Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia project is visiting bangalore on Sept 28 - 30, 2006.
His schedule is here. He is planning to have a meeting with the local wikipedians.
Stay tuned for the timings and venue.
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia project is visiting bangalore on Sept 28 - 30, 2006.
His schedule is here. He is planning to have a meeting with the local wikipedians.
Stay tuned for the timings and venue.
Linus Torvalds, father of GNU/Linux kernel - Linux, is been interviewed by `Global Office Team' of CNN.
The time schedule is -
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Saturday 20 May at 01:00 PM
Saturday 20 May at 07:00 PM (repeat)
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Sunday 21 May at 05:00 PM
Sunday 21 May at 11:00 PM (repeat)
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The above time schedule was taken from -
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global.office.linustorvalds/index.html
Microsoft has dominated the world of computing for many years, with its heavily guarded ‘code’ being beyond reach to many in the developing nations. In some of the poorest countries the cost of upgrading an operating system to keep up with the rest o fthe world amounts to a year's wages, and there are few legitimate options. In Thailand for example, 95 percent of software on computers is pirated. The poorest countries are now beginning to use free or open source software (FOSS), a software that parallels many of Microsoft's programmes but with the major difference being that they are distributed free of charge and can be altered by computer programmers who are allowed unfettered access to the 'source code'. In this two-part documentary, Code Breakers includes stories and interviews from around the world where FOSS is making an impact, from disaster management in Sri Lanka to tortoise breeding programmes in the Galapagos.
BBC Will be airing `The Code Breakers' in 2 parts at the following schedule (is in Indian time)
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1/2 Part.
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11th May Thursday - 01:00 AM
11th May Thursday - 15:00 PM (repeat)
12th May Friday - 22:00 PM (repeat)
15th May Monday- 13:00 PM (repeat)
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2/2 Part.
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18th May Thursday - 01:00 AM
18th May Thursday - 15:00 PM (repeat)
19th May Friday - 22:00 PM (repeat)
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Note: The above info was taken from -
http://bbcworld.com/content/template_tvlistings.asp?pageid=668
Hi,
The Bangalore Linux Users' Group had its March Meet on Saturday, 25th March, at the HP Office, Infantry Road. The Meet wasn't held at the Marigold Conference Room as there was some training going on for some HP employees. So we were given the Madhuvanti Conference Room instead in the 5th floor. The Madhuvanti Conference room is pretty compact and comfortable. It was big enough to accommodate all the people who attended.
This meet was definitely different from all the meets that we have had so far. Its something that we have tried for the first time. Well, if you have been following the Indian Idol contest on Sony TV, then it was something like that. As the BLUG is visiting various Colleges to spread the word of FOSS, we have started conducting a train the speakers programme for potential speakers who would be interested to speak at various Colleges. This is the perfect time to conduct such meets as its the summer vacation at the Colleges after the exams and gives us sufficient time to prepare until the new academic year starts in about 2 months time.
So the people who walked the plank on Saturday were Neeldhara Misra from Mount Carmel College, Tejas Dinkar from PESIT, Mahendra from Infosys and Sheela from PESIT. Neel took the stage first. BTW, each speaker was given 15 minutes to speak after which there was 15 minutes of constructive criticism for the speaker. So Neel spoke on Firefox and why we should use it. It was a pretty neat talk and covered the reasons why we should use Firefox. Next, it was Tejas who made an attempt to enlighten the audience about FC5 which was released very recently, I guess just last week on Wednesday. Tejas explained some of the new things included in FC5. After he finished his talk, Tejas was told on how he should cultivate a trick if he forgot his slides by looking at the screen and trying to emphasise on a point. Apart from that, emphasising on some of the new features of FC5 is what he must concentrate on.
Then was the turn of the seasoned Mahendra who spoke on the GNOME Network Manager and new power management features in FC5. Mahendra even demoed some of the features during the course of his talk. Next after Mahendra, Sheela from PESIT took the stage and started a BoF session on what Linux is not. It was more of a rant session on why there is not much adoption of Linux on the desktop. The major reason pointed out during the discussion was primarily because of lack of availability of games and music related software. This is something which was admitted by the majority of the audience.
So we had 4 speakers during this Meet. Before we dispersed from the Meet, the date for the next meet was fixed which will happen on the 29th of April. Most of the participants would also be participating in Barcamp which would be held on 22nd of April. Atul also gave a shout out to the attendees that he is looking for some volunteers to manage the mailing lists for the BLUG and propose some new names for them as well. Everyone dispersed by 8 pm.
That is all for this meet folks ! See you all next time for the April Meet which will be held on the 29th of April. Until then, may the FOSS be with you !
The February BLUG Meet will be held on Saturday, 25th February at the Marigold Conference Room, Hewlett-Packard office, 6th Floor, Embassy Point building opposite to the Coffee Board Office, Infantry Road on Saturday, 25th February, 4:30 pm onwards. As soon as you enter the building, head to the 6th floor and ask for the Marigold Conference Room.
The agenda for the meeting is to provide a brief report on the recently concluded FOSS events at Mount Carmel College and Sapthagiri College. Mementos for the FOSS.IN volunteers and speakers will also be distributed during this Meet. So if you were a speaker / volunteer and you are in Bangalore, turn up for the BLUG Meet on Saturday and get recognised "formally" :)