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New release of lekhonee-gnome
I just released lekhonee-gnome ( desktop client for Wordpress ) v0.9. You can download the source from here or look for the rpm F-12 or F-13.
- By default it will open WYSIWYG editor mode , people can still edit raw HTML by clicking the “Edit HTML” button in the right hand corner.
- Added option for of extra HTML tags (HTML Tags menu) if one is editing HTML
- Save/Open blog posts in the local computer in plain xml format , so that you can edit them in any editor
- the configuration file is now a keyfile
- In the WYSIWYG editor one can do Spell check by right clicking into ”Spelling and Grammar” submenu
- While editing HTML one can use Spell Check box
- There is a progress bar in the statusbar area which will give visual feedback to the user whenever it will connect to server for any task
- The “Add Category” button is disabled in this release, will come back in the next release :)
We need more testing and please file bug reports according to that.
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GNUnify2010 and my python workshop
GNUnify2010 was the first for me. Started a bit early to the venue, Rahul was along with me. His talk was in top of schedule. I slowly moved to the lab where my python workshop was scheduled.
The main target of the workshop was to show/teach the basics of the python programming language. I hear mostly students asking “How to start working on a project?” but as the learning curve is not so easy in most of the things, they run away. The only students we have from India who are contributing to any FOSS projects are the people who came in their own interest. I found programming with python can be an easy entry point for the general students and they can become better programmer in life. This is the main reason behind my python workshops in different places.
No need to buy books, great online community, projects working on different dimensions, all of these can generate interest in the students.
Coming back to my workshop, I generally try to follow my own book (which I have to update). Slowly going through simple examples and showing that it is not difficult. I ask the students to solve the lab works they do in any programming lab in python. This will help them to understand the basics of the language. The workshop lab was supposed to have 30 students, but many more came so I had to ask them to seat in groups in the computers (most of them was running Fedora ). The basic feedback I got, states that it was easy, but how the students are going to use this, I have no clue. Btw, most of the students in my workshop were from Pune University Maths department, I told them to attend Ramki’s workshop in the second half as his workshop was about explaining how to solve mathematical problems.
At the end of the workshop I showed few applications written in python and talked about job opportunity in market. 2 students contacted me after the event.
Full set of the event photos can be found here.
Coming month, I will be in Durgapur, doing another python workshop , I will also conduct a Django workshop.
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Fedora Project day in foss.in started
Kital is giving the first talk on Fedora Security Spin. The room is not full yet, people are still coming in slowly. Kital just a very nice example of robbing bank and how one should go ahead to plan and execute that :)
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Foss.in day 1
First day was fine. Met Kital after long time. Was really happy to find a Fedora booth which was assigned to Rahul Sundaram. Girish helped to me get one of the long waiting feature in pony.
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