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Shrinivasan: LibreOffice 4.0.4 available

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:33:56 +0000

Source:
http://www.muktware.com/5644/libreoffice-404-available

The Document Foundation [
http://www.documentfoundation.org/
] , the

organization behind the development of LibreOffice, has announced
LibreOffice 4.0.4
[
http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2013/06/19/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-4-0-4/
]

This is the last release before 4.1 branch and brings minor updates.
One of the most interesting feature of the upcoming release is that
users will be able to open PDF files and edit them.

According to the press statement, "LibreOffice 4.0.4 features many

improvements in the area of interoperability with proprietary document
formats. This ongoing activity has been instrumental for the choice of
LibreOffice by all major migration projects to free software since
early 2012, including several central and local governments in Europe

and South America."

The next major release 4.1 will introduce many new and exciting
features, including the long awaited font embedding in documents,
which is pushing forward the Open Document Format.

Those of you who wonder when will LO offer a brand new UI, just keep
in mind that the team is cleaning up the huge pile of ‘dead’ code it
inherited from stagnant OpenOffice. Quite a lot of work is going on

under the hood which may not be visible to an average user.

Download it from
http://www.libreoffice.org/download

Srishti Sethi

noreply@blogger.com (Srishti) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:26:33 +0000

I am joining MIT Media Lab, a hotbed of creativity

So, very soon I will be forging a new chapter and joining the coolest workplace in the world.

I have been recently accepted as a graduate student at MIT Media Lab for Masters program in Media Arts and Sciences at Lifelong Kindergarten (LLK) group with a full Research Assistantship. During the course of study, Philipp Schmidt , P2PU executive director will serve as my research supervisor and Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research as faculty advisor.

Two years back, when I was doing my Google Summer of Code project for GCompris educational software with GNOME, I discovered that my true passion laid in learning sciences and technologies and software development that takes into consideration the need of elementary learners. Moreover, my undergraduate project work was based on similar interests. This was when my friend suggested me to apply to Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT Media Lab. Getting into the lab became a distant dream for me then and there.

I applied for the Masters program last year i.e in December 2012. My happiness knew no limits, when I received an email from Philipp expressing interest in my application and for scheduling an interview call to know more about my work and interests. During the interview process, I got the opportunity to have a conversation with Philipp , Mitchel, Natalie Rusk, Ricarose Roque and Sayamindu Dasgupta. It was truly most enriching experiences I have ever had.

LLK develops new technologies to engage people in creative learning and envisions a world full of playfully creative people, who are constantly inventing new possibilities for themselves and their communities. Some of the group projects that I admire the most : Scratch, Open Learning, Computer Clubhouse and LEGO WeDo. At LLK, I will be working with Philipp on open learning project which is about learning for everyone , by everyone. The Open Learning project builds online learning communities that work like the web: peer-to-peer, loosely joined, open. I aspire to work with the group on linking technology to learning objectives for driving a pedagogical change.

I would like to thank Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Bruno Coudoin, Prashanth Udupa and Prof Sanjay Prakash Ranga (who is no more in this world to hear this great news :-( ) for being so supportive during the entire application process and making timely submission of recommendation letters. Also, this wouldn't have been possible without the inspirational research and helpful advice of two of my closest friends Paras Kuhad and Vivek Anand.

Life will take on a new chapter in the upcoming weeks. I will be flying to Boston to embark on a 20 hours long flight. I have already left Bangalore, a place where I made my strongest friendships, lost few, grew mature and wiser. And finally, I will leave behind all I've known in India for a completely different lifestyle to renew myself as a student. It's exciting, scary and overwhelming all in one, but I am ready. My goodbyes are in queue. Looking forward to join MIT as a graduate student, adding to the productive nature of research whilst enriching my knowledge.

Srishti Sethi

noreply@blogger.com (Srishti) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:25:48 +0000

A Road Trip around Hampi
"If dreams were made out of stone, it would be Hampi"

April 6th - 7th 2013 : After a long thread of email conversations, me, insidevivek (Vivek Anand) and dirtydevil (Kunal Gupta) were all set for a crazy weekend trip to Hampi (a world renowned UNESCO heritage site). As per the plan Kunal left from Hyderabad for Hospet a bit earlier than us. While me and insidevivek were still waiting to board the bus from Bangalore. Insidevivek, in lieu of having last puff of cigarette roamed here and there far away from the bus which halted for quite sometime on the bus stand; that made us miss our bus. True adventure of the trip began there and then. I was getting quite furious on him for being irresponsible but all in vain. We took an auto to catch the bus from the next stop. By then, it had started raining heavily. We were suppose to take a quick decision here on what next if we fail to catch the bus from the next stop as well! We thought of calling dirtydevil to get down from the train somewhere in the middle and take a bus back to Hyderabad :O. Finally, we managed to catch the bus from Majestic. It was a great sigh of relief for me.

Day 1 Hampi

Stepping down from the bus in Hospet early morning, I felt as if I have landed in my hometown Bikaner. Cattle farms spread across the city, setup of local shops, narrow lanes , ladies carrying water in mud pots revived my hometown memories. Hospet or Hosapete, is a city in Bellary District in central Karnataka. It is on the Tungabhadra River, 12 km from Hampi consisting of the ruins of the medieval city of Vijayanagara, former capital of the Vijayanagara Empire. We received dirtydevil at the Hospet Railway Junction. Indeed, I was meeting him after an year timespan. Three of us took an auto-rickshaw from Hospet for Hampi. Hospet to Hampi is around 25 minutes ride by road. On the way, we came across rice, banana and sugar plantations. As per our tour guide Kunal's suggestion, we got down a bit early just a few miles before the city. We had scenic Hampi Island (Virupapur Gadde) on our left. We boarded a motor boat along with firnagis to reach the other side of the island. While on the boat, I was realizing that there are so many exotic, untouched and unexplored heavens of adventure in India. There are plethora of guest houses and resorts in other side of the Tungabhadra river. We walked into Shanthi guest house. This place is undoubtedly a paradise across Hampi. It is an ideal place to relax and rejuvenate. Moreover, cool serene green scenary around the guest house, stunning view of the rice paddies, thatch-roof huts, hammocks suspended out the front of each room, rocks and sunset view makes it a perfect setting to chill out at the end of the day.

After having a sumptuous breakfast we rented three bikes and began to explore fantastic art and architecture in and around Hampi. While driving, halting to gaze at randomly placed balanced stone boulders on both sides of the road and capturing them in camera became a frequent phenomena. We reached our first destination Anegundi which is believed to be the monkey kingdom of kishkindha in the epic of Ramayana and is at a distance of 5 km from Hampi. It is said to have one of the oldest plateaus on the planet, estimated to be 3,000 million years old. We visited Chintamani temple and the cave where Rama met Sugreeva for the first time. There was a old personal who showed us Rama's foot impression at the spot where he stood and shot an arrow to kill Vali. We loaded our bikes in a motor boat to cross the river and headed towards Vittala temple. Indeed, every rock, every path and every monument at Hampi speak the same language, a language of glory and beauty. It was an out of the world experience crossing the river in a coracle(bowl shaped boats). Initially we had to ensure that we were sitting in a proper order and that the coracle was properly balanced. We literally squatted in the boat with our hands immersed in deep water. In the middle way our boat rolled under a big rock where we stopped for some time to take pictures. We paid 500 bucks for the ferry ride and indeed it was quite expensive. We had two options to return back to Hampi; one was to load our bikes on the motor boat or a roadtrip of more than 50 kms and we pleasurably chose the later one. This was my first longest continuous road trip ever. Enjoyable ride towards Hampi through the historic villages of Karnataka via Kampli, Gangavati and Anegundi supplemented the scorching heat and sunburn effect :P We drove back to our inn. Mid night chit chats continued and all through this I was lying in the hammock and enjoying swinging at the leisure time.

Day 2 Hampi

Early morning me and dirtydevil went to the paddy fields to click some nature shots. After an interesting photo session, we roared our bikes and steered towards Sanapur lake. We met so many cyclists on the way to the lake. I met a sweet little girl from Mexico who preferred carrying violin on her back while riding bicycle, enjoying the tranquility of nature along with some music. The calmness around the lake was deadly contagious and flora and the fauna around added bonanza. We got down off our bikes to click some pictures with the goat man and his fellow goats. We then decided to swim in the lake for some time in order to beat the heat. And for the last bike ride , we proceeded towards our guest house from Sanapur. Evening time at the guest house was an appealing sight. Young couples lying in hammock, some reading books, other watching the sunset, some other doing photography and rest of them were busy in conversation with people around. It was time for us to catch different bus for different routes. With a heavy heart we left from Hampi for Hospet. Trip came to an end here but all of us felt that it would have been much more fun, if we would have stayed for longer. Check out the pics here :

Srishti Sethi

noreply@blogger.com (Srishti) — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:24:23 +0000

Scratch Day at Bikaner, Rajasthan (June 7, 2013)

Scratch Day is a special network of gatherings where people including educators, kids, parents, new scratchers, scientists, students from all over the world get together to share ideas and implement them in a collaborative manner using a programming platform called scratch. To mark the release of Scratch 2.0, introducing a web-based scratch editor with plethora of features such as video sensing, customizable user pages, enhanced sound editor, cloud data, scratch day is being celebrated all over the world. Couple of months back, Alisha invited me to attend Lego WeDo scratch meetup organized by Bangalore Steamers community that engages homeschooling parents and kids of all ages in learning sciences and technologies. This group works more like an after school center and I am highly inspired by its ongoing activities. Following this, with minimal setup I co-organized a small scratch meet up for neighboring kids.

