Re: [Ilugc] [PLUG] Request for support
Greetings, On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, My Cell no is 09930 633 852 I am located in Thane, Mumbai, Regards, Rajagopal To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List plug-m...@plug.org.in On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Vikram Vincent vincentvik...@gmail.com Hope this interests you: http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud.html Regards, Rajagopal ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Computer science penetration in schools
Hi Satya, Thanks for your views. there are two parts to it managing the school itself with Foss and Learning for using Foss which i think you are trying to cover in the first category we have http://www.projectfedena.org/ , Koha, Moodle and many more in the second one i would go with something like http://www.nand2tetris.org/ apart from the tangible cost benefit the intangible benefits we would get are social skills,communications, the responsibility of maintaining school network should be owned by them. I agree your views. As you mentioned, I am interested on second category. But nand2tertis talks much in advanced levels (kind of collage education). The school kids range may be above 5th std, there are plenty of opensouce tools available which help them to improve their subjects skills, mind power communication,presentation skills etc and open up many opportunities to them. I am trying to collect those information. Please share your views. All please contribute your suggestions/ideas on this topic , thanks suresh. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Computer science penetration in schools
Greetings, http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud.html I do not know if ILUGC Members appreciate this idea due to their preoccupation with technology. But I feel it is a necessary viewing in this matter. Regards, Rajagopal ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Computer science penetration in schools
Please share your views. run it on http://trisquel.info/ , run sugar on it http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar , you have http://www.squeak.org/ and http://scratch.mit.edu/ , also you can get a long list of them from http://www.edubuntu.org/ . -Satya fossevents.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Fwd: [fosscomm] AICTE removes the mandatory clause from the notice on implementing office 365
Thanks for all the people behind it. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bhuvan Krishna bhu...@swecha.net Date: Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:52 AM Subject: [fosscomm] AICTE removes the mandatory clause from the notice on implementing office 365 To: netw...@lists.fosscom.in Dear friends, A delegation from the Free Software Movement of India and other groups have submitted a representation demanding the revision of the decision of the AICTE making the usage of Office-365 mandatory on the 30th of April 2013. A group of young parliamentarians led by P Rajeev also made a representation to the AICTE chairman raising concerns that were similar on 07-05-13. The signatories include Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Sitaram Yechury, KN Balagopal, PK Biju CP Narayanan, Prashantho Chatterjee, Tapan Sen, Dr T Seema and MP Achutan. We understand that the AICTE has now agreed and is removing the mandatory clause from the notice. We welcome this decision. However, we demand that AICTE should revise the decision of using Office-365 totally, as it is not in the interest of the students, institutions and colleges. AICTE as a public funded body should not engage in supporting proprietary systems. We also thank all those in the academia, intellectuals, developer community, policy makers and parliamentarians who have taken it up with AICTE for revising the decision. http://fsmi.in/content/aicte-removes-mandatory-clause-notice-implementing-office%C2%AD365 Regards, Bhuvan Krishna General Secretary Swecha(FSMI) ___ network mailing list netw...@lists.fosscom.in http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [fosscomm] AICTE removes the mandatory clause from the notice on implementing office 365
Yaay! On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for all the people behind it. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bhuvan Krishna bhu...@swecha.net Date: Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:52 AM Subject: [fosscomm] AICTE removes the mandatory clause from the notice on implementing office 365 To: netw...@lists.fosscom.in Dear friends, A delegation from the Free Software Movement of India and other groups have submitted a representation demanding the revision of the decision of the AICTE making the usage of Office-365 mandatory on the 30th of April 2013. A group of young parliamentarians led by P Rajeev also made a representation to the AICTE chairman raising concerns that were similar on 07-05-13. The signatories include Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Sitaram Yechury, KN Balagopal, PK Biju CP Narayanan, Prashantho Chatterjee, Tapan Sen, Dr T Seema and MP Achutan. We understand that the AICTE has now agreed and is removing the mandatory clause from the notice. We welcome this decision. However, we demand that AICTE should revise the decision of using Office-365 totally, as it is not in the interest of the students, institutions and colleges. AICTE as a public funded body should not engage in supporting proprietary systems. We also thank all those in the academia, intellectuals, developer community, policy makers and parliamentarians who have taken it up with AICTE for revising the decision. http://fsmi.in/content/aicte-removes-mandatory-clause-notice-implementing-office%C2%AD365 Regards, Bhuvan Krishna General Secretary Swecha(FSMI) ___ network mailing list netw...@lists.fosscom.in http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc -- Nothing is constant Regards A.K.Karthikeyan http://is.gd/kblogs ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [fosscomm] AICTE removes the mandatory clause from the notice on implementing office 365
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Karthikeyan A.K mindas...@gmail.com wrote: Yaay! Kindly avoid Tp posting. S. Baskar ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Center for Tamil Software
