Re: [ubuntu-in] [ubuntu indian promoters] Hello all...
On Jan 19, 2008 6:44 PM, Bhavani Shankar R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/19/08, Aanjhan R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Jan 19, 2008 11:25 AM, Bhavani Shankar R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /me in clarifying mode...:P ofcourse kingsly that works out when you have a small number of members in the team.. Consider for ex: You are a division head of a company and 700 people are working under you.. Its just like saying write your ideas in a sheet of paper and keep it on your table; we'll collect it and look into it..And when the collection of sheets come the boss must be a real KALAKAR with a hell lot of patience to look into each of those.. And it isnt practically feasible due to time factor.. Ofcourse our loco team is small compared to the larger community but.. when considered solely 700 and odd is quite a big number.. Secondly why I thought I would register up a sprint/meeting on LP with the probable dates so that attendees/people who are interested can register themselves for the meeting is the people who are interested around the world can join.. In short: If anyone wants to speak on any topic in the above mentioned agenda then they would register themselves as speakers of a particular topic (say for ex: Future of ubuntu India) So three wiki pages are required (1). indicating the number of speakers and the topic they are speaking.. (2).indicating the time slot for each speaker.. (3). As said above, indicating the status of the idea i.e whether its in discussion/deferred/approved with a brief description of that idea.. and if the idea is approved it will come up on our current projects page with the name of the assignee..(I thought these things were implied when scheduling for a meet, but thanks kingsly for your query..:) ) Any Comments are most welcome. I think I am more confused now than before. Absolutely. no clue on what you are trying to say. May be I am dumb. -- A -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in I just answered kingly's query that why I prefer IRC for scheduling a meeting and calling for Ideas opposed to doing the same on a mailing list.. -- Bhavani Shankar.R https://launchpad.net/~bhavi https://launchpad.net/%7Ebhavi, a proud ubuntu community member. What matters in life is application of mind!, It makes great sense to have some common sense..! Here it goes.. Agenda topic is ' An Overview of Linux scene in India With Special reference to Ubuntu ' and it is aimed at creating an idea pool to help students and newbies contribute actively towards ubuntu.. As I said above going about this topic as I thought would involve the following: three wiki pages are required (1). indicating the number of speakers and the topic they are speaking..(for example: Future of Ubuntu India,contributing to ubuntu for dummies and so on) (2).indicating the time slot for each speaker.. (3). As said above, indicating the status of the idea i.e whether its in discussion/deferred/approved with a brief description of that idea.. and if the idea is approved it will come up on our current projects page with the name of the assignee.. And the date I thought was 26th January 2008, Saturday evening at 18:00 IST as it is a holiday and will be convenient to most of them I presume... Any comments welcome.. -- Bhavani Shankar.R https://launchpad.net/~bhavi, a proud ubuntu community member. What matters in life is application of mind!, It makes great sense to have some common sense..! -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [ubuntu indian promoters] Hello all...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bhavani Shankar R wrote: three wiki pages are required (1). indicating the number of speakers and the topic they are speaking..(for example: Future of Ubuntu India,contributing to ubuntu for dummies and so on) (2).indicating the time slot for each speaker.. (3). As said above, indicating the status of the idea i.e whether its in discussion/deferred/approved with a brief description of that idea.. and if the idea is approved it will come up on our current projects page with the name of the assignee.. And the date I thought was 26th January 2008, Saturday evening at 18:00 IST as it is a holiday and will be convenient to most of them I presume... [1] Learn mailing list etiquettes please. You are quoting an entire mail or half the thread to give a 2 line reply and we have to run through twice or thrice the length of the screen to know what you have replied. Understand what quoting is and make effective use of it in future. [2] It doesn't look like an online discussion on IRC. We mostly prefer to drop in, put our thoughts and keep moving, while someone takes the responsibility of aggregating and publishing a MoM, places a final draft in the wiki which gets fixed after final comments from all the members. [3] Thank god it's on a holiday and am out!(I do not have internet at home and hence attending anything on a Holiday after working hours is not possible for me) ;) Good luck. - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [GPG]:0x2FF01026 [web]:http://technofreak.in [blog]:blog.technofreak.in [photos]:photos.technofreak.in [irc]:teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHlBU5k4vYYS/wECYRAvNSAJ0ftlF23MOUUDVAK7LtNXo+E7ti2ACeOyUX pbol8J0YeOgALcd65k5wRAM= =MZA8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [ubuntu indian promoters] Hello all...