What we did

With total of 15 people including an educator, we started off with a presentation on Introduction to Scratch followed by demonstration of tiny scratch projects, each explaining the concept of a programming block.
Formed teams and conducted hands-on workshop to get kids started playing with scratch in the browser.
Helped them to set up accounts on scratch website and taught them how projects can be shared or remixed online.
Introduced Raspberry Pi, an arm based linux computer. Presented a simple demo version of lighting up braille by controlling the GPIO pins of raspberry Pi using scratch. Here is the link to the corresponding scratch project.
For kids with limited access to internet, we distributed scratch reference manuals, scratch downloadable version, video tutorials to dig in easily.
During the course of the workshop, we showed how learning models can be implemented using scratch. One of the new scratcher, presented a simulation based model on three states of matter.

Lighting up Braille using Scratch and Raspberry Pi Video

Browse for event pics here.

Links

Kartik Mistry: અપડેટ્સ – ૯૫

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:14:04 +0000

* મસ્ત વરસાદમાં રવિવારે ‘આરે કોલોની’ના જંગલમાં ૧૧ કિમીની રેસ (એમ તો હાફ મેરેથોનનો પ્લાન હતો, જે પડતો મૂકવામાં આવ્યો) વત્તા ૧૫ કિમી સાયકલિંગનો લાભ લેવામાં આવ્યો. આરે જંગલ સરસ જગ્યા છે. હવે પછી ૭મી જુલાઇએ ત્યાં જ ‘રનિંગ ઍન્ડ લિવિંગ’ મોન્સુન હાફ મેરેથોન છે. એ પહેલાં બાન્દ્રામાં ૧૦ કિમીની રેસ છે. એટલે આ બે મહિના એકદમ હર્યા-ભર્યા રહેશે!

* વર્ડપ્રેસ એડમિનની થીમ બદલાઇ ગઇ છે, જે મારી આંખોને એડજસ્ટ થતાં કેટલાંક દિવસો લાગશે. તેમનાં વિઝ્યુલ એડિટરમાંય ફેરફારો થયા હોય એમ લાગી રહ્યું છે.

* મારી પ્રિય વિડિઓ ગેમ હાફ લાઇફ ૨ હવે લિનક્સમાં (સ્ટિમ વડે) સરસ ચાલે છે એટલે મજા આવે છે!

* અત્યારે ‘અંતહીન યાત્રા’ વંચાઇ રહી છે. કાલે કે પરમ દિવસે તેનો રીવ્યુ લખીશ.

* બાકી આરામ. કવિનની સ્કૂલ હવે શરુ થઇ ગઇ છે, એટલે થોડો સમય તો ઘરમાં શાંતિ રહે છે

Sayak Sarkar: Installing Sublime Text 2 on Fedora 19 – Schrodinger’s Cat

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:38:36 +0000

Here’s another three step guide to installing Sublime Text 2 on Fedora 19 – Schrodinger’s Cat:-

Download the installation script from the following gist.
```
https://gist.github.com/sayak-sarkar/5810101
```

Extract it to your home directory [or anywhere you like].

$tar -xvf gist5810101-3b0e9bb3ef5128760df9e3e06877fa4f7e5689ec.tar.gz

Open your terminal (preferably as super user), navigate to your home directory and execute the shell script.
```
 #./sublime-text-2.sh
```

Voila!! You now have Sublime Text 2 installed on your machine. You may run it from the terminal or via the alt+f2 shortcut by simply typing in “sublime-text”.

Credits to Henrique Moody for the original script gist!!
I’ve simply added a symbolic link at /usr/bin to enable terminal execution.

Enjoy!!

Filed under: Fedora, How-to Guides, Technology Tagged: bash, Fedora 19, gist, installation, Linux, Schrödinger's cat, script, shell, shell script, shellscript, sublime, sublime text, sublime text 2, text editor

Shakthi Kannan: Fedora Workshop, SJCE, Chennai

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:20:00 +0000

A Fedora workshop was organised at St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on Friday, June 14, 2013. The participants were students from the Master of Computer Applications (MCA) department.

The forenoon session began with an introduction to Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) and Fedora. I explained the various project and communication guidelines that students need to follow, and mentioned the various Fedora sub-projects that they can contribute to. System architecture, and compilation concepts were also discussed. The need to use free and open standards was emphasized. Copyright, and licensing were briefly addressed.

After lunch, a programming lab session was held to see how students solve problems. Their code was reviewed, and suggestions for improvement were given. Klavaro was shown to students to learn touch typing. I also gave an overview of GCC using the “Introduction to GCC” presentation. The concept of using revision control systems was illustrated. A demo of Fedora 18 (x86_64) was shown, and the same was installed on the lab desktops.

Thanks to Prof. Parvathavarthini Mam for working with me in organizing this workshop. Thanks also to Prof. Shirley for managing the logistics.

Few photos taken during the trip are available in my /gallery.

Sayan Chowdhury: Darkserver Improvement : Google Summer of Code 2013

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:48:51 +0000

It’s better later than never. It’s been two week since the Google Summer of Code 2013 results were announced and I am glad to say that I got selected this year.

I will be working on Darkserver Improvment under Fedora. One can see a draft of my proposal here. My mentor is Kushal Das and i am really helpful for helping me out in the whole process both in code and application.

Shrinivasan: Chennai Geeks June Hackathon on Android apps development.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:22:13 +0000

Source:
http://chennaigeeks.in/blog/event/chennai-geeks-june-hackathon/

Event: Chennai Geeks June Hackathon

Start: June 22, 2013 10:00 am
End: June 23, 2013 5:00 pm

(Yes. Two days)

Organizer: Chennai Geeks
Phone: 9940138729
Email: madhuvishy, me

Venue: RailsFactory

Address: 38/39, 3rd Floor, Whites Road, Royapettah
(Corporation Bank Circular Building, Opp Sathyam theater car parking),
Chennai, TamilNadu, 600061, India

Theme: Android apps development.

Workshop: To help those who are new to Android, we have a 6 hour free
Android beginners’ workshop during the hackathon, on Saturday. The
workshop will be run by Yuvi Panda, who works for the Wikimedia

Foundation. More on the workshop, can be found here.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yuvipanda/Android_beginners

Adding coolness: We are planning to have a cool Internet of things

gadget display during the hackathon the Internet of things enthusiast
community in Chennai. If you have a cool gadget to show off, you
should chime in too

Free for all.
Anyone can join.

Aravinda VK: ವಿಚಿತ್ರ ಕನಸು

mail@aravindavk.in (Aravinda VK) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

ನಿನ್ನೆ ರಾತ್ರಿ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಬರೀತಾ ಕೂತು ರಾತ್ರಿ ೨ ಗಂಟೆ ಆಗಿತ್ತು, ಮತ್ತೆ ೭:೩೦ ಗೆ ಅಲಾರ್ಮ್ ಇಟ್ಟು ಮಲ್ಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೆ, ಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆ ವಿಚಿತ್ರ ಕನಸೊಂದು ಬಿದ್ದು ೬:೩೦ ಗೆ ಎಚ್ಚರಾಯ್ತು..

ಆ ಕನಸು ಒಂತರಾ ಮಜಾ ಇತ್ತು, ಅದನ್ನ ಊಹಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಿಕ್ಕೆ ಸುಲಭವಾಗ್ಲಿ ಅಂತ ಒಂದು ಚಿತ್ರ ಬರೆದಿದೀನಿ. :)

ನಾನು ಎಲ್ಲೋ ಹೋಗ್ತಾ ಇರ್ತೀನಿ, ಆಗೊಂದು ನಾಯಿಮರಿ ಬರುತ್ತೆ ಅದು ನನ್ನ ಎಡಕೈಗೆ ಬಾಯಿ ಹಾಕಿ ಬಿಡುತ್ತೆ, ಏನು ಮಾಡಿದ್ರೂ ಬಿಡಲ್ಲ, ನಾನು ಸುಮಾರು ಸಲ ಕೊಡುಕಿದ್ರೂ ಅದು ಬೀಳಲಿಲ್ಲ.. ಇನ್ನೇನೂ ಬೇರೆ ದಾರಿ ಕಾಣದೆ ಹಂಗೇ ಅದನ್ನ ಎಳ್ಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಗ್ತಾ ಇರ್ತೀನಿ.

ಅಷ್ಟರಲ್ಲಿ ಎಚ್ಚರಾಯ್ತು.

