[TOS] Introducing Myself (= Shlomi Fish) and My Intentions

2010-04-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! My name is Shlomi Fish and I'm a user, developer (well-versed in programming) and advocate of open source software, and a writer of code, essays, articles, presentations, and fiction. You can learn more about me and read the stuff I prepared on my home site: http://www.shlomifis

[TOS] Some Thoughts about a "How to Get Started Contributing to (and Using) FOSS" essay

2010-04-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
whole does not encourage people to switch from Linux to Windows completely, and that it is encouraged to make sure one's code runs on Windows, prepare Windows packages, test it under Windows and diagnose the problems that its Windows users encounter, etc. So don't get rid of your Win

Re: [TOS] Some Thoughts about a "How to Get Started Contributing to (and Using) FOSS" essay

2010-04-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Satya, On Saturday 03 Apr 2010 23:51:02 satyaakam goswami wrote: > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > For the past few days I've been intending to write a document about "How > > to Get Started Contributing to

Re: [TOS] Some Thoughts about a "How to Get Started Contributing to (and Using) FOSS" essay

2010-04-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 05:41:25 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Excerpts from satyaakam goswami's message of Sat Apr 03 20:51:02 + 2010: > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > For the past few days I've been int

Re: [TOS] Some Thoughts about a "How to Get Started Contributing to (and Using) FOSS" essay

2010-04-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
t; > > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > Hi all! > > > > > > > > > > For the past few days I've been intending to write a document about > > > > > "How to Get Started Contributing to

Re: [TOS] Some Thoughts about a "How to Get Started Contributing to (and Using) FOSS" essay

2010-04-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 19:04:08 Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 18:50:02 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > Excerpts from Shlomi Fish's message of Sun Apr 04 15:30:13 + 2010: > > > On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 05:41:25 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > > > Excerpts from

Re: [TOS] Why do you care about TOS?

2010-04-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
d interruptions) and it has been bringing meaning to my life, helped me a little financially (still not enough, but I hope it will change), got me some leads for jobs and projects, and is naturally fun and makes me happy. My target audience in the tutorial on the wiki was primarily those people

Re: [TOS] Scribd

2010-06-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
Moreover, at one point I registered to them and misplaced the password, and the password reminder link did not work no matter how many times I tried. After I contacted the site's admins, they did not respond after one or two E-mails, and I'm still

Re: [TOS] Hello. I'm new to group, but not to teaching Open Source

2010-07-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
g on this document on the wiki: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contributing_to_or_using_Open_Source_Software Any help would be appreciated. Do you have any concrete plans on what you want to do? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- --

Re: [TOS] Welcome, Shlomif

2010-08-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
x27;d like to put something in your User: page, > http://teachingopensource.org/index.php?title=User:Shlomif&action=edit&redl > ink=1 that indicates your experience and objectives within this project? > Done, thanks: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Shlomif Regards, Shlom

Re: [TOS] Welcome, Shlomif

2010-08-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
this blog > post - http://iquaid.org/2009/04/14/community-sets/ .) > > As an example and contrast, here is a similarly purposed document with > a different audience. The reader is expected to be already interested > in contributing: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_be_a_succe

Re: [TOS] Self reintroduction :)

2010-09-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
, from > a bunch of different directions and wearing a bunch of different > hats. I figured I'd say hello before I started spamming the list. > > So, hello. Again. Rock on, TOS folks. > Hi! Welcome back. I see a message from you on 8-April-2010

Re: [TOS] looking for open source speakers

2011-12-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
ort it there. There may be other open-source groups. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html “We are NO LONGER the knights who say ‘BitKeeper

Re: [TOS] Request for grant

2012-02-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
here's also gvim (vim running as a GNOME app). I'm sure others > here will clamor for emacs. Kate is also nice, at least when I need it to write mixed Hebrew/Latin documents (I'm usually using gvim for coding). > > > Video Editing: LiVES, > > kino, kdenlive -- see

Re: [TOS] Guidelines on launching an open source project?

2012-06-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
official name, then this is normally a given, and is enforce by licences such as http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0 . Do you mean anything else? Regards, Shlomi Fish > Any pointers, guidelines, or advice would be appreciated. > > T. F. Pawlicki > Dept. Compu

[TOS] The MediaWiki is out-of-date + Some pages don't validate

2012-07-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
is better on the latest MediaWiki (don't know). Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris/etc. Facts - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/ Wikipedia has a page about eve

[TOS] Fw: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site

2012-12-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
) Regards, Shlomi Fish Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:30:12 +0200 From: Shlomi Fish To: vim_...@googlegroups.com Subject: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site Hi all, I would like to announce that today I started working on http://vim.begin-

Re: [TOS] introduction - Sri Ramkrishna

2015-09-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Sri, welcome aboard. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 01:40:37 + Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Hi Folks! > > Wanted to introduce myself to the mailing list and say hello. > > I am a engagement team member for the GNOME desktop project. I usually > w

Re: [TOS] Introduction mail (Venkat Lingala)

2017-03-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
ritten a guide for how to start contributing to open source here - http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contributing_to_or_using_Open_Source_Software (it has many recommended links too). The best projects to contribute to are often the ones which one has used or finds of interes

Re: [TOS] Update on the new Teaching Open Source site

2017-04-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
e. Please send email to > *owner@gmail.com* identifying the content that > should be migrated. > Please port http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contributing_to_or_using_Open_Source_Software to the new site (hopefully under the same URL). I've done a lot of work on it and don't wa

Re: [TOS] New TeachingOpenSource.org site launch Monday!

