Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Parthan SR
sivaji j.g wrote: Does it makes any sense in recruiting peoples who has no FOSS background for FOSS development ? Because they are interested to know and contribute? I at least know one person who came in without any idea about FOSS, went up to delivering a lot of talks on FOSS and now

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Common Man
Plz can someone tell me where can I get BOSS DVD's.I don't know where else to ask? On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Parthan SR parth.technofr...@gmail.comwrote: sivaji j.g wrote: Does it makes any sense in recruiting peoples who has no FOSS background for FOSS development ? Because they

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 13:41:33 Parthan SR wrote: sivaji j.g wrote: Does it makes any sense in recruiting peoples who has no FOSS background for FOSS development ?   Because they are interested to know and contribute? I at least know one person who came in without any idea about FOSS,

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன்
Does it makes any sense in recruiting peoples who has no FOSS background for FOSS development ? May be relative to Boss development takes a precedence ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the

Re: [Ilugc] Firefox problem

2009-03-03 Thread Gowthaman Basuvaraj
Default installation with FC9. start it from terminal and see if you get any meaningful error message ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message.

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all: please excuse me for responding to a mail which has no connection to the current thread. On 3/3/09, Common Man kilpauk.kandasw...@gmail.com wrote: Plz can someone tell me where can I get BOSS DVD's.I don't know where else to ask? dear friend: 0. am not sure how much you are into FOSS

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread இராமதாசன்
sivaji j.g wrote: Does it makes any sense in recruiting peoples who has no FOSS background for FOSS development ? Yes. It makes sense when We realize no college opt FOSS as part of their Curriculam. and NRCFOSS isn't rknowsys to say only IIT கொம்பன்s can step in ;-) NRCFOSS has been

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:20 PM, இராமதாசன் ramada...@amachu.net wrote: sivaji j.g wrote: Does it makes any sense in recruiting peoples who has no FOSS background for FOSS development ? Yes. It makes sense when We realize no college opt FOSS as part of their Curriculam. and NRCFOSS

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09 - kudo's to Madurai school students

2009-03-03 Thread LinuXpert Academy
Hi all, During fossconf '09 TVS Matriculation School and Sri Vidyalayam Matriculation School, Madurai had sent a clear signal to proprietary software giants that, proprietary softwares is on its way out soon to disappear and we all should congratulate for their efforts who have done a

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் citizenof...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mr.Srinivasan Soundrarajan So i can expect some facts as well to http://annauniv-tamilnadu.blogspot.com/2009/01/nrcfoss-are-you-there_30.htmlfrom your NRCFOSS capacity , open discussion in this mail. Since the attitude

[Ilugc] Re: No college opt FOSS curriculam-ramada...@amachu.net

2009-03-03 Thread benedict nicholas
ramada...@amachu.net Yes. It makes sense when We realize no college opt FOSS as part of their Curriculam. I think you are wrong in saying that no college opt for FOSS as Jaya College has been taking up that elective last few years and now Rajalakshmi Engg. College has 130 students who have

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Raman.P
--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree with Raman : simply being a volunteer doesn't absolve one from the responsibilities nor does working for an organization funded by tax payers (sic) thrusts a load of absolute responsibilities on the

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 14:06:01 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் wrote:  Does it makes any sense in recruiting peoples who has no FOSS background for FOSS development ? May be relative to Boss development takes a precedence more FUD - you are well aware that NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC is not involved in

Re: [Ilugc] Re: No college opt FOSS curriculam-ramada...@amachu.net

2009-03-03 Thread Balachandran Sivakumar
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:15 PM, benedict nicholas benedictnicho...@yahoo.com wrote: ramada...@amachu.net Yes. It makes sense when We realize no college opt FOSS as part of their Curriculam. I think you are wrong in saying that no college opt for FOSS as Jaya College has been taking up that