Aravinda VK: GlusterFS Tools

mail@aravindavk.in (Aravinda VK) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

From GlusterFS website

GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes (actually, 72 brontobytes!) and handling thousands of clients. GlusterFS clusters together storage building blocks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect, aggregating disk and memory resources and managing data in a single global namespace. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design and can deliver exceptional performance for diverse workloads.

Gluster CLI has limited features to view and filter the volume info. I started a small project to enhance Gluster CLI for personal use. As of now it consists of a tool to list Gluster volumes in tabular format. Other intersesting features includes filtering the output based on name, type, status, bricks etc.

Clone the project(I cloned it to /home/aravinda/sandbox/)

cd /home/aravinda/sandbox
git clone https://github.com/aravindavk/glusterfs-tools.git

Create a shellscript to call gftools /usr/local/bin/gfvolumes

#!/bin/bash
python /home/aravinda/sandbox/glusterfs-tools/gftools/volumes.py "$@"

Make gfvolumes executable

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gfvolumes

Now we can run sudo gfvolumes to see the list of glusterfs volumes. Type gfvolumes --help for help.

All Volumes

Name Filter

Status Filter

Type Filter

Show Bricks

Additionally it can output filtered details in JSON format.

JSON Format

We can easily import this in our python script.

#!/usr/bin/python
from gftools import volumes
gfvols = volumes.GfVolumes()    
ok, vols = gfvols.get(name='^gv[0-9]$', status='down') # Various filters available
if ok:
    # Do action

Note: root permission is required to run gluster command, so run gfvolumes as root(sudo gfvolumes)

Future plans:

Adding more filters
Adding more admin tools
Creating RPM/DEB packages

C & S Welcome.

Neependra Khare: Red Hat Summit 2013

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:46:13 +0000

I attended my first ever Red Hat Summit last week and got the opportunity to present as well. I also got the chance to meet my team in here after interacting with them for almost an year now.

The summit got kick started with on 11th June with Jim’s keynote. Jim came on the stage wearing jeans. How cool is that !!!

Two take aways for me from his keynote were:-
1. Connect …
This was the theme of the summit this year. Connect with different engineers, vendors, community to write better code, create a eco-system which can benefit all the participants.

2. Technology choice = Innovation choice.

In this era all the innovations are happening in open way. Open innovations allows users to participate in the technology innovations. This can not happen in closed way. And the technology choice made by the companies, vendors now would lay down the innovations in coming years.

I came to know that on 12th there is 5K marathon scheduled for Summit attendees to honor those who affected by the tragic events at the 2013 running of the Boston Marathon. The venue for the Summit was on the very same to street. So, I decided to participate on that and did it. It was great fun.

After finishing 5K run

Later in day I attended Paul Cormier keynote, which was was mostly focused on Open Hybrid Cloud. After that I attended few talks and posted my visualization project about collecting the performance stats from different Gluster nodes upstream forge.gluster.org.

My talk was scheduled on 13th June at 4:50 – 5:50 PM. After attending the Brian Steven’s keynote I mostly worked my presentation. I gave the talk with Ben and I think it went very well.

After my talk Performance team went for the group party. During that I got to hear that how well I got mixed with the team, as it was like I have always been working from here. Sometime working completely remotely from the team can be very challenging. I was happy to hear that.

Before leaving for the company party I met our CEO Jim Whitehurst. The company party which was sponsored by IBM. A band from Montreal Alter Ego performed there. They were awesome, everyone was on their feet.

After the company party we went for Pub Crawling, in which we have to go six different pubs and drink. I was with few of my team members and some other very senior guys. We managed to cover 3 pubs. Last pub was very live. I met our CTO, Brian Stevens there and chatted with him. It was 2 AM when I returned back to the room.

Last day of Summit just had few sessions in the morning. Most of attendees either with had hangover from last night or have gone. The attendance was very low. After all the sessions got over I went for group lunch with Red Hat Storage group.

Overall it was a great experience. I got meet so many great people. I hope to participate in more such events.

Priyanka Nag: Maker Party, Pune 2013

noreply@blogger.com (priyanka nag) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:59:56 +0000

Me...from behind the Firefox curtains during the show (Photo courtesy: Niraj Kasar)

When Mozilla decides to begin their Webmaker party from 15th June 2013, how can the Mozilla India community not abide by the date!

The Mozilla India community began their Webmaker party with the MakerParty, Pune. This event was aimed at introducing the Mozilla World to the fresh batch of M.Sc(CA) students in Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research who are new to the FOSS world and are taking their first steps into the Open Source Communities.The event did serve its purpose right.

Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research is like the unofficial event venue for most of the FOSS events taking place in Pune. The infrastructure is provided free of cost and thus the budget is never a concern. Getting permission to use this venue is again a very easy job when the Deputy director of the college is the chairman of OSI (Open Source Initiatives).

When my HOD said, he wanted me to host some FOSS event for the new batch of M.Sc(CA) on the 15th and 16th of June, I couldn't let this opportunity out of hand. 15th be it! Let the Webmaker party begin in India, the day it begins globally!

With that thought in mind, I quickly did send out invites to all the Mozillians in Pune for ideas and participations. The super charged Mozillians reacted super quick and the entire event was planned in less than one day.

The super awesome part was the India community's Webmaker super mentors' remote help and contribution. Even the event was named by one of our super-mentor, Sayak Sarkar.

Deciding the name of the event with Sayak Sarkar at 2.30am.

We began the day with a brief introduction about Mozilla by Ankit Gadgil. The introduction was followed by a talk on Mozilla projects and initiatives whose speaker was Jai Pradeesh (our new Mozilla Rep). After Jai, I took the stage to talk about the different Mozilla products, the different ways of getting involved with Mozilla and of-course my favorite topic, WoMoz. Aniket Deshpande gave a nice talk on the Mozilla Reps programme as well as the new Firefox Student Ambassador programme.

Unlike the morning slot, the afternoon slots consisted of 'No talks and only hacking'. We began the session with Sayak Sarkar's motivating speech on his journey from being a Mozillian to a Mozilla Intern. He joined us through google hangout. The very fact that a SICSR student is presently interning in Mozilla got the crowed charged up to do loads of great work.

After the hangout session, no more talks! The hacking began. Thimble to X-ray goggles and ending the day with pop-corn. With help and introduction on these topics by Ankit, the crowed did make some great projects by the end of the day. The work was collected in one etherpad and was evaluated by our super-mentors, Sayak Sarkar and Gauthamraj Elango.

We ended the day by giving out Mozilla swags as prizes to the best makes of the day and with Sayak's promise that he will send Webmaker goodies for the best makes and submissions of the week.

After the event, yesternight, I have got infinite calls, messages and facebook pings from my participants demanding more such Mozilla sessions in college soon! It was a great feeling to see their enthusiasm. You feel good about your work only when the you achieve your result, but in this case, the achievement was way more than I had expected.

Best pic of the day...a participant tweeted that she got engaged to Firefox

Kartik Mistry: છ વર્ષનું ઝોમ્બી

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:16:59 +0000

તો અમારું ઉપરોક્ત ઝોમ્બી આજે છ વર્ષનું થયું છે એની લાગતા-વળગતાઓએ નોંધ લેવી

Kartik Mistry: આજનું સત્ય

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:20:03 +0000

તમામ તસવીરો ગુગલ-નેટ પરથી લીધેલ છે

.. આવું લખાણ બ્લોગની લગભગ દરેક પોસ્ટ પર લખતાં લોકોને ખબર નથી કે તેમનું ‘લખાણ પણ નેટ પરથી લીધેલ છે’ એવું અમને ખબર છે!

Shrinivasan: LibreOffice QA Team launch a Bug Triage Contest

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:44:00 +0000

Reblogged from The Document Foundation Blog:

The competition will run from June 20th to July 5th, 2013

Berlin, The Document Foundation announce a Bug Triage Contest to prepare for the announcement of LibreOffice 4.1. The event will last two weeks during the availability of the first release candidate of the office suite, from June 20th to July 5th, 2013.

Details of the Bug Triage Contest are available online at the following address on TDF wiki: …

Kartik Mistry: દોઢ મહિનાની ફિલમો – ૨૬

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:49:30 +0000

* છેલ્લે આવી પોસ્ટ એપ્રિલ અંતમાં લખાઇ હતી. ત્યાર પછી ફિલમો જોવાનો ખાસ સમય મળ્યો નથી, એટલે છેલ્લાં દોઢ મહિનાનો મસાલો અહીં એક સાથે રજૂ કરવામાં આવે છે (અને, એ પણ માત્ર ત્રણ ફિલમો – જરા વિચારો – મારા પર કેવી વીતતી હશે )

૧. ગો ગોઆ ગોન (૨૦૧૩):

ઝોમ્બી ફિલ્મ. સારા ડાયલોગ્સ અને બેકાર સ્ટોરી. છતાંય, બાબાજી (પેલા બ્લોગ વાળા નહી!) અને બ્લડી ખૂની મન્ડે ગીતો ગમ્યાં. કવિને પણ જોયું અને તેને ઝોમ્બી વિશે વિગતે સમજાવવામાં આવ્યું.

