* Vote early, vote often. #DPL2012.

Hello Debian Folks!, This is my first post to Planet Debian. I'm vasudev a 24 year old Debian Maintainer from India. Thanks to Kartik for adding my blog feed to Planet Debian. Till next post. Cya!

Hello Debian Folks!, This is my first post to Planet Debian. I'm vasudev a 24 year old Debian Maintainer from India. Thanks to Kartik for adding my blog feed to Planet Debian. Till next post. Cya!

We in Debian-IN team where maintaining ttf-indic-fonts a set of fonts for all Indian language fonts from various origin. This package used to build around 7 to 10 binary package of different Indian language. The source package ttf-indic-fonts was itself a mess. It was a native package it was mixing all fonts with active upstream and inactive upstream together which was hard to maintain. Last April I transitioned this package from old packaging style (which version I don't remember) to dh7 standard. At the same time bubulle asked me it would be great if I can rename the package to Fonts team new packaging policy Even though I was just beginning with Debian packaging I dared to propose a draft :) Well it was in May and now its March 2012 almost one year over and We have successfully finished the transition and Kartik uploaded all packages to Debian. Now Debian-IN team maintains 62 packages and me? Yeah my package count jumped from 12 to 38! Almost close to close to number of packages Kartik is maintaining :) Please do the testing report any bugs! Cya

We in Debian-IN team where maintaining ttf-indic-fonts a set of fonts for all Indian language fonts from various origin. This package used to build around 7 to 10 binary package of different Indian language. The source package ttf-indic-fonts was itself a mess. It was a native package it was mixing all fonts with active upstream and inactive upstream together which was hard to maintain. Last April I transitioned this package from old packaging style (which version I don't remember) to dh7 standard. At the same time bubulle asked me it would be great if I can rename the package to Fonts team new packaging policy Even though I was just beginning with Debian packaging I dared to propose a draft :) Well it was in May and now its March 2012 almost one year over and We have successfully finished the transition and Kartik uploaded all packages to Debian. Now Debian-IN team maintains 62 packages and me? Yeah my package count jumped from 12 to 38! Almost close to close to number of packages Kartik is maintaining :) Please do the testing report any bugs! Cya

* We ve now done with big transition of Indic fonts from ttf-* naming to fonts-*. Debian-IN-Workers team now maintains around 61 packages. We ve also finished process of moving to Git from SVN along with this. Kudos to Vasudev, Muneeb and AbdulKarim for taking lead, help and pushing me hard for upload and testing. (31 packages upload on Sunday night = 62 times my GPG passphrase, not counting couple of wrong entries )

* In case of you ve noticed, this blog has new URL: http://0x1f1f.wordpress.com, reading from Planet Debian doesn t harm your feed reader (if any readers left ). * On Debian front, I m mostly helping Debian-IN-Workers team to finish ttf->fonts naming transition and moving rest of packages to Git. Vasudev and Muneeb has done most of these work, well done! Rest of my time with Debian goes to usual updates of packages and in reading debian-devel during weekends. It is still fun, yeah. * And, illumian is born. * On personal side, life is great as usual. It looks that couple of dentist visit is coming soon. I also started jogging/running regularly since couple of months. In case you re interested, I m on dailymile too.

* This post is almost translation of my this post on Gujarati blog (with some corrections and additions etc). If you re not interested in Wikipedia, move on. So, as I mentioned here and here, Wikipedians in Ahmedabad planned event: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad. We gathered at Gandhi Ashram. Met Noopur again and some volunteers were already there at 8 AM. I never been to Ashram since long time. This place has something, you know it, folks! People started coming around 8.30 and we quickly divided them based upon their interests on 4 routes we already decided. Most of people went to old city s route 1 and our route 2 had odd 6 (and 2 coordinaters) people only. Good. Less is always good. Noopur and Anirudh gave introduction to wikipedia, creative commons license and some basic rules and todo. We then left for Swaminarayan Temple at Sahibaug. We asked for permission to take photographs and we got it after meeting main swamiji there along with nice sweets and he promised to send professional picture for wikipedia to use. We then left for Delhi Darwaja. Ahmedabad has numbers of old fort gates. We covered some of them and moved to Kalupur Railway Station. Palak and Chirag were caught by traffic police and we should take care of following rules from next time. Point noted for next photowalk. We then left for Zulta Minar. This is well known for its carving and some myths associated with it. We discussed some points regarding uploading pictures, categories and left for Raipur Darwaja. This place is famous for Bhajiyas. We didn t taste it but had again fun taking pictures, talking to police and had smile before we leave for home. Only bad thing I ve got in this walk is that due to some or other reason my phone s touch screen seems stopped working That s another topic, but I couldn t call Noopur/Anirudh for lunch etc due to that You can view all uploaded pictures at: Categories: Ahmedabad 1 Most of Ahmedabad is covered due to event. Time to write articles?

