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Fwd: The KDE-SIG needs (your) help
by Debarshi Ray 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sebastian Vahl <ml(a)deadbabylon.de> Date: 30 Oct 2007 03:45 Subject: The KDE-SIG needs (your) help To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com, fedora-desktop-list(a)redhat.com, fedora-art-list(a)redhat.com, fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com, fedora-list(a)redhat.com, fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com This is a request for participation: The KDE-SIG [1] is atm lacking active contributors. And we really need some help in doing our job to provide a good KDE version in Fedora - especially with the upcoming KDE 4.0 and the inclusion in Fedora 9. If you don't know how you could help us here is a list (which is also in the wiki): * Packagers: There are so many interesting packages that are not yet packaged for Fedora. Package it to improve the user experience. * Reviewers: Only a few persons are doing the kde-related reviews. Help us reviewing so that more packages could be included. * Testers: If you love KDE use the development version or the updates-testing repository and report bugs, bugs, bugs, request enhancements or features. We need your feedback to improve KDE. * Bugs: Become a BugZapper and help us with kde-related bugs. * Documentation writers: The documentation (esp. the DesktopUserGuide) is GNOME-centered. Help us to provide an equivalent for KDE. * Release Notes: The few people that are working on the new KDE-Spin are quite busy with development issues. If you want to help us in writing the release notes for the next version of Fedora we would give you all the info you need. * Wiki: Maintain http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE and keep it updated with end user information. * Artists: To provide a matching theme for nodoka-metacity-theme and provide an unified desktop experience. But this is not a complete list. If you're interested in making KDE in Fedora better, you're more than welcome. The list of participants in the wiki is atm not a list of active contributors. When setting up the wiki the only demand was an interest in KDE to be listed on this page. This list would be changed in the future to be culled down to the list of active (or reactivated) participants. This has become necessarely because there are only (less or more) 3 active contributors atm (plus Than Ngo). But the list indicates that there are enough people helping with KDE. If you are interested in joining the KDE-SIG please add your name to this list, answer to this mail, join us in #fedora-kde at freenode or attend the weekly KDE-SIG-Meetings (every tuesday 17:00 UTC). I will also add a topic to the agenda of the meeting next week to introduce new contributors. [2] The attendance at the SIG-Meetings is of course not required. But this way we would know of each other. And they are also the main place of discussing the next steps in the development (besides fedora-devel-list). If you have any further questions please answer to this mail or write me directly. And be sure: If your are willing to help you're welcome (regardless of your skills). :) Sebastian [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2007-11-06 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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FOSS.in Talks shortlist
by Rahul Sundaram 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Hi Fedora Project day shortlist has been published and we have the largest project day both in terms of depth and breadth of the talks. Mairin Duffy also has a main conference talk titled "Community-led Open Source Art: The Fedora Art Team". Slides are due 7 days from today, i.e. on Saturday, the 3rd of November! (Till Indian Standard Time time 12:00 AM, UTC + 5:30) http://foss.in/2007/shortlist.php The alphabetically sorted list is as follows: 1. Amey Inamdar - Fedora-ARM : Call for contributions 2. Debarshi Ray - Opyum: offline package management with Yum 3. Dimitris Glezos - Transifex: Upstream-friendly, community-centric translations 4. Mairin Duffy - How to Theme Fedora 5. Rahul Bhalerao - Fonts in Fedora 6. Rahul Sundaram - Spin your own Fedora - Custom spins, software appliances and derivative distributions 7. Rahul Sundaram - Fedora - Freedom is a feature 8. Tom Callaway - Fedora Secondary Architectures: Moving Beyond x86 9. Tom Callaway - Best Practices with RPM List yourself as a delegate if you are attending http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FOSSin In addition to the above talks, a number of Red Hat folks are participating. Main Conference ---------------- # James Morris - How and Why You Should Be a Kernel Hacker # James Morris - The State of SELinux # Lennart Poettering - Introduction into practical real-time programming in userspace on Linux # Lennart Poettering - The PulseAudio Sound Server # Thomas Gleixner - Turning Linux into a Real-time Kernel # UlrichDrepper - Contributing to the Basic Runtime Project Days: Gnome ------------------- # Lennart Poettering - ZeroConf Networking with Avahi # Mairin Duffy - Beginners guide to UI design # Ritesh Khadgaray - hunting bugs # Runa Bhattacharjee - Gnome Translation Project-Your language on the Desktop # Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay - Bring your own hammer - I have the nails ! Project Days: IndLinux ---------------------- # Ramakrishna Reddy - Understanding Indic Project Days: Mozilla --------------------- # Ankit Patel - Mozilla Localization Project Days: OpenOffice.org ---------------------------- # Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay - Is the OpenOffice.org Community in India a study in meiosis ? Rahul