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Prakash A S
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Raman.P raam...@yahoo.co.in wrote: --- On Tue, 3/3/09, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree with Raman : simply being a volunteer doesn't absolve one from the responsibilities nor does working for an organization funded by tax

Re: [Ilugc] Re: No college opt FOSS curriculam-ramada...@amachu.net

2009-03-03 Thread ashok samrat
Hi all, IMHO most of the curriculum offered as FOSS is counter productive based on a outdated syllabus.It didnt help in moving people to Linux and for even people who were introduced to Linux it was tiresome. In this regard Government of tamilnadu has introduced some basic linux course as part

Re: [Ilugc] Re: No college opt FOSS curriculam-ramada...@amachu.net

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, ashok samrat samrat.asho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, IMHO most of the curriculum offered as FOSS is counter productive based on a outdated syllabus.It didnt help in moving people to Linux and for even people who were introduced to Linux it was tiresome. The elective mode, in a

Re: [Ilugc] Re: No college opt FOSS curriculam-ramada...@amachu.net

2009-03-03 Thread Prakash A S
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.comwrote: On 3/3/09, ashok samrat samrat.asho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, IMHO most of the curriculum offered as FOSS is counter productive based on a outdated syllabus.It didnt help in moving people to Linux and

[Ilugc] [Update] OSI Tech Days 2009 Registrations

2009-03-03 Thread Sayantan Pal
Hi, For all those who have already gotten themselves registered for OSI Tech Days 2009 http://www.osidays.com, kindly check your email inbox and spam folders for confirmation emails from our side. This is IMPORTANT since we can send you the electronic passes only after you click on the link in

RE: [Ilugc] Re: No college opt FOSS curriculam-ramada...@amachu.net

2009-03-03 Thread ThiaguPillai
FOSS and GNU/Linux are two lessons for 9th std in our school for the past 4 year. [ max of 6 classes, how is it sufficient ? ] Also it is part of 11th Std. syllabus. Difficult to depart Windows from them. [ Why to Depart ? let them learn basic concepts on their known/easy/simple way ] When I

[Ilugc] OSI Tech Days 09 gives Chennai LUG a chance to showcase itself

2009-03-03 Thread Sayantan Pal
Hello, Here's a great chance for Chennai LUG to promote itself. Open Source India: Tech Days '09 is offering a free booth for Chennai LUG, during the sessions on 12th - 14th March, in Chennai Trade Center, WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ABOUT THE OFFER? * Promote your LUG and its work * Do demos through

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 15:28:25 Raman.P wrote: It is my wish that NRCFOSS achieves its slated objective - which is similar to that of any LUG. this is the root of the confusion. The objective of NRC-FOSS is far more limited than the objective of a LUG. For example, a LUG can agitate against

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Prakash A S
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.comwrote: And this RTI bullshit. Thiagarajan and his friends keep sending mails here accusing NRC-FOSS of various things. They have no time to substantiate their idiotic allegations and no time or money to petition the RTI

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 19:09:27 Prakash A S wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.comwrote: And this RTI bullshit. Thiagarajan and his friends keep sending mails here accusing NRC-FOSS of various things. They have no time to substantiate their

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன்
Hello kg. And this RTI bullshit. Thiagarajan and his friends keep sending mails here accusing NRC-FOSS of various things. They have no time to substantiate their idiotic allegations and no time or money to petition the RTI folks. They also cannot afford the bus fare to Chromepet to come and

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Tuesday 03 March 2009 19:09:27 Prakash A S wrote: Any To/Fro sponsorship from NRCFOSS?...;) train fare is 4 rupees - if an application is submitted in triplicate we may consider We haven't had such a good

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread varadarajan narayanan
We haven't had such a good flame war on this list in a very long time. I'm out of popcorn, can you all please wait until I refill? Hi ! True ! When the discussions is about a plate being half full or half empty , then there is no end to it ! Because both are right ! I wish 1) NRC