કવિન હવે ગોઆ જવા માટે રેડી છે (કારણ કે, તેને ઝોમ્બીઓ જોવા છે!)

૨. યે જવાની હૈ દિવાની (૨૦૧૩):

એમ તો આ મુવીનો `રીવ્યુ` છેલ્લી અપડેટ્સ પોસ્ટમાં લખેલો જ છે, પણ સંદર્ભ માટે: આ એક એવી ફિલમ છે, જેના કારણે આજ પછી હિન્દી ફિલમ થિએટરમાં ન જોવાની પ્રતિજ્ઞા લેવામાં આવી છે (તેમ છતાંય, કોઇ વાર જવું પડે તો, સસ્તાં શોમાં જવું તેવો ઠરાવ સર્વાનુમતે પસાર કરાયો છે).

૩. ઉડાન (૨૦૧૦):

ક્યારનું બાકી રહી ગયેલું સરસ મુવી. રામ કપૂરને પહેલી વાર ઓફ-ટીવી જોયો (જોકે આમ પણ હું ટીવી જોતો નથી, ક્યારેક જોવાઇ જાય એ વાત અલગ છે). લગભગ બધાંનો અભિનય એકદમ સરસ. દરેક મા-બાપે જોવા જેવું.

Prakash Advani: Linux source code for cheap ARM chipset Rockchip RK3188

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:31:01 +0000

Rockchip’s RK3188 processor is one of the fastest ARM Cortex-A9 chips around. The 28nm quad-core processor outperforms the chips found in the Samsung Galaxy S III and Google Nexus 7, for instance. And it’s a relatively inexpensive chip, which explains why it’s proven popular with Chinese tablet and TV box makers.

Most devices featuring the RK3188 processor ship with Android 4.1 or Android 4.2. But soon you may be able to run Ubuntu, Fedora, or other desktop Linux operating systems on an RK3188 device.

Prasad Pandit (pjp): Water

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:56:30 +0000

Hi,

This post is to spread the word – Water. To spare a moment to think about – Water. To help grow awareness about this source of life – Water. Do share!

I was thinking of writing this post since I read this column about the must watch environmental documentaries. Initially it was to be more about interesting documentaries to watch. It’s not about documentaries any more. It is about – Water.

Ever since I read that column and saw these movies – Blue Gold: World Water Wars & FLOW: For Love of Water – I’m seeing more and more similar stories and patterns. Ex: In this news they say Egypt is ready to wage war against Ethiopia for the later is planning to build a dam on the river Nile. In another story folks in Chile are protesting against a big multinational corporate which wants to build a dam on their pristine river. And today these pictures about water shortage in Delhi. What could be more ironic than to have one of the oldest river, on the banks of which lord Shri Krishna himself once played and bathed, flowing in your backyard and yet you are thirsty for Water.

Actually, being an Indian, none of this or what they show in the above documentaries comes as surprise or news to me. For these situations and fights are quite commonplace in India. Yet, what surprises me is how less do we talk and discus about these issues in comparison to all the drama and brouhaha about PRISM and surveillance states and digital privacy & rights and gay rights and gun control and if you are in India, you see drama over arrest & pardon of an actor, IPL cricket, spot/match fixing, and to top it all octogenarian senior most politician throwing tantrums like a 10 year old girl and the others cajoling him out of it. It’s crazy! All these things don’t even matter to everybody like Water does.

Even more surprising is how some of us justify wrong doings of big corporate multinationals and powerful bodies. I had heated debate wherein I was explaining about this movie Blue Gold and how people are protesting against big corporates for building dams and pumping billions of galleons of water every day from natural water sources and how it is practically drying those sources. And they come back saying private companies are perfectly justified in trying to maximise their profits and value to their shareholders, that is why they exist. I should/could not hold them responsible on moral or ethical grounds. I was absolutely stunned and surprised beyond shock for a moment.

I understand that private companies work to maximise their profits and I’m okay with that. But if you pump billions of galleons of water every day for that profit and value to your shareholders, I think it is wrong. And it should take less than common sense to see that it is wrong.

Along with all the global political and financial deficit we carry today, we also have greater crisis/deficit in being able to know right from a wrong and good from a bad.

Some of these links below:-
—
[1] Water shortage in Delhi – http://blog.tehelka.com/photo-blog-water-shortage-in-delhi/
[2] Egypt on war against Ethiopia – http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Africa/Egypts-Instability-Triggers-a-New-Proxy-War-Against-Ethiopia-and-its-Allies.html
[3] Chilean protest – http://adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/10/rios-libres-video-2-the-history-of-the-dam/
[4] Environmental documentaries – http://calamur.org/gargi/2013/06/07/lokmat-column-must-watch-environmental-documentaries/
[5] Blue Gold – World Water Wars – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikb4WG8UJRw
[6] Flow – For Love of Water – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmWdco0glEA
[7] Satyamev Jayate – Water – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqVAHBiGLic
[8] Truth About Tigers – http://www.truthabouttigers.org/home/

Shrinivasan: Blender – Animation Creator Needed – Part Time !!!

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:12:06 +0000

We are looking for 2D or 3D artists in Blender.

Create Animation for INFITT13 <
http://www.ti2013.infitt.org/
> -
Tamil Internet Conference going to be held in Malaysia.

We will pay according to your work.

Anybody who is interested and good in Blender Animation[2D/3D],
mail immediately for more details.

E-mail: thangam DOT arunx AT gmail DOT com

Prakash Advani: Raspberry Pi cloud

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:48:13 +0000

Computer scientists have made a working model of multi million pound cloud computing technology using just Lego bricks and a handful of 20 mini computers.

The University of Glasgow’s Raspberry Pi Cloud project links together 56 Raspberry Pi computer boards in racks made from Lego, which mimic the function and modular design of commercial cloud computing infrastructure.

Rahul Sundaram: RHEL 7 will default to GNOME classic mode

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:39:00 +0000

According to this interview, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will default to classic mode in GNOME. That makes a lot of sense considering the conservative nature of the distribution. There are other bits of interesting info including XFS becoming the default filesystem and an official upgrade tool (probably based on fedup). Well worth the read

Satabdi Das: Git workshop over irc

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:19:05 +0000

Date: 15th June
Venue: #wfs-india channel on freenode
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm IST
Registration: http://www.wfs-india.org/form/registration-form-git-workshop-june-15-2013

Git is, technically speaking, the most advanced version control system on earth right now. However this does not itself justify why everybody should learn it. The real value of git is that it has taken collaboration to a new level. Just like social media has made friendship cross barriers of space, git has helped developers work together across continents. Git is the backbone of developers working on huge projects like the Linux kernel. Git is also the choice of countless designers and can be used by visual artists and authors as well.

This amazing tool costs nothing — it is free.

Free to use and to modify as well (courtesy GNU-GPL V2). Nobody can stop you from becoming an expert in git.
Get started with Git through our workshop.

Pre-requisites
There is only one pre-requisite — install git beforehand.

Debian/Ubuntu

Install from the command-line using:

sudo apt-get install git

Fedora

Install from the command-line using:

sudo yum install git-core

Arch Linux

Install from the command-line using:

sudo pacman -S git

Windows

Download and install git from msysgit. You can use this direct URL to download the installer.

Mac

Mac users please use the instructions given here.

Still need help?

We will provide full assistance during the workshop for any issues faced by participants in installing git. We will assist participants in configuring their git installations before we begin. So if you are having troubles installing git, don’t worry. We’ll help you.

Particpants can ping anybody on #wfs-india to solve installation issues prior to the actual workshop.

http://www.wfs-india.org/p/git-workshop

Arky: African Network For Localization (ANLoc) Conference 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Arky r) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:53:00 +0000

Traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend African Network For Localization (ANLoc)'s Terminology and Localisation in Africa and Beyond Conference earlier this year. It gave me an opportunity to learn the history of African languages in cyberspace and meet the people behind various multilingual initiatives. The conference brought together language professionals, academics and open source developers to learn about terminology development and localization platforms.

Language is the key for unlocking the potential of Africa. The African Network for Localization (ANLoc) is a non-profit that supports African language technology development. The ANLoc partners were instrumental in the numeration and standardization of 100 African languages. The ANLoc partners and sub-projects developed Unicode fonts, keyboard input systems, translation tools and terminologies for African languages. They also devised training programs for building sustainable volunteer driven localization communities.

The conference featured technical talks, break-out sessions and brainstorming sessions. There were in-depth discussions on the various facets of multilingualism in cyberspace in context to African languages, the challenges of translating computing terms in African languages, the use of machine translation methods and the development of linguistics resources such language dictionaries and terminologies. The conference organizers maintained a good balance of discussions, along with practical hands-on workshops. The size of conference made interactions easier. It was good to meet Mozilla localization contributors from over 10 African languages during this event.

