[foss-nepal] Re: MySQL co-founder quits job at Sun, as open source database frays

2008-10-08 Thread shoonya
For everybody's information, there is a FOSS Nepal News mailing list to share news and other interesting links. If folks find them worthy enough, please use that list. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Prajwal Tuladhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now what will happen to MySQL?

[foss-nepal] Re: Brainstorm : Workplan

2008-09-23 Thread shoonya
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Jitendra kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What - FOSS Nepal Meeting or IOE FOSS meeting? IOE-FOSS --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To

[foss-nepal] Re: Brainstorm : Workplan

2008-09-23 Thread shoonya
information for gathering. And we have put up a notice for Thursday meeting. Changing it on Wednesday itself for a meeting on Wednesday might not see many students coming. - Jitendra Harlalka On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:34 PM, shoonya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:25 PM

[foss-nepal] is Microsoft like The Matrix ?

2008-09-23 Thread shoonya
see this: (btw, we should make a news/links list, imo) http://siryes.blogspot.com/2008/01/microsoft-is-like-matrix.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[foss-nepal] Fwd: [foss-nepal-ccc] Projector power cable missing

2008-09-22 Thread shoonya
-- Forwarded message -- From: Akash Deep Shakya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:54 PM Subject: [foss-nepal-ccc] Projector power cable missing To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear all, As you all know the projector we used during SFD was from Kathmandu University. The power

[foss-nepal] Re: Media Coverage of SFD 08

2008-09-21 Thread shoonya
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Subir Pradhanang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Thanks to Bibek, Prabin, Ankur, Shankar, Jwalanta, Gyaneshwor and everyone involved, we have the following media coverage so far: Thanks and congratulations to all others including me on making the program a

[foss-nepal] Re: Create a blog for foss-nepal

2008-09-21 Thread shoonya
Hi Adipti, there's a blog at foss-nepal.blogspot.com but there are no posts yet. If you are interested, please start posting. a planet like the guys at ubuntu-np have at http://planet.ubuntu.org.np would be great too :) btw, did you attend SFD 08 ? On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Adipti Gupta

[foss-nepal] Re: Create a blog for foss-nepal

2008-09-21 Thread shoonya
: Great! Then why do we use our mail as blog? Lets discuss everything at blog rather than this. On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:22 AM, shoonya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Adipti, there's a blog at foss-nepal.blogspot.com but there are no posts yet. If you are interested, please start posting. a planet

[foss-nepal] Re: Create a blog for foss-nepal

2008-09-21 Thread shoonya
I will create another thread for this. Lets take it forward there. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Ankur Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shoonya and all fellow FOSSians, lets meet on thursday or friday evening around 4PM (whichever date could attract more heads). We can always initiate

[foss-nepal] Brainstorm : Workplan

2008-09-21 Thread shoonya
The discussion is carried forward from another thread: Shoonya and all fellow FOSSians, lets meet on thursday or friday evening around 4PM (whichever date could attract more heads). We can always initiate early discussion on irc or create wiki page and inform everyone through list. The meeting

[foss-nepal] Re: Media Coverage of SFD 08

2008-09-21 Thread shoonya
Post. You can also download pdf at: http://www.kantipuronline.com/pdf/tkp10.pdf Snkr On 9/21/08, shoonya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Subir Pradhanang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Thanks to Bibek, Prabin, Ankur, Shankar, Jwalanta, Gyaneshwor

[foss-nepal] ODF Olympiad. Can we do something about it?

2008-09-19 Thread shoonya
http://www.odfolympiad.org/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/

[foss-nepal] Re: [sfd08] Software Freedom in Nepal

2008-09-17 Thread shoonya
, 2008 at 10:15 PM, shoonya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As SFD draws closer, we need to start looking for as much publicity and media coverage as we can. I think its also time for a press release. To start with, here is an article on Why we should care about software freedom in Nepal, written

[foss-nepal] Re: FOSS rally.. from tinkuney to maitighar

2008-09-17 Thread shoonya
??? :)) राम्रो, राम्रो । म मेरो स्वतन्त्राको खातिर युनिभर्सिटीको समय तालिका परिवर्तन गराउँछु ! KU ko bisessta On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:16 PM, subash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SYMBOLIC PROTEST...!! SHOONYAwhat are you trying to say...?? pls make me clear...!! i dont

[foss-nepal] Re: T-shirt for SFD 08

2008-09-16 Thread shoonya
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:29 PM, bin4y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1f u c4n r34d th15 u r34lly n33d t0 g3t l41d Seriously, I don't like the 1337 idea in a t-shirt. Shouldn't you first throw the sample here before expecting us to 'send in orders' ? The samples were posted to this very list since

