fedora tour mockups

hey,

Been quite a while since we posted about the tour. Here’s an update:

Here’s the mail I sent to the design list:

I’ve made some mockups for the fedora-tour app. we’re working on.

It’s really amateur stuff but hopefully enough to get

the idea across. The real intention is to get you great people to

criticize them as much as possible

Please take some time out from your busy schedules and have a look

The links:

the main tour menu:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-tour/browser/frontend1/mockups/tour2.png?rev=898c5904e1967dc0f7becf4328224e0a86426976

Main page: 1st page of the selected tour:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-tour/browser/frontend1/mockups/tour%202%20main1.png?rev=898c5904e1967dc0f7becf4328224e0a86426976

Other pages of the tours:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-tour/browser/frontend1/mockups/tour2%20main2.png?rev=898c5904e1967dc0f7becf4328224e0a86426976

All files with their svg sources are here:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-tour/changeset/898c5904e1967dc0f7becf4328224e0a86426976

The splash(I’ve already coded this, its a screen shot):

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-tour/browser/frontend1/mockups/Screenshot-Fedora%20Tour.png?rev=dfb1778e134fe8febadc8f882a90599c4552dd05

Please point out as many changes as you want to!! We really wont mind

revamping the entire thing too.

regards,

Ankur (franciscod)

cya folks,

Arduino on a F12 x86_64

I just started playing around with arduino boards.  There’s a F11 how-to given here. Some things to remember for a 64bit Fedora.

• Install Sun Java , a F12 x86_64 system needs the Linux64 package.
• Set up your system to use Sun Java as given here. (Step 5 onwards)
• Follow the howto link I’ve given above.
• That’s it

As a side note, it seemed to work with OpenJDK too, (reset the alternatives to point to OpenJDK and tested)

pyclutter woes : a speed bump :|

Every task has some bottle-necks to overcome. The fedora-tour is no different it seems. We’ve been coding using the pyclutter references http://www.clutter-project.org/docs/pyclutter/stable/index.html which are valid for pyclutter 1.0.0. The fedora repos only sport a 0.9.2 , because (I’m guessing here) of no 1.0.0 release of the pyclutter-gtk and pyclutter-gst packages. These two have their latest release stuck at 0.9.2.

The thing is, the 1.0.0 release has better , more advanced event handling (that’s all I’ve come across till now from the difference in the online reference of the 1.0.0 and the pydoc reference of 0.9.2). I’ve filed a bug requesting an update to 1.0.0 . Let’s keep our fingers crossed

/me goes to dig up 0.9.2 docs and to keep working!

Christmas Greetings!!

It’s Christmas again ! Temperature’s are still falling and a new year awaits!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone !

fedora hosts fedora-tour ;)

fedora-tour has been given its fedora-hosted space!!

I’ve already commit and pushed a few times (added a splash etc). The pygtk learning curve isn’t as tough as we had anticipated. We’re working hard to make the tour up and running in time for F13.

Please do keep a watch on us

All comments and help with the tour is more than welcome!

Tablets on F12

Ma just got me a new tablet Well, it said Windows vista and mac on the cover, but I thought I’d give it a shot on my Fedora anyway.

Googled around all day and ran up and down. Finally I found docs to make it work. I’ve put up a howto on fedorasolved.org that’s waiting for review. If anyone needs to get their tablet to work, please do give it a try.

A new Fedora project

A brainwave is all it takes.  My room mate just reinstalled his Windows system . I was wondering around his system and I happened to notice the “Welcome to windows” app. It got me thinking that maybe it’d be a good idea if Fedora had something of the sort too. The goal is to improve user experience while also making the user aware of everything that Fedora has to offer. It’s only an idea that Ryan and me have begun to work on. (Less than an egg)

Here are the details. Please have a look for yourselves and comment (the talk page?) or right here itself.

I thank Mel for all the clarification and direction she gave us this morning.

 

Microsoft shouldn’t have played with us

Personally, I’m a FOSS lover. But that doesn’t make me a “Microsoft hater”. It’s a good OS, I just prefer to use Linux , Fedora.

Having said that, this blog post is going to show you how irresponsible Microsoft can be.

Some background:: I’m a 5th sem student at Manipal Institute of technology, Manipal, India . My end semester exams just got over yesterday, so technically I’m in 6th sem now The exams were scheduled (for CSE and IT branches )from the 14th to the 24th of November, following which we have a winter break before college reopens on the 4th of January next year. Since it’s impossible to get tickets at the last moment, the entire class (that’s 150 people from computer science and another 60-70 from the IT branch) had reservations to head home asap after the 24th. So, I had a bus ticket for the night of the 24th to Bangalore and a flight to New Delhi the same evening.