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Re: a question
by yogesh kunjir 09 Oct '07

09 Oct '07

hi as i say i do a mistake let it be ok i explain in brief. i am a student of Linux. i am going to install a fedora at my home but i did not found a single cd/dvd of it. but i get one of debian one so i install it. but it give my very less package so i ask for package to sir they give me a cd of it i try to run a apache2 and other from that cd. i got error "dependency problem prevent configuration of apache2.utils" when i ask sir they told that the lib are missing so i ask you because i created a account for support when i am finding fedora for install i think this is a general Linux problem so i ask you and thank you for those who show interest in my question and last i cant afford install package via net so is package cd are available or not? -- sincerely, yogesh Imagination that is your Creation

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a question
by yogesh kunjir 07 Oct '07

07 Oct '07

hi since this is my first post i may make mistake but please understand me. i am a student of Linux i found that the some package can not get install on my debain it show error that lib not found so there is any way to add the lib can a copy pest do the job please ans this question if you know sincerely, yogesh Imagination that is your creation

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Fwd: [foss.in] FOSS.IN/2007: CfP Process Restart
by Debarshi Ray 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Atul Chitnis <listadmin(a)linux-bangalore.org> Date: 6 Oct 2007 23:28 Subject: [foss.in] FOSS.IN/2007: CfP Process Restart To: "FOSS.IN" <foss-in(a)yahoogroups.com> Attention all: This note is going to catch many people by surprise: As we had explained, over and over: this is a FOSS developer and contributor conference. We are no longer a FOSS *user* conference. As was mentioned last year - in the end FOSS is about Free and Open Source *Software*, and somebody needs to *write* that software. FOSS.IN is about demolishing the contention that India is a land of FOSS consumers, with almost no contributors - that we only take, not give back. Our objective is to enable and jumpstart more FOSS contributors from India. But most people just don't seem to have understood that, and have submitted *user* oriented talks (even if they involve development). We already have more talks than we can schedule in the main conference, but many of the talks that we have received are not in line with the focus of the conference. For example: "Using php to create attractive Web 2.0 sites" "Web hacking tools for XSS, CSRF, etc." "Building pthon applications using xyz tool" "Poweruser Javascript" etc. You get the idea: these are all "using" talks, best summed up with "Using X to do Y", where X is some technology (usually, but not always FOSS) and Y could be anything (including a closed source product or service). No one is denying that FOSS applications usage is important, BUT FOSS.IN IS ABOUT DEVELOPING THEM, NOT USING THEM. To fix this, we are restarting the Call for Participation process. This is effective immediately, for a period of two weeks, ending Saturday, October 20th. This is a very difficult step for us to take, and if we don't get it right this time, we are going to end up with serious egg on our faces. It is completely unprecedented (we haven't heard of any conference ever doing this before), but to ensure quality and focus at the conference, we have to do it. And *this* time, we are going to be a little more interactive, to make sure that we get the kind of talks we want: First of all, as you are reading this, every talk that has been submitted has been scrutinised, and either accepted (very few), rejected (more likely) or is status quo, with a note saying how it needs to be fixed. Starting from Tuesday, the 9th, any accepted talk will be listed online (we will post the URL ASAP) complete with abstract, so that people a. will know that their talk has been accepted b. can start preparing slides and make travel plans (if needed) c. can see what kind of talks we are accepting, so that they can orient their submissions around them. d. can see what talks are already in place, so they can avoid duplication. This extension is a double edged sword: + More time to submit This restart gives people more time to submit, and a chance to understand what kind of talks FOSS.IN is accepting - Less chance to submit The longer you wait, the lower your chances will be, as we will close submissions as soon as all the main conference talks slots have been filled. Also, the last date for submission of slides WILL NOT CHANGE - it is still October 22nd, and if you submit your talk on 20th evening, you only have a day after we approve your talk. Chances are that you won't make it. Because of the minus side, you should not wait till the last moment to submit, because you will almost certainly not be able to meet the slides deadline. Also, if talks run full before the 20th, we might stop accepting talks for the Main Conference. Remember, we have only 60 slots, not 200! Please note that the fact that we have accepted your talk does not mean that you actually get to speak at the event. You still have