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Re: [fedora-india] [Ambassadors] [Event Report] Document Freedom Workshop 2012, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, March 28-29, 2012
by A. Mani 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I presented an introduction to Publican [1] at the Document Freedom > Workshop 2012 [2] at the Computer and Statistical Service Centre > (CSSC) [3], S N Bose Bhavan, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata > [4], West Bengal, India held between March 28-29, 2012. Thanks for the report. You missed: Arijit Majumder of SAMEER Kolkata conducted the sessions on Libre Office. We also distributed a number of DVDs containing Floss manuals, Fedora documentation, FOSS Books and lot more. All participants were awarded certificates (signed by Mandar, myself and Shakti). Slides of the lectures can be downloaded at the GLUG site (http://www.ilug-cal.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=186&Item… ) Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc

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[Event Report] Document Freedom Workshop 2012, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, March 28-29, 2012
by Shakthi Kannan 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Hi, I presented an introduction to Publican [1] at the Document Freedom Workshop 2012 [2] at the Computer and Statistical Service Centre (CSSC) [3], S N Bose Bhavan, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata [4], West Bengal, India held between March 28-29, 2012. Day I A Mani [5] started the day's proceedings with an introduction to Free/Libre/Open Source Software, and basic shell commands. We had a computer lab with Fedora installed where the participants used the terminal to try out the hands-on exercises. I then introduced Publican to the audience comprising mostly of students and faculty. Jared Smith [6] had presented Publican during FUDCon Pune 2011 [7], and, with his permission, I added more content and a lab section. The participants were able to use Publican to create and build documents with Bengali content! After lunch, Sourav Sen Gupta [8] gave an introduction to LaTeX [9] and Beamer [10] with his "'Golden Ratio' for Typesetting - A quick and random introduction to LaTeX and Beamer" presentation. He used the Kile [11] editor to demonstrate LaTeX markups and for generating PDF files. I helped the students with the lab session in writing, and troubleshooting warnings and errors when using Kile with pdflatex. I also met and spoke with two physicists, John Smolin [12] and Damian Markham [13], who had come to present at another workshop on "Information and Security in Quantum World" [14]. John Smolin is an avid Fedora user! Day II The first session on the second day was by Jit Ray Chowdhury [15] on Moodle [16] CMS. He started with the basics of installing Apache, MySQL and PHP on Fedora, followed by creating a simple HTML, and PHP page. Participants then learnt how to install Drupal, Moodle and configure the same. Prof. Nagarjuna [17] then started his session on why document freedom is essential, and gave an introduction to Emacs org-mode [18], with examples. I also met Krishnakant Mane but couldn't attend his (post-lunch) session on "LibreOffice and Screen Readers" as I had to leave early to catch a flight. Thanks to the organizing committee: Prof. Mandar Mitra [19], A Mani, Partha Pratim Kundu, Malay Bhattacharya [20], and Tanmay Basu for the wonderful hospitality, and to Red Hat for sponsoring my travel. The publican presentation is available at: http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#publican Few photos taken during the event are available in my /gallery: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album79 SK [1] Publican. https://fedorahosted.org/publican/ [2] Document Freedom Workshop 2012. http://www.ilug-cal.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=185 [3] Computer and Statistical Service Centre. http://www.isical.ac.in/~cssc/ [4] Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. http://www.isical.ac.in/ [5] A Mani. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Amani [6] Jared Smith. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jsmith [7] FUDCon Pune 2011. http://fudcon.in/ [8] Sourav Sen Gupta. http://souravsengupta.com/ [9] LaTeX. http://www.latex-project.org/ [10] Beamer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_%28LaTeX%29 [11] Kile. http://kile.sourceforge.net/ [12] John Smolin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Smolin [13] Damian Markham. http://www.infres.enst.fr/~markham/ [14] "Information and Security in Quantum World" workshop. http://www.isical.ac.in/~coec/workshop/quant2012.html [15] Jit Ray Chowdhury. http://www.jitrc.com/ [16] Moodle. http://moodle.org/ [17] Prof. Nagarjuna. http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/people/academic/nagarjuna-g [18] Emacs org-mode. http://orgmode.org/ [19] Prof. Mandar Mitra. http://www.isical.ac.in/~mandar/ [20] Malay Bhattacharyya. http://www.isical.ac.in/~malay_r/ -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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[Event Report] RubyConf India, March 24-25, 2012, Pune, India
by Shakthi Kannan 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hi, I attended and also gave a lightning talk at RubyConf India 2012 [1] at the Hyatt Regency, Pune [2], Maharashtra, India between March 24-25, 2012. Day I The keynote was delivered by Charles Oliver Nutter [3] on JRuby, and Ruby virtual machines. This was followed by the recorded video keynote by Yukihiro Matsumoto [4] on Ruby, its history, and his focus on Ruby for embedded and scientific computing for the next couple of years. mruby for embedded systems will be an interesting project to look forward to this summer. I then attended the talk on "Using Ruby to Craft and Test Beautiful Command Line Applications" by Nikhil Mungel and Shishir Das, who gave useful examples on how to construct meaningful and helpful command line tools. Abhishek Parolkar [5], founder of BigData.sg, spoke on available Ruby tools, and architectures for processing large volumes of data in the "Ruby for the soul of Big Data nerds" talk. Post lunch, I attended the session on "Responsive Design: now 90% easier with SASS!" by Arpan CJ, who also designed the RubyConf India 2012 website. He explained how Sass [6] is useful in creating web sites that can be quickly made to fit different display dimensions and resolutions across phones, tablets, and PCs. Steven Deobald [7] presented on "Clojure is my favourite ruby". He gave wonderful programming construct examples for Ruby and Clojure, and why he enjoyed Clojure more than Ruby. For the last talk of the day, I attended Sandip Ransing and Shailesh Patil's talk on "VoIP on Rails in India" where they had developed a call centre Rails front-end application that uses Adhearsion [8]. They have an internal LAN setup for call centres: Rails application -> Adhearsion -> Asterisk -> PRI (Primary Rate Interface) -> PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network). There were quite a number of lightning talks at the end of the day. One from flipkart.com, where they mentioned that they use a service oriented architecture with JSON over HTTP, along with RabbitMQ, Padrino and JRuby. Day II The second day began with a keynote by Mikel Lindsaar [9] on "How to win", where he emphasized on defining a purpose/reason to do anything and everything. Chang Sau Sheong [10] presented on using Ruby and R tools for doing population simulation in his "Sex, Money and Evolution - Simulation and Data Analysis with Ruby and R" talk. Niranjan Prabhakar Sarade gave an overview of the internal data structures present in the Ruby MRI virtual machine source code in the "What lies beneath the beautiful code?" talk. After lunch, I attended the "Smells and patterns in test/spec code" talk by Sidu Ponnappa and Aninda Kundu where they discussed the different patterns and smells of test driven code, and their implications. Karunakar presented on "Large scale Ruby project, challenges and Pitfalls", sharing his experience on managing and maintaining large scale Ruby projects. For the last talk of the day, I attended Matthew Kirk's [11] talk on "'method_missing' Should be Missing" where he talked about the overuse of method_missing, "monkey patching", and eval from his experience. Lightning talks were scheduled for the second day as well, and I was happy to present "nursery_rhymes.rb" [12]. Few photos taken during the event are available in my /gallery: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album78 SK [1] RubyConf India 2012. http://rubyconfindia.org/ [2] Hyatt Regency, Pune. http://pune.regency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp?null [3] Charles Oliver Nutter. http://blog.headius.com/ [4] Yukihiro Matsumoto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto [5] Abhishek Parolkar. http://parolkar.com/ [6] Sass. http://sass-lang.com/ [7] Steven Deobald. http://blog.deobald.ca/ [8] Adhearsion. http://adhearsion.com/ [9] Mikel Lindsaar. http://lindsaar.net/ [10] Chang Sau Sheong. http://blog.saush.com/ [11] Matthew Kirk. http://matthewkirk.com/ [12] nursery_rhymes.rb. http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#nursery-rhymes-rb -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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DFW'2012 Updates
by A. Mani 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Document Freedom Workshop'2012 is on 28th and 29th of March'2012 at ISI Kolkata. It is also a Fedora event. All students have been exempted from paying any fees subject to their carrying a valid ID card. We also have an additional lecture by Krishnakant Mane on the 29th. (Very few seats left) Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc

