Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-16 Thread Sahil ModGill
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Baskar Selvaraj wrote: > > Not necessary. I wish to stay away from all these noices because of my > regular posts in this list. > Si, no disturbance due to any of your post. > > As I was really worried about our education system going behind proprietary > soft

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-16 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
Dear members, > how about taking this action item in the next meet?. > Not necessary. I wish to stay away from all these noices because of my regular posts in this list. As I was really worried about our education system going behind proprietary software, I took my very own initiative of promo

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-16 Thread Sundaram KR
I want to make several points on this topic: 1. The Free in FOSS stands for Freedom or Sudhandhiram; not Free as in Gratis or Ilavasam. As long as any of the 3000 members of this list post their thoughts, and those postings are related to Freedom providing software; I or nobody should ha

Re: [Ilugc] Creating a facebook group for ilugc

2013-09-16 Thread Madan U Sreenivasan
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:05 PM, balachandar muruganantham < mbchan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Shrinivasan T >wrote: [snip] > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/149125865297604/ > > Join there if you are interested. > > > joined. again new rules and guidelines? >

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-16 Thread Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன்
Hi, Apologies for top posting. regards, Thyagarajan Shanmugham ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-16 Thread Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன்
Hi >>If some members dont want to hear, shouldnt it be decided by the community? > may be take a vote. lets not define rules and regulations just to do define > it. how about taking this action item in the next meet?. regards, Thyagarajan Shanmugham On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Mohan L

Re: [Ilugc] Best Linux Distro for Office use

2013-09-16 Thread balachandar muruganantham
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:01 PM, balachandar muruganantham > wrote: > > we want to use the distro for office use meaning it will be used people > who > > are not techie. > > > > we will be doing the following > > 1. Take printout of PDF. > > 2

Re: [Ilugc] Creating a facebook group for ilugc

2013-09-16 Thread balachandar muruganantham
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Thanks for all the comments. > > > Though we create facebook group, the mailing list will remain as it is. > > why not google groups? why facebook group? > We lack physical volunteers for any of the activities. > Please check the archives o

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-16 Thread balachandar muruganantham
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > I dont mean that people dont like your posts. > > They just wanted the posts to come without the string "on bahalf of > ilugc" as none of the ilugc members know how you contact the colleges > and organize the events. > > who are they? This is

[Ilugc] 1D1C - ifup

2013-09-16 Thread Dhana Sekar
command: ifup usage: bring a network interface up syntax: $ ifup examples: 1. To bring up interface eth1 $ ifup eth1 2. To bring up all the interfaces defined with auto in /etc/network/interfaces $ ifup -a 3. To show summary of all options $ ifup --help regards, dhanasek

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-16 Thread Mohan L
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:02 PM, balachandar muruganantham < mbchan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Shrinivasan T >wrote: > > > If some members dont want to hear, shouldnt it be decided by the community? > may be take a vote. lets not define rules and regulations just to d

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] M.Sc FOSS Final Semester Project

2013-09-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all, the Anna Univ M.Sc. CS-FOSS curriculum, syllabus and other details are available at : http://cde.annauniv.edu/MSCFOSS/ it may give you an overall idea of what the students are being taught (and expected to know). Since many of the students are working in some IT area, their knowledge level

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-16 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
> > They just wanted the posts to come without the string "on bahalf of > ilugc" as none of the ilugc members know how you contact the colleges > and organize the events. > Earlier, this list received few requests for conducting guest lecture / workshop on FOSS in their respective colleges. As no

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] M.Sc FOSS Final Semester Project

2013-09-16 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
hi all, the M.Sc ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-16 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > I dont mean that people dont like your posts. > > They just wanted the posts to come without the string "on bahalf of > ilugc" as none of the ilugc members know how you contact the colleges > and organize the events. > > You can directly say

Re: [Ilugc] Apologies for posting FDP/Workshop event mails in ILUG-C

2013-09-16 Thread Shrinivasan T
I dont mean that people dont like your posts. They just wanted the posts to come without the string "on bahalf of ilugc" as none of the ilugc members know how you contact the colleges and organize the events. You can directly say as "on bahalf of linuxpert.in" too. No harm in this. Please keep s

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] M.Sc FOSS Final Semester Project

2013-09-16 Thread Shrinivasan T
>> >> I am one of the student and now I am in the final semester (project sem). >> >> My IT background is full of Linux administration and not a programmer. But >> in this semester I need to do a project in any open source technology. Creating something new will be a nice project. Dont afraid to

[Ilugc] Ubuntu Global Jam 2013

2013-09-16 Thread Shrinivasan T
Ubuntu is growing by the community. Ubuntu runs many events to get more volunteers and contributions. Global Jam is one of the events where anyone can provide their contributions, along with lot of people around the globe. We had the event in Sep 13,14,and 15 2013. Ubuntu-IN LoCo team had the ev

Re: [Ilugc] Creating a facebook group for ilugc

2013-09-16 Thread Balachandran Sivakumar
Hi Shrini, On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Thanks for all the comments. > > > Though we create facebook group, the mailing list will remain as it is. > Unless every post in facebook is posted(automatically/however) to this list, this is a very bad and disappointi

Re: [Ilugc] Creating a facebook group for ilugc

2013-09-16 Thread Shrinivasan T
Thanks for all the comments. Though we create facebook group, the mailing list will remain as it is. We lack physical volunteers for any of the activities. Please check the archives on the replies for any "Call for X". To make more interactions with people and to get more volunteers/participant

Re: [Ilugc] Creating a facebook group for ilugc

2013-09-16 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > 1. Many ILUGC members have fear on posting to mailing list. They have told > many times to me in person. They may have to learn many guidelines. They > feel that facebook has no guidelines. I see a few issues interlinked. New participants

Re: [Ilugc] Creating a facebook group for ilugc

2013-09-16 Thread Arun Khan
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: > > What we can do is, make it newbie friendly. We can help newbies both > with the problem they are facing and with the guidelines. > We can discuss this ad infinitum. The newbie expectation (from my perspective) is that senior/e