* Some months back, we (Mark Hills is main culprit here) decided to fork xosview codebase and released new version 1.9.0. I had no luck contacting main authors and there were 23 Debian patches pending. Mark did amazing job here and we ve one major and one minor releases in two months. Kudos to him again. You can always grab latest Debian packages from unstable and code from Mark s Github xosview project page. Temporary homepage until we take over SF.net project is here. Feel free to send patches! (This post is bought to you by myself that this blog exists )

* What a lazy DD I m. My new GPG key transition document is available at: http://people.debian.org/~kartik/gpg-transition-kartik.txt.asc Many thanks to Christian Perrier for this. Please consider signing my new shiny key: 0x783AA4DE And, yes. It is fun to be at MiniDebconf here in Nitte.

* Life: As usual. * Debian: Lots of stuffs going on. We ve yet another MiniDebConf edition, this time at Mangalore. (Not really, it is at: NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte) And, yes, we ve some nice international guests this time. (Ah, hello, bubulle!). I ve booked ticket etc. even I m heading there during Diwali time, I hope that it will be more fun than usual crackers + sweets etc this time! gwibber still sucks. * There is nothing apart from Life, Debian that needs update. Aye. Aye.

* Alas. Not going to DebConf 11

* We re doing heavy uploading and fixing in Debian-IN repository nowadays. Thanks to Vasudev for taking initiative on Git migration + various nice stuffs pending from long time. * Gwibber is till mess. Help wanted as usual! * And, MiniDebConf India at Pune is planned at Pune again. Unless, it is colliding heavily with my wife s plan, I ll be there as last time

* Dear Lazyweb, I have Macbook (Late 2008) model running Debian Sid + Mac OS X (sigh!) and I m facing nice issues which prevents me to full use of disk. They re: 1. CD-ROM drive doesn t work. So, if I want to upgrade to Snow Leopard or anything else, there is no other way. 2. Disk is 160 GB, I want to upgrade to better disk (say with better speed, capacity). Is there any way to clone entire disk (with partition preserved) and use it? Remember: I don t have CD-ROM 3. Is there any way to wipe-out Mac OS X and running Debian with hardware acceleration? I ve noticed that if you single boot Debian, it lacks Video acceleration. Any pointers towards above 3 is appreciate. I ll hostname my computer if you help me to fix this

* Finally! Thanks to Sham who forced me for this

* It is always fantastic being with Kernel, Device Drivers, File Systems and Network Protocol and yeah, Illumos, NCP and NexentaStor! So, if you re around or in St. Petersburg, Krasnodar or Northen Boston (or even somewhere else too) read below we re hiring! From, John Goerzen s recent post,

Oh, and if you d like to work for us, you should probably be sending me an email. No, I m not going to list the address here on this blog post. If you can t figure it out, I don t want to hear from you

Yes. And, I m talking about Localization in Localization foo talk. Speaker list is awesome. See you there! * List of talks: http://kde.in/conf/talks/
* Delegate registration: http://kde.in/conf/register/ In case, you re in Ahmedabad or near by (and college student!) , I ve awesome posters to put into your college notice board to let your friends and spread the word. Ping me that case.

* So, Debian 6.0 Squeeze is released! And, congratulations and thanks to all people involved. Lets have party now!

* Finally, as announced here. Thanks formorer! Point your browser to, http://lists.debian.org/debian-dug-in/ subscribe and have fun!!

* No, we don t have moksha packaged yet. Sometime ago, Nirav forwarded me query regarding Utkarsh (my project where our goal was to provide complete Gujarati interface in OS) who got CD long time back but facing some issue. Last week, I decided to help and finish this pending task and went to place we decided. It was small laptop (ie EEE PC) for guru of group called, OM Parivar. I installed Ubuntu and customized it for Gujarati interface and required software. Second time, I went to Guruji s place for small training and I was wondering how fast man of 82 years can learn! He was very happy to see me helping and so I m converting more person to Linux. I also explained why I m using Linux and we even discussed about some Free Software philosophy. Next time: Keep Debian Installer with USB boot handy