If you are a Human Being, then you might be interested to read the Fridge, and if you do then do not forget to check the news.
Clue?? Indian team goes into the Fridge and roxxx!! Thanks to Sayak B for authoring the article and congratulations for becoming a Fridge editor.
When I closed the Feed Reader this morning, I realized that I had a dozen tabs opened in my browser due to all the clicking I did from the feeds. I thought of making a blog post out of it as most of them seem to be interesting enough.
Gnome 2.24 is out
Gnone 2.24!!
Next is an interesting article (which links to another lot of interesting articles) on 10 easy ways to attract women to your FOSS project. (This might become the most clicked link in my blog, soon! 😛 )
If you are using irssi and looking for one another hacked-to-look-nice theme, here is 88_madcows theme from Aaron Toponce and a preview of how it looks.
If you want to check out some kewl artwork which might get into Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, checkout the stuffs in Kenneth Wimer’s PPA. (Note: PPA are personal playgrounds and neither Kenneth nor /me take responsibility for the darker side of your fate 😉 )
If you are a frequent Google Maps or Yahoo! Maps user, but would like to have your own personalized maps somewhere then you might like to check out GeoServer.
Today Ubuntu Bugs is celebrating another Hug Day, and today the attention goes to the Update Manager. Make use of this opportunity to jump in and hug some bugs. The Update Manager Hug Day announcement/bug list is here and if you want some help then please do read this debugging wiki page.
That’s all for today, I myself gotta check them out all yet! 😉
Am either lazy or find no time to sit and craft a blog post. Anyways, need to catch up with things once in a while and keep this blog alive.
Ubuntu Developer Week happened between September 1-5 2008 at #ubuntu-classroom in irc.feenode.net. It was very informative and useful, introducing to a wide variety of topics from bugs to patches to coding to testing. I managed to catch up with a few of them, even tried to try it hands on during the session. It was one smilar session that I got used to bug triaging months ago, and this time it was Daniel Holbach blessing me with more gyan about patching and packaging. There were other wonderful sessions on Upstream Bug Linkages by Jorge Castro, a WebKit browser in PyKDE by Riddel, Unit Testing Python code by Lars Wirzenius, Introduction to Bzr by David Futcher, and a lot more. I plan to convert these logs into properly formatted documents and load them to the ubuntu-in wiki. The participation in most of these sessions were awesome, with the opening session by Holback drawing around 200 people to be on the channel. Discovered a lot more ways to contribute to Ubuntu and need to work a lot more on it in coming days.
My dear buddy from ILUGC Aanjhan Ranganathan aka tuxmaniac left India and has safely landed in Swiss soil, even settled down in his accommodation. Will be missing him a lot although he is always present in oru channel #ubuntu-in. He is the one who always gives me lift in his car whenever we both were in Chennai and could attend ILUGC meet. Best wishes to him, as this is one of his long existent dreams which has started happening 🙂
Watched my much awaited KDE Usability Project talk by Celeste during Akademy 2008. Videos for talks from Akademy 2008 are starting to appear and the here mentioned talk can be got as OGG video from here. Looking forward for the video taken during the Usability workshop conducted during Akademy 2008 as well.
That’s it for now, catch you all soon..
There are two reasons for this post, first is that people have started feeling I no more blog, and second is that I heard of certain things that I thought of blogging.
It’s not new to have heard a complain that Ubuntu, though accepting openly that they are based on Debian GNU/Linux, has never acknowledged that they are thankful to Debian for what it has taken from them. We had no answers till sometime back but not anymore. Just visit the Ubuntu Home Page and you’ll know. If you want more, we have this page for you which talks about our relation with Debian.
Today I got the news which I was awaiting for sometime, the dates for foss.in 2008 were announced. This is one of the premier FOSS conferences in India and attended by a majority of FOSS enthusiasts from India and a lot more from abroad. This conferences gives us an opportunity to meet contributors from all over the world, the lead developers of many projects which we use or even contribute to and finally sometimes our heroes and heroines in FOSS. Also, this is an opportunity to meet a lot of my Indian friends from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and other places at one place. We have to wait for some more days to know more in this front.
Ubuntu global bug jam was a great experience. Though we didn’t have too many people from Indian team participating, it was great interacting with lot of people around the world in squashing some bugs. There was indeed a global competition to get more bugs triaged and reach a better place in dholbach’s 5-a-day stats. Looking forward to more such bug jams and more experiences making me a better triager.
Today, I read two interesting articles which I would like pointing out to my friends.
First is an Open Letter to Steve Ballmer from the lead of Mandriva. I too had my comments to this but as am running back home, will add it later. Nigerian Government has decided that they will replace Mandriva Linux,, which was actually customized for the Classmate PC going to be used, with M$ Windows though they will be paying for the Mandriva. Its not just a 100 or 1000 PCs but 17000 machines, which could have been otherwise running a GNU/Linux OS and the Nigerian kids would have got a chance to learn about Freedom in Software. Damn! 😡
Second is a wiki page pointed out by Onkar Shinde on OLPC in India. I was really impressed by their work and success. Hope more of such success stories follows 🙂
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