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FOSS.IN 2008 shots
So, finally managed to upload most of the shots taken at foss.in 2008. View them here. Few more may come later. Mostly edited in Gimp and managed in digikam. Enjoy :)
Through my lenses: FOSS.IN 2008
You can find my event report here (11MB). This is my first try to make something like this. Nicu helped a lot with my poor spelling mistakes. Comments are welcome.
FUDCon at foss.in and my talks
So another FUDCon in India after two years :) Join us in FUDCon @ foss.in on 28th November , 2008, city Bangalore,place IISC auditorium. Me and Rahul Sundaram jointly proposed the FUDCon at foss.in and we are in a continuous communitation with foss.in team so that everything goes smoothly.
I am giving a talk on “Getting Started with OLPC Activity Development”.
In this talk I will do a post mortem of a simple “Hello World!” activity. The activities are written in Python and they run on Sugar. So if you want to jump start into the development on this beautiful platform join us there :)
Btw, there will be another talk on Sugar by Sayamindu in FUDCon. Me and Soumya will also try to gather more people to test KDE packages on Fedora. More details about FUDCon will come in the future posts.
OLPC XO(s) are on Free software only
If you think in the other way, please read this blog post.
On a sidenote: I released a new version (v4) of Jukebox-activity with bn_IN translation.
Jukebox activity v3 released
This new version is having .pls playlist file support, so with proper plugins you can play internet radio stations.
More details can be found here.
Want to play your favourite song/movie on OLPC ?
So, if you want to play your favourite song/movie on OLPC use Jukebox.activity. Started working on this for the last few days after Sayam pointed me to the activity. It was almost in a stagnant condition.
My PyQt mind was someway different than writing this PyGtk stuff :) Sayam helped a lot.
The following features added as of now:
- Full Screen option
- Volume Control support
- Supporting m3u playlists
- Internet radios through m3u files.
- Next/Previous buttons , if you open a playlist with more than one song
Will do a formal release within this weekend. I have a .xo file ready for testing. Please provide your feedback :D
If you want to start writing your own activity , start from this.