Heya, ... a friendly ping_poke :). Any further discussions / decisions on this issue. Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India :...
Dear all, Sorry to kick in so late... but I just noticed this rather long convo. Firstly, Pradeepto's idea is good. But I don't think it is right for the...
Hi ... But not everybody who wants to become a FOSS developer is necessarily a CS student. Would it not help attract developers from other fields as well, if...
Hi, Foss.in and Geodesic would be sponsoring a KDE Hackathon [ Bangalore, 11-13th July ]. Some details here[1]. We plan to hack on our favorite projects during...
... Most of us learnt version control and other infrastructure topics related to FOSS development on our own, so I do not believe that not teaching it creates...
... ++ You stole my words :) ... if we start teaching them these topics, for any reason , it may not fuel the spirit of FOSS. ... Yes , also we need to inspire...
Hello All, The first update to the 0.7 release is now available. Give it a try and provide us the feedback. Download location : http://www.belenix.org/download...
... The belenix.org website has undergone a sea of changes and provides nice options to collaborate with each other and communicate information. Feel free to...
... Probably that line didn't bring out the right meaning. During the BeleniX 0.7 work, we had a few patches for KDE that were relevant for upstream hence were...
ACM Bangalore Chapter invites you to the monthly tech talk. Details follow. No registration is required and there is no registartion fee. Title: Linux as an...
Dear all I have been haunted by this new FOSS project idea from few days by now . I am looking for active contributors and suggestions . ( I am not sure if i...
The contact us page here - https://foss.in/contact/ gives an error in firefox 3, saying the certificate is invalid. The detailed message is ass follows: """ ...
Puneet Lakhina
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Jul 28, 2008 4:54 pm
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... Erk! He beat me to it! :) Atul -- Atul Chitnis Bangalore, India http://atulchitnis.net...
The Indian Patent Office is organizing a Stakeholders Meeting on Draft Patent Manual in Bangalore. The exact date has not been specified. However, 27th August...
... Hey Venky, Thanks for the awesome and informative email. Sums up the current situation brilliantly. Is there anything we as individuals who support the...
Happy Indian Independence Day, everyone! Team FOSS.IN is happy to announce that this year's edition of Asia's biggest Free and Open Source Software contributor...
... <no_sarcasm> Cool. So there are going to be just programming / mentoring / demo / hackfest sessions and no talks? That would be nice. </no_sarcasm> -aditya...
Aditya Godbole
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... Code is more of a metaphor for contribution and not just "source code". Cheers, Shreyas...
... Yup that would be really nice instead of ivory tower talks. Some hands on session is always more useful... regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better...
... Given that the only people who can give talks at FOSS.IN are actual contributors to projects, ivory tower talks are virtually impossible. Atul -- Atul...
... What kind of session do you suggest? Because there's nothing preventing people from, for example, sitting and just hacking at whatever they want. In fact,...
... C ya at HackCenter. "Talk Is Cheap, Show Me Hack!" -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Homepage: people.debian.org/~kartik Blogs:...
... Something like "We are adding so and so feature to Kontact. We will give la ive demo and commentary of what we are doing. And we will explain the relevant...