ANLoc's project localized widely used open source Mozilla Firefox web browser in many African languages. The ground realities of mobilizing and sustaining communities in Africa are apparent. Finding contributors is difficult. Most contributors refrain from volunteering due to economic reasons. The overall economic development and access to digital technologies is limited to few regions in Africa. The availability of Internet has improved but the cost is still prohibitively high. I shared my community building experiences from similar resource constrained environments across the world.

Identify, Engage, Empower: Tools for Community Building

Participated in break-out sessions on developing style guides for localization and Mozilla localization processes.
The FirefoxOS localization sprint was organized as part of the event. The localizers worked in groups to translate Mozilla FirefoxOS mobile operating system using Pootle web translation platform.

Talked about Android Internationalization and adding African language fonts and keyboard support to Android. Android currently supports few major African languages: Swahili, Amharic, Zulu and Afrikaans, but more African language coverage is needed. Cheap Android devices are flooding the African market. Today, the first internet experience for many is not on a desktop computer but on mobile phones. Mobiles play a great role in accessing information and even transfering money.

The brainstorming sessions were very interesting. The problems discussed were both at an economic and social level. These problems are similar in nature to the countries where I have been working for the past few years.

The lack of availability of African local content on the internet was a major hurdle. The African diaspora spread across the world and few local governments and non profit organizations were involved in developing local language content. The tide seems to be turning now, with increasing availability of the Internet on mobile phones. Social media and user generated content is now bridging the gap.

This conference gave me a framework for my future activities in Africa. I'll be traveling to East Africa to participate in Tech4Africa Nairobi Tech Day and organize localization hackathons. Such events will help us work on Mozilla Firefox in some of the major languages and help build sustainable Mozilla communities in Africa.

Rajesh Ranjan: केवल भाषा नहीं है मैथिली, ज्ञान का समृद्ध स्रोत है यह – अजय कुमार झा

noreply@blogger.com (राजेश रंजन) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:27:07 +0000

मोज़िल्ला फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स मैथिली कार्यशाला

२९ मई २०१३ को मोज़िल्ला फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स मैथिली कार्यशाला का आयोजन स्वैच्छिक रूप से मैथिली कंप्यूटर के लिए भाषा घर के अंतर्गत काम करनेवाले समुदाय द्वारा किया गया। मोज़िल्ला फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स मैथिली कार्यशाला एक पूर्ण दिवसीय कार्यशाला थी जहाँ इसके लिए काम करनेवाले समुदाय ने कुछ विशेषज्ञों के साथ फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स मैथिली से संबंधित मुद्दों और समस्याओं के बारे में विचार किया। इस कार्यशाला का उद्घटान ए.एन.सिन्हा इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ सोसल स्टडीज के प्रो. अजय कुमार झा ने किया। इस कार्यशाला की मेजबानी सिद्धांत प्रकाशन ने अपने पुनाईचक स्थित कार्यालय में किया।

उद्धाटन वक्तव्य देते हुए प्रो. अजय कुमार झा ने कहा कि यह एक नया तरह का कार्य है। आज के लिए कंप्यूटर टाइपिंग पैड की तरह है। उन्होंने कहा कि केवल भाषा नहीं है बल्कि एक समृद्ध ज्ञान का स्रोत है। पंजाबी, तमिल, नेपाली की तरह यह भाषा दो देशों की भाषा है। उन्होंने कहा कि मैथिली क्षेत्र एक जातीय सौहाद्र का क्षेत्र है। उन्होंने बताया कि हमने यानी मैथिली भाषी क्षेत्र ने मुख्यधारा से अपने को इतना अधिक स्वेच्छा से जोड़ लिया कि हम अपने अस्तित्व को ही छोड़ दिया। यूनेस्को को मैथिली जैसी भाषा को आगे बढ़ाने के लिए आगे आना चाहिए। कंप्यूटर पर मैथिली का आना एक बड़ी उपलब्धि है और इस कार्य का प्रचार प्रसार होना चाहिए। उन्होंने सिद्धांत प्रकाशन के तत्वावधान में हुए इस काम की सराहना की।

इस कार्यशाला में फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स मैथिली ट्रांसलेथन का भी आयोजन किया गया जिसमें फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स मैथिली के लिए काम करनेवाली समुदाय ने फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स के नवीनतम रिलीज के लिए जरूरी बचे अनुवाद कार्य को भी पूरा किया। गौरतलब है कि फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स पहले से ही आधिकारिक रूप से मैथिली में रिलीज किया जा चुका है और सार्वजनिक रूप से निःशुल्क उपयोग के लिए उपलब्ध है। इसके लिए काम कर रहे लोगों ने फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स की मैथिली में उपलब्धता के प्रचार प्रसार के लिए काम करने पर जोर दिया। यह महसूस किया गया कि फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स की मैथिली में मौजूदगी की जानकारी बड़े जन-समुदाय को नहीं है। इसके लिए उपस्थित लोगों ने अनुवाद के लिए जरूरी भाषायी संसाधन, मसलन ट्रांसलेशन स्टाइल गाइड, की उपलब्धता को बढ़ाए जाने पर जोर दिया ताकि अनुवाद की गुणवत्ता में सतत सुधार किया जा सके। इस प्रकार के आयोजन की आवृति बढ़ाए जाने पर कार्यक्रम में जोर दिया गया जिसमें फ़ायरफ़ॉक्स के साथ ही समग्र मैथिली कंप्यूटर की बेहतरी के लिए काम किया जा सके।

जय प्रकाश, मनोज कुमार, प्रभास रंजन, ब्रजराज कुमार, राकेश कुमार, प्रतिभा कुमारी, निवेदिता कुमारी और हृदयानंद झा ने कार्यशाला में भाग लिया और अपना विचार व्यक्त किया. इस कार्यशाला की समाप्ति राकेश रोशन के धन्यवाद ज्ञापन से हुई।

Satabdi Das: Poster Competition on Women’s and LGBT Issues

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:45:41 +0000

WFS India in collaboration with Glug-Cal, Fedora and Mozilla announces a poster competition on women’s, LGBT and gender-related issues in India using free software tools as part of the extended Cultural Freedom Day celebrations. You stand to win exciting prizes by your participation.

Background

India is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial country one billion strong and growing. India’s most pressing problems include official corruption and the suppression of women and the LGBT community.

A substantial section of India’s well-to-do people have embraced modern technology, from cell-phone toting farmers to tweeting teenagers, technophile home-makers to artistic designers, and more who are coming online, communicating, coding and interacting in real time.

And yet, these people are still struggling to find their voices while retaining basic human values within our society. Your challenge is to bring out your virtual brushes and pictorially depict this struggle while celebrating their diversity.

Exercise your creative freedom with Free/Libre open source software and other technologies. Your poster may be the inspiration that gives people a voice to fight for their rights, a vision of a better tomorrow, a tomorrow that gives them the freedom and space to dream while allowing them to explore the problems of their culture and livelihood.

Who Can Participate?

Anybody can participate*.

Those with no previous experience with poster-making/digital art can start with Tux-Paint.

* We will not be able to send prizes to regions falling outside the country, but anyway do participate.

What Are We Expecting?

We expect great posters that has one or more of the following attributes:

Conveys a positive message with educational value on feminist issues.
Highlights social evils.
Demands reforms in a powerful way.
Rectifies common misconceptions about gender and sex.
Conveys deeper aspects of the development of social evils.
Says something on the participation of women in the free software movement.

How To Participate?

Read this announcement.
Prepare your posters as per the guidelines below.
Submit you posters along with form at this submission link.

Submission:

Click Here for Submitting Your Entry

Competition Rules and Guidelines:

A registered participant can submit any number of entries.
All entries must be done using free software tools like GIMP, TeXLive, ImageMagick, TuX Paint, Inkscape, ScanTailor, Scribus, Synfig Studio, Asymptote, Libre Office and Open Office Draw. These tools are available for ALL operating systems including Ubuntu, Fedora, other GNU/Linux distributions, PC-BSD, M$-Windows. We prefer submissions in xcf, .eps or other good image formats.
All entries must include an outline of the main steps involved and some proof of the use of tools. A description (in less than 200 words) of the intended message of the art work should also be included.
Entries will be licensed under Creative Commons Share Alike -3.0 (with Attribution).
Photos and other art works used in the poster should be suitably acknowledged.
Entries should be no smaller than A4 size and no larger than A2 size.
No plagiarism. Submitted posters should not be copies of other people’s work and should involve substantial creativity of the artists.
Only entries that pass minimal sanity check will be displayed in our e-gallery.
Decision of the judges will be final and binding.

Important Dates:

Submission Begins: 1st June’2013
Last Date of Submission: 14th June’2013
Announcement of Results: 15th June’2013
Gallery Update: By 24th June’2013

Panel of Judges:

A. Mani
María “tatica” Leandro
Shweta Srivatsava
Sourav Sen Gupta

Competition Coordination:

A. Mani

Prizes:

Flash drives with Fedora and /or Books for top three entries.
2 consolation prizes.
Certificates of Merit.