2017-04-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
elp in that process in > the future. Please direct all feedback on the site to the TOS admin ( > owner@gmail.com). > > TOS Administrator I didn't get a reply from you, with respect to this: http://lists.teachingopensource.org

Re: [TOS] Greetings from Colombia

2017-04-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
org/ I'm looking forward to your contributions. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Escape from GNU Autohell - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/autohell/ I hope that

Re: [TOS] Invitation to become visible on the TOS site

2017-05-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
identify and block malicious sites >>>>> Please fix it before I proceed. -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ https://youtu.be/n6KAGqjdmsk - “Hurt Me Tomorrow” Whatever women do they must do twice as wel

Re: [TOS] Regarding Introduction

2017-06-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
> tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Best Introductory Programming Language - http://shlom

Re: [TOS] Introduction

2017-08-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
es, but so far my favorite has been > Python3, C, and Bash. > > Thank you, > Timothy K Handojo Hi Tim! Welcome aboard. -- --------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin

[TOS] Two requests regarding the new site

2017-10-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Shlomi -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Perl Elems to Avoid - http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/ I’m trying to achieve world peace and this regex is the last thing standing in my way! ;) Please reply to list

[TOS] Fw: Two requests regarding the new site

2017-10-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
Forwarding to the list so I can reply in public, due to a GMail GFail (see https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/918749998355042304 ). Please reply to the list next time. Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 19:22:34 -0400 From: TOS Owner To: Shlomi Fish Subject: Re: [TOS] Two requests

Re: [TOS] Fw: Two requests regarding the new site

2017-10-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, replying now. On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:15:09 +0300 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Forwarding to the list so I can reply in public, due to a GMail GFail (see > https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/918749998355042304 ). Please reply to the > list next time. > > Begin forwarded message:

Re: [TOS] Fw: Two requests regarding the new site

2017-10-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Matt, On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:28:08 -0400 Matt Jadud wrote: > Dear Shlomi, > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 6:07 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > OK, I want a redirect first. > > > > > In many projects, if you choose not to follow style, or the > bra

Re: [TOS] Fw: Two requests regarding the new site

2017-10-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:26:45 +0300 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Matt, > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:28:08 -0400 > Matt Jadud wrote: > > > Dear Shlomi, > > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 6:07 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > > > > OK, I want a

Re: [TOS] Fw: Two requests regarding the new site

2017-10-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
u! Thank you You're the best for jumping in and > explaining! > > Heidi > > On 10/13/2017 08:28 AM, Matt Jadud wrote: > Dear Shlomi, > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 6:07 AM, Shlomi Fish > mailto:shlo...@shlomifish.org>> wrote: > > OK, I want a redir

Re: [TOS] Fw: Two requests regarding the new site

2017-11-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 15:20:21 +0300 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Heidi and all! > > I'd like to apologise for the tone and contents of my earlier message. Sorry > if you were offended. Lately I've been suffering from > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depres

Re: [TOS] Fw: Two requests regarding the new site

2017-12-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
Ping! Someone reported some broken links today on an IRC channel. On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 15:20:21 +0300 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Heidi and all! > > I'd like to apologise for the tone and contents of my earlier message. Sorry > if you were offended. Lately I've been

Re: [TOS] Fw: Two requests regarding the new site

2017-12-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
the content, and can ascertain back compatibility. I hope I learned a lesson about hosting ongoing documents on such CMSes as MediaWiki or WordPress because like what we say in Hebrew, "whoever got burned in hot water, will be careful in mild water". Sorry it has come to this. Regards,

Re: [TOS] Hi community

2018-01-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
> [1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Security > [2]: http://codelabora.com/ > [3]: https://blogs.gentoo.org/chrisadr/ > [4]: https://blog.desdelinux.net/author/chrisadr/ -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.or

Re: [TOS] notes about licenses and need for licensing

2018-04-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
use (short url: https://is.gd/8mq9zr ) note the anchor. Good luck. > > So there is a lot to go on. But I hoping for more compact and > comprehensive notes that I can cover in a course of an hour or so. > > Thanks in advance! > > Joanna > > -- --

Re: [TOS] A Project in Portland, Oregon

2018-08-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
yafia/lemonade-stand . > Thank you -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Perl Elems to Avoid - http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/ SGLau: By the way, herr Frog: it is not that hard to be green. — http://is.gd/htmOCv Please reply to l

Re: [TOS] Self Introduction

2018-11-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
t my self educated about teaching open source and get > more of my students involved using open source in their class work. > > > Zhanyang welcome, Zhanyang! -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop fo

Re: [TOS] Open Source Courses?

2021-05-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
ce-software-course/ > > [2] http://teachingopensource.org/class/csci-462-cita-495-data-495/ > > ___ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ -- S

Re: [TOS] DoD Prioritizing Open Source!

2022-10-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
opment to meet the need. > > Enjoy! > Heidi +1! Thanks for sharing. -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Emma-Watson/ Right Said Fred is not too sexy for Chuck Norris. — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-