[foss-nepal] Re: T-shirt for SFD 08

2008-09-16 Thread shoonya
it there without asking? I think we need some guidelines about posting to foss-nepal mailing lists. As being discussed in one another thread, the list is mostly occupied with senseless mails these days. No constructive work, ideas and discussions at all. It pisses me off ! On Sep 16, 7:33 pm, shoonya

[foss-nepal] Re: [sfd08] FOSS Nepal on twitter

2008-09-14 Thread shoonya
/08, shoonya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please follow fossnepal on twitter to catch up with fossnepal updates. And tell it to your friends ! nick: fossnepal http://twitter.com/fossnepal -- Regards Ujwal Shrestha --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal

[foss-nepal] [sfd08] Software Freedom in Nepal

2008-09-13 Thread shoonya
As SFD draws closer, we need to start looking for as much publicity and media coverage as we can. I think its also time for a press release. To start with, here is an article on Why we should care about software freedom in Nepal, written by Ankur Sharma.

[foss-nepal] [sfd08] FOSS Nepal on twitter

2008-09-13 Thread shoonya
Please follow fossnepal on twitter to catch up with fossnepal updates. And tell it to your friends ! nick: fossnepal http://twitter.com/fossnepal --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal

[foss-nepal] Meeting notes of september 10

2008-09-12 Thread shoonya
Here are the meeting notes of FOSS-Nepal meeting of September 10, 2008 http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=September_10th_2008 Regards --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To

[foss-nepal] Re: Preview of Poster for SFD '08

2008-09-09 Thread shoonya
Great ! On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:05 AM, suraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The design is good specially the upper half. Abhishek, a comment from my side: Isnt the theme of the SFD redundant, I mean both the picture at the top and series of picture below it depict the same matter. I remembered

[foss-nepal] London Stock Exchange outage blamed on M$

2008-09-09 Thread shoonya
This is from the ILUG-Delhi list: Example of an unreliable development platform : http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_suffers_net_crash http://blogs.computerworld.com/extra_london_stock_exchange_blame_microsoft --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal

[foss-nepal] Re: Preview of Poster for SFD '08

2008-09-09 Thread shoonya
waiting for a similar preview of the SFD t-shirt now. i hope the artwork team will be able to amaze us even more. regards. On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:26 AM, palपल [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice design good work. i hope this is a demo version. i don think ppl will be around patan dhoka at

[foss-nepal] Re: my ubuntu system hangs

2008-09-06 Thread shoonya
Please also note what an earlier message read: On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Shishir Jha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you send us your hardware details, I mean the output of lspci and dmesg, saved in a file so that we can evaluate your system. saved in a file is not the same as pasting

[foss-nepal] Re: Tagline Declared...

2008-09-02 Thread shoonya
Guys, all this is very ridiculous. there was a 2-3 week long discussion in this list, followed by a 150-minute long discussion cum voting in the IRC channel. and then the tagline was decided. if you guys don't like the arrow or think that share and collaborate is the same thing, keep that to

[foss-nepal] Re: Tagline for SFD 2008

2008-09-01 Thread shoonya
, what about slogan I am growing coz i am free. indeed great taglines coming Best HS On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:09 AM, shoonya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, while the tagline you have been suggesing are great, i am afraid not all of them match our theme. please have a look

[foss-nepal] Re: IRC Meeting at #fossnepal

2008-08-31 Thread shoonya
i am not well aware of the load shedding schedule. so if someone finds this time inconvenient, please a different time soon. lets have the meeting as early as possible so that preliminary things could be decided soon. On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Ujjwol लामिछाने[UNIX] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[foss-nepal] Re: Tagline for SFD 2008

2008-08-28 Thread shoonya
Hi all, while the tagline you have been suggesing are great, i am afraid not all of them match our theme. please have a look at fossnepal.org to know what theme has been decided and suggest the tagline accordingly. shoonya On 8/29/08, dharma kshetri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey Open Ur

[foss-nepal] Re: SFD 08 T-shirts

2008-08-27 Thread shoonya
i like create freely, share freely. i would like the slogan short and very meaningful. How about the following suggestions? Freedom in/to Creation/Create Create Free ! Gives you wings :) though this one is long, i like the sentence: knowledge wants to be free let me think more. let us. shoonya

