neuroscience/fedora/musings
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 …
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 …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 …
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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:
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 …
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 …
We had a longer than expected lesson! Almost two hours! Here are the logs for the session:
03:38 <@zodbot> Meeting ended Tue Dec 13 22:08:38 2011 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot . 03:38 <@zodbot> Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-classroom/2011-12-13/fedora-classroom_session_on_vim …
I intend to hold a classroom session on VIM on Tuesday, December 13 at 2000 UTC. Please mark your calendars. :)
To convert it into local time, you can run the following command in your terminal:
date -d '2011-12-13 2000 UTC'
The session will be at #fedora-classroom on Freenode. It will …
In my recent attempt to revive the LocalContacts program, and with the responses I've received, I've noticed that a lot of people are unsure of the distinctions between the free-media and LocalContact programs. This blog post is an attempt at clarifying the two.
If you **sign …