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Fwd: Re: [Ilugc] GLUG meeting on Jan 22 - regarding RMS visit
by Shrinivasan T 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Shrinivasan T" <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 18, 2012 9:16 AM Subject: Re: [Ilugc] GLUG meeting on Jan 22 - regarding RMS visit To: "ILUG-C" <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in> Cc: <mailinglist(a)fsftn.org> I checked the time with welkin. it is 10.00 - 12.00

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Fwd: [Ilugc] GLUG meeting on Jan 22 - regarding RMS visit
by Shrinivasan T 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Shanu" <shanuss(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 18, 2012 2:27 AM Subject: [Ilugc] GLUG meeting on Jan 22 - regarding RMS visit To: <mailinglist(a)fsftn.org>, "ILUG-C" <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in> Hi all, As you all know, RMS visit is happening on 6th Feb. FSFTN is conducting a meeting of all GLUGs in and around Chennai on Jan 22nd. Meeting will happen in IIT-Madras CS-32. We request all the GLUGs to participate in the meeting to discuss regarding organizing the event. If your college do not have a GLUG and you would like to be part of the organizing team for RMS visit, please contact us. All Free Software enthusiasts who are interested in this may please mail or call us. Contact: shanu(a)fsftn.org 9884792347 alagunambiwelkin(a)fsftn.org 9962240050 Please forward this to all Free Software and public mailing lists you know of. -- Thank you, Shanu S Sukoor --------------------------------------------- Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

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Fwd: [FSFTN] Stallman's visit to Chennai, February 6th 2012
by Shrinivasan T 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Alagunambi Welkin" <alagunambiwelkin(a)fsftn.org> Date: Jan 17, 2012 5:17 PM Subject: [FSFTN] Stallman's visit to Chennai, February 6th 2012 To: <mailinglist(a)fsftn.org> Dear Friends, The Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu(FSFTN) is proud to announce the visit of Richard Matthew Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, to Chennai on February 6. Mr. Stallman (or rms as he is popularly known) is an iconic figure in the global movement to ensure that the free flow of knowledge and through this, the fostering of innovation and newer technologies. As founder of the GNU project and the FSF and also as one of the pioneers of the idea of 'Copyleft' , he has contributed majorly to revolutionising the field of software by imagining and creating an alternative to the world of proprietary software and technology. Mr. Stallman's visit to Chennai, after a considerable gap, will be an excellent occasion for the academicians, students and professionals of the city to gain inspiration and advice from a legendary figure and also interact with fellow enthusiasts, all of which, we are sure, will be a life-changing experience for many. The Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu, has been constantly striving to spread awareness of the importance and advantages of free software in various fields such as education, public policy and health care. Our activities include workshops, community computing centres and partnerships with institutions in the use and promotion of free software. It is in this context that we are honoured to host such a famous figure. This would be an ideal opportunity to like-minded groups, organizations, technical groups, users groups, and its members in and around Chennai to join hands and utilize this opportunity to spread the knowledge on Free Software to as many people as we can. If you as an individual feel you can help us in any possible means, we would be happy to have you with us. If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring this event, we have a variety of sponsorship options that you can consider. Do contact us off-list to know more details. More details will be announced soon.Please stay tuned to our mailing-list. For any information or queries please feel free to call us at, Shanu: 9884792347, Prasanth: 9176661086, Welkin: 9962240050. -- Alagunambi Welkin Executive Committee Member, Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu, part of Free Software Movement of India. http://www.fsftn.org ______________________________**_________________ Mailinglist mailing list Mailinglist(a)fsftn.org http://fsftn.org/mailman/**listinfo/mailinglist_fsftn.org<http://fsftn.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_fsftn.org>

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Adding categories for multiple images in commons
by Shrinivasan T 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Hi, I am uploading the images to commons. The default category is "TamilWiki Media Contest" Want to add more categories for the images. Adding, the categories using HotCat http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-HotCat is so boring and tough. Is there any possibilities for adding categories for multiple images in a single go? -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge

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Fw: Uploading Photos of public events in wikipedia commons
by BalaSundaraRaman 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com> >To: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com> >Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 2:55 PM >Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-chn] Uploading Photos of public events in wikipedia commons > > >Hi Shrinivasan, > > >Commons is meant as a repository of media that can be used to illustrate articles and pages in Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikibooks. So, only photos that are likely to be used in such projects shall be uploaded. Please see the official policy regarding this at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope. > > >- Sundar > >"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." >- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > > >>________________________________ >> From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com> >>To: wikimedia-in-chn(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 2:47 PM >>Subject: [Wikimedia-in-chn] Uploading Photos of public events in wikipedia commons >> >>Friends. >> >>We, Indian Linux Users group - Chennai [ http://ilugc.in ] have our >>monthly meet at IIT Madras. >> >>We use facebook for uploading the photos as that is the service which >>provides unlimited space for photos. >>Check a sample event photos here. >>http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.330997760245599.87661.133359730009… >> >>After knowing about wikimedia commons, thinking on uploading the event >>images to commons instead of facebook. >> >>Is it acceptable to do so? >> >>Please share your thoughts. >> >> >> >>-- >>Regards, >>T.Shrinivasan >> >> >>My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com >>Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in >> >>Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Wikimedia-in-chn mailing list >>Wikimedia-in-chn(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-chn >> >> >> > >

