10:01:08 <FranciscoD> #startmeeting Fedora India - 20201211 10:01:08 <zodbot> Meeting started Fri Dec 11 10:01:08 2020 UTC. 10:01:08 <zodbot> This meeting is logged and archived in a public location. 10:01:08 <zodbot> The chair is FranciscoD. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 10:01:08 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 10:01:08 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'fedora_india_-_20201211' 10:01:15 <FranciscoD> #meetingname fedora-india 10:01:15 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'fedora-india' 10:01:32 <FranciscoD> #chair siddharthvipul dhanesh|m King sankarshan ksinny 10:01:32 <zodbot> Current chairs: FranciscoD King dhanesh|m ksinny sankarshan siddharthvipul 10:01:42 <FranciscoD> Folks please let me know if you are here over IRC/Matrix so I can chair you 10:01:55 <siddharthvipul> .hello siddharthvipul1 10:01:56 <zodbot> siddharthvipul: siddharthvipul1 'Vipul Siddharth' <siddharthvipul1@gmail.com> 10:01:58 <FranciscoD> Folks over the telegram bridge cannot currently use meeting commands 10:02:08 <FranciscoD> #topic Agenda 10:02:24 <King> hi FranciscoD 10:02:25 <King> what's up 10:02:30 <FranciscoD> #info No particular agenda for today's meeting. Primarily an informal meet and greet. 10:02:36 <siddharthvipul> do we note agenda somewhere public? like a pad or something 10:02:41 <siddharthvipul> got it] 10:02:43 <FranciscoD> #topic Introductions and roll call 10:02:58 <FranciscoD> siddharthvipul: not for today, I guess once we start doing a few things, we'll have stuff to put on an agenda? 10:03:01 <FranciscoD> King: hello! 10:03:19 <siddharthvipul> hey King \o 10:03:24 <siddharthvipul> FranciscoD, fair enough 10:03:32 <FranciscoD> folks, please use the info command to ensure that what you say is noted in the logs 10:03:37 <siddharthvipul> so, how is everyone? :D 10:03:57 <FranciscoD> general introduction: FAS, Name, IRC/Telegram nick, Timezone, Interests (Fedora and otherwise) 10:04:06 <FranciscoD> siddharthvipul: pretty good, looking forward to a bit of a break, though :) 10:04:21 <siddharthvipul> oh, I will do my intro (right after another roll call in right section) :P 10:04:27 <siddharthvipul> .hello siddharthvipul1 10:04:28 <zodbot> siddharthvipul: siddharthvipul1 'Vipul Siddharth' <siddharthvipul1@gmail.com> 10:04:37 <FranciscoD> #info ankursinha, Ankur Sinha, FranciscoD, UTC+0, Fedora-join, NeuroFedora, lots of other random Fedora bits 10:05:32 <tg-fedindia1> <sanjay_ankur> @iamajaypathak @attractive_bee ^ 10:05:36 <siddharthvipul> #info siddharthvipul1, Vipul Siddharth, siddharthvipul, UTC+5:30, Fedora-admin, Fedora-India :P, and yeah, a lot of random stuff (mainly involving around CI) 10:05:45 <FranciscoD> weren't there more folks over Telegram etc. that were interested? 10:05:48 * FranciscoD can't remember 10:06:23 <siddharthvipul> FranciscoD, I think so.. I guess no calendar invitation is the culprit (I created one as you suggested, have been doing the same for all) 10:06:27 <FranciscoD> King: would you like to log your introduction? 10:06:39 <FranciscoD> siddharthvipul: I sent out a reminder an hour ago, and another last evening 10:07:10 <King> of course 10:07:15 <siddharthvipul> FranciscoD, no worries, we can catch up :P and hopefully from next time we will have more people 10:07:16 <King> I have been here for years now 10:07:25 <FranciscoD> kital: you around? been a while :) 10:07:27 <FranciscoD> sankarshan: you too? 10:08:00 <tg-fedindia1> <iamajaypathak> Hey, I'll join in 20-25minutes... 10:08:21 <siddharthvipul> @iamajaypathak, meeting will last just 30 minutes I think 10:08:26 <siddharthvipul> (22 minutes from now) 10:08:34 <FranciscoD> yeh, not a lot on the agenda today :) 10:08:46 <tg-fedindia1> <iamajaypathak> Oops, Tomorrow? Then 10:08:52 <FranciscoD> are there any folks looking to get started with Fedora or contributing to Fedora? 