Posted by satya on October 24, 2011 in
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FOSS,
fossacademy,
python 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
Android,
Eclipse,
FOSS 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
community,
contributions,
FOSS,
fossacademy 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
FOSS,
OLPC 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
community,
Contribute,
contributions,
FOSS,
social 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
community,
Contribute,
Event,
FOSS,
social,
Uncategorized 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 .
Posted by satya on January 7, 2011 in
FOSS,
Uncategorized i got a mail from Dimdim this morning
“Dimdim has been acquired by salesforce.com. Your free Dimdim account will remain active until March 15, 2011. After that date, you will no longer be able to access your free Dimdim account.”
not that i have been a great fan of this product apart from the initial interest and hoopla i had , also one of the official test drives i took as a consultant for a client of mine, now my predictions and others are coming true , to start off have you checked out the sources tried building it , have you seen the hue and cry on the forums , have you heard of the hidden agenda in the name of Foss all that is Dimdim was . yes it may have released some source on SF but it did not have steam on its own to make it so they took the easy route out….of redemption all else will be history.
Lessons for all other FOSS and not so Fossy companies , and young enterpreneuers alike know your priorities if you want to come out with a great FOSS product and want to exit at some point in time do so gracefully , because at the end of the day you will be coming back to FOSS community for new ideas and getting things done , i see a lot of noise to become the Number one Foss company in the form of support or product development has become the new buzz word in the last three years of recession , many of these companies are going to go Dim Dim Dim way so watch out this space for more.
Posted by satya on January 2, 2011 in
community,
community,
FOSS,
social You twit N times a day , when you meet people you ask Are you on FaceBook , Linked in , or any of the social networking sites , do you make friends then meet or friend is just a number game for you , are these social networking sites really helping the Family and society as a unit together or its just an extension to say hi to everyone and giving updates on status of your social well being ? is FB just an extension to good old community living or just a way to survive in a world where connecting and meeting folks on FB is just an easy way that you have accepted and want to continue. What is your the definition of being socially active ?
What happened to the good old Sarai’s and community programs do they still exist or taken a new avatar and use FaceBook as only a platform , what happened to our good old Linux Users Groups http://www.linux-india.org/ LUG’s are they thriving because of a New tool in the form of social networking sites or they just don’t exist anymore , or they have lost somewhere in middle in all the noise try to to find a meaning of Community .
I think the FOSS as a technology has matured enough and has been embraced by industry, and the level of bifurcation or so called specialization has reached a stage where in we need specific users groups like firefox , open office , Coders,Admins , Activist so on and so forth , i see http://www.gtugs.org/ too poping up and discussusions floating around on LUG mailing lists about have jquery or Drupal/Wordpress sessions actually Jermy allision and chris di bona talks about this phenomenon in this video too. I see this phenomenon happening in India also .
So the meaning of being social or community is getting into smaller groups with focus on few things and more towards mechanization of something like assembly like with folks doing smaller tasks in big numbers and other things like Internet , distributions , email , irc , FaceBook will be taken granted for that they will not be meeting too often physically untill and unless some project demands.
Posted by satya on May 18, 2010 in
FOSS,
Personal,
privacy Ok i decided to change title of my blog from “Free and Open Source ” to ”whats on your mind” yes the first one was good focussed one on one topic but i felt and that what i do is more than just FOSS. This gives me the freedom to write here instead of places like Facebook or Twitter or Identi.ca . Ok whats on the plate to start with the new title “whats on your mind ” yes you got it right its been flicked from Facebook , thanks to there policy changes they were in News for past few weeks , actually i really like it so does so many of millions of Facebook Fans .
i started digging and try to find out the social maps which exists and the connections i can see , obviously FB was the tool of choice to begin with i hit upon my first search with Nexus which has shut down ;-( , but it gave me enough apps using which i can do pretty much what i wanted here are the list of applications on Facebook which mapped social connections not only they did that they were digging more into the connections.
Touch Graph
NamegenWeb
Friedn Wheel
i am sure there are more ways to dig in with the Graph API .
For all those people who are afraid after seeing the web of connections and having privacy concern there is no straighforward way to deactivate your Facebook account , deactivating actually does not help you in deleting all the data , to actually wipe all the info you need to go to this link Delete Facebook account
for all the other folks who do not want to delete the account here is a scanner to test your reclaimprivacy privacy setting on Facebook.
nice reads on this topic
eff link 1
eff link 2
yahoo link
wired.com
Quitfacebookday
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