On Jan 21, 2008 10:47 AM, Parthan SR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kingsly John wrote: +++ Parthan SR [2008-01-21 09:14:58]: [2] It doesn't look like an online discussion on IRC. We mostly prefer to drop in, put our thoughts and keep moving, while someone takes the responsibility of aggregating and publishing a MoM, places a final draft in the wiki which gets fixed after final comments from all the members. That's a Moo Point, because you Sir, obviously have no experience being the division head of a company with 700 employees working under you. /me looks under him, the 3 floors beneath him, and counts.. not even a 100 *sigh*. /me agrees with Kingsly. - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [GPG]:0x2FF01026 [web]:http://technofreak.in [blog]:blog.technofreak.in [photos]:photos.technofreak.in [irc]:teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHlCrak4vYYS/wECYRAmvVAKCWSVb8iU3evJagq74JkBv+I/gOawCeJix/ NznM6TOXPDAneXFZZkReGEY= =sUcM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in Ok.. Thanks for your comments... -- Bhavani Shankar.R https://launchpad.net/~bhavi, a proud ubuntu community member. What matters in life is application of mind!, It makes great sense to have some common sense..! -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [ubuntu indian promoters] Hello all...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kingsly John wrote: +++ Parthan SR [2008-01-21 09:14:58]: [2] It doesn't look like an online discussion on IRC. We mostly prefer to drop in, put our thoughts and keep moving, while someone takes the responsibility of aggregating and publishing a MoM, places a final draft in the wiki which gets fixed after final comments from all the members. That's a Moo Point, because you Sir, obviously have no experience being the division head of a company with 700 employees working under you. /me looks under him, the 3 floors beneath him, and counts.. not even a 100 *sigh*. /me agrees with Kingsly. - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [GPG]:0x2FF01026 [web]:http://technofreak.in [blog]:blog.technofreak.in [photos]:photos.technofreak.in [irc]:teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHlCrak4vYYS/wECYRAmvVAKCWSVb8iU3evJagq74JkBv+I/gOawCeJix/ NznM6TOXPDAneXFZZkReGEY= =sUcM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [ubuntu indian promoters] Hello all...
Hi, On Jan 19, 2008 11:25 AM, Bhavani Shankar R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /me in clarifying mode...:P ofcourse kingsly that works out when you have a small number of members in the team.. Consider for ex: You are a division head of a company and 700 people are working under you.. Its just like saying write your ideas in a sheet of paper and keep it on your table; we'll collect it and look into it..And when the collection of sheets come the boss must be a real KALAKAR with a hell lot of patience to look into each of those.. And it isnt practically feasible due to time factor.. Ofcourse our loco team is small compared to the larger community but.. when considered solely 700 and odd is quite a big number.. Secondly why I thought I would register up a sprint/meeting on LP with the probable dates so that attendees/people who are interested can register themselves for the meeting is the people who are interested around the world can join.. In short: If anyone wants to speak on any topic in the above mentioned agenda then they would register themselves as speakers of a particular topic (say for ex: Future of ubuntu India) So three wiki pages are required (1). indicating the number of speakers and the topic they are speaking.. (2).indicating the time slot for each speaker.. (3). As said above, indicating the status of the idea i.e whether its in discussion/deferred/approved with a brief description of that idea.. and if the idea is approved it will come up on our current projects page with the name of the assignee..(I thought these things were implied when scheduling for a meet, but thanks kingsly for your query..:) ) Any Comments are most welcome. I think I am more confused now than before. Absolutely. no clue on what you are trying to say. May be I am dumb. -- A -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [ubuntu indian promoters] Hello all...
