Ubuntu movement at West Sumatra after EarthQuake

Nice picture from my friend, he is Ubuntu activist who works at Air Putih Foundation. Original picture can be found at here http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30419133&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=555223280&id=1143679906

BlankOnf #1

BlankOnf Conference is BlankOn Linux developers. at Here we can discuss all about BlankOn, technical issues, political, future BlankOn. BlankOnf provides an opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to meet in person and work together more closely. It will be held in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, from July 20 to 31, 2009.

Agenda:

Day I
8.30 -  9.30 Registration
9.30 - 10.00 Opening Ceremony
10.00 - 11.00 Utama: "Why Students need participate at BlankOn development", Adrianus Yoza Aprilio (Senior High School Student at malang and also youngest BlankOn Developer) , moderator: Muhammad Takdir
11.00 - 12.00 Utama: "About BlankOn Development", Akhmat Safrudin, moderator: Muhammad Takdir
12.00 - 13.00 Istirahat

Session I
13.00 - 14.00 Discussion: Srimubil (Moderator: Mohammad Anwari a.k.a mdamt)
14.00         Take A picture together
14.30 - 15.30 Tutorial: "How to make bootmenu and usplash at BlankOn" (by: Farhan Perdana)

Session II
13.00 - 14.00 Tutorial: How make GDM (Gnome Display Manager) BlankOn (by: Alit Sudarsana a.k.a webtutorial3)
14.00         Take A picture together
14.30 - 15.30 Discussion: Marketting (moderator: Saatul Ihsan/Aftian)

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Day II
09.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 11.00 Primary: "Funding Model and Business Model Linux Distro", Rusmanto, moderator: M. Olan Wardiansyah
11.00 - 12.00 presentation: "Utilizing Assistive Technology for the blind and illiterate", Imron Fauzi, moderator: M. Olan Wardiansyah
12.00 - 13.00 Coffee Break
13.00 - 13.30 presentation: "High Availability Server for BlankOn", M Hansen Tanjung (a.k.a mht), moderator: Mahyuddin Susanto (me)
13.30 - 14.00 presentation: "Lessons learned from hosting the development server distro", Andika Triwidada, moderator: Mahyuddin Susanto (me)
14.00         Take A picture together


Session I
14.30 - 15.30 Tutorial: Debian Packaging (Tutor: Wiramaswara a.k.a initrunlevel0)



Session II
14.30 - 15.30 Diskusi: Nanggar Artwork +1 (moderator: Ali Kusnadi a.k.a dodolboks)
15.30 - 16.30 Diskusi: Infrastruktur (moderator: Andy Apdhani a.k.a imtheface)

16.30 Closing Ceremony

Links:

1. Location
2. Official Website

See you at BlankOn #1!!!!

BlankOn 5.0 Nanggar Release Notes

Jakarta, June 16th, 2009 - Today the BlankOn Developer team officialy release BlankOn 5.0 with the code name Nanggar, the culture that is brought up to this version is from Batak culture. The name Nanggar is taken from Batak language which means "Hammer".

Some of the new unique features in Nanggar are the Contextual Desktop which developed by BlankOn Developer Team, with the ability to change the theme and the wallpaper of the desktop based on the computer clock or based on the current weather condition.

Another unique feature is the Aksara Nusantara project which give the ability to write in Batak Toba alphabet. For more information about Aksara Nusantara Project please follow this link http://code.google.com/p/aksara-nusantara/

BlankOn Nanggar provide the full user guide handbook that can be download alternatively from http://blankonlinux.or.id/download/buku-panduan.pdf. This book is already included in the installed system in Contoh folder.

BlankOn Nanggar features:
Contextual Desktop + GNOME 2.26
Office Applications: OpenOffice 3.0.1, GNUCash
GIMP 2.6.6
Inkscape 0.46
Firefox 3.0 Web Browser
Kernel 2.6.28

BlankOn Nanggar Minimalist feature:
LXDE 0.3.2.1 Desktop
Office Applications: AbiWord 2.6.6, GNUmeric 1.8.4, GNUCash 2.2.6
GIMP 2.6.6
Inkscape 0.46
Epiphany 2.26 Web Browser
Kernel 2.6.28


About BlankOn

BlankOn Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Indonesia Linux Movement Foundation (Yayasan Penggerak Linux Indonesia / YPLI) and Indonesia Ubuntu Community which aim to fulfill the need of computer user in general. Using the easiness and stability philosophy of Ubuntu Linux as the base distribution, BlankOn Linux developed as an open source project and developed together to create a unique Indonesia Linux distribution.

Links
Download BlankOn 5.0 Nanggar in:

BlankOn Nanggar : http://cdimage.blankonlinux.or.id/rilis/nanggar/
BlankOn Nanggar Minimalist : http://cdimage.blankonlinux.or.id/rilis/blankon-minimalist/nanggar/

Alternatively you can download in BlankOn mirrors:

Jakarta : ftp://kambing.ui.edu/pub/blankon/rilis/nanggar/
Jakarta : ftp://dl2.foss-id.web.id/iso/blankon/rilis/nanggar/
Jember : ftp://mirror.unej.ac.id/blankon-cd/rilis/nanggar/

Feedback and Support
BlankOn project always welcome anyone to contribute in developing BlankOn Linux. If you find any problems and bugs in BlankOn Nanggar, please report it through:
http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/newticket

And if you any questions or any more informations about BlankOn, you can visit this links:

BlankOn Users Mailing List : http://groups.google.com/group/BlankOn
BlankOn Developer Mailing List : http://groups.google.com/group/BlankOn-dev
BlankOn Forum : http://forum.blankonlinux.or.id

Please help us to make BlankOn to be a better Linux distribution.

The next version of BlankOn is BlankOn 6.0 which is planned to be released in November 2009 and will brought up the theme from West Sumatra with the code name Ombilin.

PS: Thanks to Belutz for translating to english

Jaunty Release Party

man, we have special party "jaunty Release Party". launched at Jember University. at this photo we can see Belutz (Ubuntu-ID leader) and me :D

New Bandwidth

:~$ wget ftp://mirror.unej.ac.id/pub/iso/freebsd/6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso
--2009-06-08 19:49:29--
ftp://mirror.unej.ac.id/pub/iso/freebsd/6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso
         => `6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso'
Resolving mirror.unej.ac.id... 203.130.244.198
Connecting to mirror.unej.ac.id|203.130.244.198|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/iso/freebsd ... done.
==> SIZE 6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso ... 362381312
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR 6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso ... done.
Length: 362381312 (346M)

21% [=======================>
                                                ] 76,522,456
3.01M/s  eta 52s     ^C

Thanks to my lecturer..

Progress report

1. three packages has completly uploaded to nubuntu-repo
2. three packages has completly uploaded to blankon-repo

nUbuntu Packages

1. Milw0rm-doc
2. goog-mail
3. google-search
   

BlankOn Packages

1. libcanberra
2. system-config-printer
3. launchpad-integration
   

Sources.list generator

Since Source-O-Matic disappear from Ubuntu Netherland, many people find this one. and other site offer same package, but it doesn't provide source code! i think it a good idea to build same package like source-o-matic and give permission other to modify, redistribute source code.
hm.... where i can find this one? you can visit here for source code, and visit here for preview:

1. http://apt.mirror.unej.ac.id/ubuntu/
2. http://arsip.ubuntu-id.org/a/sources.list.global/

and thanks for Indonesian Ubuntu LocoTeam for creating Sources.list Generator!