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Domains Managed

2018-03-17T12:11:30Z

Kannan: change fsug.in domain update status

Access for domain registration and name server management is available at https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/access/blob/master/domains.txt.gpg (private repo)

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|+
| |'''Domain'''
| |'''Access Permissions'''
| |'''Registrar/Whois'''
| |'''Next Expiry Date'''
| |'''Last Sponsor'''
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://saakhi.org saakhi.org]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Sooraj Kenoth
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|26-Sep-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Soorajkenoth|Sooraj Kenoth]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://diasp.in diasp.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|28-Sep-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Balasankarc|Balasankar C]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fosscommunity.in fosscommunity.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-Sep-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|Jishnu Mohan
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://poddery.com poddery.com]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://gandi.net Gandi.net]
| style="padding: 5px;"|08-Dec-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Tvmanukrishnan|Manu Krishnan T V]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fsug.in fsug.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|25-Feb-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|Ashish Kurian Thomas
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://gnukhata.in gnukhata.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|06-Mar-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|DFF
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fsci.org.in fsci.org.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|17-Mar-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://alphafork.com/ Alpha Fork]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://libreinfra.org libreinfra.org]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-May-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://ilugcoch.in ilugcoch.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-May-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Balasankarc|Balasankar C]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://ilug.org.in ilug.org.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|02-Jun-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|}

[[Category: Services]]

Domains Managed

2018-03-17T11:13:41Z

Kannan: change saakhi.org domain update status, remove debutsav which wasn't renewed

Access for domain registration and name server management is available at https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/access/blob/master/domains.txt.gpg (private repo)

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|+
| |'''Domain'''
| |'''Access Permissions'''
| |'''Registrar/Whois'''
| |'''Next Expiry Date'''
| |'''Last Sponsor'''
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://saakhi.org saakhi.org]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Sooraj Kenoth
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|26-Sep-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Soorajkenoth|Sooraj Kenoth]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://diasp.in diasp.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|28-Sep-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Balasankarc|Balasankar C]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fosscommunity.in fosscommunity.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-Sep-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|Jishnu Mohan
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://poddery.com poddery.com]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://gandi.net Gandi.net]
| style="padding: 5px;"|08-Dec-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Tvmanukrishnan|Manu Krishnan T V]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fsug.in fsug.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|25-Feb-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|Anju Passi
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://gnukhata.in gnukhata.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|06-Mar-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|DFF
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fsci.org.in fsci.org.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|17-Mar-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://alphafork.com/ Alpha Fork]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://libreinfra.org libreinfra.org]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-May-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://ilugcoch.in ilugcoch.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-May-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Balasankarc|Balasankar C]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://ilug.org.in ilug.org.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|02-Jun-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|}

[[Category: Services]]

Domains Managed

2018-03-17T10:22:17Z

Kannan: Change domain expiration dates

Access for domain registration and name server management is available at https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/access/blob/master/domains.txt.gpg (private repo)

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|+
| |'''Domain'''
| |'''Access Permissions'''
| |'''Registrar/Whois'''
| |'''Next Expiry Date'''
| |'''Last Sponsor'''
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://debutsav.in debutsav.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://bigrock.in BigRock]
| style="padding: 5px;"|08-Sep-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://shakhi.org shakhi.org]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Sooraj Kenoth
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|12-Sep-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Soorajkenoth|Sooraj Kenoth]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://diasp.in diasp.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|28-Sep-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Balasankarc|Balasankar C]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fosscommunity.in fosscommunity.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-Sep-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|Jishnu Mohan
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://poddery.com poddery.com]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://gandi.net Gandi.net]
| style="padding: 5px;"|08-Dec-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Tvmanukrishnan|Manu Krishnan T V]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fsug.in fsug.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|25-Feb-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|Anju Passi
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://gnukhata.in gnukhata.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|06-Mar-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|DFF
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fsci.org.in fsci.org.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|17-Mar-2019
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://alphafork.com/ Alpha Fork]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://libreinfra.org libreinfra.org]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-May-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://ilugcoch.in ilugcoch.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-May-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Balasankarc|Balasankar C]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://ilug.org.in ilug.org.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|02-Jun-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|}

[[Category: Services]]

Domains Managed

2018-03-17T10:12:12Z

Kannan:

Access for domain registration and name server management is available at https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/access/blob/master/domains.txt.gpg (private repo)

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|+
| |'''Domain'''
| |'''Access Permissions'''
| |'''Registrar/Whois'''
| |'''Next Expiry Date'''
| |'''Last Sponsor'''
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://debutsav.in debutsav.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://bigrock.in BigRock]
| style="padding: 5px;"|08-Sep-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://shakhi.org shakhi.org]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Sooraj Kenoth
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|12-Sep-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Soorajkenoth|Sooraj Kenoth]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://diasp.in diasp.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|28-Sep-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Balasankarc|Balasankar C]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fosscommunity.in fosscommunity.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-Sep-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|Jishnu Mohan
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://poddery.com poddery.com]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://gandi.net Gandi.net]
| style="padding: 5px;"|08-Dec-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Tvmanukrishnan|Manu Krishnan T V]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fsug.in fsug.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|25-Feb-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|Anju Passi
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://gnukhata.in gnukhata.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|06-Mar-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|DFF
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fsci.org.in fsci.org.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|25-Feb-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://alphafork.com/ Alpha Fork]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://libreinfra.org libreinfra.org]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-May-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://ilugcoch.in ilugcoch.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-May-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Balasankarc|Balasankar C]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://ilug.org.in ilug.org.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|02-Jun-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|}

[[Category: Services]]

Domains Managed

2018-03-17T10:11:36Z

Kannan: change fsci.org.in domain update status

Access for domain registration and name server management is available at https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/access/blob/master/domains.txt.gpg (private repo)

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|+
| |'''Domain'''
| |'''Access Permissions'''
| |'''Registrar/Whois'''
| |'''Next Expiry Date'''
| |'''Last Sponsor'''
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://debutsav.in debutsav.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://bigrock.in BigRock]
| style="padding: 5px;"|08-Sep-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://shakhi.org shakhi.org]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Sooraj Kenoth
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|12-Sep-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Soorajkenoth|Sooraj Kenoth]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://diasp.in diasp.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|28-Sep-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Balasankarc|Balasankar C]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fosscommunity.in fosscommunity.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-Sep-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|Jishnu Mohan
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://poddery.com poddery.com]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://gandi.net Gandi.net]
| style="padding: 5px;"|08-Dec-2017
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Tvmanukrishnan|Manu Krishnan T V]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fsug.in fsug.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|25-Feb-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|Anju Passi
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://gnukhata.in gnukhata.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|06-Mar-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|DFF
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://fsci.org.in fsci.org.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|25-Feb-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://alphafork.com/ Alpha\ Fork]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://libreinfra.org libreinfra.org]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-May-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://ilugcoch.in ilugcoch.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|29-May-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Balasankarc|Balasankar C]]
|-
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://ilug.org.in ilug.org.in]
| style="padding: 5px;"|Community
| style="padding: 5px;"|[http://www.coolwrks.com Cool-Works]
| style="padding: 5px;"|02-Jun-2018
| style="padding: 5px;"|[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
|}

[[Category: Services]]

Poddery - Diaspora, Matrix and XMPP

2018-01-08T11:33:37Z

Kannan: /* Hosting */

We run diaspora, xmpp and matrix services at [https://poddery.com poddery.com]. Diaspora username and password can be used to access xmpp and matrix services. [https://chat.poddery.com chat.poddery.com] provides riot client (accessed by a web browser), which can be used to connect to any matrix server without installing a riot app/client.

= Environment =
== Hosting ==
We are on a [https://www.scaleway.com/baremetal-cloud-servers/ C2S instance of scaleway.com bare metal cloud server].