In case of any difficulty, please contact A. Mani or post your query in our mailing list or google group or talk to us on IRC #wfs-india at freenode.

Chetan Patil: Analytics Platform : Twitter

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:28:05 +0000

Twitter analytics provides detailed analysis of social activity on Twitter. A very helpful feature for business Twitter accounts, giving details of each tweet, followers, unfollowers with a graphic timeline. To get access to Twitter Analytics sing up here : https://analytics.twitter.com

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Aravinda VK: ಹಾಗೇ ಸುಮ್ಮನೆ

mail@aravindavk.in (Aravinda VK) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

ಊಟಕ್ಕೆ ವಾಸುದೇವ್ ಮತ್ತೆ ಭರತ್ ಸಿಗ್ತೀನಿ ಅಂದಿದ್ರು, ಅಲ್ಲೇ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದೆ, ಅವರಿಬ್ಬರು ಬರ್ಲಿ ಅಂತ ಕಾಯ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದೆ.

ಹಂಗೇ ನಿಂತಿರುವಾಗ ಒಬ್ರು ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಮಾಡಿದ್ರು, ಯಾರಪ್ಪಾ ಇವ್ರು ನಂಗೆ ಗುರ್ತಾಗ್ತಿಲ್ವಲ್ಲ ಅಂತ ಅನ್ನಿಸ್ತು, ಆದ್ರೂ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಮಾಡಿದೆ. ಅವರು ಯಾಕೋ ದುರಗುಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡು ಹೋದ್ರು. ಎಲಾ ಇವರಾ ಅಂತ ಹಂಗೇ ಓಡಾಡ್ತಾ ಕಾಯ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದೆ, ಮತ್ತೆ ಒಬ್ರು ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಮಾಡಿದ್ರು ನಾನು ಮತ್ತೆ confuse ಆಗಿ ಹಿಂದೆ ತಿರುಗಿ ನೋಡಿದೆ, ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಮೂಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ದೇವಸ್ತಾನದಲ್ಲಿ ಗಣೇಶ ಕಾಣಿಸಿದ.

ಅವತ್ತು ಹುಷಾರಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂತ ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್ ಹತ್ರ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದೆ, ಮಾತ್ರೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಹೇಳಿದ್ರು

"ಇದನ್ನ ತಗೊಳ್ಳಿ, ಆಮೇಲೆ ಎರಡು ದಿನ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಬನ್ನಿ"

"ಸರಿ ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್" ಅಂದು ಅಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಬಂದಿದ್ದೆ.

ಆಮೇಲೆ ಎರಡು ದಿನಗಳು ಮಾತ್ರೆ ತಗೊಂಡೆ, ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಸುದಾರಿಸಿತ್ತು. ಮೂರನೇ ದಿನ ಸಂಜೆ ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್ ಹತ್ರ ಹೋದೆ.

"ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಾ ಈಗ?"

"ಆರಾಮಾಗಿದೀನಿ ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್, ಅದೇ ನೀವು ಎರಡು ದಿನ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಬರಕ್ಕೆ ಹೇಳಿದ್ರಲ್ಲ.. "

ಯಾಕೋ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ, ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್ ಒಂದು ಕ್ಷಣ confuse ಆದಂಗೆ ಅನ್ನಿಸ್ತು.. ಇವನ್ಯಾವನಪ್ಪಾ.. ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇನೋ ಸರಿ, ಅದನ್ನೇ ಅಕ್ಷರಷಃ ಪಾಲಿಸೋರೂ ಇರ್ತಾರಾ ಅಂತ ಯೋಚಿಸ್ತಾ.. ಅದೇ ಚೀಟಿಯನ್ನ ಮತ್ತೊಮ್ಮೆ ನೋಡಿ ಹೇಳಿದ್ರು..

"ಇನ್ನು ಒಂದು ದಿನಕ್ಕೆ ಮಾತ್ರೆ ಇದೆಯಲ್ಲಾ, ಅದನ್ನ ತಗೊಳ್ಳಿ.. ಆಮೇಲೆ ಕಡಿಮೆ ಆಗದಿದ್ರೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಬನ್ನಿ ಇಲ್ಲ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಬರೋದೇನೂ ಬೇಡ ಪರವಾಗಿಲ್ಲ" ಅಂತ.

Pravin Satpute: Fedora shows Tofu (Square Box/Dabba) for following Unicode scripts

noreply@blogger.com (Pravin Satpute) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:22:56 +0000

Was just going through GUCharmap to check how many scripts are still not covered with the default fonts installation of Fedora. Still number of fonts required to remove Square-Box/Tofu/डब्बा/ and provide at least single font for each script of Unicode. Though i think NBMP ( non basic multilingual plane script) is not high priority target first but at least other script on BMP which are in active use must be supported.

Thought it will take long time.

Below is the list from GUCharmap showing for scripts represented as Tofu/SquareBox :)

Missing fonts in fedora

- Avestan
- Balinese
- Bamum
- Batak
- Brahmi
- Buhid
- Carian
- Chakma - NBMP
- Cham
- Cuneiform
- Cypriot - NBMP
- Deseret - NBMP (supported by noto)
- Egyptian Heiroglyphs - NBMP
- Imperial Aramaic - NBMP
- Inscriptional Pahlavi - NBMP
- Inscriptional Parthian - NBMP
- Javanese
- Kaithi - NBMP
- Kharoshthi - NBMP
- Limbu - NBMP
- Lisu
- Lycian - NBMP
- Lydian - NBMP
- Mandaic - NBMP
- Meroitic Cursive - NMBP
- Meroitic Hieroglyphs - NBMP
- Miao - NBMP
- Mangolian
- New Tai Lue
- Ol Chiki
- Old South Arabian - NBMP
- Old Turkic - NBMP
- Phags Pa - NBMP
- Rejang
- Samaritan
- Saurashtra
- Sharda - NBMP
- Shavin - NBMP
- Sora Sompeng - NBMP
- Sundanese
- Syloti Nagri
- Tagalog
- Tagbanwa
- Tai Tham
- Tai Viet
- Takri - NBMP

While comparing this with Google's noto fonts, they have provided fonts for some of the scripts in the above list. Will add those to Fedora soon.

Shrinivasan: Indian Languages in Latex

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:15:24 +0000

Myself and Prof.Partha were looking for generating PDF files with Tamil and English content using Latex.

Found that.
We can generate multi lingual pdf files using latex easily.
We need to supporting fonts installed anyhow.

Here is the sample code for this.

\documentclass{article}
%Always start xelatex files with these in preamble. This helps in defining the script and fonts
\usepackage{fontspec}
%Set the main languge next as main font.
\setmainfont[Script=Devanagari]{Lohit Hindi}

%Set rest of the languages l;ike this. Experiment a bit. script=punjabi did not work. Replaced with gurmukhi and it works.

\newfontfamily{\tam}[Script=Tamil]{Akshar Unicode}
\newfontfamily{\tel}[Script=Telugu]{Akshar Unicode}
\newfontfamily{\kan}[Script=Kannada]{Mallige}
\newfontfamily{\Guja}[Script=Gujarati]{Lohit Gujarati}
\newfontfamily{\ben}[Script=Bengali]{Lohit Bengali}
\newfontfamily{\Punj}[Script=Gurmukhi]{Lohit Punjabi}

%English does not need any script specifiction! Just define the font.
\newfontfamily{\eng}{Arial}
\begin{document}
%No need to define script as this is the manin font set. Like defalut.
नमो पकवते नारायणाय! \\
%Switch language like this. { begins the changed line. \xxx denotes the switched language. Use the same definition as denoted in preamble. } will end the switch and default to main unless again specified.
{\tel నమో పకవతే నారాయణాయ!}\\
{\kan ನಮೋ ಪಕವತೇ ನಾರಾಯಣಾಯ
}\\
{\Guja નમો પકવતે નારાયણાય!}\\
{\Punj ਨਮੋ ਪਕਵਤੇ ਨਾਰਾਯਣਾਯ!}\\
{\ben নমো পকবতে নারায়ণায়!}\\
{\tam நமோ பகவதே நாராயணாய!}\\

{\eng namo bhagavate naraayanaaya}\\
%the next line does not begin liekt he ones above. so it defaults to mainfont which is devanagari.
शुभम।
\end{document}

Check the output too.

Thanks for Dr.Vasudevan Tirumurti for the latex file.

Kartik Mistry: અપડેટ્સ – ૯૪

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:36:12 +0000

* સૌથી પહેલા, નવા સ્ટોકની સચિત્ર માહિતી:

નંબર ૪: કિમ્બલ રેવન્સવૂડ – મધુ રાય.

* ઉપરોક્ત પુસ્તકોની સાથે-સાથે કવિનને એક સરસ ‘સ્કેટ બોર્ડ’ મળ્યું છે. અમારા નીચેના ફ્લેટ વાળાઓએ હજી સુધી બૂમો પાડી નથી. એમની આ સહનશીલતા બદલ તેમનો ધન્યવાદ!

