I have a “real” blog now
Which no one knows about and about which I shall tell none. I have written the filthiest stuff that is possible for a human to conjure up, so I do not give away the link to *anyone* under *any* circumstance. I thoroughly enjoy blogging now.
A new event for http://mukti09.in
Hack-a-Project
Objective: To build an active community of opensource developers at NIT Durgapur.
Target: All interested people
Abstract: There will be a list of open source projects put up and a set of possible features that need to be added to these projects. The participant is supposed to go through the list carefully and select a project of his choice and then contact a project mentor from among us. We shall provide advice on the feasibility of the selected project based on the skill level of the participant and guide him/her along the way.
There will be approximately one hack session per week in one of the labs in the college to demonstrate the practice of hacking source code in a large project and the use of common tools for the purpose.
There will be screencasts put up on how to use CVS/SVN and how to join IRC. Each participant must blog about his progress and experiences.
One week before Mukti, they send in their contributions and blog links. We evaluate submissions based on :
- Quality of work,
- Importance/significance of work,
- Amount of work done
- Degree of involvement with community
Possible Projects: LDTP, dhvani, HindiASR, Linuxdcpp, gedit, IndicOCR
p2p helpline
Foss helpline
Abstract: Any person who has a problem regarding FOSS/Linux should be able to call a particular phone number (if it were the US, the number would be like 1800-555-LINUX) and get his problem solved. If the problem is not solvable over phone, someone close to that particular location should take it up and visit the person. The idea is to apply a distributed peer-2-peer approach to this FOSS helpline. On the other side of the helpline, people interested in helping out people, basically linux enthusiasts will register and volunteer their services. This will be done on a website. They will be asked questions such as:
- Days on which you can receive calls. From what time to what time. Maximum number of calls you can handle per day.
- Your area of expertise
- Address
- Other ways to contact you
We shall employ some opensource PBX software. The top 2 candidates look like Asterisk and FreeSWITCH.
Hardware:
- SIP Voice Terminal Adapter. DVG-2001S is from Dlink and costs around 3000 Rs.
- A server
- A telephone (will require 3-4 lines)
Software:
- PBX software
- Bugzilla issue tracker system
- Some PHP based script that ranks a prospective call taker in terms of his expertise and proximity to the caller’s location
- Ideally, we should use some VoIP protocol to transfer calls.
- A multi-line capable VOIP Adapter.
- Multiple telephone lines.
- Bandwidth, which our institute already possesses.
- Subscription to a VOIP provider.
Links:
The idea is to make this robust and extremely scalable. if successful in Bengal, should be extended to the service of the nation.
