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

OLPC in Chennai

, overall the visit has been fruitful saw sugar @ work kids discovering and learning new things on there own , there were some 10 Xo’s which attracted around 200 kids from in and around the village.

The weather was too hot and dry i did not feel the humidity like Chennai so suggested them to install water cooler . The most popular activities were Paint , Wikipedia , lack to Internet is something which needs to be looked into to get these kids talk out to the world.

on 20th the next day i visited one more school which is a govt school which is under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme of govt of India , here i learned about the ABL ( activity based learning ) which is similar to activity based in Sugar but it was more structured in the sense of the kid goes from one class to other after he has completed a set of activities in on subject or class. In this school the four XO’s are provided the programme is schedule to begin after summer holidays.

things to be done in coming days , XO’s need Sugar upgrade. Teachers need training , identify kids who can teach other kids , get Internet connection so that they can connect to the larger OLPC community .

By the time i was there the event was in full swing , Saini introducing foss concepts and Ubuntu desktop , there were around 60 + participants from colleges across Delhi. Overall a diverse group of teachers from Chemistry , Biology, Physics and Matematics.

the Event venue as announced earlier was Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) and the theme was
Application of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) In Science Teaching and Research.

Day 1

Inaguration with lighting of the lamp , people present on the dias , Prof Krishnan , Mrs Latha , official from DIT
after the brief speech from Prof Krishnan and .… the Saini took over and explained the desktop , then i explained the installation to the audience. Prof Tabish Explained about Scilab , then all the group from the mail auditorium dispersed to the individual labs . The Chemistry sessions were taken by Arun Luz which covered tools like Bkchem, xdrawchem,pymol,chemtool the Physics and mathematics sessions were taken by Tabish , Lekha, Asad and Myself , we covered topics like Latex, Gnuplot, Gamgi Phoenix kit, Sage, scilab and R-Commander.

The bilogy session were taken by G Ramesh covering Pymol, perl premier, melting temp, chemtool in computer science sanjeev saini covered lamp

The most popular of them was Biology and Chemistry to our surprise , the least was the mathematics and computer science track.

all the labs were assisted by Lab in charge Godfrey, Prabhakaran, Choudhary, Gopalsivam .

Day two ended with vote of thanks by Subash from Andc and Dr Savitri Singh spoke about her pet project , the event concluded with distribution of certificates.

Here are some pictures from the event enjoy

Date: 16th April 2010 Venue: University of Delhi South Campus
Time: 9: 30 a.m to 4: 30 p.m Benito Juarez Marg, New Delhi ­ 110 021

The seminar envisages to introduce participants to myriad possibilities of FOSS in everyday
computing and academia. Besides introductory awareness of FOSS, hands­on sessions to include
software installation and applications Participation is encouraged from all disciplines with or without knowledge of FOSS Registration is free and on a first­come first­serve basis For registration contact Mr. Jatin Lamba at 26294542 or email us at workshop.andc@ gmail.com Last date of registration: 12th April 2010
Coordinators: Savithri Singh (ANDC), Sanjeev Singh (IIC, UDSC), C. N. Krishnan (NRCFOSS)

*National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source‘ Software (NRCFOSS) is a multi­institutional Project funded by
the Dept. of Inf. Tech., Ministry of Comm. & Inf. Tech., Government of India ­ http://nrcfoss.org.in/. This workshop
is being organised jointly with NRCFOSS at AU­KBC Research Centre, Anna University Chennai –

http://nrcfoss.au­kbc.org.in/

Date: 14 – 15 April 2010 Venue: Acharya Narendra Dev College
Time: 9: 30 a.m to 4: 30 p.m Govindpuri, Kalkaji, New Delhi 110019

The workshop aims to acquaint and train the participants in the various generic and discipline specific free/open source software useful in Science teaching and research. Besides an introduction to FOSS, Linux and other Open Source Computing and Internet tools common to all participants, the workshop would have parallel sessions on specific FOSS tools for teaching and research in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.
Registration: Email us at workshop.andc@ gmail.com
Registration fee: Rs 200/­ through DD (non­refundable) favoring Principal ANDC, and payable at
New Delhi, may be sent to the College address given above.
Last date of registration: 10th April 2010
Workshop coordinators: Savithri Singh (ANDC), C. N. Krishnan (NRCFOSS)
Organizing Committee: M. S. Rajeswari, Sarita Kumar, Neeti Misra, Sunita Narang
Harita Ahuja, Subhash Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Pankaj Khanna
Workshop Secretariat: Jatin Lamba; Phone: 26294542
*National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) is a multi­institutional Project funded by the Dept. of
Inf. Tech., Ministry of Comm. & Inf. Tech., Government of India ­ http://nrcfoss.org.in/. This workshop is being organised jointly with NRCFOSS at AU­KBC Research Centre, Anna University Chennai – http://nrcfoss.au­kbc.org.in/