* મસ્ત વરસાદ ચાલુ છે. રવિવારના સવારના બે ભવ્ય કાર્યક્રમો મોકૂફ રાખવા પડ્યા હતા. સાંજે સમય કાઢીને અમે ‘યે જવાની હૈ દિવાની’ જોવા ગયા. જિંદગીમાં કરેલી ભૂલોમાંની એક વધુ ભૂલ. મુવી શું કહેવા માંગતું હતું તે ખબર ન પડી હા, થોડા ડાયલોગ્સ સારા હતા, દુનિયા દર્શન કરાવ્યું. DSLR/કેમેરા દેખાડ્યા. ઉદેપુરનો મહેલ જે અમે ક્યારેય દેખવાના નહોતા, તે બતાવ્યો. પણ, અંતે ભાઇ ભારત પાછા આવ્યા. કરણ જોહર મૂર્દાબાદ!

* બ્લડી ખૂની મન્ડે!

Jaikiran Pai: Java EE 7 and EJB 3.2 support in JBoss AS 8

noreply@blogger.com (Jaikiran) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:17:35 +0000

Update (June 10 2013): JBoss AS is now known as WildFly. This post was written before WildFly 8.0.0.Alpha1 was released. Any references to JBoss AS8 in this article should be considered as a reference to WildFly 8. Read my next article here http://jaitechwriteups.blogspot.in/2013/06/wildfly-release-and-history-behind-the-release.html which explains what WildFly is and why JBoss AS was renamed to WildFly.

Some of you might be aware that the Public Final Draft version of Java EE 7 spec has been released. Among various other new things, this version of Java EE, brings in EJB 3.2 version of the EJB specification. EJB 3.2 has some new features compared to the EJB 3.1 spec. I'm quoting here the text present in the EJB 3.2 spec summarizing what's new:

The Enterprise JavaBeans 3.2 architecture extends Enterprise JavaBeans to include the following new functionality and simplifications to the earlier EJB APIs:

Support for the following features has been made optional in this release and their description is moved to a separate EJB Optional Features document:
EJB 2.1 and earlier Entity Bean Component Contract for Container-Managed Persistence
EJB 2.1 and earlier Entity Bean Component Contract for Bean-Managed Persistence
Client View of an EJB 2.1 and earlier Entity Bean
EJB QL: Query Language for Container-Managed Persistence Query Methods
JAX-RPC Based Web Service Endpoints
JAX-RPC Web Service Client View

Added support for local asynchronous session bean invocations and non-persistent EJB Timer Service to EJB 3.2 Lite.

Removed restriction on obtaining the current class loader; replaced ‘must not’ with ‘should exercise caution’ when using the Java I/O package.

Added an option for the lifecycle callback interceptor methods of stateful session beans to be executed in a transaction context determined by the lifecycle callback method's transaction attribute.

Added an option to disable passivation of stateful session beans.

Extended the TimerService API to query all active timers in the same EJB module.

Removed restrictions on javax.ejb.Timer and javax.ejb.TimerHandle references to be used only inside a bean.

Relaxed default rules for designating implemented interfaces for a session bean as local or as remote business interfaces.

Enhanced the list of standard activation properties.

Enhanced embeddable EJBContainer by implementing AutoClosable interface.

As can be seen, some of the changes proposed are minor. But there are some which are useful major changes. We'll have a look at a couple of such changes in this article.

1) New API TimerService.getAllTimers()

EJB 3.2 version introduces a new method on the javax.ejb.TimerService interface, named getAllTimers. Previously the TimerService interface had (and still has) a getTimers method. The getTimers method was expected to return the active timers that are applicable for the bean on whose TimerService, the method had been invoked (remember: there's one TimerService per EJB).

In this new EJB 3.2 version, the newly added getAllTimers() method is expected to return all the active timers that are applicable to *all beans within the same EJB module*. Typically, an EJB module corresponds to a EJB jar, but it could also be a .war deployment if the EJBs are packaged within the .war. This new getAllTimers() method is a convenience API for user applications which need to find all the active timers within the EJB module to which that bean belongs.

2) Ability to disable passivation of stateful beans

Those familiar with EJBs will know that the EJB container provides passivation (storing the state of the stateful bean to some secondary store) and activation (loading the saved state of the stateful bean) capability to stateful beans. However, previous EJB versions didn't have a portable way of disabling passivation of stateful beans, if the user application desired to do that. The new EJB 3.2 version introduces a way where the user application can decide whether the stateful bean can be passivated or not.

By default, the stateful bean is considered to be "passivation capable" (like older versions of EJB). However, if the user wants to disable passivation support for certain stateful bean, then the user has the option to either disable it via annotation or via the ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor.

Doing it the annotation way is as simple as setting the passivationCapable attribute on the @javax.ejb.Stateful annotation to false. Something like:

 @javax.ejb.Stateful(passivationCapable=false) // the passivationCapable attribute takes a boolean value  
 public class MyStatefulBean {  
 ....  
 }

Doing it in the ejb-jar.xml is as follows:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>  
 <ejb-jar xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"  
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee  
      http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_2.xsd"  
      version="3.2">  
   <enterprise-beans>  
     <session>  
       <ejb-name>foo-bar-bean</ejb-name>  
       <ejb-class>org.myapp.FooBarStatefulBean</ejb-class>  
       <session-type>Stateful</session-type>  
       <!-- passivation-capable element takes either a true or a false value -->  
       <passivation-capable>false</passivation-capable>  
     </session>  
     ...  
   </enterprise-beans>  
 </ejb-jar>

Two important things to note in that ejb-jar.xml are the version=3.2 attribute (along with the http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_2.xsd schema location) on the ejb-jar root element and the passivation-capable element under the session element.

So, using either of these approaches will allow you to disable passivation on stateful beans, if you want to do so.

Java EE 7 and EJB 3.2 support in JBoss AS8:

JBoss AS8 has been adding support for Java EE 7 since the Public Final Draft version of the spec has been announced. Support for EJB 3.2 is already added and made available. Some other Java EE 7 changes have also made it to the latest JBoss AS 8 builds. To keep track of the Java EE 7 changes in JBoss AS8, keep an eye on this JIRA https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-6553.

To use the already implemented features of Java EE 7 in general or EJB 3.2 in particular, you can download the latest nightly build/binary of JBoss AS from here. Give it a try and let us know how it goes. For any feedback, questions or if you run into any kind of issues, feel free to open a discussion thread in our user forum here.

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Kunal Ghosh: Yay !! i am on the planet !

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:05:11 +0000

It feels great to be on planet KDE.
This opportunity came as a pleasant surprise , Season of KDE.
Putting aside my project proposal for GSoC "Integration of Face Recognition in Digikam" as
one of my fellow (now a GSoC er on the same project). I have decided to focus my attention
on "QtScript integration in Digikam". More on this in a while.

Kunal Ghosh: Script Console in GSoC branch of Digikam has Full Qt API available now !

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:05:09 +0000

Following my last post, the Script Console in Digikam’s GSoC branch has the FULL Qt API available by default.

Now you can access the full range of Qt Widgets from Modules like
QtCore, QtGUI, et al.
Use all the modules available in the Qt API as follows:
Open the script console in Digikam from tools->Script console
and type out :
var a = new QWebView();
var url = new QUrl(“your Url here”);
a.load(url);
a.show();
and then click on the Evaluate button.
The screen shot shows the result

Stay Tuned, More to Come !
Until….. Next time !

Kunal Ghosh: I am going to conf.kde.in . You Should Too !

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:05:07 +0000

KDE india Community is Organizing its first conference at Bangalore and I am thrilled to be a part of the organizing committee. I am going to the Konf ( As i would like to call it, lovingly ) that’s no news, i love KDE ! but this blog post is for the vast majority of my friends who have no idea what KDE is , and what it means to be a part of.

Read On , to know more about what to expect at the Konf , and why you just have to be there !

1. Artists :

KDE is a *HUGE* project and we have brilliant artists in our KDE art team. Seen our shiny new poster or the stunning artwork on the website ? Those are Courtesy Eugene Trounev, be there to talk to him personally ! He is also giving a talk about “Graphics & Open Source: Survival guide” . You don’t have to be a software guru to attend this talk, just bring the artist in you

2. Photographer :

As a photographer you try to capture all the moments you cherish ! You almost definitely use a photo-management application like Adobe Lightroom or the likes. But my fellow developer Aditya Bhatt will introduce you to “digiKam: Professional Photo Management” a *Free* photo management app that you just have to know about ! If you are excited about “automatic lens correction”, “Online sharing Integration” in lightroom, digikam had it for a very looooong time ! Be there to know more about it !

3. Person Managing a large diverse workforce (a.k.a Manager):

Before i start off on this point , let me put you in perspective. KDE is a project which has, as far as i know, thousands of active contributors, so it is very very big ! Now, I introduce our community ninja (a.k.a community manager, formally) Lydia Pintscher. She directly interacts with all of the thousands of the contributors , when required , and is very good at managing people. So , i am sure you can definitely learn a thing or two from her ! Plus have a lot of fun at the conference !