* 4 Dedicated x86 64bit Cores
* 8GB Memory
* 50GB SSD Disk
* 1 Flexible public IPv4
* 300Mbit/s Unmetered bandwidth
* 2.5Gbit/s Internal bandwidth
* €11.99 Per month

Due to performance issues we are migrating to a new server ([https://www.scaleway.com/baremetal-cloud-servers/ C2M instance of scaleway.com]) with the following specs:

* '''8''' Dedicated x86 64bit Cores
* '''16GB''' Memory
* 50GB SSD Disk
* 1 Flexible public IPv4
* '''500Mbit/s''' Unmeterd bandwidth
* '''5Gbit/s''' Internal bandwidth
* '''€17.99''' per month
* Extra '''150GB''' SSD
* Total '''€20.99''' per month

== Operating System ==

We run debian 9 stretch image provided by scaleway, with latest security updates applied.

=== Hardening checklist ===
* SSH password login disabled (allow only key based logins)
* root SSH login disabled (use a normal user with sudo)
* Firewall enabled with only the ports we need opened
* fail2ban configured against brute force attacks

=== System health check ===

* There should be a data disk attached (added from cloud.scaleway.com)
* The attached disk (/dev/nbd2) should be an lvm physical volume (pvcreate /dev/nbd2). We cannot use it directly for encryption, so we use lvm.
* /dev/data is an lvm volume group created from /dev/nbd2 (vgcreate data /dev/nbd2).
* /dev/data/diaspora is an lvm logical volume (lvcreate -n diaspora /dev/data -L 93.5G).
* /dev/mapper/diaspora is an encrypted device (cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/data/diaspora; cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/data/diaspora diaspora)
* /dev/mapper/diaspora is an ext4 file system (mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/diaspora)
* /var/lib/diaspora should be mounted (mount /dev/mapper/diaspora /var/lib/diaspora)
* all critical data should be on /var/lib/diaspora.
''' /etc/init.d/mysql stop; mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/diaspora; ln /var/lib/diaspora/mysql /var/lib/diaspora
''' mkdir /var/lib/diaspora/uploads; chown -R diaspora: /var/lib/diaspora/uploads;ln -s /var/lib/diaspora/uploads /usr/share/diaspora/public/uploads

=== Services health check ===

systemctl status nginx # our web server front end for diaspora, xmpp and matrix
systemctl status diaspora # diaspora service
systemctl status matrix-synapse.service # synapse matrix server
systemctl status prosody # prosody xmpp server
systemctl status sslh # SSL/SSH multiplexer which allow us to provide multiple services via 443 port (to bypass stupid firewalls)

== User Visible Services ==
=== Homepage ===

Homepage and other static pages are maintained in our gitlab instance. You can change it directly in the master branch or send pull requests. You can edit it via web as well.

* poddery.com -> https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/poddery.com.

* save.poddery.com -> https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/save.poddery.com

save.poddery.com repo is maintained as a sub module in poddery.com repo. See this tutorial -> https://chrisjean.com/git-submodules-adding-using-removing-and-updating/ for working with git submodules.

=== SSL/TLS certificates ===

# letsencrypt certonly --webroot -w /usr/share/diaspora/public -d poddery.com -d www.poddery.com -d test.poddery.com -d groups.poddery.com -w /usr/share/diaspora/public/save -d save.poddery.com
# cp -L /etc/letsencrypt/live/poddery.com/fullchain.pem /etc/diaspora/ssl/poddery.com-bundle.pem
# cp -L /etc/letsencrypt/live/poddery.com/privkey.pem /etc/diaspora/ssl/poddery.com.key
# chown -R root:ssl-cert /etc/letsencrypt
# chmod g+r -R /etc/letsencrypt
# chmod g+x /etc/letsencrypt/*

# ls -l /etc/prosody/certs/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Mar 28 01:16 poddery.com.crt -> /etc/letsencrypt/live/poddery.com/fullchain.pem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mar 28 01:16 poddery.com.key -> /etc/letsencrypt/live/poddery.com/privkey.pem

# crontab -e
30 2 * * 1 letsencrypt renew >> /var/log/le-renew.log
32 2 * * 1 /etc/init.d/nginx reload
34 2 * * 1 /etc/init.d/prosody reload

=== Diaspora ===

We use diaspora-installer-mysql package from https://people.debian.org/~praveen/diaspora (stretch/contrib)
See [https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/diaspora-installer/blob/debian/0.6.6.0+debian1/README /usr/share/doc/diaspora-common/README] for package specific configuration.

* [https://poddery.com/statistics live statistics]

=== Chat/XMPP ===

* We use prosody and steps for setting up prosody is given at -> https://wiki.debian.org/Diaspora/XMPP
* We have enabled all XEPs conversations expect. We use sslh to multiplex diaspora and prosody on port 443.

=== Chat/Matrix ===

* We use synapse server for setting up the matrix server.
* We will be using https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/#synapse-installation for setting up this instance
* We use nginx reverse proxy to send requests that has ''/_matrix/*'' in url to synapse on 8008. See /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/diaspora
* We use https://git.fosscommunity.in/necessary129/synapse-diaspora-auth to authenticate synapse with diaspora database.

== Backend Services ==
=== nginx ===

Front end for diaspora and matrix.

=== PostgreSQL ===

Backend for matrix.

=== MySQL ===

Backend for diaspora. TODO: consider migrating to PostgreSQL to optimize resources (we can reduce one service and RAM usage).

=== sslh ===

Port multiplexer to allow xmpp and diaspora to share 443 port. This allows us to fool stupid firewalls which blocks all ports except 80 and 443 (hence xmpp).

= Coordination =

*[https://www.loomio.org/g/2bjVXqAu/fosscommunity-in-poddery-com-maintainer-s-group loomio group] - we use this for decision making.
* Hangout with us in our matrix room [https://matrix.to/#/#poddery:poddery.com #poddery:poddery.com]

=== Contact ===

Email: poddery at autistici.org (alias that reaches Akhilan, Abhijith Balan, Fayad, Balasankar, Julius, Praveen, Prasobh, Sruthi, Shirish, Vamsee and Manukrishnan)

The following people have their gpg keys in the password file.

Praveen Arimbrathodiyil (piratepin) (ID: 0xCE1F9C674512), Balasankar C (ID: 0x96EDAB9B2E6B7171), Manu Krishnan T V (ID: 0x5D0064186AF037D9), Fayad Fami (fayad) (ID: 0x51C954405D432381), Abhijith PA (ID: 0x863D4DF2ED9C28EF), Syam G Krishnan (sgk) (ID: 0x6EF48CCD865A1FFC), Sagar Ippalpalli (ID: 0xFD49D0BC6FEAECDA)

We recommend you setup [http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3645 vim gpg plugin] for transparent editing. If you are new to gpg, then follow [https://www.madboa.com/geek/gpg-quickstart/ this guide].

=== Server Access ===

Maintained in a private git repo at -> https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/access

= Setting up Backup =

Backup was setup on a Scaleway C1 VPS (4 core ARM processor with 2GB RAM). '''TODO: C1 server was crashing frequently and we need to setup backup again on VPS provided by Manu'''.