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Leftover swag from FUDCon Pune
by Ankur Sinha 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Hello, Some of us have are going to FUDCon KL later this year. I was talking to Izhar and we thought it would be a good idea to get left over swag from the Pune FUDCon and use it up at KL. I've filed a ticket[1]. Could the person in-charge please take a look and comment? [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-apac/ticket/22 -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur: "FranciscoD" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/

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Document Freedom Workshop' 2012
by A. Mani 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

A two full-time Document Freedom Workshop' 2012 will be held at ISI, Kolkata on the 28th and 29th of March'2012. The focus will be on documentation related tools. It is organised by GLUG Kolkata in collaboration with ISI Kolkata. It is also a Fedora event. For details and pre registration, please visit http://www.ilug-cal.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=185 Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc

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RPM For LinuxDC++ on Fedora 16
by chetan patil 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Hi, Recently I wanted to install LinuxDC++ on fedora 16. However couldn't do so as the package for same wasn't available as said here : https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/applications/Linuxdc++?_csrf_token=89… If someone can guide me on then I'll make this package for LinuxDC++ for Fedora 16. -- Thank You and Warm Regards, Chetan Arvind Patil, www.chetanpatil.info

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GSoC 2012 announced.
by susmit shannigrahi 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hi All, The GSoC 2012 is here. Potential mentors, if you are interested in getting something done, please add it to this page. Students can also add ideas, it will probably find a mentor. Also, please keep in mind that the organization application deadline is 9th March, so we have about a week. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012 Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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