From saurabh.jain at gmail.com Thu Nov 1 18:17:43 2007 From: saurabh.jain at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Saurabh_Jai?= =?UTF-8?Q?n_(=E0=A4=B8=E0=A5=8C=E0=A4=B0?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E0=A4=AD_=E0=A4=9C=E0=A5=88=E0=A4=A8)?=) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:47:43 +0530 Subject: Finding Indian mirrors for Fedora Message-ID: <8cae849f0711011117h4960c3bbk31aa44f0c43985a9@mail.gmail.com> Hi folks My first post on this list. Wanted to add to one of the topics in the archives. IIT Madras has maintained a public mirror of Fedora for a long time. It's not very up-to-date, but it's got ISOs, and usually gives good throughput. ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/fedora/ Mirroring Fedora is very easy, and I think we need to promote the concept of local mirrors in colleges and organisations. I maintain one at home on ftp://home.saurabh.org.in/, and using reposync, it is a piece of cake to schedule a daily cron job to synchronise. Gone are the days when one had to rsync to download.fedora.redhat.com. It would be great if a large Linux mirror is hosted in India at NIXI. Charges are stiff http://nixi.in/fee.php, but donations can be raised. I know people who know people at NIXI, so I should probably take the initiative of going and meeting them once. Another interesting option is to host India-specific ISO torrents, though the efficacy of that is debatable. Happy to see a Fedora India list. Easier to join a list than to get PGP signatures and join the Fedora Project wiki. Cheers! Saurabh -- http://saurabh.org.in From sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com Fri Nov 2 06:40:51 2007 From: sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com (Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay) Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:10:51 +0530 Subject: [Fwd: [FOSS.IN-Speakers] Reminder: Last day for slide submission is November 3rd 23:59 GMT+0530] Message-ID: <472AC673.5000404@gmail.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [FOSS.IN-Speakers] Reminder: Last day for slide submission is November 3rd 23:59 GMT+0530 Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:07:51 +0530 From: Shreyas Srinivasan To: Speakers2007 at foss.in Hey, Just a gentle nudge to all you folks out there who haven't submitted their slides yet, please do it at the earliest as it will help us release the final list asap. We do understand inspiration in "Last minute panic" but for once lets get all the slides in before the last hour! Cheers, Shreyas - -- CelAbrate your flaws F O S S . I N / 2 0 0 7 India's Premier FOSS Conference December 4-8, 2007 Bangalore, India http://foss.in -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHKsZzXQZpNTcrCzMRAjAKAJ9UQABHtqo6ZcF2Ns1okLSo0nHDiACgpHKU LVi8earrcEoq18Sw2zXAYis= =1V4P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From debarshi.ray at gmail.com Fri Nov 2 07:00:45 2007 From: debarshi.ray at gmail.com (Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:30:45 +0530 Subject: [Fwd: [FOSS.IN-Speakers] Reminder: Last day for slide submission is November 3rd 23:59 GMT+0530] In-Reply-To: <472AC673.5000404@gmail.com> References: <472AC673.5000404@gmail.com> Message-ID: <3170f42f0711020000h42f7c03ax24c01a507422ebde@mail.gmail.com> > - -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [FOSS.IN-Speakers] Reminder: Last day for slide submission is > November 3rd 23:59 GMT+0530 > Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:07:51 +0530 > From: Shreyas Srinivasan > To: Speakers2007 at foss.in All speakers were subscribed to Speakers2007 at foss.in, to which this mail was sent. So this post is not really useful. Regards, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu From sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com Fri Nov 2 07:03:13 2007 From: sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com (Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay) Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:33:13 +0530 Subject: [Fwd: [FOSS.IN-Speakers] Reminder: Last day for slide submission is November 3rd 23:59 GMT+0530] In-Reply-To: <3170f42f0711020000h42f7c03ax24c01a507422ebde@mail.gmail.com> References: <472AC673.5000404@gmail.com> <3170f42f0711020000h42f7c03ax24c01a507422ebde@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <472ACBB1.3040207@gmail.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > All speakers were subscribed to Speakers2007 at foss.in, to which this > mail was sent. So this post is not really useful. Given that the foss.in mailing list aliases do tend to play up sometimes as long as it enables you (and other Fedora PD speakers) get in their slides it would be of use. Whether you choose to read it twice or once is a choice you make -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHKsuxXQZpNTcrCzMRAgEeAJ4irBVhI6H4KSB/2DVHFB25gqgaKQCgjDDg G/YadOgYhQkSUQzMBSVTLrQ= =tc8S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From sundaram at fedoraproject.org Fri Nov 2 15:05:00 2007 From: sundaram at fedoraproject.org (Rahul Sundaram) Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:35:00 +0530 Subject: Finding Indian mirrors for Fedora In-Reply-To: <8cae849f0711011117h4960c3bbk31aa44f0c43985a9@mail.gmail.com> References: <8cae849f0711011117h4960c3bbk31aa44f0c43985a9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <472B3C9C.2080204@fedoraproject.org> Saurabh Jain (???? ???) wrote: > Hi folks > > My first post on this list. Wanted to add to one of the topics in the archives. > > IIT Madras has maintained a public mirror of Fedora for a long time. > It's not very up-to-date, but it's got ISOs, and usually gives good > throughput. > > ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/fedora/ We have been in touch with the administrator who is been working on getting this into the Fedora public mirror list. > Mirroring Fedora is very easy, and I think we need to promote the > concept of local mirrors in colleges and organisations. I maintain one > at home on ftp://home.saurabh.org.in/, and using reposync, it is a > piece of cake to schedule a daily cron job to synchronise. Gone are > the days when one had to rsync to download.fedora.redhat.com. True and we have been getting more mirrors as a result. > It would be great if a large Linux mirror is hosted in India at NIXI. > Charges are stiff http://nixi.in/fee.php, but donations can be raised. > I know people who know people at NIXI, so I should probably take the > initiative of going and meeting them once. Sure. Keep us updated on the progress. Another interesting option > is to host India-specific ISO torrents, though the efficacy of that is > debatable. I have been looking at having an Indian specific site for Fedora Project. We could certainly host a torrent mirror. > Happy to see a Fedora India list. Easier to join a list than to get > PGP signatures and join the Fedora Project wiki. We are working on making this a click through process. Waiting on a new moin release upstream for that as indicated in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WikiEditing. Welcome to Fedora India. Rahul From dave at lab6.com Tue Nov 6 00:32:27 2007 From: dave at lab6.com (Dave Crossland) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 00:32:27 +0000 Subject: A New Malayalam Free Software Font Project Message-ID: <2285a9d20711051632m359bd286v5376fe7489c29f6d@mail.gmail.com> Hi, I'm a student at The University of Reading, UK, on the Masters degree in Typeface Design - http://www.typedesign.rdg.ac.uk/ - and am working on free software fonts. A significant part of the course is developing our typeface into a family with a complex script complement, and full OpenType features. I am considering designing an original Malayalam typeface designed for reading long passages of text on screen, that will be wholly created with and released as free software. I thought I'd drop this mailing list a line to ask if anyone here would like to be involved in my project - giving me feedback and supporting information and perhaps doing some testing for me next year :-) Initially I'm interested in the technical limitations around supporting Indic languages including Malayalam in the most common free rendering systems, both on screen (Pango/freetype) and for printing (Firefox, scribus, TeX, OpenOffice.org) Also, if anyone who has made any Indic fonts with free software is on this list, I hope you'll also get in contact with me :-) -- Regards, Dave From debarshi.ray at gmail.com Tue Nov 6 06:07:09 2007 From: debarshi.ray at gmail.com (Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:37:09 +0530 Subject: Fwd: A New Malayalam Free Software Font Project In-Reply-To: <2285a9d20711051632m359bd286v5376fe7489c29f6d@mail.gmail.com> References: <2285a9d20711051632m359bd286v5376fe7489c29f6d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <3170f42f0711052207v19d93b11m1bc9b3d91d6d1fd3@mail.gmail.com> You might find this post from the fedora-india list interesting. Regards, Debarshi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dave Crossland Date: 6 Nov 2007 06:02 Subject: A New Malayalam Free Software Font Project To: fedora-india at redhat.com Hi, I'm a student at The University of Reading, UK, on the Masters degree in Typeface Design - http://www.typedesign.rdg.ac.uk/ - and am working on free software fonts. A significant part of the course is developing our typeface into a family with a complex script complement, and full OpenType features. I am considering designing an original Malayalam typeface designed for reading long passages of text on screen, that will be wholly created with and released as free software. I thought I'd drop this mailing list a line to ask if anyone here would like to be involved in my project - giving me feedback and supporting information and perhaps doing some testing for me next year :-) Initially I'm interested in the technical limitations around supporting Indic languages including Malayalam in the most common free rendering systems, both on screen (Pango/freetype) and for printing (Firefox, scribus, TeX, OpenOffice.org) Also, if anyone who has made any Indic fonts with free software is on this list, I hope you'll also get in contact with me :-) -- Regards, Dave _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu