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Bangalore Linux Users' Group - Focus, Fun, Decorum: Jimmy `Jimbo' Wales visit to Bangalore

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:50:30 +0100

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.

Bangalore Linux Users' Group - Focus, Fun, Decorum: May BLUG Meet

Wed, 24 May 2006 16:05:23 +0100

The May BLUG Meet will be held on Saturday, 27th May from 4:30 pm to 7 pm. The agenda for the meet is: # Sridhar on using FOSS tools like stellarium for simulating a planetarium and night sky gazing. # Shilpa on OpenVPN # Shahnawaz on phpwiki and zwiki # Atul on MediaWiki As usual, anyone is free to attend. The venue for the Meet is: Hewlett-Packard, "Shezan Lavelle", Lavelle Road, Bangalore - 560 001 To get there, just drive down Lavelle Road, go past the turnoff that leads to Airlines Hotel (don't turn into this road!) and Shezan Lavelle comes on the right. Turn into the side road, park there, and come to the first floor. Many thanks to HP for hosting the meet! So see you all at the May BLUG Meet !

Bangalore Linux Users' Group - Focus, Fun, Decorum: Linus Torvalds Interview in CNN

Sat, 20 May 2006 02:20:08 +0100

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

Bangalore Linux Users' Group - Focus, Fun, Decorum: The Code Breakers - Documentary on FOSS being aired in May on BBC World

Wed, 10 May 2006 23:09:01 +0100

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

Bangalore Linux Users' Group - Focus, Fun, Decorum: Linux Bangalore responds

Tue, 9 May 2006 15:13:24 +0100

In response to allegations made by a few people, the managers of Linux Bangalore have chosen to respond. Their response can be seen at http://linux-bangalore.org/reply/ An earlier post related to this can be seen here: http://blug.in/node/192 Any discussions related to this subject should be held on the appropriate mailing lists.

Bangalore Linux Users' Group - Focus, Fun, Decorum: April meet

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:27:31 +0100

We met on April 29th at the HP office on Lavelle Road. A bunch of us turned up on time and had to wait for Praveen to sign us in. He arrived in a minute and we all moved up to the conference room. Shreyas - one of the speakers - was the first person there. While we sat and inspected the place, others trickled in. Atul, Kaustubh, Sony, Gopi, Tejas, Mahendra and others turned up shortly. The meet started with Atul responding to allegations made against him on http://www.kingsly.net/kingsly/Linux/bangalore/no-blug/ Notes of Atul's response will be uploaded in a following post. After Atul's response, Praveen asked why the name foss.in was chosen for the conference. His contention was that colleges around India were trying to emulate it by naming their conferences similarly, eg: FOSS.MCC, FOSS.NITC, but all of them were missing the point about FOSS, identifying FOSS with a conference rather than the concept of Free and OpenSource Software. He said that when he asks people what they're doing in FOSS, they don't understand why he's asking them about a conference, when he really meant software. A discussion ensued with most parties not understanding what Praveen meant, and Praveen trying to explain what he meant. The end resolution was that this is how things will start, and as people get exposed more to these conferences, their participation in FOSS will increase. The discussion was cut short by Arvind who wanted the technical talks to start. He was hoping for the talk on FreeBSD, but Shanker Balan, who was supposed to give the talk wasn't present (he was allegedly watching a movie). Pankaj Kaushal who was supposed to speak on my first KDE application could not make it to the meet as he was stuck at work. Sony Philip and Tejas Dinkar were not keen to deliver their talks either. After some coaxing, Shreyas and Kaustubh agreed to explain the technology behind [infinity radio | http://infinityradio.info]. They gave a short talk about the software used and how they went about doing things. They were unable to explain the actual streaming technology, and Atul explained that. Arvind and I wanted to know what the difference between this kind of streaming and multicast was, and Gopi explained the same. Multicast is more efficient in terms of bandwidth usage, but is harder to set up. One open question is how would streaming using bittorrent over multicast would work. There was some fiddling around to get a media player work with HP's proxy until Sony told us where the pref in XMMS was. We then listened to infinity radio while some of the guys tried to get wireless working with Network Manager. Mahendra helped out. The meet ended here with some members stopping off at Airlines hotel for the most expensive idlis ever - 10 bucks a piece.

Bangalore Linux Users' Group - Focus, Fun, Decorum: March BLUG Meet Minutes - BLUG Idol style

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:37:45 +0100

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 !

Bangalore Linux Users' Group - Focus, Fun, Decorum: March 2006 BLUG Meet

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:04:07 +0000

!!When? Saturday, 25th March 2006, 4:30pm ([Photos|http://blug.in/image/tid/17]) !!Primary agenda To start having short tech talks, and then discuss them (or rate them, American Idol style), to help improve the quality of talks delivered by BLUG members when speaking at events. !!Talks # Neeldhara - Skinning GMail with Firefox # Sheela - 5 Things you can't do on a Linux Box # Tejas - How Fedora Core 5 changes the entropy of the universe # Mahendra - Network Manager and Gnome Power Manager !!Talk Rules * 15 mins per talk * Please use slides * Interactive demos should be short, or avoided * Don't assume connectivity * If you aren't prepared, don't talk * Be prepared for constructive criticism !!Other items * Reports on MSRIT and NITC FOSS events, where BLUG members participated !!Cover charge * None !!Food/snacks * None, though last time we found coffee waiting for us (thanks, HP!) * Some people head for a pub after the meet !!Where? Marigold Conference Room \\ Hewlett-Packard office \\ 6th Floor, Embassy Point \\ Opposite to the Coffee Board Office \\ Infantry Road !!Directions to venue As soon as you enter the building, head to the 6th floor and ask for the Marigold Conference Room. Note that only one of the lifts stops at the 6th floor, make sure you take the correct one - ask, if in doubt.

Bangalore Linux Users' Group - Focus, Fun, Decorum: February BLUG meet

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:21:10 +0000

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" :)

Bangalore Linux Users' Group - Focus, Fun, Decorum: Meeting with Fedora Project Team

Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:29:19 +0000

Meeting with Fedora Project Team on Monday, 6th February. As mentioned by Gopal V. from Yahoo! Here is the message: Long time Mozilla contributor Christopher Blizzard and Fedora community manager Greg DeKoenigsberg are visiting Bangalore soon and want to meet the FOSS geeks around here. Christopher Blizzard has been a long-time contributor to open source software. He has contributed to GNOME and Mozilla since their inception in the late 1990s and has worked at Red Hat since 1998. He's currently a board member of the Mozilla Corporation, an organization founded to promote and develop the Firefox web browser, and manages the desktop group at Red Hat. Greg DeKoenigsberg joined Red Hat in 2001 as an engineering manager for Red Hat Network. He has been working full-time with the Fedora community since 2004. In that time he has organized several FUDCons, led the Fedora Extras project, and established the Fedora Ambassadors and Fedora Live CD projects. He is currently the community relations manager for Red Hat. You can meet them at the __Yahoo! office on M.G Road__ on __Monday 6th Feb at 6:30 PM__. For those who weren't there when Mark Shuttleworth had come there - it is near the Trinity circle end of M.G road behind the UTI bank and opposite of Nalli silks. Be there, Gopal