Kuliax Log

Rapet 2008.02.28 di cenel #kuliax irc.freenode.net Alhamdulillah berhasil dilaksanakan dan dihadiri oleh fathirhamdi, indraxyz, neofreko, nugrahadi, ryan_oke, dan stwn.

Topik bahasan dan hasilnya adalah sebagai berikut:
* Workshop di Teknik Mesin UGM: terdapat kekurangan detail mengenai acara seminar/workshop dan dibutuhkan komunikasi lebih lanjut[0]. Penanggung jawab: ryan_oke.
* Subversion untuk kuliax-devel khususnya proyek LRC: POSS UGM punya “sourceforge” yang beralamat di http://possnetwork.ugm.ac.id (apakah ada penyedia alat-alat pengembangan yang lain di Indonesia?). Dengan pertimbangan terhubungnya server ke INHERENT dan ISP para pengembang, jika SVN misal dipindahkan ke SVN lokal tersebut mungkin akan lebih cepat dan lebih mudah dalam mengaksesnya akhirnya proses pengembangan akan berjalan dengan baik dan tidak ada alasan koneksi lemot :d ke depannya kolaborasi antar universitas, dll lebih mudah dan cepat, selain itu juga kita bisa membantu mengetes kehandalan server “sourceforge” lokal ini.
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Rapet 20080221 di cenel #kuliax irc.freenode.net Alhamdulillah berhasil dilaksanakan dan dihadiri oleh fathirhamdi, indraxyz, neofreko, nugrahadi, ryan_oke, dan stwn. Inti dari rapet ini adalah dokumen kebutuhan yaitu Spesifikasi Kuliax 8.0.

Topik Rapet 20080221 yang direncanakan sebelumnya adalah:
* Bahasan sedikit mengenai hasil microconf dan proyek kuliax secara umum
* Spesifikasi Kuliax 8.0
* Workshop bulan maret, belum sempat dibahas dan akan didiskusikan dalam ulir yang berbeda

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Pada Mikroconf Kuliax 8.0 tidak banyak yang kita bahas, karena kita memang tidak mau terlalu luas dan ngalor ngidul topiknya yang akhirnya mengaburkan tujuan dari konferensi mikro ini yakni apa yang bisa dilakukan dalam waktu dekat untuk Kuliax.

Secara umum Alhamdulillah acara berjalan cukup baik dan dihadiri segelintir kontributor Kuliax yaitu stwn, nugrahadi, ryan_oke, fathirhamdi, dan adzy_maniac di Ruang UGOS. Pembicaraan dilakukan secara offline dan online via IRC di cenel #kuliax@irc.freenode.net. Sebelumnya Microconf ini akan dilakukan di Ketep, Magelang tapi tidak jadi karena kondisi kawan-kawan Kuliax yang tidak memungkinkan.

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On behalf of Kuliax developers, we are sorry to announce that Kuliax 7.0 will not be released this year. But don’t worry we still manage to release another version in 2008 hopefully (insha Allah).

We always open for people to support, contribute and help us to develop and make this project survive for a long time period.

Happy to be here and write a posting. It’s been a while since the last post of announcement sub project Kuliax Kernel. Some development progress of Kuliax that deal with schedule, communication, and the like changed, mostly because our developer, stwn, has moved to Bandung, continuing his study. As we all know, he played some and maybe most of Kuliax development management sides from coordinating, communicating, hacking, provocating, …

stwn reported to us, he is now in stable-enough condition. He already got a place to sleep and hack. This week he has a spare time to go to Jogja, packed his things, and will bring them to his boarding house in Cisitu Indah, Bandung. Of course we had a talk about his current status and discuss our next development steps.

The point of this case is we still need a leader or so called “benevolent dictator” but we must have a system that “always” running when the “dictator” is not around. The question is how?

Another good news, we have created new sub-project: Kuliax Kernel. The tasks are tinkering with Linux kernel, dealing with patches, optimization, package building, new kernel features test, and also considering new technology in Linux world to be implemented in Kuliax kernel.

If you ask us “why you created this new sub project?”, the answer is we all know that tinkering with kernel is somewhat time-consuming and need effort more than just compile
Our first member for this sub project is just stwn and you can find its page for 7.0 in http://kuliax.org/project/kuliax-7.0_kernel. To be the member of it is not decided yet. We need a procedure to work on it, yes a documentation.

Kuliax 7.0RC1 release is delayed, due to technical issues for its readiness. We knew that the schedule is subject-to-change, but we should do our best to stick with it.

We have been always trying to provide foundation for development  team and  strive to reach our goal. We are heading on it, although we may say it is hard to do the development: managing community and collaboration in distributed way. But at least we have learned something everyday, and of course we will fix all of “bugs” we found. Give us a hand if you want to, we are open for new community members in our development team.

Kuliax Project has been developing Kuliax 7.0 and has some projects that need a help from Linux/FOSS community. If you want to give a hand please read a simple page HOWTO Get Involved in Kuliax or Get Involved.

FYI, Kuliax is a complete Linux LiveCD distribution developed for desktop, research, and development use, especially in academic world. Kuliax is a community project and open for people to join in and contribute.

We hope Kuliax Development will catalyze and generate:

• Linux/FOSS developers, specifically Kuliax and Debian
• Local resources and community, so people always find many local sources and make use of them to grow each area in the world
• Some members in the community produce applications and sub-distribution for extending and spreading Linux/FOSS

We are always waiting and welcoming for your contribution.

We had been facing a problem in our development machine for about one week or so. Thankfully, it was solved on Monday, July 25. The problem, as far as we know, is probably the RAM or the slot. At first, we thought our problem was the harddisk or specifically partitions, some kind of error/incorrect partition table.

We had checked the harddisk with all available software tools but we didn’t get any problems on it. But if we detached the additional 256 MB RAM, there were no problems arised! Yes, actually we did a full backup of our data, including Kuliax development-related files, then did all around test. Just make sure all work out OK.

Status of the machine by July 29: OK. So we shall continue cooking Kuliax 7.0.

Thank you for reading this post

We have just added a page in kuliax.org: Kuliax 7.0 Roadmap. Please read it, send your suggestion to the mailing list, and start discussing on Kuliax 7.0. We hope Kuliax 7.0 has features which you may expect, in a possible way.

Btw, the page will change often, so please see the modification date.