Hostname (IP): backup.poddery.com (No public ip, access via scaleway.com web console). If you restart this machine, you may want to add poddery.com private ip in /etc/hosts

# apt-get install lvm2 cryptsetup

Directly creating luks volume on /dev/nbd1 is not working, so we use a logical volume

# pvcreate /dev/nbd1
# vgcreate data /dev/nbd1
# lvcreate -n diaspora -L 46.5G /dev/data

# cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/data/diaspora
# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/data/diaspora diaspora

and update /etc/crypttab
# <target name> <source device> <key file> <options>
diaspora /dev/data/diaspora none luks

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/diaspora
# mkdir /var/lib/diaspora
and update /etc/fstab
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
/dev/mapper/diaspora /var/lib/diaspora ext4 defaults 0 2

# mount -a
# apt-get install mysql-server

Move mysql data directory to encrypted volume
# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
# mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/diaspora/
# ln -s /var/lib/diaspora/mysql /var/lib/mysql

Follow steps in https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/replication-howto-masterbaseconfig.html for replication

Follow steps in https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-mysql-database-replication-with-ssl-encryption-on-centos-5.4 for ssl (but ssl support is disabled in debian)

Follow steps in http://www.networkcomputing.com/storage/how-set-ssh-encrypted-mysql-replication/1111882674 to use ssh port forwarding to have encrypted replication

# adduser sshtunnel --disabled-login
# su sshtunnel

Generate ssh key pair and copy public key to target system
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
$ ssh -f sshtunnel@poddery.com -L 7777:127.0.0.1:3306 -N

Test the connectivity
# mysql -u poddery_backup -p -P 7777 -h 127.0.0.1

Uploads are rsynced every hour

# crontab -e
# m h dom mon dow command
0 * * * * pgrep rsync || rsync -av --delete root@poddery.com:/var/lib/diaspora/uploads/ /var/lib/diaspora/uploads/ >/var/lib/diaspora/rsync-uploads.log

'''Note:''' Since we are not using a public ip (saves us money), backup.poddery.com connects to poddery.com via private ip. So if poddery.com is rebooted, the new ip address should be updated in /etc/hosts file of backup.poddery.com. To connect, use the web console from scaleway.com

= Add more disk space =

# Power off the machine with "ARCHIVE" option. It may take upto an hour for shutdown to complete on backup.poddery.com and poddery.com
# Add more disk from scaleway.com control panel . Volumes -> CREATE VOLUME
# Attach the newly created volume to server from Server page
# Power on the server
# Create physical volume (pvcreate /dev/nbdN)
# Expand volume group (vgextend data /dev/nbdN)
# Expand logical volume (lvresize --size=186G data/diaspora)
# Expand encrypted partition (cryptsetup resize diaspora)
# Resize file system (resize2fs /dev/mapper/diaspora)

= Maintenance history =
This section holds maintenance/issue history for future tracking.

'''When updating diaspora-installer-mysql packages, remember to recreate /usr/share/diaspora/public/uploads symlink to /var/lib/diaspora/uploads'''.

1. Prosody error - Failed to load private key

certmanager error SSL/TLS: Failed to load '/etc/letsencrypt/live/poddery.com/privkey.pem': Previous error (see logs), or other system error. (for poddery.com)
tls error Unable to initialize TLS: error loading private key (system lib)
certmanager error SSL/TLS: Failed to load '/etc/letsencrypt/live/poddery.com/privkey.pem': Check that the permissions allow Prosody to read this file.

This error is usually when ssl certificate in freshly installed or renewed. Prosody user is unable to access the key file due to lack of privileges.

Note that Poddery uses Letsencrypt for ssl.

Fix:

* Make sure that prosody user is in 'certs' group (this group may also be called ssl-certs as setup by Letencrypt)
* /etc/letsencrypt/ is the ssl directory.
* Prosody user should have permissions to all folders importantly archive and live folders in /etc/letsencrypt. Permissions to each folder must be 750.
* Troubleshoot by checking if you can switch to each folder in /etc/letsencrypt as prosody user and cat the files.

'''If replication fails, you can restart it following the instructions here'''

https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/69394/mysql-replication-error-1594

[[Category:Services]]

Bangalore/BMSCE/FOSS Day 05

2018-01-08T11:19:25Z

Kannan:

==FOSS Day 05==
On 24th September 2005 the FOSS Community Bangalore conducted a seminar on FOSS. The speakers were
Dilip V, [[User:Pravs| Praveen A]], [http://www.techmag.biz Thejesh GN], [http://www.livejournal.com/users/prady/ Pradyumna Sampath]

Dilip and Praveen introduced FOSS and the advantages of FOSS. Pradyumna Sampath gave a demo of glade and gtk programming. It was followed by a talk on FOSS Tools and advantages specific to students. The event was organised in association with Protocol, Computer club of BMSCE.

Read on the blogs on the seminar
*[http://www.pravi.co.nr/2005/10/03/foss-day-at-bmsce/ FOSS Day at BMSCE] by Praveen A
*[http://www.techmag.biz/FOSS_and_college_projects FOSS and College Projects] by Thejesh GN

[[Category:Events|2005/09/24]] [[Category:BMSLUG Events]] [[Category:Bangalore Events]]

സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ്/സ്വനലേഖ

2017-02-15T10:22:02Z

Kannan: Reverted edits by 117.193.203.33 (talk) to last revision by Santhosh

{{prettyurl|SMC/Swanalekha}}
==='''സ്വനലേഖ''' ===
SCIM Malayalam Phonetic Input Method by [[User:Santhosh|സന്തോഷ് തോട്ടിങ്ങല്‍]]

SCIM(Smart Common Input Method) ഗ്നു/ലിനക്സ് പ്രവര്‍ത്തകസംവിധാനത്തിലെ ഒരു പ്രധാന നിവേശകരീതി(Input method) ആണ്. സ്വനലേഖയില്‍ ഉപയോക്താവ് എഴുതുന്നത് മംഗ്ളീഷിലാണ്. അതായത് "സരിഗമപധനിസ" എന്നെഴുതാന്‍ "sarigamapadhanisa" എന്ന് ടൈപ്പു ചെയ്യുന്നു.

==''സജ്ജീകരണം''==
നിങ്ങളുടെ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറില്‍ SCIM ഇന്സ്റ്റാള്‍ ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ടായിരിക്കണം. അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ scim പാക്കേജ് ഇന്‍സ്റ്റാള്‍ ചെയ്യുക.
Debian GNU/Linux ഇല്‍ അല്ലെങ്കില് ഉബുണ്ടുവില്‍ ഇതിനായി ചെയ്യേണ്ടത് ഇത്ര മാത്രം :
# apt-get install scim
# apt-get install scim-gtk2-immodule
(ഗ്നോം പ്രയോഗങ്ങളില്‍ സ്കിം നിവേശകരീതി പിന്തുണയ്ക്കായി)

===''ഇന്‍സ്റ്റാളേഷന്‍''===
''Distro specific Instructions''

#[http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2008/05/13/installing-and-setting-up-malayalam-swanalekha-on-ubuntu-hardy-heron-8-04 Single script to do everything for Ubuntu 8.04]
#[http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2008/05/22/installing-and-setting-up-malayalam-on-fedora-9-sulphur Installing swanalekha in Fedora 9]

''Downloads''
# [http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/Swanalekha സ്വനലേഖയുടെ സോഴ്സ് ]
# [http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/smc/fedora/8/RPMS/swanalekha-ml-1-1.fc8.i386.rpm RPM package for Fedora based systems]
# [http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/smc/Swanalekha/scim-ml-phonetic_0.1.3-1_all.deb Deb package for Debian based systems]

''Installing From Source code''

സ്വനലേഖ ഇന്‍സ്റ്റാള്‍ ചെയ്യാന്‍ സോഴ്സ്കോഡ് ഇരിക്കുന്ന ഫോള്‍റില്‍ പോകുക. അതിനുശേഷം
#make
change to root
#make install

നിങ്ങള്‍ ഒരു ഡെബ് (.deb) ഫയലാണ് ഡൌണ്‍ലോഡ് ചെയ്തതെങ്കില്‍(For Debian/Ubuntu)
dpkg -i scim-ml-phonetic_0.1.3-1_all.deb

നിങ്ങള്‍ ഒരു rpm ഫയലാണ് ഡൌണ്‍ലോഡ് ചെയ്തതെങ്കില്‍(For Fedora)
rpm -i swanalekha-ml-1-1.fc8.i386.rpm

==''ഉപയോഗം''==
SCIM സപ്പോര്ട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്ന ഏതെങ്കിലും ടെക്സ്റ്റ് എഡിറ്റര്‍ തുറക്കുക. ഉദാ:- gedit പാനലിലുള്ള SCIM ഐക്കണില്‍ റൈറ്റ് ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക. താഴെ കൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്ന പടം ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുക.
SCIM ഭാഷകളുടെ പട്ടികയില്‍ നിന്നും മലയാളം -> Phonetic തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുക.