Programme Schedule

DAY 1: 14/4/10
9.30 – 11.00 Session I
Session Title : Inauguration
Venue Type : Seminar Hall
No. of Participants : Around 100
11.00 – 11.20 Tea
11.30 – 1.00 – Session II (Combined)
Session Title : Use of Linux Desktop & OpenOffice
Venue Type : Computer Lab
Requirements : Lab with 100 seats and systems with CD/DVD drives, Projector & white
board.
No. of Participants : Around 100
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.15 — Session III (Combined)
Session Title : Linux Installation
Venue Type : Computer Lab
Requirements : Lab with 100 seats and systems with CD/DVD drives, Projector &
white board.
No. of Participants : Around 100
3.30 – 5.00 — Session IV (5 parallel sessions [maths,phy,chem,Bio & Comp.Sci)
Session Title : Introduction to domain specific FOSS tools( 4 to 5 nos)
Venue Type : Computer Lab
Requirements :5 Labs with 20 seats and systems with CD/DVD drives, Projector &
white board.
No. of Participants : Around 20 each
DAY 2: 15/4/10
9.30 – 1.00 – Session V (5 parallel sessions [maths,phy,chem,Bio & Comp.Sci)
Session Title : Live demo on domain specific FOSS tools ( 4 to 5)
Venue Type : Computer Lab
Requirements : 5 Labs with 20 seats and systems with CD/DVD drives, Projector &
white board.
No. of Participants : Around 20 each
2.00 – 3.15 — Session VI(Combined)
Session Title : Customisation of FOSS tools
Venue Type : Computer Lab
Requirements : Labs with 100 seats and systems with CD/DVD drives, Projector &
white board.
No. of Participants : Around 100
3.15–3.30 Tea
3.30 – 4.30 Session VII
Session Title : Wrap up/Certificate Distribution
Venue Type : Seminar Hall
No. of Participants : Around 100

i think it all starts with giving or so called sense of sharing without any expectations , i think that’s the key to it all . This all starts with sharing your thoughts , ideas and writings you actually are on the path to contributing , because in Foss Communities collaborations is they key to the sucess  of an idea. lets examine these in more detail hopefully people who ask these questions will get there answers somewhere or never since it takes time and energy to let go your Old Habits and relearn the new ones, the best document i have come so far in this direction is from Gnubie

Actually the itch has been going on for long after reading reviews on various mailing lists in India, it was evident that finding a Netbook with GNU/Linux installed would be a tough bargain.

I had an eye on Acer One D250 for long. But it was a no no after reading this presentation by Matt Porter

i strongly recommend for all the mobile developers to consider reading this before diving into the Android way of undoing things.

ok coming back to the story of why Benq all in the world , since Acer was already ruled out and Asus had some good recommendations , Benq was definitely was not on the list.

had a look at the two Joy Book models one was with smaller screen and lesser hard disk space , the other was recommended by the marketing guy as it came with Linpus .

Linpus still does not connect me to the Net , i called up there office had to go round in circles aka musical chairs, but still i wanted to taste first hand reasons why folks don’t make GNU/Linux based Netbooks or Laptops.

The answer i suppose is a well know one in FOSS world “Support” , i am still exploring and finding how the OEM is tied to Linpus and what support aggrement i am entitled to.

in the meantime i did not want to install any other OS and get online ASAP since i am still exploring and expecting some form of decent support from the Vendor ;-( , more on that later…

In the meantime i had a liveusb with Ubuntu 9.10 to test the wifi, it too does not work out of the box , i got it working working by inserting rt kernel module.

$sudo su -
#modprobe rt3070sta

enabled the network by pressing function key and F10

Hi community,

Fifteen days before the third anniversary of our repository, this project arrived
to the commit 10.000, and Trifon had the honor to make it:

http://adempiere.svn.sourceforge.net/adempiere/?rev=10000&view=rev

Thanks to the 56 committers that have made this possible:

http://www.adempiere.com/svnstats/20090824/stats/adempiere/index.html

trifonnt
hengsin
vpj-cd
teo_sarca
red1
mjudd
tspc
gvishi
shameem_z
fredtsang
kthiemann
olivensteins
pelgrimforever
wght
kontro
jc-perez
phib
armenrz
deathmeat
usrdno
mark_o
agramdass
redchris
afalcone
joergviola
fer_luck
fjviejo
sendy_yagambrum
xiaomj
bayucahya
rob_k
bmovaqar
kolec
tobi42
ljreyesd
croo
gabrielke
eskabetxe
stefan_kuthan
acanaveral
j2garcia
ancabradau
ivanceras
vinhpt
marekmosiewicz
needle58
satyaakam
kzmp
kai7
agenda_gm
vclark
hongnk
banym
egssolutions
richardgennaro

and to myself globalqss

Regards,

Carlos Ruiz