[foss-nepal] Re: celebrating SFD

2008-08-26 Thread shoonya
Yah, I have been wondering if there is some enterprise in Kathmandu that can prepare customized coffee mugs, badges, stickers, keyrings, pen holders etc. It would be great thing to do. To sell, to give away as prizes etc. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ekta Silwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[foss-nepal] Re: celebrating SFD

2008-08-26 Thread shoonya
Hi, Can we do something about the badge/stickers/keyrings too? I think we dont have much time to postpone this issue for a few weeks later :) On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Hempal Shrestha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All n Ekta, On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ekta Silwal [EMAIL

[foss-nepal] Re: SFD 08 T-shirts

2008-08-26 Thread shoonya
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Basanta shrestha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, This is to let all the fossians know that the SFD Tshirts 08 have arrived. Its orange this time. They look really cool. Lets see who's gonna get them this time. Any idea on how to give away T-shirts this

[foss-nepal] Re: Important: Recent Activities

2008-08-26 Thread shoonya
at 11:22 AM, Bibek Paudel [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Ekta Silwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Shoonya, if everyone agrees to it then why don't you send an email to all college representative regaring this andtell them to inform all the students about

[foss-nepal] Re: SFD 08 T-shirts

2008-08-26 Thread shoonya
Binod and Sushil, There are two types of t-shirts we are talking about here (somebody please correct me if i am wrong). One type will be printed by foss-nepal and the one being talked about in this thread are the t-shirts that have arrived from SFD HQ for SFD celebrations in Nepal. I don't know

[foss-nepal] Re: Software Freedom Documentary: Call for Ideas and Contributors

2008-08-26 Thread shoonya
Yah. i like this idea. I think someone has to volunteer to film the HOD and send the clip to the documentary team because I dont see the prospect of their going to Dharan to shoot for this film. On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:03 AM, abish adhikari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wouldnt it be nice to

[foss-nepal] Re: SFD 08 T-shirts

2008-08-26 Thread shoonya
be able to order unlimited number of t-shirts without such orders ;) shoonya. On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:12 AM, abish adhikari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, can we order tshirts too. that would be nice hoina ra ? we still have 20 more days ni (correct me if i am wrong)... so it need

[foss-nepal] Re: SFD 08 T-shirts

2008-08-26 Thread shoonya
guess artwork team will (should) have to decide for the theme too :) very sad indeed. shoonya On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Abhishek Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, We are approaching too near to SFD and T-shirts and Posters need to be finalized. Yet I can see

[foss-nepal] Re: useful

2008-08-25 Thread shoonya
wow. nice. from the comments section of the same page, i found a link that has some good cheat-sheets of UNIX filters, regex etc useful for programmers. i think that might be very useful too. (i keep a self-made cheat-sheet of filters like sed, awk myself). have a look:

[foss-nepal] Re: Important: Recent Activities

2008-08-25 Thread shoonya
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Narayan Sundar Sonepa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its a gud idea to organize programs that would envolve students directly. we'll ofcourse talk abt it in coming meeting on 28th Aug. why wait for the meeting? lets do the talking here in the list itself. i hope you

[foss-nepal] Re: Stats

2008-08-24 Thread shoonya
PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/24/08, shoonya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice one ! It was good to see Nepal being featured in the page. I think this should motivate us all to work more for free software advocacy and development in Nepal. Our activities so far have borne fruit. There's every

[foss-nepal] [sfd08] Important: Recent Activities

2008-08-24 Thread shoonya
Hi all, Here are the meeting notes of the FOSS Nepal meeting of 22nd August: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=August_22nd_2008 Here are some important updates you all would be interested in: 1. A newsletter will be published during SFD 08. Please send relevant articles/write ups,

[foss-nepal] Re: Stats

2008-08-23 Thread shoonya
Nice one ! It was good to see Nepal being featured in the page. I think this should motivate us all to work more for free software advocacy and development in Nepal. Our activities so far have borne fruit. There's every reason to feel glad and hope for the future. Kudos to all of you ! On Sat,

[foss-nepal] Re: [Artwork] Regarding the Artwork Team

2008-08-20 Thread shoonya
Good stuff, abhishek ! On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Abhishek Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I've generated a page for the Artwork team which you all can see at http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Artwork. I've tried to get all the necessary details on the

[foss-nepal] Re: Software Freedom Day '08 Sponsorship

2008-08-20 Thread shoonya
Hi, Please see this for the team information: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=August_11th_2008#Teams_for_SFD_08 This is a preliminary list. We have a meeting tomorrow at 4 PM. If you are free, kindly drop by. Regards, Bibek On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Ekta Silwal [EMAIL