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See also: Debian Utsavam, Kerala version of Debian Utsav.

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Pune

COEP Round Two

Venue : COEP FOSS Lab, 2nd Floor ENTC Section

Dates : 31st March 2012 and 1st April 2012 Postponed

Timings : from 10:00 onwards.

Schedule :-

Day 1 31st March 2012 :-

Why contribute to Free software/commons Discussion shirish, Praveen,?AbdulKarim and Muneeb panelists. Timings : 10:00 - 11:00 IST

Break - 15 minutes Timings : 11:00 - 11:15 am IST

Newbies session Pt. 1 - Prasann, Prashant Timings : 11:15 - 12:15 IST

Lunch break - 1 hour Timings : 12:15 - 13:15 IST

Newbies session Pt. 2 Prasann, Prashant Timings : 13:15 - 14:15 IST

Break - 15 minutes Timings :14:15 - 14:30

Learning build from source Prashant Prasann Timings : 14:30 - 15:30 IST

Break - 15 minutes Timings : 15:30 - 15:45

Why contribute to Debian Shirish, Praveen and ?AbdulKarim Timings : 15:45 - 16:45 IST

Day 1 is over

Day 2 1st April 2012 :-

Packaging PT 1 Timings : 10:00 IST - 11:00 IST

Break - 15 minutes Timings : 11:00 - 11:15 IST

Packaging PT 2 Timings : 11:15 - 12:30 IST

Lunch break 1 hour Timings : 12:30 - 13:30 IST

'Start maintaining a package' Timings : 13:30 - 17:30

Software requirements for day 1 :- apt, apt-get, build-essential in your debian-based/derivative distribution.

Software requirements for day 2 :- dhmake,devscripts,lintian,debhelper, dpkg-dev, pbuilder, sbuild should suffice.

SICSR

Sunday 26th February 2012, Starting 10 a.m. Please join us.

Contact Shirish on +91 9763330874 or shirishag75 at gmail dot com

Contact Meha - use her diaspora profile

Shirish's presentation -> Shirish-presentation-sicsr-debian-utsav-odp

Rough Schedule of the event

COEP

Saturday 4th Feb 2012, starting at 10.30 am. Come to Seminar Hall Entc Extension Building - More details including full schedule!

Agenda:

  1. Concept of upstream and downstream
  2. Why we need a package?
  3. How a new package enter into debian? WNPP
  4. PTS and BTS
  5. Debian release process - what is unstable, testing and stable?
  6. What is special about Debian? Social Contract, DFSG, Constitution
  7. Getting your package into debian - sponsors/mentors
  8. Becoming a DD/DM
  9. gpg keys and web of trust
  10. Teams in debian: debian-ruby, debian-in, debian-publicity, debian-desktop, debian-live
  11. shfeed2js, diaspora, friendica

Contact Shravan or Sana or Abhijith sir - use cofsug list

Reactions

  1. diaspora posting by Praveen'

  2. Blog post by Shirish

Magarpatta City

Sunday 29th Jan 2012. Come and learn packaging!

Contact Praveen on +91 9561745712 or pravi dot a at gmail dot come

Call before coming.

We completed packaging of capistrano-ext. Ritesh, Praveen and Minto participated. We had awesome pork fry with mashed potatoes :)

VIT

Suggest a date and help plan this!

Contact Tejas Bubane - use valu list

This talk will not happen. Instead there will be a combined one in VIIT (see below).

VIIT

Suggest a date and help plan this!

Contact Akshay Mankar - use valu list