Fwd: 2009-05-14 - Fedora Test Day - IBus input method
by sankarshan
Please join in to test out IBus and, in general begin contribution to testing.
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From: Liam <lili(a)redhat.com>
Date: 2009/5/11
Subject: 2009-05-14 - Fedora Test Day - IBus input method
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
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Cc: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
Greetings testers,
IBus input method - Ibus has been rewritten in C, and provides a simple,
clean default system for changing the way international users input
information into a Fedora system.
Most of the work on iBus is being done upstream by Huang Peng. This
feature proposal covers moving from scim to ibus as the default input
method framework for Fedora 11
iBus is designed to improve a number of deficiencies of scim:
* Ibus has been rewritten in C. Scim written in C++ using STL has
problems with weak symbol conflicts without the added complexity and
lower stability of the scim-bridge layer to workaround that.
* It is possible to write client and engines for ibus in any language
that supports dbus bindings.
* ibus loads engines on demand rather than all installed engines as scim
does, which improves the startup time and memory footprint.
* scim loads engines as dl-modules so a problem in any engine can take
down scim, whereas in ibus because the processes are separated only a
faulty process will die leaving rest of the system working normally.
* The architecture of ibus is bus-centric and so much closer to the CJK
OSS Forum Workgroup 3 draft "Specification of IM engine Service Provider
Interface" architecture, which might be supportable in the future.
I'd like to invite you to join #fedora-qa this Thursday, May 14, 2009 to
test Ibus input method.Get more details from:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-05-14_iBus
Thanks,
Liam
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A minimalist spin
by Ashok Gautham
I am a person who believes in minimalism and extreme configurability.
I could not find a minimalist spin of Fedora.
The spin I would actually like would contain
Window Managers
* Ratpoison
* dwm/wmii
* {Open,Flux}box
Console Apps
* Screen
Shell
* zsh
Compilers/Interpreters
* gcc
* perl
* python
IRC
* irssi
* bitlbee
Office
* antiword
* Is there a Fast and Light Office suite? Maybe gnumeric/abiword
PDFs ( I cannot decide. I got used to apvlv. But not many use it)
* apvlv
* epdfview
Web Browsers
* Conkeror
* Firefox (Worth the extra mbs it uses)
* Kazehakase (If firefox is too heavy)
Multimedia
* mplayer
System Monitor
* Conky
Download Managers
* wget/aria2c
* A possible wrapper script (with zenity?) for easy scheduling
Image Viewer
* feh - Image Viewer
File Managers
* mc (Console)
* emelfm (GUI)
Editors
* zile
[ * gvim
* emacs ] -> I use emacs. But choice is important too...
Mail Client
* mutt
* A possible Mail-notifier on Conky
Graphics (Do we need these?)
* Gimp
* inkscape
I am sure there are a group of people here who use a similar
configuration. I am posting this only on the Indian List.
I havent got the spin rolling yet, but this is roughly what I use. Is
someone else also interested in this kind of a spin?
(Note: This is not a INX lookalike. I do feel X gives you more control
and more space to do things)
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14 years, 10 months
Re: Fedora-india Digest, Vol 21, Issue 18
by Aveek Sen
Hi Sankarshan !,
>> This is to continue what I had suggested about press releases. I am
Sorry. I made a mistake. Actually sometime back I had suggested in the
Fedora Ambasadors' mailing list about press releases & marketing. I
was expounding on that.
>> pasting two links on Firefox & its add-on Hyperwords' discussion in
>> the technical columns --
>> The Times Of India, a reputed national daily in
>> India--http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1004341,prtpag...
>>
>> The Economist------http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story...
>
> I lost the context here - what was the initial discussion about ? I am
> certain that others would like to know that too.
I was suggesting press releases of Fedora in particular & FOSS in
general along lines of coverage of Firefox in technical columns of
important national dailies. Please refer to the two links to view two
such articles.
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> Sent from Pune, MH, India
Cheers,
Aveek Sen,
First year student of Electronics & Comminication Engineering,
Fedora Ambassador,
NIT Agartala,
India.
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14 years, 10 months
Fwd: Database SIG?
by sankarshan
with the hope that some of the newer folks would find this interesting.
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From: David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com>
Date: Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:22 AM
Subject: Database SIG?
To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
Would anyone else be interested in a database special-interest-group
within Fedora? I don't see one at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs
I seem to spend much of my time working with SQL these days, and I'm
interested in both client-side tools for mucking about with SQL, and
with server-side implementations, test suites, plus the more esoteric
things like XML and object databases, SPARQL, Tutorial D, etc.
So there'd be some overlap with the Server SIG, but there are plenty of
GUI tools as well (e.g. openoffice-base, schema visualizers, etc).
High-level goal might be to make Fedora the best place to go for someone
trying to learn about SQL and relational databases [1], and other types
of db.
A first step might be to gather a list of interesting open-source
database software, and then to package more of it for Fedora. I've
tried looking for such a list, but unfortunately the package database
tends to dominate my queries.
Anyone else out there?
Dave
[1] and, indeed, the differences between the two, for any followers of
the "Third Manifesto" out there
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Re: [Ambassadors] Fedora Certificate Projects
by Kushal Das
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Abhradip Mukherjee
<abhradipmukherjee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This is Abhradip Mukherjee. Here in India (West Bengal) we have a strong
> base. There are several students ready to jump into development fields. They
> want to contribute and work for fedoraproject and GNU/Linux development at
> large. I am thinking of starting a fedora project to start certification
> projects for such students. That will boost the movement a lot and will
> encourage potential students to not only use free software but also develop
> it.
I don't think certificates are any good to attract students who
will/"want to" become contributors. Looking someone's own name in the
project's website or in the Author's page gives much more confidence
and "feel good" attitude than any certificate. All the developers we
know , we know by their work, not by looking into some certificate.
I know personally how the students run behind a printed copy of
certificate, but bringing the same attitude into FOSS development is
not going to help us.
Also CCing Fedora India list.
Kushal
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