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Prashanth Mohan
Hello Mr Srinivasan, May I ask what I did to invite your scorn? :-). On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: Some (of I hope not many) will also be looking askance at me -- not only I am from NRCFOSS, I am now going off from AU-KBC to join C-DAC

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Balachandran Sivakumar
Hi, On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:04 PM, varadarajan narayanan rad.naraya...@gmail.com wrote: I wish 2) LUGC members could have taken it in the stride - mentioned it but not make an issue of it . Exactly. Even in the previous FOSSConf, a few talks(though not NRC-FOSS) used Windows and

Re: [Ilugc] Re: No college opt FOSS curriculam-ramada...@amachu.net

2009-03-03 Thread kish
On 3/3/09, Prakash A S asprakas...@gmail.com wrote: their university planing to convert all the proprietary s/w into open source. I reckon this would be the one of the right places to start. When a ignorant n00b starts to learn a bit of programming, some colleges show them tc as the sole

[Ilugc] Open source career ops for the frugal minded?

2009-03-03 Thread kish
hi I've long been stumped by this question when I try to talk students into FOSS. How does a career in FOSS fare holistically? The other day amachu told me about entrepreneurship. Thought I could do with more gyaan. Could someone please enlighten me? --Kish --- Esse Quam Videri

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread ம . ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan logic.li...@gmail.com wrote: and NRCFOSS isn't rknowsys to say only IIT கொம்பன்s can step in ;-) http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2005-November/021837.html -- Mailing list guidelines கொம்பன் - Geek I felt :-) Any better

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 20:25:45 Prashanth Mohan wrote: Hello Mr Srinivasan, May I ask what I did to invite your scorn? :-). he is talking about how some people scorned you because you joined MR -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com ___ To

Re: [Ilugc] என் ஆர் சி பாஸ் - மின்பதிப்பாக்கப் பட் டறை

2009-03-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:53 PM, இராமதாசன் ramada...@amachu.net wrote: On ஞா, 2009-03-01 at 23:40 +0530, Satish Eerpini wrote: Is this important , ... if so , ... english translation please ?? Its about Tamil Books Digitalization Workshop held at NRCFOSS today. and start learning Tamil

[Ilugc] [JOB] CK-12 Foundation

2009-03-03 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
Title : Software Developer Employer: Zappys (Offshore Dev Center for CK-12 Foundation, USA) Location: MADURAI Responsibilities: * Design, implement and support end-to-end integrated open textbook authoring and publishing system (http://flexbooks.ck12.org) * Evaluate and select emerging

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/3/09, Prashanth Mohan prashmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Mr Srinivasan, May I ask what I did to invite your scorn? :-). hello prashanth: i thought i was putting myself alongside with you -- you get associated with FOSS and later you join some organization which is not in the good books

[Ilugc] Re: fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Sarad AV
did you really ask the students to stop demoing and even thought of asking them to leave? that is very unfortunate unless there were strict guidelines that was previously communicated to the speakers. When you say 'civilized' that includes treating guest speakers with respect and dignity. I

Re: [Ilugc] Re: fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Raman.P
--- On Wed, 4/3/09, Sarad AV jtrjtrjtr2...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Sarad AV jtrjtrjtr2...@yahoo.com Subject: [Ilugc] Re: fossconf-09-negative side To: ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in Date: Wednesday, 4 March, 2009, 10:52 AM did you really ask the students to stop demoing and even thought of asking them

Re: [Ilugc] என் ஆர் சி பா ஸ் - மின்பதிப்பாக் கப் பட்டறை

2009-03-03 Thread Santosh
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Wednesday 04 March 2009 10:25:02 Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: I never thought you intended to mean a geek with word 'Komban'. IMO 'Komban' is rude and geek is not. Its upto tam-team for finding a right word for geek. menporul vallavan? Sounds good.. if it is a

[Ilugc] Re: ilugc Digest, Vol 58, Issue 23

2009-03-03 Thread Sayantan Pal
-- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:25:29 +0530 (IST) From: Bharathi Subramanian sbhara...@midascomm.com Subject: Re: [Ilugc] OSI Tech Days 09 gives Chennai LUG a chance to showcase itself To: ILUG-C ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in Message-ID:

[Ilugc] Re: fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Sarad AV
Good luck with FOSS promotion. Sarad. Well it is not moral policing, this is foss promotion event. Raman.P ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message.