10:09:08 <tg-fedindia1> <iamajaypathak> Both 10:09:19 <FranciscoD> @iamajaypathak: the next meeting will probably be next year now 10:09:31 <siddharthvipul> lol yeah 10:09:32 <tg-fedindia1> <iamajaypathak> Ouch, it hurts 10:09:35 <FranciscoD> I wanted to have a quick one before everyone went on christmas/new year holidays 10:09:51 <FranciscoD> just to get the ball rolling 10:09:58 <siddharthvipul> of course, in next meeting I will drop "we have been doing it for a year now" 10:10:15 <FranciscoD> In general though, if folks are looking to get started with Fedora, please ask away 10:10:21 <tg-fedindia1> <iamajaypathak> I am damn new towards contributing, Like I know C, C++ and Py but don't know where to start and seeing a code makes me confuses 10:10:25 <tg-fedindia1> <iamajaypathak> (edited) I am damn new towards contributing, Like I know C, C++ and Py but don't know where to start and seeing a code makes me confuse 10:10:32 <siddharthvipul> yess, I am also interested in helping :) 10:10:41 <FranciscoD> there's also the Fedora-Join SIG that helps newcomers get started with Fedora 10:10:49 <siddharthvipul> @joinfedora on telegram 10:11:03 <FranciscoD> #info Fedora-Join SIG: helping newcomers contribute to Fedora: @joinfedora on Telegram, #fedora-join on IRC 10:11:11 <FranciscoD> siddharthvipul: haha, yeh, it will be "over a year" :P 10:11:25 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> Hii everyone. My name is Mihir Kumar Jha. Currently an enginerring student. I started using Fedora from last year. For this meeting at first I got confused where to join 😆 10:11:40 <FranciscoD> welcome @mihir_jha! 10:12:00 <siddharthvipul> mihir_jha, happens, how are you doing? (you too iamajaypathak) 10:12:15 <FranciscoD> Where are you studying? I started contributing to Fedora in uni too. I was at Manipal ~9 years ago :D 10:12:34 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> Thanks Ankur! I got to know about you when I first read about your articlein Fedora Magazine. 10:12:47 <FranciscoD> :D 10:12:57 <siddharthvipul> FranciscoD, oh, a good one (I will chime in as well). I started contributing to Fedora QE in my III sem of bachelors @CHRIST (bangalore) 10:12:58 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> I am good. thanks for asking.. 10:13:06 <FranciscoD> the one siddharthvipul wrote :D 10:13:20 <siddharthvipul> FranciscoD, The one I make @climoiselle write haha 10:13:25 <FranciscoD> XD 10:13:28 <FranciscoD> even better 10:13:36 <siddharthvipul> but it was a great interview.. we have a few in line.. hoping to push one this week 10:13:48 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> Oh wow! I am studying in SRM University situated in Tamil Nadu. Just got a placement offer also :P i am in my final year 10:13:59 <FranciscoD> nice 10:14:15 <siddharthvipul> that's great.. congratulations :D 10:14:20 <FranciscoD> do you have a Fedora account yet @mihir_jha? 10:14:45 <FranciscoD> that'll be step 1 to getting started: it gives you access to all the community infrastructure 10:14:58 <FranciscoD> @iamvijaypathak: you too, have a Fedora account yet? 10:15:03 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> Yes, I have. I used that account to sign up for the newsletters also. 10:15:17 <FranciscoD> awesome, what is your Fedora username? 10:15:30 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> It is mihirkj 10:15:30 <FranciscoD> #info Create your Fedora account here. It only takes a minute: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ 10:15:42 <FranciscoD> .fasinfo mihirkj 10:15:43 <zodbot> FranciscoD: User: mihirkj, Name: Mihir Kumar Jha, email: mihirk953@gmail.com, Creation: 2020-06-26, IRC Nick: None, Timezone: UTC, Locale: C, GPG key ID: None, Status: active 10:15:46 <zodbot> FranciscoD: Approved Groups: cla_done cla_fpca 10:15:47 <FranciscoD> yep :) 10:15:50 <FranciscoD> mihirkj++ 10:15:50 <zodbot> FranciscoD: Karma for mihirkj changed to 1 (for the current release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 10:15:56 <FranciscoD> your first every cookie! 