Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-17 Thread G Karunakar
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Arindam arindam.muker...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Let me summarise and hopefully close this thread. Sorry to drag this. Along with the following summary, it would have really

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-17 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:47 AM, G Karunakar indli...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately advocacy/promotion/general help  has been lost from the contribution to FOSS list since recent past! So its not a compulsion on PLUG to contribute as much as its not a requirement for you to be a contributor

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-16 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Let me summarise and hopefully close this thread. PLUG has people from various categories: programmers, sys-admins, security pros, students, teachers, IT pros, NON-IT pros etc etc etc. PLUG is associated with / interacts with many organisations like colleges, IT companies, NGOs and

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-16 Thread Arindam
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Let me summarise and hopefully close this thread. Sorry to drag this. Along with the following summary, it would have really helped if you had summarized PLUG's contribution to Open Source Software (as in

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Arindam wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Let me summarise and hopefully close this thread. Sorry to drag this. Along with the following summary, it would have really helped if you had summarized PLUG's contribution to Open Source

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-16 Thread म . हा . सा . ग . र
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Arindam wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Let me summarise and hopefully close this thread. Sorry to drag this. Along with the following summary, it

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-16 Thread म . हा . सा . ग . र
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Arindam arindam.muker...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Let me summarise and hopefully close this thread. Sorry to drag this. Along with the following summary, it would have really

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-16 Thread Chetan Kumar
2009/3/17 म.हा.सा.ग.र o.s@guruvision.com: i do not think there is a mechanism for or at PLUG to know how much it has contributed to the opensource. A LUG by definition is a Users group. Creating a platform for interaction and making lay people aware of opensource is contribution. I am quite

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Kapil Kaisare kksm19820...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, all. I was thinking of doing a series of presentations on Javascript - and later on, perhaps other interesting languages, at the monthly meetings of PLUG; I was wondering how many attendees are

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-13 Thread Aditya Godbole
On 3/13/09, Kapil Kaisare kksm19820...@gmail.com wrote: Aditya On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Aditya Godbole aag.li...@gmail.comwrote: Javascript to begin with. I was hoping to follow up with others - perhaps Python, Haskell, even Common Lisp maybe? ;) The idea I have in mind is to

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Aditya Godbole aag.li...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds good. I presume the attendees need to be proficient programmers in at least one language? Probably letting a couple of the tutorials happen would self-select the interested attendees :) Proof of the pudding etc..

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-13 Thread Navin Kabra
I would urge the technology community in Pune to work together and focus on leveraging all platforms as applicable and not descend into bickering about what could be Agreed. Just to clarify, I was not suggesting that this should happen under the PuneTech banner. PuneTech's charter is to

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-13 Thread A Sharma
Hi Navin, On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: I would urge the technology community in Pune to work together and focus on leveraging all platforms as applicable and not descend into bickering about what could be Agreed. Just to clarify, I was not

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-13 Thread Kapil Kaisare
Greetings all. Here are a couple of questions I have: 1. Bringing the discussion to the topic at hand, do we have a reasonable idea how many members of PLUG are programmers? 2. Would the guys prefer an introductory discourse on programming, with more javascriptiness in later sessions? Kaisare,

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-13 Thread Aditya Godbole
On 3/13/09, Kapil Kaisare kksm19820...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings all. Here are a couple of questions I have: 1. Bringing the discussion to the topic at hand, do we have a reasonable idea how many members of PLUG are programmers? 2. Would the guys prefer an introductory discourse on

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-13 Thread Rohit Karajgi
Hi, I am not a concrete programmer but I write scripts in Perl on a regular basis for automating our test suites.These scripts run on an RHEL or Solaris box. So anything on Perl/Python would be great. Personally, I would not want to start from basics since these can be self-learned. Anything

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-13 Thread Navin Kabra
Another one would be how to make the choice of the right programming language for your application. Like do I use Perl or PHP or Java for writing a web application? Or what to choose when I want to write systems based scripts - Perl or Python, and why? Dhananjay Nene (see

[PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Kapil Kaisare
Greetings, all. I was thinking of doing a series of presentations on Javascript - and later on, perhaps other interesting languages, at the monthly meetings of PLUG; I was wondering how many attendees are programmers, and/or how many would be interested in such presentations? Kaisare, Kapil

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Kapil Kaisare
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking of doing a series of presentations on Javascript - and later on, perhaps other interesting languages, at the monthly meetings of PLUG; I was wondering how many attendees are programmers, and/or how

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Navin Kabra
I'm not sure how successful such a group would be; would it be a useful idea to start out within another group(like PLUG) and then form a separate forum if there seem to be enough attendees? I don't think getting attendees will be a problem. From PLUG, phpcamp mailing list, punetech.com,

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Gaurav Pant
Hi On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking of doing a series of presentations on Javascript - and later on, perhaps other interesting languages, at the monthly meetings of PLUG; I was wondering how many attendees are programmers, and/or

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Kapil Kaisare
Navin On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure how successful such a group would be; would it be a useful idea to start out within another group(like PLUG) and then form a separate forum if there seem to be enough attendees? I don't

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Navin Kabra
Sorry if what I was misleading. What I really meant was this: 1. There are definitely people in Pune who are not interested in GNU/Linux, but would be interested in JavaScript, other programming languages, and computer sciences in general. Hence, it would make sense to have a separate programming

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Gaurav Pant
Hi (not making a holy/flame war) On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if what I was misleading. What I really meant was this: 1. There are definitely people in Pune who are not interested in GNU/Linux, but would be interested in JavaScript, other

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread A Sharma
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Gaurav Pant gaurav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi (not making a holy/flame war) On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if what I was misleading. What I really meant was this: 1. There are definitely people in Pune who are

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Aditya Godbole
On 3/13/09, Kapil Kaisare kksm19820...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, all. I was thinking of doing a series of presentations on Javascript - and later on, perhaps other interesting languages, at the monthly meetings of PLUG; I Hi, What languages do you have in mind? -aditya

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Aditya Godbole
On 3/13/09, A Sharma as7...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, So I would propose more joint activities by the two organizations where excellence in technology learning is the focus. The PLUG as well as the Pune Tech Group both fulfill important roles in the local technology community - so it is

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread A Sharma
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Aditya Godbole aag.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/13/09, A Sharma as7...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All,  So I would propose more joint activities by the two organizations  where excellence in technology learning is the focus.  The PLUG as well as the Pune Tech Group

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Kapil Kaisare
Aditya On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Aditya Godbole aag.li...@gmail.comwrote: On 3/13/09, Kapil Kaisare kksm19820...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, all. I was thinking of doing a series of presentations on Javascript - and later on, perhaps other interesting languages, at the