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Mukti 11.2 at NIT Durgapur

Friday, February 11th, 2011 | Community, Fedora, FOSS, Python | No Comments

We reached Durgapur around 3:30AM on Friday, woke up by 6AM due to the really cold temperature. The inauguration event started few hours late and after that Mether started doing his RPM workshop.

My workshop started after 6:30PM , around 60+ students. Started with basics of python as a language. I did this workshop slowly so that everyone can pick the things we were discussing. 
Next day morning my second session started from 10AM and in the afternoon I had my PyGtk workshop in the lab. After finishing talking for more than 6 hours did the final talk for the night with the first year students. Total time I spoke was more than 7 hours , which is a record for me :)
3rd day again started at 10AM and I was surprised to see more than 30 students in the seminar hall where I was doing the python workshops. We discussed in details various modules in python and also discussed about projects for the students.
Generally I don’t get many mails from the students after the workshops or even if they do mail , they don’t continue. But here I found  3 students still continuing. I hope at least one of them will be able his/her journey in the path of freedom.  
Photos can be found here. Will update the post with flickr set when I upload there.

UPDATE: flickr set can be found here.

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How to type ₹ in Fedora 14

Friday, January 7th, 2011 | Fedora | 3 Comments

Goto System->preferences-keyboard

Add a new Indian English keyboard with RupeeSign (in layout tab), move it to the top by clicking “move up” button.

Now you can type ₹ by pressing AltGr + 4 :) Thanks goes to pravin

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8051 development on Fedora

Monday, September 6th, 2010 | Fedora, FOSS, Tutorial | 2 Comments

First install sdcc

#yum install sdcc

Next is a small example to blink a LED connected to P1.7


#include <8051.h>
void main(void)
{
int i=1;
P1=0; /* P1.7 used as LED output */
while(1)
{
P1_7=!(P1_7); /* toggle P1.7*/

for(i=1;i<25000;i++);
/* for delay */

}
}

Compile it and get the hex file from intel hex

$sdcc-sdcc blink.c
$ sdcc-packihx blink.ihx > blink.hex

Now you can upload the hex to the programmer :D /me is also just starting up.

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lekhonee-gnome 0.11 released

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 | Community, Fedora, FOSS | No Comments

I just released lekhonee-gnome 0.11, you can download the source from here, a yum repo for Fedora 13 can be found here.

Release Details:
  • Add new category button is re-enabled and it works :p
  • Updated translations
  • About dialog bug fixed

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lekhonee-gnome 0.10 released

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 | Fedora, FOSS, News | 1 Comment

lekhonee-gnome 0.10 is just released. You can download the source from here. 

This release comes with new translations for languages like Gujarati or Punjabi, also spell checking option is not anymore under right click menu ( something changed in webkit)
Here is an image of the right click menu used to look like.

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FAD PUNE 2010

Monday, May 31st, 2010 | Community, Fedora, FOSS, News, OLPC | 1 Comment

So this weekend we had FAD Pune 2010. Being organizer the main issue was to get inside the office before everyone else :)

Among the things done:
  • Packaged accessx ( with help from Sayamindu to patch it for Fedora)
  • Updated code in Pony so that it works with new flickrapi API (committed but not pushed yet)
  • Now we have cover images in Pathagar , the digital library system.
  • Helped people with packaging
Yesterday in the last hours almost everyone were busy with packaging and helping each other. Had fun with all other contributors for 2 days, now getting back to the normal routine. Photos will come up later this week. I also recorded Sayamindu’s talk on OLPC as a downstream of Fedora project, you can view it here (111MB).
  

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