[[Image:Img2.png|Select Malayalam Phonetic Method]]

അതിനു ശേഷം ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്തു തുടങ്ങുക. ഓരോ അക്ഷരത്തിന്റെയും ഇംഗ്ളീഷ് അക്ഷരശ്രേണി എന്തെന്നറിയാന്‍ താഴെകൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്ന പട്ടിക നോക്കുക.
മൊഴി സ്കീമിന്റെ ഒരു പരിഷ്കരിച്ച രൂപമാണിത്.

[[Image:Ml-lipi.png|സ്വരലേഖ ലിപി]]
==''ഉദാഹരണങ്ങള്‍''==
മലയാളം എന്റെ മാതൃഭാഷ malayaaLaM ente maathRbhaasha അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ malayAlam~ ente mAthRBAsha അല്ലെങ്കില്‍
malayaaLam_ ente mAthRBAsha

സരിഗമപധനി sarigamapadhani

പൊന്പീലി pon~piili അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ pon_pIli അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ pon~peeli

ധ്വനി dhvani അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ dhwani

വെണ്ണയുണ്ടെങ്കില്‍ നറുനെയ് വേറിട്ടു കരുതേണമോ veNNayuNtenkil~ naRuney vERitt karuthENamO

വിദ്യാധനം സര്‍വ്വധനാല്‍ പ്രധാനം vidyaadhanam~ sar~vvadhanaal~ pradhaanam~

അരവിന്ദിന്റെ അച്ഛന്‍ aravindinte achChan~

ഇന്ത്യ എന്റെ രാജ്യം inthya ente raajyam~

അവന്‍ മുറ്റത്ത് ഉലാത്തി avan~ muTTathth ulaaththi

മകം പിറന്ന മങ്ക makam~ piRanna manka

പ്രകൃതി കുസൃതി കാണിച്ചു prakRthi kusRthi kaaNichchu

പാലക്കാടന്‍കാറ്റ് പനകളെ തഴുകിയുണര്‍ത്തി paalakkaatan~kaaTT pankaLe thazhukiyuNar~ththi അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ pAlakkAtan~kATT pankaLe thazhukiyuNaR~ththi

നിളയില്‍ കുഞ്ഞോളങ്ങള്‍ ചാഞ്ചാടി niLayil~ kunjnjOLangngaL~ chaanchaati

പഞ്ചസാര മണല്‍ത്തരികള്‍ വെട്ടിത്തിളങ്ങി panchasaara maNal~ththarikaL~ vettiththiLangngi

ദൈവത്തിന്റെ വികൃതികള്‍ daivaththinte vikRthikaL~

അക്ഷരം axaraM

പ്രത്യേകം ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുക prathy~Ekam~ Sraddhikkuka

സമ്പ്രദായം sampradaayam~

അഞ്ജനമിട്ട സന്ധ്യ anjjanamitta sandhya

ജ്ഞാനപ്പാന jnjaanappaana

ീ എന്നത് ഈ എന്ന സ്വരത്തിന്റെ ചിഹ്നമാണ് @ee ennath ee enna swarathinte chihnamaaN

ക്യൂ പാലിക്കുക Q paalikkuka

വൈകുന്നേരത്ത് YkunErathth അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ vaikunnErathth

==''സൂചനാപ്പട്ടിക (Lookup table)''==
സ്വനലേഖക്ക് ഉപയോക്താവ് എഴുതിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ സൂചനകള്‍ കൊടുക്കാന്‍ കഴിയും. ഇത് മലയാളം വളരെപ്പെട്ടെന്ന് തെറ്റ് കൂടാതെ എഴുതാന്‍ സഹായിക്കുന്നു. ചില്ലക്ഷരങ്ങള്‍, കൂട്ടക്ഷരങ്ങള്‍ എന്നിവ എഴുതുമ്പോള്‍ ഇത് വളരെ ഫലപ്രദമാണ്. മലയാളികളുടെ സവിശേഷമായ മംഗ്ളീഷ് ഉപയോഗത്തിന്റെ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തിലാണ് ഇതു രൂപകല്പനചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നത്.

ഉദാഹരണത്തിന് അടിപൊളി എന്നെഴുതാന്‍ പലപ്പോഴും നാം ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നത് adipoli എന്നാണ്. പക്ഷെ സ്വനലേഖയിലതെഴുതുന്നത് atipoLi എന്നാണല്ലൊ?. ചിലര്‍ക്കെങ്കിലുമുണ്ടാകുന്ന ഈ തടസ്സം ഒഴിവാക്കുന്നതിന് സൂചനാപ്പട്ടിക ഉപകരിക്കും. adipoli എന്നെഴുതിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ di എന്നെഴുതുമ്പോള്‍ സൂചനാപ്പട്ടിക ദി എന്നും ടി എന്നും 2 സൂചനകള്‍ നല്‍കുന്നു. അതുപോലെ ളി എന്നതിനുവേണ്ടി Li ക്കുപകരം li എന്നെഴുതുമ്പോള്‍ പട്ടിക ലി എന്നും ളി എന്നും 2 സൂചനകള്‍ നല്കുന്നു.

ഇതിന്റെ വേറൊരു ഉപയോഗം പേരുകളുടെ കൂടെയുള്ള initials എഴുതുമ്പോള്‍ ആണ്. ഉദാഹരണത്തിന് ലീല പി കെ എന്നെഴുതാന്‍ ശരിക്കും ഉപയോഗിക്കേണ്ടത് leela pi ke എന്നാണ്. പക്ഷെ നാം leela p k എന്നു തന്നെ എഴുതാന്‍ ഇഷ്ടപ്പെടുന്നു. നാം P അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ p എന്നെഴുതുമ്പോള്‍ സൂചനാപ്പട്ടിക പി എന്നൊരു സൂചനകൂടി തരും!.

കെ എസ് ആര്‍ ടി സി എന്നെഴുതാന്‍ K S R T C തന്നെ ഉപയോഗിക്കണമെന്നുണ്ടോ? സൂചനാപ്പട്ടികയുടെ സഹായത്തോടെ നിങ്ങള്ക്ക് K S R T C എന്നു തന്നെ എഴുതാം.

സ്വതേയുള്ള രീതിയില്‍ ഇതൊരു തിരശ്ചീനപ്പട്ടികയായിരിക്കും. കുത്തനെയുള്ള പട്ടികയാണു നിങ്ങള്‍ക്കുവേണ്ടതെങ്കില്‍ SCIM setup screen എടുത്ത് vertical lookup table എന്ന option തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുക.

എഴുതുന്നതിനിടയില്‍ അതിനു താഴെ പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെടുന്ന സൂചനാപ്പട്ടികയില്‍ നിന്നും വേണ്ട അക്ഷരങ്ങള്‍ തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കം. ഉദാഹരണത്തിന് ആണി എന്നു എഴുതാന്‍ നാം ANi എന്നതിനു പകരം Ani എന്നെഴുതിയെന്നിരിക്കട്ടെ. ni എന്നെഴുതുമ്പോള്‍ സൂചനാപ്പട്ടിക പ്രത്യക്ഷമാകുന്നു. ണി എന്നും നി എന്നുമുള്ള 2 സൂചനകള്‍ നല്‍കുന്നു. ഇതില്‍ ണി എന്നു തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കാന്‍ ആരോ കീകള്‍(Arrow keys) ഉപയോഗിക്കാം. അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ സൂചനയുടെ കൂടെയുള്ള അക്കം തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കാം.

താഴെകൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്ന ചിത്രങ്ങള്‍ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുക.
[[Image:Lookuptable-examples.png|Lookup Table Examples]]

==''പിഴവുകളും നിര്‍ദ്ദേശങ്ങളും''==
നിങ്ങളുടെ അഭിപ്രായങ്ങളും നിര്‍ദ്ദേശങ്ങളും താഴെ കൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്ന ഇ-മെയില്‍ വിലാസത്തില്‍ അയക്കുക.

സന്തോഷ് തോട്ടിങ്ങല്‍ santhosh dot thottingal @gmail.com

==''പകര്‍പ്പവകാശം''==
സ്വനലേഖ GPL(GNU General Public License) പതിപ്പ് 2 ഓ അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ അതിന്റെ ഏതെങ്കിലും പുതിയ പതിപ്പിനാലോ‍ സംരക്ഷിക്കപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു.
==''കടപ്പാട്''==
#ഹുസ്സൈന്‍ കെ എച്ച്
#അനിവര്‍ അരവിന്ദ്
#പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍

==''Related Links''==
# [http://swanalekha.googlepages.com/swanalekha.html swanalekha bookmarklet - works in windows and firefox]
# http://santhoshtr.livejournal.com/4082.html
# https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?6976
# http://www.scim-im.org/
# [[SMC/Lalitha| Lalitha phonetic keyboard for X]]
# https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InputMethods/SCIM/Setup
# http://chithrangal.blogspot.com/2007/11/scim.html
# http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/scim/

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{{smc-subproject}}

WWW-ML

2017-02-15T10:17:13Z

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This page is for the coordination and status tracking of www-ml (Translation of GNU web pages ) project.
==Project Members==
Add your name only if you translated at least one page or reviewed at least one translation in the chronological order of participation (translated/reviewed/promised)
# Vivek Varghese Cherian (1/0/1)
# [[User:AniVar|Anivar Aravind]] (0/3/0)
# Jaganath. G (0/1/0)
# [[User:jinesh.k|Jinesh KJ]] (0/1/0)
# V.K Adarsh (1/0/0)
# [[User:Pravs| Praveen A]] (3/1/0)
# [[User:Santhosh| Santhosh Thottingal]] (2/2/0)
# Sreejith/Seena (0/0/1)
# Sebin (0/0/1)
# Remya Thottingal (0/0/1)
# [[User:aeshyamae|Shyam k]] (8/0/1)
# [[User:Manilal|Manilal K M]] (1/0/0)

==Project Status==
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!style="background:#ffdead;" | Published Page
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|[http://www.gnu.org/index.html What is GNU?] || Vivek Varghese Cherian || Completed || Anivar Aravind, Jagan Nadh G, Jinesh KJ ||[http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/aacca4c90e86a0b6/ea9fb52dee17c8d1 discussion], 2008 Jan 7
|-
|[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html The Right to Read] || V.K Adarsh & Praveen A || Completed || - || [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/1d85c5eebb0420b4/1cb7e2994db2d2da discussion], 2008 Jan 9
|-
|[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html Why schools should exclusively use free software] || [[User:Santhosh| Santhosh Thottingal]] || Completed || - || [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/1bcdb4e0eca820de/8783297e63cbb465 discussion], 12:22am, 2008 Jan 14 || [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.ml.html വിദ്യാലയങ്ങളില്‍ സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ മാത്രം ഉപയോഗിക്കേണ്ടതെന്തുകൊണ്ടു്]
|-
|[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html Selling Free Software] || [[User:Pravs| Praveen A]] || Completed ||[[User:Santhosh| Santhosh Thottingal]] || [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/fb2fd6bda6280f30/8e724992f4b208a4 discussion], 9:36pm, 2008 Jan 14 || [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.ml.html സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റുവെയറിന്റെ വില്‍പ്പന]
|-
|[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/microsoft.html Is Microsoft the Great Satan?] || [[User:Santhosh| Santhosh Thottingal]] || Completed || [[User:Pravs| Praveen A]] ||[http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/2736bae2c5676e95/5a57d48e6a2ad0c9 discussion], 2008 Jan 15 || [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/microsoft.ml.html മൈക്രോസോഫ്റ്റാണോ വലിയ ചെകുത്താന്‍?]
|-
|[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/university.html Releasing Free Software if you work at a University] || Vivek Varghese Cherian || In Progress || - || [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/90aac5ced6d4a6fb/0c66d43d0027ab3d discussion], 2008 Jan 16
|-
|[http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html Linux and the GNU Project] || [[User:Pravs| Praveen A]] || Completed||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/cdcedbb822ae7fc/0e95e35cf41e2b21 discussion], 2008 Jan 19 || [http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.ml.html ലിനക്സും ഗ്നു സംരംഭവും]
|-
|[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html The Free Software Definition] || [[User:Santhosh| Santhosh Thottingal]], Sreejith/Seena || In Progress||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/t/7d23aa19db50316e discussion], 2008 Jan 19
|-
|[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html Free Software and Free Manuals] || Sebin || In Progress||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/t/9e4dacefcb138653 discussion], 2008 Jan 31
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html Why software should not have owners] ||[[User:aeshyamae | Shyam k]] || Completed ||Santhosh Thottingal|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/272c7935b666333c discussion],2008 feb 24 || [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.ml.html എന്തുകൊണ്ടു് സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയറിനു് ഉടമസ്ഥര്‍ വേണ്ട]
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html Overview of the GNU system] || [[User:aeshyamae | Shyam k]] || Completed||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/t/cd044e8105f27290 discussion],2008 feb 24 || [http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.ml.html ഗ്നു പ്രവര്‍ത്തക സംവിധാനം ഒറ്റനോട്ടത്തില്‍]
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/software/reliability.html Free Software is More Reliable!] ||Remya Thottingal || Completed||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/6d9146b31b5c159f discussion],2008 feb 24
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/social-inertia.html Overcoming Social Inertia] ||[[User:Santhosh| Santhosh Thottingal]] || Completed||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/487ac5e034c4becc discussion],2008 April 22 || [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/social-inertia.ml.html സാമൂഹ്യ ജഡതയെ മറികടക്കല്‍]
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-intro.html Free Software movement] ||[[User:aeshyamae| Shyam K]] || Completed||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/56743da10535dc7 discussion],2008 April 28 || [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-intro.ml.html സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ പ്രസ്ഥാനം]
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software] ||[[User:aeshyamae| Shyam K]] || Completed||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/c695d53d90d1c0bd discussion],2008 April 28 || [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.ml.html സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയറിന്റെ ആശയം “ഓപ്പണ്‍ സോഴ്സ്” വിട്ടുപോകുന്നതു് എന്തുകൊണ്ടു്]
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-copyleft.html Why Copyleft?] ||[[User:aeshyamae| Shyam K]] || Completed||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/64ef332a562b4bf9 discussion],2008 May 5 || [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-copyleft.ml.html എന്തു് കൊണ്ടു് പകര്‍പ്പനുമതി?]
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism] ||[[User:aeshyamae| Shyam K]] || Completed||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/38ec115f71f66845 discussion],2008 May 5 || [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.ml.html പകര്‍പ്പനുമതി:പ്രായോഗികമായ ആദര്‍ശവാദം]
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html Avoiding Ruinous Compromises] || [[User:Santhosh| Santhosh Thottingal]], [[User:AniVar|Anivar Aravind]]|| Completed||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_frm/thread/5b93ed46e53f813a discussion], 2008 Sep 27
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html Fighting Software Patents - Singly and Together] || [[User:Santhosh| Santhosh Thottingal]] || Completed||-||
[http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_frm/thread/cfa2881168cb4873 discussion],2008 Sep 27
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html 15 Years of Free Software] ||[[User:Manilal| Manilal K M]] || Completed||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/1bcd8e814a461f9f discussion],2008 Oct 1
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/your-freedom-needs-free-software.html Your Freedom Needs Free Software] ||Sasikala P A || In progress||-||
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage] || [[User:aeshyamae | Shyam K]] || Completed||-||
[http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_frm/thread/401794d70f6b9a43# discussion],2008 Oct 7
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-users-never-heard-of-gnu.html GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU] || Rakesh Peter || Completed||-|| [http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/e33058b2cfa95725/c5236d998970c7b3?lnk=gst&q=rakesh#c5236d998970c7b3 discussion], 2008 Oct 7
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| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/your-freedom-needs-free-software.html Your Freedom Needs Free Software] || [[User:aeshyamae | Shyam K]] || Completed||-||
[http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/1a06bc10c519aec discussion],2008 Oct 27
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gates.html It's not the Gates, it's the bars] || [[User:aeshyamae | Shyam K]] || In Progress||-||
[http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/browse_thread/thread/9625645904c0a136 discussion],2008 Oct 27
|-
| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/use-free-software.html The Free Software Community After 20 Years] || [[User:jeffreyantony | Jeffrey | ജയ് ഫ്രീ]] || In Progress||-||
[http://groups.google.com/group/smc-discuss/t/b6d3f17d5d795965 discussion ],2008 Nov 19
|}

