it all started with me lazily skimming through pages on the eucalyptus site yesterday, soon i landed on GSOC page since this is something whose results have been announced just yesterday too , from here i moved on to there next page Eucalyptus ideas page , read on there website that they are have been not given the GSOC slots ,there idea number two is implemented here Eucalyptus users map , do send me feedback as to how it looks and works , in the meantime if you are interested in the first cut i tried making yesterday using the Wp plugin below is that version too
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I am surprised by the way the society is moving especially the education system and our young tender years in school.Why do one has to be rewarded only for passing or not to fail ? Why is passing so important for ones well being because with that he does not learn much while one fails he learns a lot. Why are kids who experiment and hence commit mistakes abhored as wrong when what they are doing is at least trying .
The same pattern emerges when we grow up into young adults where being sucessful becomes so obessesive that people go to any length to be so called succesful , what i am saying is it’s not bad to be desiring for sucess but the way it’s played out is not ok . We as a society has laid a wrong precident in the young minds trying to so impinging our values and belief systems on them and how to fail is bad and sucess is the only way to Learn .
Every Kid in this world has a moral right to fail because that’s the only way we Humans learn if you stop that i think it’s an impediment to ones learning process and ultimately shows about the society and times we are living in , where in the name of competition Students are under tremendous pressure and loose the whole point of Learning.
So learning to fail and learning from failing should be our motto… think
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Posted by satya on March 23, 2012 in
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∞ For all those who are interested in Projects in the category HFOSS Humanitarian Foss here is an opportunity to hack around and do your bit its fairly simple
We sometimes hang out in #raxa on Freenode (Chat here: http://webchat.freenode.net/).
- GitHub
- Github Help
- Git… for people who know SVN
- Fork a Github Repro http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/
- Send a Pull Request http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/
- View all of our developers’ code which has been forked from Raxa-JSS: https://github.com/Raxa/Raxa-JSS/network/members
- Sencha (JavaScript framework)
- ExtJS (desktop) Official docs
- Application Architecture in ExtJS4
- List of tutorials: http://imwill.com/sencha-touch-tutorials/
- Videos
- SenchaCon 2011: MVC in Depth Part 1 https://vimeo.com/33311074 (Sencha 2)
- SenchaCon 2011: MVC in Depth Part 2 https://vimeo.com/33430731 (Sencha 2)
- SenchaCon 2011: The Sencha Class System https://vimeo.com/33437222
- Jasmine (JavaScript testing)
- Homepage http://pivotal.github.com/jasmine/ and wiki https://github.com/pivotal/jasmine/wiki
- Tutorial: http://evanhahn.com/?p=181
- Using Jasmine with Sencha: http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/#!/guide/testing
Tags: Contributions, Foss, Hack, HFOSS, JAVA
Posted by satya on October 24, 2011 in
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∞ have done some clean up to the base code , now on we will be working on source from this tree
Fossacademy Source feel free to fork.
Posted by satya on October 21, 2011 in
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∞ Eclipse 3.6.2 which come with Fedora does play well with ADT plugin , it gives the following errors
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: Android Development Tools 0.9.9.v201009221407-60953 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 0.9.9.v201009221407-60953)
Missing requirement: Android Development Tools 0.9.9.v201009221407-60953 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 0.9.9.v201009221407-60953) requires ‘org.eclipse.wst.sse.core 0.0.0′ but it could not be found
you can get over it by following these steps
Select Help > Install New Software…
Click the link for Available Software Sites.
Ensure there is an update site named Helios. If this is not present, click Add… and enter http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios for the Location.
Now go through the installation steps; Eclipse should download and install the plugin’s dependencies.
Posted by satya on October 18, 2011 in
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∞ For those of who do not know Fossacademy is a going to be a remix site of Khanacademy , well after a long hiatus i was able to understand how app works in Google App Engine, here is a list of things to do let me know if anyone wants to work on this project.
1)Create a logo.
2)Work on the theme.
3)Adding Videos other than Youtube.
4)Start working on making exercises.
Hope people will like the effort as usual send in your comments and critiques .
Tags: GAE, google app engine
Posted by satya on September 28, 2011 in
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∞ Hi,
I am looking for translators in Sugar Labs especially in Hindi language, there is maintenance work if you are interested do write to me.
Khanacademy.org code is lying here Source , the link from here will point us to the Source Link i have checked and tried getting kinhg account looks like it a paid site and we need to pay after 45 days , my initial though before visiting this site was to branch and maintain a tree there itself looks like it is not as open as it claims. So the other option is to fork since the code is anyway licensed under BSD2 lincense .
We are going to maintain two Repos one of Khanacademy ( KA) and one of Fossacademy (FA) .
why maintain KA code , because initially when we start off as FA we will have just KA code but over time it is going to differ and change in ways , but also we will have some changes upstream in KA which we will be needing from time to time to fix bugs which must have already crept in.
yes it is a overhead we have to live with for the time being .
coming back to the FA we will be maintaining the code on Bitbucket , and everyone will pull from the stable FA and start maintaining the FA trunkc or fork they will be free to take the call .
on maintaining the dev environment , i found any variant of Eclipse to be a good IDE to maintain the code , you are free to maintain any IDE/Editor you are comfortable with .
this video explains it all Setting Dev environment using eclipse .
i will be writing on the goals and specs for the project as we move along keep watching this space …
Posted by satya on May 26, 2011 in
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∞ Hi,
After looking at Khanacademy.org and following it for few months now with both on development and content front i am convinced that if education , especially Foss education has to be done it can be done this way.
i have been trolling on sites sites like ShowMeDo and Youtube for quite a long now , and they have come up in a very good way content wise. The two things which Khan has done which is a good thing is
1) Monitoring students learning experience in the forms of coach
2) Assessing the students in the forms of tests
3) Knowledge maps yes some of it i have seen some time back on Gnowledge but it did serve the pupose of self paced learning and assessment.
to know about more features you can check out Khanacademy.org
Yes of course we cannot compare to the Sal Khan’s passion and delivery mode which i think is unique of every teacher in this world.
So why this post , yes i have started thinking on the lines of taking khanacademy.org code and making fossacademy.org with Foss content.
the content is going to come from the following sources
ShowMeDo
Youtube
Phpacademy
would like to add to the list more content sites as and when i start getting suggestions.
for the folks who are interested in contributing and asking more questions i will be available on irc.freenode.net #fossacademy .
Posted by satya on February 7, 2011 in
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∞ off late things have become busy , not that you the reader are idealing and reading this post of mine out or boredom or drudgery,
Fossevents.in is coming up nicely , it has been lying dormant for almost a year now it has seen some day of the light thanks to the support from community .
my vision of fossevents.in was only one and when we started , i was away from organizing and running community activities for long and when i came back i see the landscape has totally changed , there are events happening all around you and you are not aware of the event which could be happening right there in your neighbourhood.
my definition of an event is anything which is related to foss it can be workshop, meeting , hackathons, training programs actually this was not my idea of calling an foss event an event but slowly i realized that these events are in no way less or more than others so they deserve a mention on fossevents.in .
