Test from blogtk
I've been having trouble with the wordpress web interface lately. It doesn't work well with Pentadactyl (a firefox VIM add-on I can't survive without). I'm testing out new blog clients, starting with blogtk. Hello world!?
My library
I use Alexandria for keeping a record of all the books I buy/read/loan. It has a nifty feature where you can export your libraries as HTML files. I've published them.Have a look! It's only a subset, costituting books I've read since the second half the last year …
Fedora free-media tool: making modifications to the trac?
I got a feature request for the free-media tool that I've been working on. Benedikt Schäfer asked me if resolving a ticket in the tool could also change the ticket status on the trac. While this is on the TODO already, I sat up last night and looked into it …
On my relationship with fedora medical
Of late, I've had to deal with the fact that people believe that the driving force behind me applying for the fedora medical GSoC last year was only money. I address the matter in this post.
Susmit had initiated the fedora medical SIG in an attempt to make a fedora …
Fedora free-media-tool version 0.2alpha
I've managed to get most of the functionality coded up. Here's what ffmtool -h looks like now (on my system):
[ankur@ankur ~]$ ffmtool -h
[+] Parsing available options from config file: /home/ankur/.config/fedora-free-media-tool/config.cfg
Usage: ffmt [Options] [args]...
A tool to assist Fedora free-media contributors.
Without options, it …Gnote, Snowy, Tomdroid
I had earlier posted on keeping your notes in sync with your android phone. This involved an ftp client and a tiny shell script. I've run into Snowy recently, and I think it would be great to have an instance on fedora infra for the community. If you haven't already …
The status of free-media program in India: A quick update
- Active contributors(as per this pagelisting): 20
- Contributors with tickets assigned to them currently: 6
- Open tickets: 155
- Accepted tickets: 24
Have some time, and a few bucks to spare? Accept a ticket and `give someone the gift of fedora today`_!
Using askfedora correctly
I'm the one of the moderators of askfedora. Of late, I've seen a lot of new questions come in. I've observed that most of these do not make correct use of the forum and therefore am outlining the good practices of using it here:
- Search before you post: Search the …
VIM Classroom for beginners repeat for APAC
Hi there!
As promised, I'm going to repeat the VIM class for beginners tomorrow at 2100 IST (1530 UTC) to suit APAC. I'm going to cover more or less the same points I covered in the initial class. Please try and make it :)
The venue of course, is #fedora-classroom on …
An informal get together @forum food court, Koramangla on Saturday, 11am
The title (and the image) says it all. Some of us fedora volunteers from Bangalore are getting together this Saturday (14th January, 2012) at the Forum food court around 1100 am. It's going to be a very informal session. We'll just hack around and have some fun.
You can use …