To begin with, thanks to Lydia for asking for my contribution in the book and pradeepto for leading/heading/organizing conf.kde.in, i wouldn`t have got this opportunity without it. 🙂 The book is available for download here I have contributed in “Documentation and Support” section with chapter title “Life-Changer Documentation for Novice”
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Richard Stallman: Free Software, Freedom and Education
As per the schedule we were at IIT, Chennai to attend talk of Richard Stallman, founder Free Software Foundation and man behind the Gnu project. The title of the presentation was “Free Software, Freedom and Education” The event had over 3000 participants mostly from various engineering colleges across the city and area nearby, apart …
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2011 passed, 2012 welcome!!
Been a while i wrote anything on my blog. So time to review what all i did/happened in 2011. Firstly “happy new year 2012” to all my friends whom i did not call/sms/tweet blehh blehh , i was partying with my friends in jungle of Lonavala. Okey lets begin :- Moved to Chennai in feb 2011 …
2 minutes guide to getting started with Launchpad/Bazaar via Lucid Ubuntu 10.04
I just added some contents from allready existing 5 minutes guide to make it 2 mins and work on Lucid. 🙂 Before i start you need to have 2 things allready done, 1. $ apt-get install bzr 2. A launchpad account. 3. Your public key submitted at launchpad. It means create a key is you …
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ownCloud screencast
Last month i installed and tried ownCloud, i created a screencast of it as well. I met Frank and ownCloud team Desktop Summit in Aug. I have allready started using it 4 day to day backup/share and Todo. 🙂 You can get the video here:- http://vimeo.com/30999253 ownCloud2 from koolhead17 on Vimeo.
Oneiric release party across India
So what i did is, asked for of my friends in Mumbai, Hydrabad and Delhi share there event related photos of Oneiric release party. That is what i will be doing mentioning about them. 🙂 INMANTEC Gaurav is assistant dean IT and a Open Source freak who is trying his best to turn his college …
Openstack beginner`s guide for Diablo/Oneiric released.
Openstack cloudbook is available for download now with Oneiric and Diablo release :– All infos are available here:- http://cssoss.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/openstack-beginners-guide-v2-0-for-diablo-on-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-is-here/
Software Freedom Day, Chennai, India
Its been over 8 months since i moved to Chennai, the southern part of India. Chennai has a strong free software user as well as contributor base. I was invited as speaker at an engineering college (jaya college of engineering). I was amazed to see the enthusiasm among student s about free software. The college …
Desktop Summit: My Experience meeting Gnome/Kde folks
First of all thanks to KDE e.V for sponsoring my trip. It was great place to meet g33ks and folks i been chatting mostly via IRC. I met many folks like Andre , Lydia and Aaron to name a few. I was happy to see participation of attendees from India most of them being GSOC students and contributors. The two freaks …
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ImageMagick and mogrify. : My command line tool for watermarking.
One fine day i decided i want “watermark” on my photos too, i know am not a great photographer but just for sake i wanted one. I am too lazy to do anything from GUI so i searched a bit and came to know about ImageMagic and mogrify. I simply installed it on my ubuntu …
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