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OpenstreetMapPressNote

2017-02-15T09:46:33Z

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Link: http://www.mathrubhumi.com/php/newFrm.php?news_id=123843&n_type=HO&category_id=3&Farc=&previous=Y

This note is issued in light of the news item that appeared in mathrubhumi today in which the Head of the Intelligence Wing, Dr. Siby Mathews, has announced that a letter will be sent to the government demanding that the Kerala mapping project of Google has to be banned.

There is a need for such publicly owned maps ( with read and write privileges), especially ones that highlight areas of local interest. Google is a company that makes maps which contain information relevant to the locality. Most maps (eg: Google/Nokia Maps) actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. Openstreetmap is an effort to counter this and offer rights free and accessible data to everyone. Openstreetmap mapping parties are community's way to generate such freely available and community owned data. Just as wikipedia exist for free knowledge ( in the form of text ), openstreetmap exists for collecting and hosting community owned data. Previously, such data generation was not done because it was difficult or impossible. Since the dawn of internet and the consequent ease in collaboration and data sharing, this is now possible.

A few mapping parties have already been conducted and the data collected by volunteers are made available for public consumption without restrictions through the Openstreetmap website ( Technopark, Calicut NIT, Fort Kochi heritage Walk). The Google sponsored mapping party might have followed in their footsteps. The difference is, while the data generated by Google sponsored community mapping parties become read-only and Google owned data, the data generated by openstreetmap mapping parties remain community owned and modifiable.

We, the Free software user's group in Trivandrum , as a free knowledge community has the following to say.

#Mapping parties ( whether openstreetmap or privately sponsored ) come under our constitution's guarantee of free speech. Condemning mapping parties in the name under farcical and short sighted claims of security would be a violation of the democratic governance. Moreover, content generated by such mapping parties are extremely useful for the general public. eg: when organizing an event , pointing out the location in a map thats available online will be useful.
#Government departments are actually giving unnecessary publicity/endorsment to privately held companies like Google by joining this mapping effort. It will be far better if the government where to sponsor openstreetmap mapping parties and generate maps for their own use. Government can also release the data they own ( the land survey information ) through the openstreetmap effort and ensure that all data are publicly owned and need not be licensed from a private company.
#We request all people who take part in the Google sponsored mapping party to share the data they generate with the openstreetmap website so that it will stay in public domian and will be of great use to the general public.

'ഗൂഗിള്‍ മാപ്പിങ് തടയണമെന്നു് ഇന്റലിജന്‍സ് വിഭാഗം' എന്ന ശീര്‍ഷകത്തില്‍ ഇന്നത്തെ മാതൃഭൂമി പത്രത്തില്‍ വന്ന വാര്‍ത്തയാണു് ഈ കത്തിനാധാരം. പൊതുജനങ്ങളുടെ ഉപയോഗത്തിനായി പ്രാദേശിക വിവരങ്ങള്‍‍ ഉള്‍ക്കൊള്ളുന്ന ഭൂപടങ്ങള്‍ ആവശ്യമുണ്ട്. ഇത്തരത്തിലുള്ള ഭൂപടങ്ങള്‍ ലഭ്യമാക്കുന്ന ഒരു കമ്പനി ആണ് ഗൂഗിള്‍. മിക്ക ഭൂപടങ്ങളും ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നതിനു് സാങ്കേതികമോ നിയമപരമോ ആയ പരിമിതികളുണ്ട് ഉദാ: ഗൂഗിള്‍/നോക്കിയ മാപ്പുകള്‍. ഇതു മറികടക്കുന്നതിനും സ്വതന്ത്രമായ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നതിനും ഭൂപടങ്ങള്‍ ലഭ്യമാക്കുന്നതിനായാണു് ഓപ്പണ്‍സ്ട്രീറ്റ്മാപ് (openstreetmap) എന്ന പദ്ധതി തുടങ്ങിയതു്. ഈ പദ്ധതിയിലൂടെ വോളന്റിയര്‍മാര്‍ ശേഖരിക്കുന്ന വിവരം എല്ലാവര്‍ക്കും സ്വതന്ത്രമായി ഉപയോഗിക്കാവുന്നതാണ്. വിജ്ഞാനത്തിന് വിക്കിപ്പീഡിയ എന്നത് പോലെ ഭൂപടങ്ങള്‍ സ്വതന്ത്രമായി നിര്‍മ്മിക്കുന്നതിനുള്ള കൂട്ടായ്മകളാണ് ഓപ്പണ്‍സ്ട്രീറ്റ്മാപ് മാപ്പിങ്ങ് പാര്‍ട്ടികള്‍. ഇത്തരം ശ്രമങ്ങള്‍ മുമ്പുണ്ടാകാതിരുന്നത് അത് ദുസ്സാദ്ധ്യമോ അസാദ്ധ്യമോ ആയിരുന്നതുകൊണ്ടാണു്. ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റിന്റെ ആവിര്‍ഭാവവും സഹകരണത്തിനും വിവരങ്ങള്‍ പങ്കുവയ്ക്കുന്നതിനും അതു് ഏകിയ സൌകര്യവുമാണു് ഇക്കാര്യം സാദ്ധ്യമാക്കിയതു്.

മേല്‍പ്പറഞ്ഞതുപോലെയുള്ള ഓപ്പണ്‍സ്ട്രീറ്റ്മാപ് മാപ്പിങ്ങ് പാര്‍ട്ടികള്‍ സംസ്ഥാനത്ത് ഈ അടുത്തിടെ നടത്തുകയുണ്ടായി ( ടെക്നോപാര്‍ക്ക് , കോഴിക്കോട്ടെ NIT, ഫോര്‍ട്ട് കൊച്ചി ഹെരിറ്റേജ് വാക്ക് ). ഈ മാപ്പിങ്ങ് പാര്‍ട്ടികളെ അനുകരിച്ചാവണം ഗൂഗിളും ഇപ്പോള്‍ രംഗത്തേക്കിറങ്ങിയത്. ഗൂഗിള്‍ ഇത്തരത്തില്‍ സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ പങ്കാളിത്തത്തോടെ ശേഖരിക്കുന്ന വിവരങ്ങള്‍ പക്ഷേ ഗൂഗിളീന്റെ കുത്തകായായി മാറുന്നു. മറിച്ച് ഓപ്പണ്‍സ്ട്രീറ്റ് മാപ്പില്‍ ഇത്തരം വിവരങ്ങള്‍ സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ ഉടമസ്ഥതയില്‍ തന്നെ തുടരുന്നു.