10:16:06 <siddharthvipul> mihirkj++ and the second one :) 10:16:07 <zodbot> siddharthvipul: Karma for mihirkj changed to 2 (for the current release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 10:16:25 <FranciscoD> #info Fedora contributors get cookies and badges (and lots more!) as they participate in the community: https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ 10:16:49 <siddharthvipul> give me all the cookies and the badges.. can never have too many 10:16:57 <tg-fedindia1> <iamajaypathak> Me? Not yet 10:17:24 <siddharthvipul> King, oh, you didn't introduce yourself :D do you still want to do it? 10:17:42 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> :D cool!! Lol i am seeing several cookies... Not aware how i got them 10:18:16 <King> siddharthvipul, I am that guy, 'king of kings' 10:18:30 <King> I am from Gujarat, India, an IT professional, 28 years old 10:18:43 <King> I used Fedora long ago 10:18:56 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> I created my Fedora account as I wanted to join the KDE mailing list. 10:19:04 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> So.. any KDE users here? :P 10:19:10 <FranciscoD> @aimajaypathak: if you create one and let us know what your username is, you'll also get your first cookies :) 10:19:15 <FranciscoD> @iamajaypathak: if you create one and let us know what your username is, you'll also get your first cookies :) 10:19:22 * FranciscoD has been making more typos recently 10:19:33 <siddharthvipul> oh, don't remember king of kings :( but hey, good to know you :D what's your fasid (if you have one) 10:19:48 <FranciscoD> @mihir_jha: I'm more a terminal user, but for the DE, I just use the standard workstation/gnome 10:19:57 <King> no idea about it anymore 10:20:22 <FranciscoD> .fas king 10:20:23 <zodbot> FranciscoD: nosmoking 'victorbo' <victorbo428@hotmail.com> - linhelurking 'Lin He' <linhe.lurking@gmail.com> - kujyhgdfd 'iuyuhngbfvd' <WeekingpowGaryt@gmail.com> - mailsmani 'Manikandan' <networkingmani@gmail.com> - thecking 'Valter Pereira Vianna' <adalabs@gmail.com> - kingdomkeeper 'Kyle Keevill' <tgxkingdomkeeper@gmail.com> - omarnaas 'Omar Naas' <king_rero@yahoo.co.uk> - harley 'Dana E Hoffman Jr' <lizard_king825@yahoo.com> - (52 more messages) 10:20:33 <FranciscoD> oo, loads there XD 10:20:37 <King> lol 10:22:26 <siddharthvipul> oh, I am back to work on Monday (after a looong vacation) 10:22:35 <siddharthvipul> so yay, excited 10:22:38 <FranciscoD> haha 10:22:43 <FranciscoD> I'm going away for 2 weeks next week 10:22:52 <FranciscoD> I haven't had a proper break this year 10:22:54 <siddharthvipul> FranciscoD, oh awesome, any specific plans? 10:23:00 <FranciscoD> finished my course and went straight to work etc. 10:23:05 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> ohh.. so used to work without any DE. At most I have encountered people using WMs. I will probably also become as proficient to be able to run OS using the terminal only xD 10:23:23 <FranciscoD> siddharthvipul: not really, can't do much with covid etc., so just stay home 10:23:32 <FranciscoD> the primary change will probably just be less screen time TBH 10:23:32 <siddharthvipul> FranciscoD, hey, staycations are the best 10:23:37 <FranciscoD> they are 10:24:12 <FranciscoD> @mihir_jha: yeh, I have tmux+byobu open all the time, do most work there. GUI comes in handy for web browsing + calendar etc 10:24:14 <siddharthvipul> I am out of Bangalore for ~2.5 months now.. came to this hillstation for 2 weeks.. still going on :P 10:24:14 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> Hii.. you work at RedHAt right? 