Re: [PLUG] Get the source code used in your Mercedes Benz car

2016-09-01 Thread Thin Rhino
On 01-Sep-2016 17:03, "Sudhanwa Jogalekar" wrote: > > Looks like all Mercedes Benz cars use Free/Open source software to a great extent. > > If you own any of their cars, you can get source code for any GPL or LGPL software for your car. I am going to assume that this FOSS will mostly be used in

Re: [PLUG] New Group: Plug on Telegram

2016-08-07 Thread Thin Rhino
On Sun 7 Aug, 2016, 16:02 akshat, wrote: > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 3:47 PM, wrote: >> >> I think that a group should be made to share and discuss things more >> easily and interactively. >> Hope you will like my idea. >> >> >> Not unless PLUG has the ability to host it’s own Telegram server. >> >

[PLUG] [X-Post] Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] Jordan Hubbard & Kovid Goyal on Open Source

2015-10-24 Thread Thin Rhino
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rushabh Mehta Date: 23 October 2015 at 22:13 Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Jordan Hubbard & Kovid Goyal on Open Source To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" Hello everyone, Jordan Hubbard (co-creator) of FreeBSD was here couple of weeks ago to talk on o

Re: [PLUG] Membership disabled due to excessive bounces for an account with low login/sending activity ??

2015-10-15 Thread Thin Rhino
On 15 October 2015 at 19:18, Harish wrote: > > > Attached inline below is the mail sent from PLUG > > --- Some header info - > > Message-ID: > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 05:29:58 +0530 > > -- Email body --- > Your membership in the mailing list plug-mail has been disabled

Re: [PLUG] PLUG meeting washed out due to unseasonal rains

2015-10-11 Thread Thin Rhino
On 11 October 2015 at 11:12, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:20 PM, shirish wrote: > > we discussed about the immense knowledge gap about FOSS in India among other > > things. > > What were the salient points of the discussion? I h

Re: [PLUG] PLUG meeting washed out due to unseasonal rains

2015-10-11 Thread Thin Rhino
On 11 October 2015 at 09:00, Gaurav Pant wrote: > > Interestingly I and few others did not receive the mails of PLUG meet announcement. If others have not recieved the same please notify about the same here. Many a times, PLUG mails need to be fished out from the SPAM folder and there are times,

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-12-15 Thread Thin Rhino
On 13 December 2014 at 08:54, Gaurav Pant wrote: > > I will end the same by giving the simple example: > > You want to promote use of Khadi and you are giving you speech wearing a > Armani Suit -- Does not work out for me. Dexter, classically flawed logic! I was to talk about Jute, a natural fib

Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-08-18 Thread Thin Rhino
On 12 August 2014 01:50, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:57 PM, ThinRhino wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I was scheduled to give a talk at FOSSsumMIT 2104, but I was asked to > use a Open > > Source License compliant operating system to give the talk. I have > blogged ab

[PLUG] Talk suggestion : software licenses

2013-12-12 Thread Thin Rhino
Hello folks, I was wondering if _somebody_ can give a talk on various software licenses, the differences and their implications. Eg: what is the difference between an apache license and a MIT license. When should I use which license, etc. Also cover, why a license in required in the first place.

Re: [PLUG] Mailing list issues - Quick vote

2013-01-21 Thread Thin Rhino
On 18 January 2013 11:40, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > Actually why there is no D option is what I am currently wondering... Because I did not want any "D"'s to vote :) ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Mailing list issues - Quick vote

2013-01-21 Thread Thin Rhino
On 13 January 2013 09:37, मःसागरः wrote: > If you have been on PLUG mailing list for long and still your mails > are getting blocked. Then imagin yourself to be in chrooted jail > environment and instead of making noise think of how you can get out > of that still manage to remain an active memb

[PLUG] Mailing list issues - Quick vote

2013-01-06 Thread 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 Please vote: A: +1 or B: +1 or C +

Re: [PLUG] Mailing list issues

2013-01-03 Thread Thin Rhino
On 3 January 2013 02:03, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Well, there are more than 1200 people on the list. We see just about > 10 people on this (or any such other) thread. Either so many people do > not understand what is happening or they are not interested or they > want to remain neutral. > M

Re: [PLUG] Mailing list issues

2013-01-02 Thread Thin Rhino
My two cents. 1. Moderation wrt to holding new member emails in Q, only to verify that the new member is not a bot - Required 2. Moderation wrt to formatting - previously required. Not necessary to continue, email clients have evolved. 3. HTML Mail not allowed - This is okay, a lot of people still