Re: [Ilugc] என் ஆர் சி பாஸ் - மின்பதிப்பாக்கப ் பட்டறை

2009-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 09:26:55 ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M wrote: You know very well that this list has people from all over the world, and it is very impolite to ignore them. whereever I can I will, else I request others to tolerate.. It is not my inbound duty.. we can only

Re: [Ilugc] Firefox problem

2009-03-03 Thread padma priya
On 3/3/09, Gowthaman Basuvaraj techie...@gmail.com wrote: Default installation with FC9. start it from terminal and see if you get any meaningful error message Hi Thanks for the tip. When I start from terminal i get the error message: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 4479

Re: [Ilugc] Re: fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Ravi Jaya
was previously communicated to the speakers. When you say 'civilized' that includes treating guest speakers with respect and dignity. I don't suppose we need a linux moral police :-) People adopt to a different strategy to teach swimming to their kids, somebody would push their child into

[Ilugc] Re: fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Sarad AV
From: Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com to do is note this point down and see that the hall marshalls follow the procedure next time. Lets also have a SWAT team on standby :-) Sarad. ___ To unsubscribe, email

Re: [Ilugc] Firefox problem

2009-03-03 Thread Ravi Jaya
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:45 AM, padma priya pipri...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/3/09, Gowthaman Basuvaraj techie...@gmail.com wrote: Default installation with FC9. start it from terminal and see if you get any meaningful error message Hi Priya, Why cant you unintall/remove the existing

Re: [Ilugc] Geek in Tamil

2009-03-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:26 AM, இராமதாசன் ramada...@amachu.net wrote: On பு, 2009-03-04 at 11:03 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: menporul vallavan? Restricting to software alone? Geekness is more generic to at least science / technology i guess. கொம்பன் is right. I do not know which

[Ilugc] Grub Booting Problem

2009-03-03 Thread Shahrukh Khan
Hi to all, I have Fedora8 with Windows Xp installed as dual boot. Initially i installed XP on secondary partition in order to install fedora as my primary partition. The sudo fdisk -l command returned this [r...@localhost ~]# sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads,

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread satyaakam goswami
the problem could have been solved in 1 minute - stop the talk, click 'file', click 'save as', click on fileype and select an open format, click 'ok' and restart the talk. Inside of beating our breasts and apologising, all we need to do is note this point down and see that the hall marshalls

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread satyaakam goswami
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: The problem could have been solved in 1 second if someone from nrc-foss asked an apology. Still i don't get how an apology from nrc-foss or anyone will help the cause . So far from whatever i have read on the list with

[Ilugc] Re: fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Sarad AV
I wouldn't be surprised if you suggested waterboarding. Sarad. From: Ravi Jaya ravi.goglob...@gmail.com People adopt to a different strategy to teach swimming to their kids, somebody would push their child into the water, and they stay back watch the kids to start swim in order order to

Re: [Ilugc] Re: fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 3/4/09, Sarad AV jtrjtrjtr2...@yahoo.com wrote: I wouldn't be surprised if you suggested waterboarding. Sarad. From: Ravi Jaya ravi.goglob...@gmail.com should I have the pleasure of pre-empting kenneth : TOP POSTING!!! Sarad, avoid it in future. Srinivasan.

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-03 Thread Prakash A S
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:48 PM, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: The problem could have been solved in 1 second if someone from nrc-foss asked an apology. Still i don't get how an apology from nrc-foss or anyone