your government that you don't g

Re: [PLUG] Confirmation: Wikipedia:Meetup /Pune3 on Monday Dec. 13, 2010 6:30 pm @ SICSR

2010-12-08 Thread Praveen A
2010/12/7 Sudhanwa Jogalekar : > Hi, > > Continuing with the wikipedia meetup announcement we are having a technology focused meeting with wikimedia team on 14th at Red Hat office in Magarpatta City, Hadapsar. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune4 Thanks Pravee

[PLUG] Contribute to Chamba Swathanthra Cinema project

2010-11-08 Thread Praveen A
"I will contribute 500 Indian Rupees (or 10 USD) to Chamba Swathanthra Cinema Project but only if 100 other people will do the same." — Praveen Arimbrathodiyil, Coordinator for Chamba Project Deadline to sign up by: 1st January 2011 11 people have signed up, 89 more needed More details Chamba pr

[PLUG] Fwd: [Gnash-dev] Pledge for Gnash funding of AVM2 development

2010-10-26 Thread Praveen A
-- Forwarded message -- From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: 2010/10/19 Subject: [Gnash-dev] Pledge for Gnash funding of AVM2 development To: gnash-...@gnu.org I believe AVM2 support in Gnash is vital to the continued progress of the project, as more and more sites show up with AVM2

Re: [PLUG] [CoFSUG] Re: [Mini DebConf India] Debian packaging session - Thursday 9 pm IST at #debian-in on irc.oftc.net

2010-10-21 Thread Praveen A
2010/10/19 shravan aras <123.shra...@gmail.com>: > @ Praveen : Are we having continuation of the packaging session this > thrusday ? Yes, any changes in schedule will be updated on the wiki page at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/PackagingSessions Thanks Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്

Re: [PLUG] [Mini DebConf India] Debian packaging session - Thursday 9 pm IST at #debian-in on irc.oftc.net

2010-10-19 Thread Praveen A
2010/10/15 Praveen A : > Logs of this session is available at > http://debian-in.alioth.debian.org/irc_log_oct_14_2010.html?updated > > Those who attended the session, please give your feedback. Based on popular demand, we have decided to continue the packaging session every Thursday

Re: [PLUG] [Mini DebConf India] Debian packaging session - Thursday 9 pm IST at #debian-in on irc.oftc.net

2010-10-15 Thread Praveen A
2010/10/14 Praveen A : > Yes, we will publish the logs at http://debian-in.alioth.debian.org/ Logs of this session is available at http://debian-in.alioth.debian.org/irc_log_oct_14_2010.html?updated Those who attended the session, please give your feedback. Thanks Praveen -- പ്രവീ

Re: [PLUG] [Mini DebConf India] Debian packaging session - Thursday 9 pm IST at #debian-in on irc.oftc.net

2010-10-14 Thread Praveen A
2010/10/14 Neependra Khare : > Will the session's log be available to those who miss it? Yes, we will publish the logs at http://debian-in.alioth.debian.org/ > Thanks, > Neependra -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them

[PLUG] Debian packaging session - Thursday 9 pm IST at #debian-in on irc.oftc.net

2010-10-11 Thread Praveen A
Hi, We are continuing our online packaging sessions from this Thursday. Every one is invited. Those who are interested to attend please start reading "new maintainers' guide". The whole session will be based on that. We will split the session to two - one for people who attended mini debconf (#deb

Re: [PLUG] Localisation Camp followup - Payyans Workout session on Sunday 22 August 2010

2010-08-19 Thread Praveen A
2010/8/18 Praveen A : > Hope it is clear now. And about Santhosh Thottingal, He is one of the most active developer working on Indian language technologies. He is the main author and inspiration behind ambitious silpa project (http://smc.org.in/silpa/) - which aims to bring all Indian langu

[PLUG] Correction: Debian Workout day on 21st Saturday as a follow up to Mini DebConf

2010-08-18 Thread Praveen A
Date Correction. It is on Saturday http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/DebianWorkout2010Aug21 I got confused between the two workouts :( 2010/8/18 Praveen A : > Hi, > > I hope you already went through > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/MiniDebConf2010#After-event If you > still

[PLUG] Debian Workout day on 22nd Sunday as a follow up to Mini DebConf

2010-08-18 Thread Praveen A
Hi, I hope you already went through http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/MiniDebConf2010#After-event If you still haven't blogged about your experience, please do it NOW! More details about the Workout is at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIndia/DebianWorkout2010Aug22 It will be an informal session w

Re: [PLUG] Localisation Camp followup - Payyans Workout session on Sunday 22 August 2010

2010-08-18 Thread Praveen A
2010/8/18 Navin Kabra : > What exactly is payyans? Well, you found out the basic description yourself. > I tried looking at the wiki, but it is in Malayalam; and google gives > irrelevant information. It was initially written to convert Malayalam ASCII encoded data to Unicode. > I found this: >

[PLUG] Localisation Camp followup - Payyans Workout session on Sunday 22 August 2010

2010-08-18 Thread Praveen A
Hi, As a follow up to Localisation camp, we are doing a Payyans Workout this Sunday at Red Hat office in Magarpatta City. We expect participants to know basics of encoding. More at http://wiki.smc.org.in/Localisation_Camp/Pune/Payyans_Workout please add your name if you are coming. (Use http://wi

Re: [PLUG] Blackberry row, what about gpg encryption

2010-08-14 Thread Praveen A
2010/8/14 आदित्य लघाटे : > http://www.asianage.com/india/google-and-skype-might-also-feel-security-heat-739 > Google and Skype might also feel security heatIt is interesting to see, how > "stupid" our government officials can get!! Why is it stupid? Isn't it brilliant? -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടി

Re: [PLUG] Debian "Squeeze" frozen

2010-08-09 Thread Praveen A
2010/8/7 Kaustubh Gadkari : > Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" is now frozen ... maybe a release later this year? > > http://www.debian-news.net/2010/08/06/debian-6-0-squeeze-frozen/ if everyone helps fixing rc bugs http://upsilon.cc/~zack/hacking/debian/rcbw/ Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You hav

Re: [PLUG] PLUG meeting confirmation - 7th August 2010

2010-08-05 Thread Praveen A
2010/8/5 Aditya Godbole : > Hi all, > > The PLUG meeting for this month has been scheduled on Saturday, 7th > Aug, 2010. Please note that the time and venue for this month's > meeting is different than usual. > Venue: College of Engineering, Pune (COEP). Seminar Hall 2 (also > called room 6), besid

Re: [PLUG] Debian conference in Pune - planning meeting this Sunday morning

2010-07-05 Thread Praveen A
2010/7/2 Praveen A : > Hi, > > MiniDebConf is planned for 31st July and 1st August. The idea is to > bring together debian contributors and guide and mentor new > contributors. > > We are meeting at #DebianIndia @ freenode around 10:00 am IST on 4th > July 2010 to final

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