to send in your slides, which we will scrutinise. Any talks found to be too shallow or just badly thought out will be scrapped. All this applies to the Project Days submissions as well, except that we will not publish the Project Days submissions until the end, as the acceptance of these talks will involve discussion with the Project Days session proposers. Talks received for Project Days that we find acceptable will be forwarded to the Project Days proposers, who will then tell us whether the talk will be included in the Project Days session or not. You can discuss your submissions with the PD proposers. We have also noticed that many people by default submit talks to the Main Conference, probably because they think it has more "prestige". In reality what it has is a FAR higher chance of rejection. Unless you are REALLY good, well known for your work, have an excellent speaker track record and are an active contributor in the work you are talking about, you probably have no chance of acceptance. And if your talk abstract is as shallow as some of the ones we have seen, riddled with errors, then you are definitely out. Instead, focus on the Project Days, where the rules are marginally laxer, but remember that the talk *has* to be about the some aspect of the project, and that it shows people how to contribute to the project. For example, don't try to submit a talk like "751 reasons why XYZ is the best Distro". One or two short intro talks for the Project Days session are OK, but after that it better be about getting involved, what to do, how to code, how to write documentation, etc. if in doubt, discuss with the Project Days session proposer on what is suitable and desired. The new CfP process is in effect as we speak. We are already rejecting all those talks we deem to be unsuitable. You will be able to see the status of your talk by logging into your speaker account, the status of your talk will be shown, along with a note from us, if applicable. Rejected talks cannot be edited, please submit a new talk. You will see the reason for the rejection in your talks management page http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/manageTalks.php Accepted talks can also not be edited for now - you will be able to fine tune them after the 22nd. Talks with status "NEW" or "OPEN" are as yet undecided. If you have a note there asking you to modify the talk, then do so, else just check back a little while later. There are a lot of talks that we need to tag. Many of you will see that your talks have been rejected. Don't go off in a huff, brandishing a huge chip on your shoulder. Remember, we don't recognise rockstars. You would be surprised to see some of the big names who have had their talks rejected. It wasn't because the talks weren't good, but because they weren't suitable for the conference. Just like a talk on .NET programming wouldn't fit into a Windows Vista *USER* conference, non-developer/contributor talks don't fit into FOSS.IN. Accept that, and submit a new talk. You have 2 weeks to get it right. We will try and respond to your talk ASAP, to give you as many chances as you need to get it right. Go for it. Atul -- F O S S . I N / 2 0 0 7 India's Premier FOSS Conference December 4-8, 2007 Bangalore, India http://foss.in -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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Fwd: About foss.in
by susmit shannigrahi 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Hi *, At foss.in , I think I could do a workshop or talk on security (iptables/selinux/and various tools available on fedora). That could be helpful for running important servers on fedora. Has anybody already taken that up? Please let me know asap, as 8th is the last day for registration. -- Regards, Susmit. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SusmitShannigrahi

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Announcing first (unofficial) public fedora mirror, India.
by susmit shannigrahi 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hi *, WBUT (http://wbut.net) is glad to announce the opening up of their private Fedora mirror for public use. Probably, this is the first Public fedora mirror in India.(At least I am not aware of any other.) Though due to bandwidth constrain we are not considering ourself to be listed as a official mirror, we may be so in near future. It follows the standard directory structure and only mirror i386 and x86_64. Also we don't mirror srpms. The url is http://mirror.wbut.ac.in Happy downloading. -- Regards, Susmit. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SusmitShannigrahi

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foss.in CfP and related things
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Time's running out in case you did not notice. So go ahead *submit your talk now*. Meanwhile, we were thinking about: * laptop stickers * stickers * buttons * LiveCD (optional) as give aways during the Project Day - any thoughts ? :Sankarshan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHAG1HXQZpNTcrCzMRAvNUAJ9hGes+cbjV13hpecJcPKBfrwJXmgCeIskS i+18ApC5J1zN9UQznbZZPM8= =h5HL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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