Sat 24 December 2011

Happy holidays!

Posted by ankur in Other (26 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Merry Christmas! by Kelvin Servigon, on Flickr"][/caption]

The subject says it all! Happy holiday season all! Enjoy Christmas and the new year!

Wed 14 December 2011

Logs for the Fedora classroom on VIM

Posted by ankur in Tech (64 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

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 …

Fri 09 December 2011

A Fedora Classroom on VIM.

Posted by ankur in Tech (117 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

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 …

Fri 09 December 2011

Free-media vs LocalContacts: what is the difference?

Posted by ankur in Tech (345 words, approximately a 2 minute read)

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.

The Fedora free-media Program

If you **sign …

Thu 08 December 2011

Fedora Ambassadors' survey

Posted by ankur in Tech (76 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

I've made a small survey I request everyone to fill up. It has 3 questions, of which one asks your name :P

It is intended to collect data on what people have been doing and what difficulties they're facing while carrying out ambassador activities. Once we have the data, we …

Thu 08 December 2011

This is not a rant.

Posted by ankur in Tech (333 words, approximately a 2 minute read)

Hello all,

I hope you're all doing well. According to this page[1], there are 31 ambassadors in Fedora India.

I'd very gently like to remind all 31 of us of the duties of a Fedora Ambassador[2]:

> Duties and functions > > organizes the general structure of Ambassadors project; > distributes resources …

Wed 07 December 2011

Reviving the India Local Contacts program

Posted by ankur in Tech (15 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

I'm trying to revive the local contacts program in India. Interested? Do have a look!

Wed 07 December 2011

indimpc: A minimalistic MPD client with support for the gnome-shell indication system and multimedia keys.

Posted by ankur in Tech (50 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

I've packaged up indimpc for Fedora. The tar does not have a license yet, so I've emailed upstream requesting information on it. I will submit a review request as soon as I get a response. Until then, you can use the rpm at my fedorapeople space. Here's a screen shot …

Sun 04 December 2011

OpenNero packaging

Posted by ankur in Tech (66 words, approximately a 1 minute read)

OpenNero!

A game platform for Artificial Intelligence research and education

I've been taking Stanford's online Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning classes of late. There's a competition to do with OpenNero coming up. It would be awesome to have in the Fedora repositories. If anyone's interested in helping me package this …

Mon 07 November 2011