വിവരവും അതു കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യാനുള്ള ഉപകരണങ്ങളും സ്വതന്ത്രമാണെന്നും അതെല്ലാവര്‍ക്കുമുള്ളതാണെന്നും ഉറച്ചു വിശ്വസിക്കുന്ന ഒരു സംഘം ആള്‍ക്കാര്‍ എന്ന നിലയ്ക്ക് സ്വതന്ത്രസോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ യൂസര്‍ഗ്രൂപ്പ് തിരുവനന്തപുരം പറയാനാഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നത് ഇതാണ്

#മാപ്പിങ്ങ് പാര്‍ട്ടികള്‍ എന്നത് നമ്മുടെ ഭരണഘടന നല്‍കുന്ന Freedom of Speech എന്ന അവകാശത്തില്‍ പെടുന്നതാണ്. ഇത് തടയുന്നത് ജനാധിപത്യലംഘനമാണ്. ഈ ഭൂപടങ്ങള്‍ ജനങ്ങള്‍ക്കു് പ്രയോജനം ചെയ്യുന്നവയാണു്. ഉദാ : ഒരു സമ്മേളനം നടക്കുന്ന സ്ഥലം കാട്ടിത്തരാനും അവിടെയെത്താനുള്ള വഴി പങ്കെടുക്കുന്നവര്‍ക്കു് പറഞ്ഞുകൊടുക്കാനും സമ്മേളനത്തിന്റെ വെബ് പേജില്‍ ഈ ഭൂപടങ്ങള്‍ ഉള്‍പ്പെടുത്താനാവും. മാത്രമല്ല, പുതിയൊരു സ്ഥലത്തേക്കു പോകുന്നതിനു മുമ്പു് അവിടെയെത്താനുള്ള വഴി മനസിലാക്കാനും ഇത്തരം ഭൂപടങ്ങള്‍ എല്ലാവര്‍ക്കും ഉപയോഗപ്രദമാകും.
#സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ വകുപ്പുകള്‍ ഓപ്പണ്‍സ്ട്രീറ്റ്മാപ് പോലെയുള്ള സംരംഭങ്ങളോട് സഹകരിക്കുന്നതിന് പകരം ഗൂഗിള്‍ പോലെയുള്ള കമ്പനികള്‍ക് അനാവശ്യമായി പബ്ള്സിറ്റി കൊടുക്കുകയാണ് ഇപ്പോള്‍ ചെയ്തത്. അതിനു പകരം ഇത്തരം മാപ്പിങ്ങ് പാര്‍ട്ടികളെ പ്രോത്സാഹിപ്പിക്കുകയും അവയില്‍ നിന്നു ശേഖരിക്കുന്ന പൊതുജനത്തിന്റെ ഉടമസ്ഥതയിലുള്ള ഭൂപടങ്ങളില്‍ സര്‍ക്കാരിന്റെ കൈ വശമുള്ള survey പോലെയുള്ള വിവരങ്ങള്‍ പൊതുജനത്തിന് ലഭ്യമാക്കുകയുമാണ് വേണ്ടത്.
#ഇപ്പോള്‍ നടക്കാന്‍ പോകുന്ന മാപ്പിങ്ങ് പാര്‍ട്ടിയില്‍ പങ്കെടുക്കുന്നവര്‍ അവര്‍ ശേഖരിക്കുന്ന വിവരം എല്ലാവര്‍ക്കും ലഭ്യമാക്കുന്നതിനും അത് സ്വതന്ത്രമായി തുടരും എന്ന് ഉറപ്പ വരുത്തുന്നതിനും വേണ്ടി ഓപ്പണ്‍സ്ട്രീറ്റ് മാപ്പ് വെബ്സൈറ്റില്‍ അപ്‌ലോഡ് ചെയ്യണമെന്ന് അഭ്യര്‍ത്ഥിക്കുന്നു.

LibRediff

2017-02-02T08:47:41Z

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Project to create a [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html free] library to connect to Rediff Bol service.

==Mentors==
# Pradyumna Sampath
# Praveen A

==Developers==

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Projects/TaskList/Show unicode characters in firefox address bar

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Now it shows % escaped values [Its a potential risk]... [ All non-Microsoft browers include a flaw that allows URL spoofing using Unicode characters, which can be exploited by phishing scams seeking to steal login information for online banking accounts. The spoofing flaw, which is demonstrated on the web site of the Shmoo Group, works in the Firefox, Mozilla and Opera browsers, as well as the Safari browser for Macs. The spoof exploits flaws in how the browsers interpret Unicode characters. A link using Unicode characters to replace the letter "a" in "Paypal" will display as www.paypal.com in the browser, but send users to www.xn--pypal-4ve.com - which then displays "www.paypal.com" in its address bar. A similar spoof works on SSL-enabled URLs (https) commonly used on banking and e-commerce sites. Unicode is a broader character set that includes non-English characters as well as symbols, which is being used on the Internet to support Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). The affected browsers support IDN, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer does not. The attack can be disabled in Firefox and Mozilla by setting 'network.enableIDN' to false in the browser's configuration (enter about:config in the address bar to access the configuration fucntions). There is no known workaround yet for Opera or Safari, according to a Bugtraq post from Shmoo, which describes itself as "a non-profit think-tank comprised of security professionals" and hosted the Shmoocon conference over the weekend. URL spoofing exploits are useful to Internet phishing scams, making it easier to trick victims into sharing sensitive information with bogus web sites constructed by fraudsters, which can be coded to present a target institution's URL in the address bar. The impact of the spoofing flaw is limited by the low usage of non-IE browsers, but comes as Firefox is making inroads into Internet Explorer's dominant market position, gaining up to 5 percent of users by some accounts.].

'''DONE''' - Available in Firefox 3

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SMC/repos

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* [[/debian|ഡെബിയന്‍ ഗ്നു/ലിനക്സ്]] ( ഐടി@സ്കകൂള്‍ ഗ്നു/ലിനക്സ് )
* [[/fedora|ഫെഡോറ ഗ്നു/ലിനക്സ്]]

SMC/artwork

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Collection of Malayalam artwork for Free Operating Systems.

സ്വതന്ത്ര പ്രവര്‍ത്തക സംവിധാനങ്ങള്‍ക്കുള്ള മലയാളത്തിലുള്ള കലാപരമായ പ്രവൃത്തികളുടെ ഒരുക്കൂട്ടല്‍.

==സ്ക്രീന്‍സേവര്‍ ==
=== മെട്രിക്സ് മലയാളം ഡിജിറ്റല്‍‌ മഴ ===
മെട്രിക്സ് ചലച്ചിത്ര പരമ്പരകളില്‍‌ അവതരിപ്പിക്കപ്പെട്ട ഡിജിറ്റല്‍‌ മഴയുടെ മലയാള ദൃശ്യാവിഷ്കാരം.

See the screenshots at http://santhoshtr.livejournal.com/4836.html

''ഈ സ്ക്രീന്സേവര് ഇന്സ്റ്റാള് ചെയ്യാന് വേണ്ടി:''

Gnome 2.14 version(Debian Etch,Ubuntu 6.06) :
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/Screensaver/mlmatrix_2.14.1.deb

Gnome 2.18 version or later (Debian Lenny,Ubuntu 7.04,7.10) :
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/Screensaver/mlmatrix_2.18.1.deb

Above given versions will add the screensaver to gnome-screensaver
group of screensavers.
If you want to add the screensaver to xscreensaver, after installing
any of the package,
Add the following line to the .xscreensaver file in your home
directory. Refer the glmatrix entry in that file for reference
- GL: mlmatrix -root \n\

Other gnu/Linux distros:

Download https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/download.php?file_id=13436

Extract it, copy the mlmatrix to /usr/lib/xscreensaver, copy
mlmatrix.xml to /usr/share/xscreensaver/config folder
Add the following line to the .xscreensaver file in your home
directory. Refer the glmatrix entry in that file for reference
- GL: mlmatrix -root \n\

A hack done by Santhosh Thottingal on the original glmatrix screensaver.

