Saturday, December 17, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
[IMPORTANT] [projet reste à faire] Les sources de vos projet
- README qui explique un peu ce que l'on trouve,
- INSTALL qui explique comment faire marcher votre logiciel
- et enfin TODO qui explique ce qui n'est pas encore fait!
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Open source web conferencing | The Open Source Advocate
Have you ever wanted to attend a webinar but quickly discovered that the web-conference service doesn't even support your operating system? This has happened to me several times and it irks me greatly! I always make sure to tell the company that they should switch their web-conferencing service to one that supports multiple platforms including Linux.
It is somewhat hypocritical when an open source company offers a webinar about their open source product, but they don't allow customers with open source operating systems like Linux to attend. I ran into this ridiculous issue when trying to attend a Zimbra webinar. I told them that it was wrong for them to have such great multi-platform support in their product and at the same time only allow Windows users to participate in their webinars. We'll see if they take that advice to heart.
A conference GNU/Linux Server
Dear reader, you may be involved in organising conferences or just simple meeting. You know that it is sometime difficult for some participants to attend such meetings, travel costs, hotel bookings, important deadlines to meet, while they could be listening to the proceeding from work and interact from time to time with the speakers. I wanted to leverage my knowledge of Linux to provide an all in one solution on one machine to provide, Internet access to participants and allow everybody with an Internet connection to participate in the meeting.
This HOWTO is published on The Linux Documentation Project this is where you will find the latest version of this document.
Research Survey: A questionnaire on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Arab World
Research Survey: A questionnaire on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Arab World
Knowledge, usage, and needs
Ma3bar is kindly inviting you to fill out the questionnaire that is available via http://www.fossarab.net/
This questionnaire aims at gauging your views about the current status of Free & Open Source Software in the Arab region with the view of spreading awareness and promoting its adoption.
This questionnaire is part of a research conducted by a regional research team affiliated with the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at the School of Business of the American University in Cairo, in collaboration with Ma3bar, the Arab Support Center for Free & Open Source Software at the University of Balamand, Al-Kurah, Lebanon.
Your opinion is vital for the success of this research and will be treated in the strictest confidence within the ethical code of practice for field research at the American University in Cairo; thus the information gathered will solely be used to compile statistics. No data about you as an individual will be disclosed in any published results.
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Enquête Recherche: Un Questionnaire sur le Logiciel Libre et Open Source (FOSS) dans le monde arabe
Connaissance, utilisation et besoins
Ma3bar vous invite à bien vouloir remplir le questionnaire qui est disponible sur http://www.fossarab.net/?q=fr
Ce questionnaire vise à évaluer votre point de vue sur l'état actuel des logiciels libres dans la région arabe en vue de propager la sensibilisation et la promotion de son adoption.
Ce questionnaire fait partie d'une recherche menée par l'équipe de recherche régionale affiliée au centre "Access to Knowledge for Development" (A2K4D) à l'École de Gestion de l'université américaine du Caire, en collaboration avec Ma3bar, le centre de soutien arabe des logiciels libres et open source à l'Université de Balamand, El-Koura, Liban.
Votre avis est essentiel pour la réussite de cette recherche et sera traitée dans la plus stricte confidentialité dans le code éthique des chercheurs à l'université américaine au Caire. Toutes informations recueillies seront exclusivement utilisées pour compiler des statistiques. Aucune des données personnelles ne sera divulgué dans les résultats publiés.
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بحث إستطلاعي: استمارة البرمجيات الحرّة ومفتوحة المصدر في العالم العربي
المعرفة، الاستخدام، والاحتياجات
يدعوكم معبر لملء الإستمارة المتوفّرة على الموقع: http://www.fossarab.net/?q=ar
تهدف هذه الاستمارة الى تبيان رأيكم حول الوضع الراهن للبرمجيات الحُرّة ومفتوحة المصدر في الوطن العربي بهدف نشر الوعي وتشجيع اعتمادها.
هذه الإستمارة هي جزء من البحث الذي يقوم به فريق الأبحاث الإقليمي التابع لمركز "المعرفة من أجل التنمية" في كلية إدارة الأعمال في الجامعة الأميركية في القاهرة، بالتعاون مع "مَعْبَر"، المركز العربي لدعم البرمجيّات الحُرّة ومفتوحة المصدر في جامعة البلمند، الكورة، لبنان.
ان وجهات نظركم مهمة جداً لنجاح هذا البحث العلمي وسوف يتم معالجتها في سرية تامة بحسب القوانين الأخلاقية والسلوكية المعتمدة للبحث الميداني في الجامعة الأميركية في القاهرة. لذا سوف تستعمل البيانات المجمَّعة لغايات احصائية فقط دون ذكر أسماء المشتركين في أي حال من الأحوال.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Usenix: Dartmouth Updating Diff, Grep Unix Tools
Dartmouth University researchers are updating the grep and diff Unix command line-based text analysis tools available in all Linux and Unix distributions to handle more complex types of data. The updates are needed because "we now tend to have more model-based configuration languages that have meaningful constructs spanning more than one line," says Dartmouth graduate student Gabriel Weaver. The researchers say the updated tools will enable administrators to extract meaningful data from configuration files, log files, and other sources of operational data. The output from either of these programs can be linked to other utilities, enabling them to be incorporated into scripts that automate routine system administration tasks. The new programs, called Context-Free Grep and Hierarchical Diff, will provide the ability to parse blocks of data rather than single lines. For each new type of data structure, a vendor would provide a pattern library identifying the basic structure of the data, which the software would then use to "extract the constructs of interest from the document," Weaver says.
http://www.computerworld.com/