On the other news cricscore-applet was updated to 1.1.0.5 on all branches fixing a crash due to python API change.

In the afternoon, after rahul’s introduction amit started his talk on kvm. Then aditya shared his experience on  Fedora summer coding and creating KDE Netbook remix. As his talk was short , i was asked by rahul to take my own time and explain more about packaging. I tried my best Here is my presentation http://sagarun.fedorapeople.org/misc/emacs-presentation.pdf

After the talk we went to the workout area to start Fedoraforkids packaging sprints. We managed pull a  decent crowd for the workout. In the evening rahul tried to do a packaging session in Hall c as we had time and people. After finishing the session we went in for the key note address by james morris. Hiemanshu joined us for the dinner , we went to chandni chowk an exotic Indian restaurant in bangalore. After having icecreams with juan we went back to our hotels.

The next day, started with an awesome talk my Dimitris glezos on transifex. After the talk we went to Fedora booth and spent some time with the visitors. we clicked a  team photo too.  People were pinging us in IRC about packaging sessions. After sensing the interest, we announced and conducted  packaging sessions in the afternoon.

I had booked my return flight ticket on Friday, so i had to leave the venue by 4.00 PM to catch my flight!  foss.in was fun! Sadly it is going to be the last. It was a great experience to meet community members and red hat folks. Big thanks to Fedora community architecture team for sponsoring the whole thing.

For those who are n00bs and non-geeks goto http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

Emacs-color-theme:
Makes life colourful . It hasn’t made into Fedora repository yet, But package review is on at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501101

Add the following to your ~/.emacs file to get it working

(require ‘color-theme)
(color-theme-initialize)
(color-theme-robin-hood

Emacs-jabber:
I used it to connect Gtalk from emacs, FYI gtalk uses a open protocol named XMPP (jabber).It is a great app. Find the package review request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508316

Add the following to your ~/.emacs file to get it working

(setq jabber-account-list
‘((“email@gmail.com”
(:network-server . “talk.google.com”)
(:connection-type . ssl))))

Back to Micro blogging:

Identi.ca is a free software microblogging service, similar to Twitter, based on the Laconi.ca code base. It has a Twitter bridge, which means you can associate your twitter account to identi.ca , so that the notices you post to identi.ca will be posted to your twitter account too;

It has a XMPP bridge, which means you can post notices to identi.ca from gtalk (gtalk uses XMPP). To post notices to identi.ca using gtalk add update@identi.ca bot to your gtalk contacts list and activate the bridge in identi.ca .

Facebook has a identi.ca app http://apps.facebook.com/identica/, which fetches notices from your identi.ca account and posts updates in facebook;

So the tree goes like,
XMPP (gtalk)-> Identi.ca ->{Twitter,facebook}

Now, the heck it relates to emacs? yes, use emacs-jabber and msg update@identi.ca to post notices;

BitlBee:

Alternatively, you can use BitlBee; BitlBee brings IM (instant messaging) to IRC clients. It’s a great solution for people who have an IRC client running all the time and don’t want to run an additional MSN/AIM/whatever client.

Bitlbee and erc can be combined to get a good experience;

Configuring bitlbee:

cat /etc/bitlbee/bitlbee.conf |grep -v “#”
[settings]

RunMode = inetd
User = bitlbee
DaemonInterface = 127.0.0.1
DaemonPort = 6667
ClientInterface = 0.0.0.0
AuthMode = Open
ConfigDir = /var/lib/bitlbee/
PingInterval = 0

[defaults]

We use xinetd to run bitlbee:

bash-4.0$ cat /etc/xinetd.d/bitlbee
# default: off
# description: bitlbee is an IRC gateway to other IM networks.
service ircd
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = bitlbee
bind = 127.0.0.1
server = /usr/sbin/bitlbee
type = UNLISTED
port = 6667
log_on_failure += USERID
}

Start xinetd,

service xinetd start
chkconfig xinetd on

Now in emacs,

M-x erc
IRC Server: 127.0.0.1
IRC Port:6667
Nick:zer0c00l
Password:

Above erc commands should get you inside bitlbee’s local irc server;

Register your nickname:

You should register your nick with local bitlbee irc server using,

register ‘password’

(Don’t forget to auto identify =P )

Add your IM account(s):

account add jabber email@gmail.com ‘password’

Activate your IM account(s):

account on 0

Now it should automatically connect you to gtalk; Bitlbee supports Various IM networks including yahoo;

Identica Mode for Emacs:

If you don’t want wasting your time with bitlbee, emacs-jabber and XMPP bridge; Then emacs-identica-mode is the one for you;Its under review at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532241

Identica mode for emacs HOWTO: http://blog.nethazard.net/identica-mode-for-emacs/