On 1/19/08, Aanjhan R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Jan 19, 2008 11:25 AM, Bhavani Shankar R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /me in clarifying mode...:P ofcourse kingsly that works out when you have a small number of members in the team.. Consider for ex: You are a division head of a company and 700 people are working under you.. Its just like saying write your ideas in a sheet of paper and keep it on your table; we'll collect it and look into it..And when the collection of sheets come the boss must be a real KALAKAR with a hell lot of patience to look into each of those.. And it isnt practically feasible due to time factor.. Ofcourse our loco team is small compared to the larger community but.. when considered solely 700 and odd is quite a big number.. Secondly why I thought I would register up a sprint/meeting on LP with the probable dates so that attendees/people who are interested can register themselves for the meeting is the people who are interested around the world can join.. In short: If anyone wants to speak on any topic in the above mentioned agenda then they would register themselves as speakers of a particular topic (say for ex: Future of ubuntu India) So three wiki pages are required (1). indicating the number of speakers and the topic they are speaking.. (2).indicating the time slot for each speaker.. (3). As said above, indicating the status of the idea i.e whether its in discussion/deferred/approved with a brief description of that idea.. and if the idea is approved it will come up on our current projects page with the name of the assignee..(I thought these things were implied when scheduling for a meet, but thanks kingsly for your query..:) ) Any Comments are most welcome. I think I am more confused now than before. Absolutely. no clue on what you are trying to say. May be I am dumb. -- A -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in I just answered kingly's query that why I prefer IRC for scheduling a meeting and calling for Ideas opposed to doing the same on a mailing list.. -- Bhavani Shankar.R https://launchpad.net/~bhavi, a proud ubuntu community member. What matters in life is application of mind!, It makes great sense to have some common sense..! -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [ubuntu indian promoters] Hello all...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bhavani Shankar R wrote: Onkar.. I know that some of you guys like aanjhan,parthan,karthik,soumyadip et al.are doing great work.. Its specifically aimed at newbies to help them start contributing.. I know that you guys are contributing under peer pressure at work and thats great.. I have also seen you giving answers in the forums/answer tracker thats great.. But its specifically aimed at students because we as students will not have any pressure or such sort of thing.. So I thought of this idea to make an open discussion on the IRC and have an idea pool created so as to larger chunk of the newbies/students can contribute actively /me feels elated to be in the elite list and drops all ideas of flaming :P We welcome your idea to motivate students to contribute and if there is such an attempt we will, as a part of Ubuntu India Loco Team, would be happy to help out anyone. But, before jumping into the mid sea, what precisely are you planning to do? [1] Are you asking us to sit on a IRC discussion and make of list of things to do be done? If yes, what kind of things. If not, then? [2] Do you expect us to take one kind of task and mentor the students who come forward to do it? If yes, what are the task, how do you plan to keep things in check and where do the students come from? If no, then? [3] We contribute on our own passion to do. We have nothing pressuring up to do them, rather we have other things which might prevent us from contributing as much as we would like to. IMNSHPO, I do not count on college students to have passion to do the same, especially if they do not have 2-3 years of exposure to FOSS and are motivated by the community (and its contribution) [4] Once we fix on with a list of idea pool, as you mention, what are the consequent steps to put this into action. Do you have a plan or blueprint? If yes, please provide us with it. Else, prepare one. - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [GPG]:0x2FF01026 [web]:http://technofreak.in [blog]:blog.technofreak.in [photos]:photos.technofreak.in [irc]:teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHkJC3k4vYYS/wECYRAq0KAJ9UNYPdt2X4BIxR1JsuU3j5MmVHGwCfVvWG Z7MaT8FaorWSesFlIFx1ZlU= =oAi1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [ubuntu indian promoters] Hello all...
On Jan 18, 2008 1:59 PM, Onkar Shinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 1:11 PM, Bhavani Shankar R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello I have got a new idea... Why not schedule up an IRC Meet and discuss about the present linux scene in India with special ref to ubuntu? and have an idea pool created so as to have a larger chunk of the team contributing to ubuntu and moving forward ubuntu in india? any takers?/responses/critics /comments/suggestions If i get a positive response.. then i ll register a sprint on LP and put it up on the mailing list so that attendees can register themselves.. P.S. Its a part of the marketing team I set up.. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianPromoters (the team's wiki) As far as I am concerned, I am trying to fix some java related packages for past month in universe repository. And that activity is going well since I am a java programmer. Do you have anything specific in mind? I would like to hear some of your ideas. Because there is nothing other - than bug reporting/triaging, patches, packaging, documentation, translation to Indian languages - that I can do at this moment. So if you have anything else to say please do. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in Onkar.. I know that some of you guys like aanjhan,parthan,karthik,soumyadip et al.are doing great work.. Its specifically aimed at newbies to help them start contributing.. I know that you guys are contributing under peer pressure at work and thats great.. I have also seen you giving answers in the forums/answer tracker thats great.. But its specifically aimed at students because we as students will not have any pressure or such sort of thing.. So I thought of this idea to make an open discussion on the IRC and have an idea pool created so as to larger chunk of the newbies/students can contribute actively P.S. For students: This is a generalised statement.. If anyone's contributing to ubuntu as a student, thats great.. and please dont make this a topic for flaming...:) -- Bhavani Shankar.R https://launchpad.net/~bhavi, a proud ubuntu community member. What matters in life is application of mind!, It makes great sense to have some common sense..! -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [ubuntu indian promoters] Hello all...
