IRC Sessions this weekend @ Fedora Classroom

Three IRC sessions this weekend. The following topics are planned to be discussed.

Saturday:

1. Setting up a virtual router network environment using User Mode Linux on Fedora Linux
2. Introduction to Netlink Sockets in Linux Kernel

Sunday:

1. Introduction to busybox and Qemu on Fedora
   

For timings and other information, visit Fedora Classroom

Event Report on Fedora Talk in OSI Days Chennai

I am extremely thrilled and pleased to announce that my talk in OSI Days was a real good success. The talk was quite short and I started off with
A Survey on how many in the audience have heard about Fedora and there was quite a good number and then I started off with the following

1. What is Fedora
2. What's the Speciality of the Fedora Project
* Software Installation a breeze
* Targets End Users and Developers
* Package upgradation done so easy using yum and packagekit
3. What role does Redhat Play in contributing to fedora.
4. What's the role I play in Fedora
* As an ambassador
* Packagekit Contributor
* Mentoring new people
5. What's the advantage in Contributing to Fedora and i asked interested people to get my email ID offline to know more on how to contribute and I assured them that i could help them to get into World Of Open Source Software through Fedora.
6. Question & answers

Then people when i got off the stage asked for my email IDs and have asked me to give talks in LUG and lot of people had questions like

"i want to do some programming but i am not sure how do i do it in Ubuntu " these sort of questions came up and then i took that opportunity to tell them that i would help you do that by asking them to install fedora and assured them that they could copy of DVD from me. Lot of students wanted to do projects but they didn't know how to get into Fedora so i answered those questions and have asked them to contact me through email and then i would bring them onto the IRC channels. I have also asked them to log in to #fedora-classroom on the April First Weekend where i would be taking IRC sessions on kernel topics and Virtualization.

I strongly feel that this would bring in more users and contributors and I would be giving more talks too in the future.

It was a pretty exciting day and i would be sharing some photos soon .

Open Source Conference & Expo by OSI in chennai

The Open Source Conference by OSI is gonna start from March 12th to March 14th and i would be representing fedora there hopefully :). Event report would be sent after the conference.

Aircell uses Fedora in aircrafts

Yeah Aircell uses fedora for its flight software . Aircell is a world leader in providing airbone communications and the software runs on Fedora on all the flights which uses aircell communication software.

Release of Packagekit 0.4.4 and Gnome Packagekit 0.4.4

Packagekit 0.4.4 and Gnome Packagekit 0.4.4 is released. To get the latest version download the tarballs from this location http://www.packagekit.org/releases/

Breaking the Silence !

This blog has been silent for so many months, couldnt really write or post something useful so i thought i should break the silence by starting to write some cool stuff.

What am i upto these days !!!

Its been quite some time close to a month since i wrote something. Well I have been reading some stuff on the kernel especially on the Networking subystem on the packet flow. I am trying to integrate RIP into the kernel as a kernel module. Should be a real good and challenging experience and also trying to have VRF support in the kernel.

Oh Wait ! that reminds me of the write up that i wrote on Networking which is uploaded to the Kernelnewbies.org wiki

Looks Interesting.I hope to add more into the wiki in the near future.

Fedora-Student Partnership Programme

The Fedora-Student mentor programme is a programme targeted towards the college students to help them work on a project of their choice for fedora.This helps fedora and the college students who get to work on one of the most successful open source projects. This Programme is an extension of the Fedora Mentor Programme that's already available. I hope this programme takes off well and helps the student and the fedora community.

To get to know more about the programme check out
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Student_Mentor_Programme

Thanks IanWeller !

I would like to thank IanWeller for his excellent work in creating a new hackergotchi for myself.

Thanks for your time and your excellent work :)

Moving User Wiki Pages to the New Wiki format - Phase II

I have already written about moving the user wiki pages to the new wiki style. I am doing it in a phase wise approach and hence the second cycle is completed and i have moved the following locations, though i couldn't find the FAS ID for some ambassadors hence those people could just move their user pages respectively. The following is the list

• Central America
• Central Asia
• Eastern Asia
• Australia and New Zealand
  

Ambassadors in these locations move your wiki pages to the new wiki.

More updates soon

Moving user wiki pages to the new wiki style

I am in the process of updating the Ambassadors Country list by changing it to the new wiki format. I have completed the updation for few locations . The new link wouldn't work unless and until the ambassadors move their pages to the new wiki. Ambassadors in the following locations, move your user pages to the new wiki format. Here is the list

* Eastern Africa
* Northern Africa
* Southern Africa
* Western Africa
* Southern Asia

More updates to follow soon

Testing my .planet file

Testing my new .planet file

Hello Fedora

This is my first post in Planet fedora. Its been a very nice journey so far and i am enjoying every bit of it and look forward to working with the fedora contributors. Nice to see myself in Planet fedora :)

Hello World

wow...my space in the web. I hope to fill this space with my random thoughts on software, FOSS, technology and music.I am working as a senior software engineer in a telecom company so i would also fill this with my random musings on protocols and some good stuff that i come across which is worth sharing to the world. The point of focus on FOSS would be more towards Fedora :) and things happening in the Fedora community which i am part of proudly. I reckon this is enough for everyone to get a fair amount of idea on what this space would contain. If you still are not fully clear, then ...... probably wait for my further posts