india April 2008

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Free Media: deeper nexus between ambassadors & mirror admins
by Debarshi Ray 03 May '08

03 May '08

I keep hearing and reading about the huge amount of open requests in the Free Media program. I was wondering whether a deeper nexus between the ambassadors and the mirror administrators would help to improve the situation. We can have an arrangement where after every stable release the mirrors admins send snapshots of their mirrors to some "select" ambassadors. These ambassadors can then re-distribute the content further down the tree. Most amabassadors are volunteers and may be bandwidth constrained. So it might be cheaper to send a snapshot in 3-4 DVDs via snail mail than having to do the equivalent amount of downloading. In case the media request has originated from a place geograhically close to a mirror, the ambassadors can simply redirect them to the relevant mirror facility. Someday one can extend this to the idea of getting seed content for new mirrors from pre-existing ones. Comments? Cheers, Debarshi -- "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." -- Arthur Ashe

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Why would anyone like to have a Fedora Mirror ?
by sankarshan 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

I was being generally unhappy with the Mirror Admins of the two external Fedora Mirrors in India and we collectively stumbled upon the eureka moment that we don't have straight answer to "why an university or any academic institution with a reasonable connection would like to have a Fedora Mirror, internally, if not externally" Given the low number of torrent seeds and the increasing usage of rawhide bits for the OS, it becomes important to [i] have more mirrors [ii] more torrent seeds and [iii] more media via FreeMedia available. mether would perhaps like to write about [iii] separately later. This mail is more about the question - what would be a compelling reason for an institution to have a Fedora mirror ? -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

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Indian Fedora Contributors
by Rahul Sundaram 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Hi, I have created a list at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RegionalTeams/India Probably missed out a few people. If you see any of the contributors not listed including yourself, please feel free to edit the wiki or let me know. I will see if we can mine the account system to get more information. Rahul

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GSoC Projects for Fedora+JBoss this year
by sankarshan 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

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Fwd: Help the Release Engineering Team!
by Debarshi Ray 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> Date: 20 Apr 2008 01:38 Subject: Help the Release Engineering Team! To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com Want to give the releng team a hand? Great! I've got a fun task for you! In our ramp up to release Fedora 9, many Fedora 9 blocker bugs have been recently closed. The tracker for these bugs is at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235706 However since we're in a freeze mode, there is no guarantee that "CLOSED->RAWHIDE" actually means that a package build made it into rawhide. What we're looking for is somebody to trace through the blocker bugs that have been closed since April 8th and make sure that there: A) a package build with the fix and B) that build (or a later one) has been tagged with f9-final in koji. For anything that doesn't meet one of those two requirements, either re-open the bug and state such in the bug, or mail rel-eng(a)fedoraproject.org with the details. Your help will be much appreciated. P.S. Coordinating somewhere like fedora-devel-list or on irc in #fedora-devel might be useful to prevent multiple people from doing the same work. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." -- Arthur Ashe

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Re: [Ambassadors] [fedora-India] May we have a meeting?
by susmit shannigrahi 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

Hi All, We have a agenda for this meeting here. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2008-04-19 *Please update it with your ideas.* Even as Fedora have a huge user and contributor base from APAC, we are in a pretty bad condition compared to North & South America and EMEA in terms of events, marketing, and spreading the word. Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SusmitShannigrahi =============================================

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May we have a meeting?
by susmit shannigrahi 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

Hi, Its long time since we, Indian ambassadors had a meeting. Don't you think We are communicating very little? What about fixing time/date and setting up agendas for a meeting? What do you say? Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SusmitShannigrahi =============================================

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Crash in evolution mail tool
by Manoj Kumar 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Can somebody help? After opening evolution mail tool on Fedora 8, I go to new message and a new message window pops up. In this new message window when I try clicking on "Attach" , evolution mailtool crashes with the message:- ******************************************************** Distribution: Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) Gnome Release: 2.20.1 2007-10-15 (Red Hat, Inc) BugBuddy Version: 2.22.0 System: Linux 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 13:55:12 EDT 2007 i686 X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Vendor Release: 10300000 Selinux: Enforcing Accessibility: Disabled GTK+ Theme: Nodoka Icon Theme: Fedora Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0 CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0 *********************************************************

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