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Uploading Photos of public events in wikipedia commons
by Shrinivasan T 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Friends. We, Indian Linux Users group - Chennai [ http://ilugc.in ] have our monthly meet at IIT Madras. We use facebook for uploading the photos as that is the service which provides unlimited space for photos. Check a sample event photos here. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.330997760245599.87661.133359730009… After knowing about wikimedia commons, thinking on uploading the event images to commons instead of facebook. Is it acceptable to do so? Please share your thoughts. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge

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Foto multimedia
by Pablo Kulopez 26 Dec '11

26 Dec '11

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Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi
by Hisham 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

[cross-posting to reach pan-India; apologies if you have got it from some other mailing list.] Hi Folks, As you might be aware, the Consultant, Team Support position is to be filled as part of the India Programs team. (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004251….) I am really pleased and excited to announce that Subhashish Panigrahi has agreed to join as Consultant, Community & Program Support. Some of you might know Subhashish (or Subha as he's also called.) He is all of 23 and a wonderful Wikimedian from Odisha. He has a BE in Biotechnology from Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Bangalore. He has worked for about 1 1/2 years in business development and is currently based in Bangalore. He's been an active Wikimedian since a friend of his attended a Wikipedia 10th event in Bangalore in January and told Subha about Wikipedia. Subha then spent considerable time - quite a bit of it in Shiju Alex's living room apparently :-) - learning about Wikipedia. Since then, he's been on fire! He's helped the Bangalore community organise the monthly meet-ups, been a central figure in building community & momentum for Odia Wikipedia and has conducted outreach programs for Odia projects back home in Odisha as well as in Bangalore. He's also been helping out other projects and communities; a couple of weekends ago he was in Chennai conducting a WikiAcademy there. He is a fantastically inspiring example of a complete outsider being welcomed into the family, having his hand held in his growth as a newbie, charging forward taking responsibility & ownership and then spreading his skills & knowledge to others. He is also one of the sweetest human beings I have ever met. He is a perfect example of the Wikimedia Dream. His interests (outside of Wikimedia) are cooking, graphic design and handwriting analysis. (I bet most of you who know Subha don't know that last bit about him. So the next time you see him, show him your writing and get him to reveal your deep dark secrets!) He has also been involved with campaigns for social work during the floods and cholera outbreak in Odisha and been involved with a Odisha community organisation, eOdissa.com. Originally, the Consultant, Team Support position (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs#Team_S…) was to manage the back-end aspects of India Programs (basic accounting, basic personnel management, office administration, travel support, expense statement management, logistics support for the community, etc.) I have been looking at the actual work load involved and I do not think this is a full time role. The functions listed are essential and need to be done - but there is an opportunity to improve the richness of the position and it's value to the community. I'm therefore proposing that the Consultant, Team Support be redesignated to Consultant, Community & Program Support. I envisage this position to have about 1/3 of time spent on the back-end work listed above but 2/3 of time can be very productively utilised supporting community efforts - such as helping community building & outreach and supporting community-led initiatives. An important consideration I have for this redesignation is after looking at the specific skills that Subha brings to the table; I want to make sure that he has the required space to realise his potential and to support the community and movement. Subha will of course continue to pursue his personal voluntary work for and as part of the Wikimedia community. The one question that he emphasized during the selection process was whether he would retain the flexibility to continue to pursue his personal passions on Wikimedia; the answer he got was a loud Y-E-S!!! :-) I'm delighted to have another community member joining the team. He'll formally start in Delhi on January 9th 2012. Do join me in welcoming him. Warmest Regards, hisham

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-chn] mediawiki-uploader
by Shrinivasan T 17 Dec '11

17 Dec '11

did any one use gthumb and mediawiki-uploader? do we need any further improvements? please share your thoughts.

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mediawiki-uploader
by Shrinivasan T 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Friends. Tamil Wikipedia announced a Media Contest to increase the commons media files like photos, audio and video in the wikipedia world. see the announcement here. http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en To upload the photos there are two ways available so far. 1. The web based upload wizard http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard 2. Java based upload tool - Commonist http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist We have to provide a detailed filename and description to the images for uploading. When we have a bunch of photos to upload, we have to select them, crop, or edit them before uploading. Found that that "GThumb Image Viewer" can show the files, edit the files and add IPTC tags to the images. We can view,edit,delete,rotate,crop and add the required Description and Title to the images for uploading to wikimedia commons. How to upload the files? There are two tools already. But, I wanted to plugin to any image viewer to upload to wikimedia commons directly. No image viewer has that plugin. DigiKam has it, but due to some issues, the mediawiki plugin is not released. So, I started to write my own script for uploading all the files in a folder to upload to mediawiki. Here is it. http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-uploader/ Usage details are available in INSTALL and README files. Thanks for the wikipedia users Surya and Sodabottle for their valuable suggestions. Please report if there are any issues. Provide your suggestions for improving too. Thanks. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge

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