On Jan 18, 2008 5:12 PM, Parthan SR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bhavani Shankar R wrote: Onkar.. I know that some of you guys like aanjhan,parthan,karthik,soumyadip et al.are doing great work.. Its specifically aimed at newbies to help them start contributing.. I know that you guys are contributing under peer pressure at work and thats great.. I have also seen you giving answers in the forums/answer tracker thats great.. But its specifically aimed at students because we as students will not have any pressure or such sort of thing.. So I thought of this idea to make an open discussion on the IRC and have an idea pool created so as to larger chunk of the newbies/students can contribute actively /me feels elated to be in the elite list and drops all ideas of flaming :P We welcome your idea to motivate students to contribute and if there is such an attempt we will, as a part of Ubuntu India Loco Team, would be happy to help out anyone. But, before jumping into the mid sea, what precisely are you planning to do? [1] Are you asking us to sit on a IRC discussion and make of list of things to do be done? If yes, what kind of things. If not, then? [2] Do you expect us to take one kind of task and mentor the students who come forward to do it? If yes, what are the task, how do you plan to keep things in check and where do the students come from? If no, then? [3] We contribute on our own passion to do. We have nothing pressuring up to do them, rather we have other things which might prevent us from contributing as much as we would like to. IMNSHPO, I do not count on college students to have passion to do the same, especially if they do not have 2-3 years of exposure to FOSS and are motivated by the community (and its contribution) [4] Once we fix on with a list of idea pool, as you mention, what are the consequent steps to put this into action. Do you have a plan or blueprint? If yes, please provide us with it. Else, prepare one. - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [GPG]:0x2FF01026 [web]:http://technofreak.in [blog]:blog.technofreak.in [photos]:photos.technofreak.in [irc]:teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHkJC3k4vYYS/wECYRAq0KAJ9UNYPdt2X4BIxR1JsuU3j5MmVHGwCfVvWG Z7MaT8FaorWSesFlIFx1ZlU= =oAi1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in [1] Are you asking us to sit on a IRC discussion and make of list of things to do be done? If yes, what kind of things. If not, then? exactly.. I am requesting for an IRC discussion and build up a list of things to be done.. from the discussion we can have an idea pool created and then look forward to implement those plans/ideas subject to approval of the loco team members.. For this we need a separate wiki page for the idea pool so created mentioning its status i.e whether its in discussion/drafting or approved or deferred/dropped.. And if the idea is implemented it will appear on our current projects page with the name of the assignee.. That would be my point of view...So for this to happen I thought I would register up a sprint/meeting on LP with the probable dates so that attendees/people who are interested can register themselves for the meeting..and I chose IRC because I thought the best way to get everyone on a single platform is an IRC. Any comments welcome.. -- Bhavani Shankar.R https://launchpad.net/~bhavi, a proud ubuntu community member. What matters in life is application of mind!, It makes great sense to have some common sense..! -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [ubuntu indian promoters] Hello all...
Hi Bhavani, On Jan 18, 2008 1:11 PM, Bhavani Shankar R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello I have got a new idea... Why not schedule up an IRC Meet and discuss about the present linux scene in India with special ref to ubuntu? and have an idea pool created so as to have a larger chunk of the team contributing to ubuntu and moving forward ubuntu in india? any takers?/responses/critics/comments/suggestions If i get a positive response.. then i ll register a sprint on LP and put it up on the mailing list so that attendees can register themselves.. I have been using Ubuntu for quite some time but have not actually contributed anything to the project. I , for one, would like to be part of such discussions and eventually be a contributing member. I think this will bring forth many wannaba developers as well as mentors. Thanks, Raseel www.raseel.in/blog -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