TVA, with directions from State Govt (Dept of IT) had done some prelim works few months back. a meeting was held inviting members from academia working in language computing, industry persons (primarily those who had interacted with TVA on font development, etc.) -- i had alerted some of you. ramadoss(myself and dr ranjani from AU) couldn't attend as we had some other meeting. Request was made to suggest software/hardware setups. In the meantime, TVA had to wait for further directives from the govt. as you are aware, things move slowly for a long time and suddenly a spurt happens. will update this list after attending the next advisory group meeting which is scheduled for 10th. in the meantime, i can collate any input i receive and present the same during our discussions. srinivasan. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: Dear shrini, you may recall that I had suggested that some of you meet up with dr. Nakkeeran, director of Tamil virtual academy.There is an advisory committee to recommend hardware and software for the incubation centre. A meeting is scheduled on 10th. Some of you could suggest the software set from FOSS arena - can be sent to me or discussed and collated in this list so that I can pass on the same during the meeting. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ZeOGy8TmCP8/UXzZ4dxT3hI/TS0/_RWe4YjAMZg/w697-h428-p-o/tamil-vu-software_1.jpg http://www.dinamalar.com/news_detail.asp?id=696684 In this news, there is no information about incubation center or entrepreneurship. To start with, the recommendation is to provide development facilities to individuals or small groups. While the govt would like to use the output in the state depts and agencies, the developer has an option to take the product and sell. We plan to suggest the FOSS route, but there are many steps in between. When is the execution starts? How can people approach the center for their development works? Do they have to pay any fee? How long a startup can be incubated there? Is there any public announcements of these offers? I fell the following action will help: Recommend a plethora of FOSS tools and apps which will help the developer While windows, photoshop, etc., are likely to enter the space, we plan to ensure that at least 3-4 systems will be Linux based, MySQL -PostgreSQL can be the main databases, libreoffice, gimp, blender, orca, etc., will find a place. Mr. Prince from Nic and myself on behalf of nr cfoss/cdac, with help from other members (mani manivannan, chellappan) hope to offer FOSS related support from the organs, lug and other communities. Good initiatives. Will there any announcement for getting suggestions from public.? or this is once of the closed group activities? Thanks for the suggestions. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Scandalous decision of AICTE
This is welcoming ! AICTE removes the mandatory clause from the notice on implementing Office365. http://fsmi.in/content/aicte-removes-mandatory-clause-notice-implementing-office%C2%AD365 Kudos to all those who have voiced against AICTE . Regards, Pavithran ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] NASA goes the Linux way
http://www.zdnet.com/to-the-space-station-and-beyond-with-linux-714958/ -- Regards, Sanmugasundaram k Web Administrator, Spoken Tutorial Project. IIT Bombay. http://www.spoken-tutorial.org http://aakashlabs.org http://oscad.net http://scilab.in My sharing here : http://gowithfoss.wordpress.com/ ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [Link] Code quality - Open source vs. Proprietary software
How does the code quality compare between open source and proprietary software? Open source code - 0.69 defects / 1000 lines code Proprietary code - 0.68 defects / 1000 lines code. Apparently the industry average for good quality software is 1.0 defects / 1000 lines of code. The fact that distributed development of open source software can achieve par with proprietary software is so awesome! You can read the full article here: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14871 Regards, Arun Venkataswamy http://wondroussky.blogspot.in/ கற்றது கைமண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு - ஔவையார் Known is a drop, Unknown is an ocean ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [OT] Future of Maria DB ?
Hai to all The discussion is going to be .. Maria Db is the replacement for Mysql ? Is it good or bad ? May i know how many companies migrated from Mysql to Maria db? Is it Maria Db supports all features of Mysql ? and of course Maria db is an open source one ! What about the storage engines in Maria db equals to MYISAM,INNODB in mysql ? which one is best db whether Maria Db or Mysql is good for webdevelopment ? thanks kumar ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Computer science penetration in schools
Hi Sathya, Please share your views. run it on http://trisquel.info/ , run sugar on it http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar , you have http://www.squeak.org/ and http://scratch.mit.edu/ , also you can get a long list of them from http://www.edubuntu.org/ . Thanks for the pointers. I will evaluate these. thanks suresh. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers - May month meet
Topic: Challenge of putting free software in corporates On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: The date is May 11. Do we have any more speakers? It will be nice if we have 2 more talks. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc -- Nothing is constant Regards A.K.Karthikeyan http://is.gd/kblogs ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers - May month meet
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Karthikeyan A.K mindas...@gmail.comwrote: Topic: Challenge of putting free software in corporates what about it FUD , resistance , ignorance , education , myths , no understanding of culture either way -Satya fossevents.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Future of Maria DB ?
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:20 AM, jaya kumar jayakumargen...@gmail.com wrote: Hai to all The discussion is going to be .. Maria Db is the replacement for Mysql ? Is it good or bad ? May i know how many companies migrated from Mysql to Maria db? Is it Maria Db supports all features of Mysql ? and of course Maria db is an open source one ! What about the storage engines in Maria db equals to MYISAM,INNODB in mysql ? which one is best db whether Maria Db or Mysql is good for webdevelopment ? Much of the sought information can be found here https://mariadb.org/. As for distro switched - IIRC, It replaced MySQL in openSUSE 12.3. -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Future of Maria DB ?
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:20 AM, jaya kumar jayakumargen...@gmail.comwrote: Hai to all The discussion is going to be .. Maria Db is the replacement for Mysql ? i think you did not research well there was a merger announce as recent as 23 rd of last month http://www.skysql.com/news-and-events/press-releases/skysql-merges-with-mariadb-developers Is it good or bad ? May i know how many companies migrated from Mysql to Maria db? forks tend to carry legacy code and most of the time they will be compatible , until and unless i have something to work on and lots of time to kill i would not bother digging the differences just for the sake of argument. Is it Maria Db supports all features of Mysql ? and of course Maria db is an open source one ! What about the storage engines in Maria db equals to MYISAM,INNODB in mysql ? which one is best db whether Maria Db or Mysql is good for webdevelopment ? there is nothing like best , go with what you are comfortable with and what your needs are . -Satya fossevents.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [Link] Code quality - Open source vs. Proprietary software
Greetings, On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Arun Venkataswamy arun...@gmail.com wrote: How does the code quality compare between open source and proprietary software? Open source code - 0.69 defects / 1000 lines code Excuse me. IT should be 0%. It means that open source community is passable or IOW is worse -- Regards, Rajagopal ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