4. Gamer

You are an avid gamer , right ! Ever wondered what goes underneath your shiny new game that makes it tick ? Be there to attend the talk “Glue games with Gluon” Shantanu . I am sure , your time will be very well invested ! not spent

5. Programmer / Technology Enthusiast :

You my friend are in for a treat ! Frankly this blog post will be an injustice to all the amazing tech talks lined up. Just head over to http://kde.in/conf/talks/ to treat yourself !

6. User :

You guys are very important part of the community ! we the KDE community are always open to new ideas and criticism / suggestions. Please do drop by and bring in your friends too ! Your visit would definitely be fruitful . We also have loads of Hands-on Sessions , please bring in your laptops if possible

7. School Kids / College Students :

Guys and Gals , you just have to be there ! Heard of Google Summer of Code ? Google Code-In ? We have a LOT of ex-GSoC ers attending the Konf , come and meet them personally ! Also get to know about the project that interests you ( a must for GSoC & GCI ) and there is no better way than to get introduced by the people who actually develop for the project !

If you have queries about the event , post a meesage to conf@kde.in or Just register ! at http://kde.in/conf/register/

NOTE : Use the below discount codes, don’t forget to bring your college IDs :)

Student discount: KDEIN_DIS_STU
Teacher discount: KDEIN_DIS_TCR

That’s all for now ! and See you at the Conf.

–cheers

Kunal Ghosh

Kunal Ghosh: First step to getting KDE on OpenIndiana : Boot OpenIndiana ;)

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:05:06 +0000

OpenIndiana is a project created from the ashes of OpenSolaris. When oracle decided to close the development of OpenSolaris, some brave folks forked the kernel and put together a user-space to form OpenIndiana (OI), Its a great distro ! Above all its got software innovations (ZFS , dtrace, crossbow etc) which the linux userland can just dream of (Though systemTap , btrfs are quite commendable as well.)

OK , so i have this great new distro and i love KDE so i want to see if my favorite softwares (Kate , amarok, digikam) work on OI or not. And sure they do ! (/me feels good here ) the KDE – Solaris team has already created a repo with the latest KDE 4.6 packages. So , now i am convinced that i must start using OI. So i dump the dd image onto a USB stick and connect it to my laptop (a Dell Studio 1450). Now the fun stuff starts OI doesn’t boot !!!!

After reading countless blogposts and consulting people on IRC (DrLou on #openindiana apparently had the same problem as me , and we sat together for 3 days (with breaks ofcourse trying out everything that we could find) . In the mean time i had posted my problem to the OI discuss mailing list as well. Finally after a 2 day wait , i got replies from the OI gurus on the discuss mailing list. The message from Garrett D’Amore was particularly useful , he suggested me to add the -k option to the kernel line in grub and boot , this would fire up the In-Kernel Debugger the KMDB when i pressed “F1-A” during the boot process. But alas ! this didn’t work either Now i was desperately in need of some new ideas. Garrett’s post hinted me to check out more OI kernel flags. As it turned out, in an obscure wiki entry in BigAdmin (the solaris admin wiki) there was a mention of the flag “-B acpi-user-options=2″ i appended the kernel line with this option and presto ! OI booted !. Now this was after 3 days of “beating around the bush” debugging and it felt great . So, i headed over to #openindiana and told DrLou about my findings , and after a few tries even his laptop booted !! Yay ! (Supposedly this acpi bug comes to haunt users of solaris , from time to time )

Now all that i had to do is to create a new beadm ( look up the solaris man pages , you will be amazed !) and add the bionicmutton repo to OI and that’s it, i have KDE 4.6 on OpenIndiana. OI Looks and Feels much better now

This blog post is to document two things:
1. ” -B acpi-user-options=2″ might get OI to boot on your machine.
2. Never give up any problem , if you are facing it , you can be pretty sure someone else is facing it too ! stick to the problem and solve it.
(And after you solve it , in the Spirit of Good Will , share it with others by documenting it in your blog/wiki)

KDE solaris needs a lot of polish and could do with some more contributors. So if you have some spare time , drop by at #kde-solaris , #openindiana , #illumos on freenode.

That’s all for now ,
Until next time
Kunal

Kashyap Chamarthy: F18 -> F19 distro-sync with yum

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 09:40:16 +0000

I woke up this morning to see my F18 instance not giving me the GNOME login screen. It just hangs after systemd brings up wpa_supplicant.service. And, throws this message:

systemd-readahead

Failed to read event: value too large for defined datatype

I fired up an F18 live-usb to see open a browser and check if there any existing bugs. Indeed there was one. It’s in ASSIGNED state. But I haven’t delved deep into the issue.

I quickly tried a few things :

Start the systemd-readahead-replay service manually

 $ systemctl start systemd-readahead-replay.service</

Try to invoke Xorg from a virtual terminal with the below CLI
$ Xorg :0 -background none -verbose \ -seat seat0 -nolisten tcp vt1

Boot into runlevel 3, and type init 5

Remove quiet from Kernel command-line, to find more verbos logs. No errors absolutely in /var/log/Xorg.* or /var/log/messages

All to no avail. I was drawing a blank and didn’t have any alternative, I’m working remote currently, and I only have this Lenovo X220 with me. I decided to just upgrade to Schrödinger’s Cat (i.e. Fedora-19). Why not? – I’ve been working for months with Fedora-19 composes on more than 5 servers just fine (but they’re all just minimal @core only virt hosts). I invoked the below command and went for my lunch…

$ yum update yum; yum clean all \ yum --releasever=19 distro-sync --nogpgcheck -y

…voila — after download/update/cleanup/verify of 4770 packages, Schrödinger’s Cat is ready !

Chetan Patil: StartupList : Find Startups In India

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 09:08:19 +0000

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Anish Patil: Taipei adventures!!!

noreply@blogger.com (anish patil) — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:15:39 +0000

I have been very busy lately, lot of travelling,thinking,meeting.. therefore could not not get time to write and thank my Taipei friends.This blog post is specially to thank them for their generosity and support they have provided me during my stay in Taipei.

I visited Taipei couple of weeks back,Max and Inene welcomed me with Taipei style fruits and they were delicious.Then we had been to one of the night markets in Taipei and surprisingly they were crowded and people were enjoying shopping,drinking.....

Next day I visited Java script conference at Academia Sinica and it was good.I attended Richard Lee's opening speak.
After that I visited some of the local attractions of Taipei, it was adventure of me as I don' know Chinese and even i did not know MRT system of Taipei but i could not face any problem. People of Taipei are so helpful. Some countries are famous for culture,heritage..... but i will definitely say Taiwan is famous for it's hospitality and people of Taiwan are proud of it.
I have had several experiences of their friendliness, I was travelling by bus on the first time and i did not know that how to pay the bus fair.
So i asked one of the lady in the bus and they said once you on board into the bus you need to pay certain amount and they don't give any change.
That lady asked how much money have you got and i showed her some coins and looking at those she said those are excessive in amount as compared to actual amount, so that lady and her friend paid my remaining amount but insisted that i would pay excessive amount but they did it without notifying me.

On that day I had a dinner with Max and Inene and it was wonderful. I really don't know names of dishes which we had but they were gourmet :)

After that we visited Taipei 101. Truly speaking Taipei looks amazing at night.

Next day, I had lunch with Tyng-Ruey Chuang,Lucian and Florence and it was nice. We had discussion about a lot of topics and finally I visited OpenFoundry office which is in Acedemia Sinica.

At the end of the trip, Eric took me to Beitou hot springs and Tamsui. It was fun, we did cycling together and when i first looked at Tamsui i felt it's similar to an island shown in lost (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%28TV_series%29).

I did not feel like foreigner or stranger in Taipei only because of your love and kindness. Each time in your life you create some memories and apparently I am having such sweet memories of Taipei and It has made special place in my heart.

Kartik Mistry: આજની ‘સેલ્ફ’ સલાહ

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:55:19 +0000

* બીજાની સારી સાયકલ પ્રત્યે મન ભટકાવવા દેવું નહી.

ગઇકાલે બાઇકશાર્કમાં ગયો ત્યારે મસ્ત પર્પલ કલરની સાયકલ (હવે તે કલર પર્પલ હતો કે પોપટી, રામ જાણે! આપણે તો અંધરંગભક્ત સાયકલનાં બની ગયા હતા!) જોઇને મન મોહિત બની ગયું. ત્યાર પછી જ્ઞાન થયું કે, જેવી છે મારી કાળી-લાલ સાયકલ, મારી જ છે. તો એ નિમિત્તે સરસ હેન્ડગ્રીપ નંખાવી અને સાયકલ વધુ સરસ બનાવી દીધી. હજી ટેઇલ લાઇટ અને સ્ટેન્ડ બાકી છે. જે આવતા અઠવાડિયે ઉમેરવામાં આવશે.