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task #6189: Submission of GNU/Linux User Group, National Institute

Submitter:  Debarshi Ray <debarshiray>
Submitted:  Wed 06 Dec 2006 09:00:25 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Wed 06 Dec 2006 08:00:00 PM UTC Should be Finished on:  Sat 16 Dec 2006 08:00:00 PM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  sp Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 18 Jan 2007 03:08:20 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Hello Arjun, Hello Debarshi,

Thank you for your quick responses and the clarification. I have now approved your project/GLUG.

You will receive an automated e-mail containing detailed information about the approval.

Regards,

Stephan

Stephan Peijnik <sp>
Thu 18 Jan 2007 08:08:06 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Hi! I am a member of this GLUG

Stephan:

> As you seem to have a homepage, mailing lists, some webspace
> for your downloads and such already I am wondering about how
> you plan to use your Savannah account. Could you please
> clarify this point?


Debarshi:

> We can continue to have the HTTP and FTP services running
> on our machines, but the mailing list will be the cornerstone
> and an important infrastructure for evolving the community.
> Therefore we are looking for a place like Savannah, where we
> will have to perform lesser amount of maintainence related
> activities.


Well,

I am the part time sysadmin for 'razorblade' (the quad processor monster that serves as the GLUG's webserver). Frankly, our ability to administrate is limited thanks to us being under the guidance of the institute sysadmins. It is not possible for us to run a mailserver (and therefore a mailing list), thanks to firewall rules that don't let us run a DNS server for our own domain. Because of this, mails sent out by us invariably get marked as spam.

If there is a way to avoid this, we would more than love to run our own mailing list.

On another note, I would also like to point out that the GLUG here is very immature. Members are almost entirely all new to GNU/Linux systems. Hopefully this will change with time, especially with a mailing list up and running. (Though I must say, participating in already existing lists will help a lot too, but somehow, people get scared seeing the posts there, and it would be nice if they could hang out and learn together.)

Arjun Shankar <arjunshankar>
Thu 18 Jan 2007 07:09:55 AM UTC, comment #2: 


> As you seem to have a homepage, mailing lists, some webspace
> for your downloads and such already I am wondering about how
> you plan to use your Savannah account. Could you please
> clarify this point


Although we do have some webspace donated to us by the institute (National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India), it is on a temporary basis. However this is not a pressing problem since we can convince them to extend the duration of the donation.

However the university's strict network policy do not allow SSH access to our server from locations outside the campus. One can only have SSH access from within the private network in the campus. This causes certain problems for us. Since our user group mostly consists of end-users, rookie developers, faculty members and research scholars, there are only a couple of people capable enough to perform system administration duties for the machine on which our Web site (http://glug-nith.org/) and FTP site (ftp://glug-nith.org/) are hosted. Whenever these GLUG-NITH system administrators are absent from the campus during vacations, go on tours, or finally graduate, maintaining the server becomes a major problem.

We can continue to have the HTTP and FTP services running on our machines, but the mailing list will be the cornerstone and an important infrastructure for evolving the community. Therefore we are looking for a place like Savannah, where we will have to perform lesser amount of maintainence related activities. This will ensure that the list remains free from disruptions caused by our absence from the campus, which may otherwise affect the Web and FTP sites.

Debarshi Ray <debarshiray>
Wed 17 Jan 2007 10:21:18 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hello,

As you seem to have a homepage, mailing lists, some webspace for your downloads and such already I am wondering about how you plan to use your Savannah account. Could you please clarify this point?

Regards,

Stephan

Stephan Peijnik <sp>
Wed 06 Dec 2006 09:00:25 PM UTC, original submission:  

A new project has been registered at Savannah
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or discards the registration.


Registration Administration


While this item will be useful to track the registration process, approving or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group Administration page, accessible only to site administrators, effectively logged as site administrators (superuser):



Registration Details


  • Name: GNU/Linux User Group, National Institute
  • System Name:  glug-nith
  • Type: GUG
  • License: GNU Free Documentation License





Description:

GLUG NITH is a moniker for the GNU/Linux User Group of National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India.

Our GLUG is mainly designed to cater to the GNU/Linux related needs of the students, faculty, staff, and anybody else belonging to NIT Hamirpur. We are a heterogenous mixture of people ranging from the beta testers and kernel hackers to the fresh-faced newbies, held together together by a common love for GNU/Linux in particular and Free Software in general.



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GNU/Linux User Group, NIT Hamirpur is listed at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-user-groups.html#GLIndia


Debarshi Ray <debarshiray>

 

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