==അകത്തു കയറുന്നതിനുള്ള സ്ക്രീന്‍ (Login screen)==
[http://hiran.v.googlepages.com/smctheme.tar.gz സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ് ജി.ഡി.എം ലോഗിന്‍]

[http://swathanthran.in/smc-gdm-theme-1.tar.gz മറ്റൊരു ജിഡിഎം ലോഗിന്‍]
More themes: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/smc/artworks/gdm-themes/

To install Drag and Drop these files to System->Administration->Login window

==ചിഹ്നങ്ങള്‍ (Icons )==
==തുടക്കത്തില്‍ മിന്നിമറയുന്ന സ്ക്രീന്‍ (Splash screen)==
== പശ്ചാത്തലം (Desktop Background)==

[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?7103 സാവന്നയിലെ വിശദാംശങ്ങള്‍]

"എന്റെ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിന് എന്റെ ഭാഷ"

ഒരു സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് സംരംഭം.

Anand Pillai

2017-02-02T08:38:28Z

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Anand is the originator/main developer of [http://www.harvestmanontheweb.com HarvestMan] and he is the founder member of [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers BangPypers].

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Talk:In india any it software companiess business model

2017-02-02T07:42:23Z

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Can we add The content to the wiki? License?

In india any it software companiess business model

2017-02-02T07:35:59Z

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http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1651 (Why Software Business Models of the Future Probably Won't Come in a Box)

Inspiration

2017-02-02T07:27:02Z

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[http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2005/08/31/should-we-be-taking-a-second-look/ Should we be taking a second look ?]

A line from [http://atulchitnis.net/diary/showentry/325 Atul’s diary] struck a chord – What’s so cool about free software ? . Till now all the activity that has been done across the country (the roadshows, the install fests, the demos and the LinuxAsias) have been based on the premise that FLOSS is cool and the devotees will flock to the temple. When we talk about FLOSS in education, perhaps it is worth a second look towards how we go about it ?

Educational institutions are about service delivery. Forgive the crude way of putting it across, but if you strip away all the frills – you get service and the branding that the institutes obtain could be the quality assurance tied in with the delivery of such service. In such a situation, creation of a matrix of FLOSS around the system would be a bit more complex. The current approach revolves around finding a best-fit software tool for the education business process. This includes Institution Management software (school, college, campus), Portal for the institute (along with necessary frills like IM, Single Sign On etc), Laboratory Management Software, Digital Library Information Services Software (Koha for the brave and others for the mere mortals).

Is this the right approach ? Perhaps not. This approach or offering is based on what the developer world makes of the requirements and the processes of the academic world. And in a way that could turn out to be dangerously skewed. Till date, at least for India, the developers have not really sat across with the academicians and educators to question them directly on what they want the software to do, how they want it to behave. I guess the time has come for us to do that. Just imagining (or assuming) the requirements and then trying to figure out the best possible pieces of the puzzle that will complete the jigsaw will only see FLOSS lose credibility.

This would of course lead to a more streamlined engagement with the developers. Only because we might see the need to develop software in house. Small example, any currently available Learning Management System if deployed directly in an Indian set up would fail to make an impact. Primarily because the course content is not on-line (or even in a state of being able to be ported online) and secondarily because the grading and examination processes are different. Then again we have to consider the need of different education boards in the country.

If you notice carefully, we have travelled down a rocky path till now. We began with the assumption that the current way of providing FLOSS for education is not proper and ended up with the real need to motivate developers to create applications or add functionality to existing applications. For example, a software like DrGeo would do pretty well if advanced mathematics modules aimed at standard 10,11 and 12 are added to it. Using that in conjuction with Octave, R and gnuplot would enable the creation of a complete tool set of educational applications for mathematics. And this is exactly what is lacking right now – the means to create modularised education stacks which can be plugged into a FLOSS based educational application framework. One framework for an entire board with modules being added at will to enable it to be re-used.

Involving developers and academic world leads to another phenomenon – User Driven Innovation. In case of a education stack based on FLOSS, UDI is the only way to get it going. It will pull in developers of various skillsets interacting with maintainers of existing packages as well as ensure that a proper fit software is developed.

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2017-01-30T13:39:49Z

Kannan: changed a dead link to new one

==GNU/Linux==

====Fonts====

These are the available Unicode Fonts.
* [http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/Rachana_w01.zip Rachana]
* [http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/Meera_w01.zip Meera]
* [http://varamozhi.sourceforge.net/fonts/AnjaliOldLipi.ttf AnjaliOldLipi]

Also check [http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-04] for latest fonts.

AnjaliOldLipi font displays both Unicode 5.0 and 5.1 "Chillus" (consonants without vowel sounds). However, rest of them deals with Chillus written as in Unicode 5.0 only.

To setup the fonts just copy it to ~/.fonts directory or open nautilus file manager and go to location (press CTRL+L and type location) fonts:/// and drag-n-drop font files to this location. If you want it to be available to all users copy it to /usr/share/fonts. You can check whether the fonts are installed correctly by running the command fc-list (eg. fc-list |grep Rachana ). Restart the running applications so that the new fonts are available to them. All aplications which depend on font config will be able to use the newly installed fonts.

====Rendering====

KDE/QT offers best rendering support and GNOME/Pango rendering support is still not perfect. So you can use KDE tools for working with Malayalam (konqueror for browsing, kedit for text editing, koffice for office and kbabel for po file (gettext message bundle) editing.

(... Anyone know how to make this new fonts available for Open Office? ...)

... It seems Open Office recognises only ttf fonts and not otf fonts, so you can use ttf fonts (you can use fontforge to convert a otf font to ttf, if you need) --[[User:Pravs|Pravs]] 06:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

==Input Methods==

===''Inscript keyboard layout''===
Even though it might look a bit difficult to start it is the fastest input method. You can select malayalam keyboard layout from "keyboard" menu in GNOME Preferences section (in my Debain GNU/Linux etch it is Panel->Desktop->Preferences->Keyboard) or (...fill in for KDE here ...) in KDE

[http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/InputMethod/malayalam.jpg Inscript [Malayam Keyboard layout] (I would suggest you take a printout of this picture, you won't need it for more than two days maximum though :) )

===''Lalitha phonetic keyboard layout''===

For more details see [[SMC/Lalitha|this page]].

=== '''SCIM'''===
====''Phoentic Input Method- സ്വനലേഖ ''====
This input methods provides an easiest method to type Malayalam in Manglish. It comes with flexible keymapiings and typing suggestion features.

Visit [[https://wiki.smc.org.in/സ്വനലേഖ സ്വനലേഖ]] for more details.

====''Mozhi Keymap''====
You can type in manglish as you do in [https://sourceforge.net/projects/varamozhi varamozhi]. Please follow these steps:
1. Install SCIM 1.2.2 or later.

* for .deb files see [http://apt.debian.org.tw/pool/s/scim/ here]
* for other SCIM downloads see [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108454&package_id=117128 here]
* install libscim, scm-gtk-module and scim-devel packages.

2. Install KMFL (keyman runtime) version 0.8 or later.

* binaries are available as RPMs and DEBs in [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=130915&package_id=143535 KMFL download page ]
* install kmflcomp, libkmfl, libkmflcomp, libkmfl-dev and scim-kmfl-imengine.

3. Download Keymap (tar.gz file)from [https://sourceforge.net/projects/varamozhi here] and extract it. Copy *.kmn to ~/.scim/kmfl & mozhi.bmp to ~/.scim/kmfl/icons (create these directories if it does not exist)

4. Restart SCIM (best option would be restarting X by pressing CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE)

5. Use CTRL + SPACE to active SCIM, select Mozhi Keymap from other keyboards section.

==Microsoft Windows==

See [http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/വിക്കിപീഡിയ:സ്വാഗതം(Welcome) help page of Malayalam Wikipedia] for help in setting up malayalam environment for Windows.

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2017-01-29T20:01:43Z

Kannan: Blanked the page