The event:: Then!! One fine day, an announcement is made that Microsoft’s coming to college on the 29th-30th of Nov to test/interview us and take “the best” as interns. Needless to say, anyone interested would have to stay back after the exams. Well, helter-skelter  we went, rescheduling trains, buses, flights. A few days later, the date is rescheduled to the 26th -27th. Okay, no biggie, wasting a few days is okay. Yesterday, on the 24th , two days before the supposed interview, Microsoft isn’t coming at all!!! WTF???? How does that work? Aren’t they supposed to take some sort of responsibility? Causing a hundred and fifty students to reschedule and waste money ( cost me more than 1500 Rs to get my flight rescheduled ) and then leaving us hanging here when we should be at home enjoying holidays? It’s preposterous not to forget thoroughly UNPROFESSIONAL. Such a company wants to rule the software market? Haha.. joke.

I’m still in college and don’t have much of an experience of the “corporate world”. BUT, I really din’t expect it to be like this. Still hard to digest. Have a good day!

Fedora India meeting minutes

From my post to the mailing lists:

hey,

To start with, links :

http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-india/2009-11-22/fedora-india.2009-11-22-06.02.html

http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-india/2009-11-22/fedora-india.2009-11-22-06.02.log.html

http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-india/2009-11-22/fedora-india.2009-11-22-06.02.txt

People present (lines said)
1. franciscod (208)
2. mbuf (141)
3. jdk2588 (37)
4. skbohra (37)
5. Pradipta (31)
6. rakesh (29)
7. kushal (17)
8. sm|CPU (8)
9. sankarshan (7)
10. Acedip (5)
11. kishan_ (3)
12. kishan (2)
13. zodbot (2)
14. kedars_ (1)
15. rajeshr (1)
16. rtnpro (1)
17. yevlempy (1)

==================================================================

There were two topics on the agenda as posted on the mailing list:
- F12 release events
- Tamil team
- During the course of the meeting, we decided to discuss the issue of
“people becoming Fedora Ambassadors and not carrying out their duties as
required” also.

Minutes -
Release events:

- Planned at MIT Manipal, early January (Ankur Sinha)
- Release party, install fests at Bikaner (Jaideep)
- Plans to migrate 100 desktops of Coal India to fedora12 (Pradipta)

Tamil team discussion:
Postponed (next meeting?)

Discussion over fedora ambassadorship

- Making sure that blogs of *every* Ambassador is on
planet.fedoraproject.org

- some sort of system to prevent people from signing up (because its
ultra cool) and then not working.
- make a nice proposal and send it for discussion and whatever be the
result send it to FEMSco for approval
- ideas, such as an Ambassador should be participating in at least one
Fedora subgroup (ie docs/packaging/design/websites…)

- Mentoring to make sure newbies holding release fests know what to say
ie – *correct content* (since they’re short on experience, we don’t want
them saying stuff that is different from the community’s working etc.)
- Setting up a wiki page and supplying people with updated slides and
material to be used at release fests.

- collecting feedback after a Fedora event from the audience (ideas
needed on how to go about doing this).

- regular IRC meets : fortnightly *at least*

- good install fests never turning into sustained activities : why??

==========================================================================

These are only ideas in short. Please go through the meeting logs
provided above.

There’s quite a lot of work to be done.

- I’m in-charge of rounding up all “FAs from India”’s blogs and making
sure they’re on the planet.
- Slides etc? (any hands ??)

There are also agendas that still need more discussion. Future meets or
discussions on the mailing list are needed.

Thank you all for attending

Have a nice evening

regards,
Ankur

PS Also forwarding the the ambassadors list.

I saw the code of DEATH in action!

For those who aren’t aware,

su -

rm -rf *

is referred to as the code of death. Really needless to explain why. Well, I had never thought I’d see it happen, but I did. Not exactly the above mentioned commands, but as another lethal variant:

su -

mv /* /somedir

How and when? I was hanging out on #fedora when this dude said he needed help. A fellow admin to his remote server had typed in the above commands (there was lag and something something). Anyhow, so, you do the math. We tried making a shell script to move everything back. OH! but wait! you can only use built in shell commands. Makes it way more tougher, doesn’t it? I couldn’t fix it, but I did learn some stuff trying to.

Sent the dude to #bash, where an excellent fellow, who REALLY knew his stuff, helped out. He compiled an executable using static linking (so it wouldn’t want the moved libs) and placed it in the dir using tcp or something (This part I know nothing about). Since you couldn’t use chmod anymore, they overwrote an already executable binary (sorry unrar). The file moved everything back to where it was supposed to be. This din’t come about as trivially as it sounds.

Sounds simple eh? Trust me, isn’t. At least wasn’t for me.

So, a close experience of the code of death. Lesson learnt : Root is dangerous !!