😅 Doyou live in India or abroad? 10:24:23 <FranciscoD> siddharthvipul: nice 10:24:38 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> oh.. got it 10:25:02 <siddharthvipul> mihir, yeah I work in this team called CPE (if you follow devil list, you know :P) 10:25:16 <siddharthvipul> don't correct me, please XD 10:25:23 <FranciscoD> #info Fedora CPE: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/ 10:25:37 <FranciscoD> I'm in academia, so I work at a university XD 10:26:10 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> oh.. i was not aware of this team 10:26:35 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> you work as an instructor there? 10:26:49 <FranciscoD> take a look at this. Fedora is *huge* https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/orgchart/ 10:27:18 <FranciscoD> I'm a research fellow, so teaching is not part of my responsibilities at the moment. 10:27:26 <FranciscoD> #info Fedora is huge: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/orgchart/ 10:27:26 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> :ooo 10:27:37 <siddharthvipul> oh, I have something to share 10:27:38 <siddharthvipul> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/distro-devroom-fosdem-cfp-open/ 10:27:48 <FranciscoD> siddharthvipul: want to info that? 10:28:07 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> okayy.. and neuroscience is your research domian? 10:28:22 <siddharthvipul> #info CFP for Distribution devroom at FOSDEM is open, read more at : https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/distro-devroom-fosdem-cfp-open/ 10:28:41 <FranciscoD> @mihir_jha: yeh, :) 10:28:48 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> cool :D 10:29:04 <FranciscoD> #info FOSDEM is *free* and *online* https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/ 10:29:42 <siddharthvipul> and also my favorite conference (I don't count Flock/nest in lists, it tops it all) 10:30:17 <FranciscoD> yeh 10:30:26 <FranciscoD> there's also the research tools and tech track 10:30:42 <FranciscoD> #info FOSDEM research tools track: https://research-fosdem.github.io/ 10:30:55 <FranciscoD> we'll try to present NeuroFedora there again 10:31:02 <siddharthvipul> FranciscoD, yayy 10:31:43 <siddharthvipul> oh, we have some new interns in outreachy, and one of then is from India I think 10:32:00 <siddharthvipul> (blog post introducing them is one the way) 10:33:19 <FranciscoD> nice 10:33:32 <FranciscoD> it'll be good to get more folks here for the regular meetings 10:34:15 <FranciscoD> perhaps I can send the reminder to -devel next time too, just the once. In case folks aren't on the -india ML nowadays 10:35:08 <siddharthvipul> sounds good, I can highlight this in Infra, mindshare, etc, meetings as well 10:35:20 <FranciscoD> yeh 10:35:45 <FranciscoD> OK, let's close for today then. 10:35:56 <FranciscoD> Next meeting on Friday 8th Jan, same time? 10:36:06 <tg-fedindia1> <mihir_jha> It was nice interacting with you all!!! 10:36:55 <siddharthvipul> \o bbye y'all.. time to "close" PC for a couple of more days :D 10:37:06 <siddharthvipul> FranciscoD, yep yep 10:38:07 <FranciscoD> awesome 10:38:17 <FranciscoD> #info Next meeting on Friday 8th Jan at 1530 IST 10:38:31 <FranciscoD> siddharthvipul: do you want to chair that one, and then hopefully we'll find someone else to chair the next one after that? :D 10:38:40 <siddharthvipul> sure 10:38:49 * siddharthvipul puts this in his calendar 10:39:14 <FranciscoD> #info siddharthvipul will chair next meeting 10:39:19 <FranciscoD> let's do one action item today 10:39:23 <FranciscoD> #action FranciscoD send out logs 10:39:25 <FranciscoD> XD 10:39:28 <tg-fedindia1> <attractive_bee> Oh oh 10:39:31 <FranciscoD> OK, closing now 10:40:01 <FranciscoD> #endmeeting