Welcome to ILUGC

ILUGC was started on 1997 and it is one of the oldest Linux Users Group in India. We are a heterogeneous group of computer users from the South Indian city of Chennai (aka Madras), united in our use of Free/Libre/Open Source Softwares and support of Software Freedom in general and the GNU/Linux in particular. Most of our monthly meetings see a technical talk, not necessarily on GNU/Linux but also on FSF/GNU/OSS/BSD related topics such as Perl, Python, PHP, FreeBSD, TCP, IP, etc,.

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Call for speakers

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 3 May, 2012 - 17:55

Friends.

We have our May 2012 meet on 12th May.

Reply here, if you wish to give a talk.

Provide the following details.

Topic
Description
Time
Links
About Speaker

Ubuntu 12.04 has been released.
on 2012-05-22, fedora 17 will be released.

Shall we have some release party?

minutes - april meet

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 3 May, 2012 - 17:54

We had our april month meet on 14th april 2012.

Raman explored the perl web framework 'dancer'.
created simple web application using it.

Bala explored snort.
He compiled it and demonstrated how to capture the intrusion.
Here is the slide he used http://www.slideshare.net/bala150985/snort-12637571

Sathish explained on how can we contribute to the FOSS world.
Bug reporting, documentation, artwork, support in irc and forums, and
more ways are
available for contributing even without coding contributions.

Some snaps are available here
https://picasaweb.google.com/102002010785949271518/April2012Meet

Thanks for all the participants and speakers.

ILUGC Monthly Meet (April 14 th)

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 11 April, 2012 - 11:48
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Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] is spreading awareness on Free Open Source Software in Chennai since Jan 1998.
We meet regularly on every month second saturday with technical talks and discussions on various Free software.
Check our website http://ilugc.in for further details.

Join our mailing list at http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

We have our April 2012 Meet.
Check the details below.

ILUGC Monthly Meet (April 14 th):-
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Time : Sat April 14, 2012 (3.00 – 5.30 PM)

Venue: Classroom No 3,
Areo Space Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.

Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero

1.

Topic: Dancer - perl web framework

Description: dancer is simple but powerful web application framework in perl.

Links: perldancer.org

Duration: 20 minutes

About Speaker: Raman.P [ raamanp AT yahoo.co.in ]

He is working as DBA in Railways. An ardent user of linux and perl for over a decade.
His blog: http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com

2.

Topic : Snort - Intrusion detection system

Description : Installation of snort. Simple signature creation & using snort to detect the security attacks via intrusion.

Links: snort.org

Duration : Max 45 to 1 hour

About Speaker : Balasubramaniam Natarajan [ bala150985 AT gmail.com ]

Bala is an Information Security Engineer. He creates Video tutorials in Tamil and English. You can get them here.
www.etutorshop.com/moodle/

3.

Topic: Giving Back to the Community

Description: Everybody who comes to know about the principles of open source, gets excited about giving back to the community. But, Many of them are not sure about how to contribute in a way that actually adds value to the project and the community. In this talk, I'll tell about how I started giving back, and how it changed my life.

Duration: 30 min

About Speaker: Sathish Manohar [ design.sathish AT gmail.com ]

I learned web design/development all by myself because of generous people all around the world who shared their knowledge, through Internet, now I'm reciprocating the favor. I do client work for web design and development. When I'm not working, you can find me cooking or messing with friends.

I create video tutorials in Tamil on various open source technologies. Find them here.
http://www.youtube.com/user/sathishmanohar/videos

4.

General group discussions on any queries, events etc.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.
Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.

All are welcome. Entry Free

National Workshop on Software Freedom in Engineering Education at Chennai

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 12 March, 2012 - 18:39
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National Workshop on Software Freedom in Engineering Education

Date: 28th March 2012



Asan Memorial College of Engineering & Technology,
Asan Nagar,
(9th Km of Chengalpet  Mahabalipuram Highway)
Chengalpet  603 105

Topics to be covered

  • What is FOSS?
  • FOSS Philosophy
  • Why it is important in Engineering Education?
  • Linux Everywhere
  • Why specifically Linux?
  • Learn the Linux way?
  • Installing Linux
  • Introduction to Applications in Linux
  • Understanding the Linux File system
  • Popular linux commands for daily use
  • Projects in FOSS
  • Open Source Programming / Tools

Registration fee : 200

Participants should register through email by sending the
filled in registration form and the registration fee has to be
paid on the workshop at the venue.

i.As the no.of seats is limited, the selection will be FCFS basis.
Candidates registering on the last date may not get
acceptance.

ii. The participants coming from beyond 300km , exempted
from fee on production of travel tickets, but need to register.

Important dates

Submission of Registration forms (by E-Mail) : 17.03.12

Intimation of selection (by E-Mail) : 19.03.12

Contact:

Prof.R.Mariappan, Dept of CSE,
Asan Memorial College of Engineering & Technology,
Asan Nagar,
(9th Km of Chengalpet  Mahabalipuram Highway)
Chengalpet  603 105

Tel No: 044-27447283/7106
Mobile: +919444812756
E-Mail: fossworkshop@gmail.com

Send the following details to fossworkshop@gmail.com

REGISTRATION FORM
Name
Organization
Designation
Gender
Address
Contact Number
Email

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ILUGC Monthly Meet (March 10 th)

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 10 March, 2012 - 09:19
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ILUGC Monthly Meet (March 10 th):-
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Time : Sat March 10, 2012 (3.00 – 5.30 PM)

Venue: Classroom No 3,
Areo Space Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.

Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero

1.

Topic: Computer without Windows

Description:
A discussion on on “Computer without Windows” and demonstrations of common FOSS tools and applications and interactions.Any suggestion welcome.

About Speaker:
Mr.G.T.Rao, from ELPA Technologies a Delhi based technology IT Company. ELPA which promotes and develops Free and Open-Source Linux migration consultancy . 25 Year Experience in IT Sector, presently he is working as a freelancer on free/freedom open source software awareness programme in India. He successfully completed the awareness programe all over Rajasthan in which 25 districts were covered by him. Also associated with FOSS communitys in India and NRCFOSS , FSMI .

Contact : GT Rao [ netwebsteps AT gmail DOT com ]

Blog : http://fossyatra.wordpress.com/

Duration: 45 Min

2.

Topic : Configuring LDAP in linux

Description : Discussion on configuring Ldap server and client. Will show demo
on how centralized logins are used among the servers.

Duration : 1 hour

Links : http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch31_:_C...

About Speaker:

My name Raguvaran Working as a Technical Support Engineer in
CollabNet . I have finished Redhat Certification and have 1 and half
year experience as Linux System Administrator.

Email : raguandmurugesh AT gmail DOT com

3.

General group discussions on any queries, events etc.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.
Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.

All are welcome. Entry Free

Technical session on "Introduction to Drupal"

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 24 February, 2012 - 11:45
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Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu will be conducting a half a day technical session on "Introduction to Drupal"[1] the famous Content Management System which is rocking the web world with its simplicity and technical superiority. The session will demonstrate how a website can be created in minutes and improvised with just mouse clicks.

Timing: 9 am to 12 noon
Date: 26th February 2012
Place: Computer Science Department, CS-24, IIT Madras.

No registration fee, open to all.

Note: Please bring laptops. Computers will not be provided.

[1] http://drupal.org/

ILUGC Monthly Meet (February 11 th)

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 10 February, 2012 - 19:41

ILUGC Monthly Meet (February 11 th):-
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A full day workshop in the lab for GNU/Linux

Time : Sat February 11 2012 (9.00 - 4.00 PM)

Venue:

Programming Lab,
Department of Information Technology,
3rd Floor,
Administrative Block,
Madras Institute of Technology,
Chennai

Contact : Anandakrishnan [ ananthakrishnan.ravi AT gmail DOT com ]

1.

Workshop of GNU/Linux

Following topics will be trained

1. PAM authentication, Introduction to common system configuration
files & log files
2. Configuring networking, basics of TCP/IP networking and routing,
connecting to
the Internet
3. Setting up email servers - using postfix
4. Setting up web servers - using Apache (for HTTP services)
5. Understanding build systems - constructing make files and using make, using
autoconf and autogen to automatically generate make files tailored for different
development environments, Using flex (lex) and bison (yacc) to design parsers
6. Process management

Trainer: Baskar [ baskar910 AT gmail DOT com ], a freelance FOSS trainer.

2.

General group discussions on any queries, events etc.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.

Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.
All are welcome. Entry Free.

Thanks.

ILUGC Monthly Meet (January 21 th)

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 20 January, 2012 - 18:15
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ILUGC Monthly Meet (January 21 th):-
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Time : Sat January 21, 2012 (3.00 - 5.30 PM)

Venue: Classroom No 3,
Areo Space Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.

Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero

1.

Topic: Online Event Registration & Ticketing System

Description:

Allsymposium.com is a Free online event & management portal where Students & Academicians benefit by Creating, Configuring (with themes, background etc) ,Sharing with Social networking sites, Online ticketing & Managing user registrations via My Dashboard their events like Seminars, Symposiums,Culturals,Workshops,Conference etc. You can have a look at
http://www.allsymposium.com

Speaker Profile: Senthil kumar [ sekumar123 AT gmail.com ]

Before moving in to Open Source Applications & technologies, he has worked in Several Industries and on various Proprietary Enterprise Applications for over a decade. Have Implemented large Scale projects across the Globe on various technologies. He is passionate about sharing his wealth of knowledge & experience through various Seminars & Workshops. Allsymposium.com
is developed after understanding the difficulties faced by Students & Academicians in organizing and conducting events.

*Duration: *30-45 Min (A demo on the features of Allsymposium.com is included)

2.

Topic: Introduction to Regular Expressions

In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means for "matching" (specifying and recognizing) strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Abbreviations for "regular expression" include "regex" and "regexp". The concept of regular expressions was first popularized by utilities provided by Unix distributions, in particular the editor ed and the filter grep.[citation needed] A regular expression is written in a formal language that can be interpreted by a regular expression processor, which is a program that either serves as a parser generator or examines text and identifies parts that match the provided specification. Historically, the concept of regular expressions is associated with Kleene's formalism of regular sets, introduced in the 1950s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

Speaker : R Hariram Aatreya [ rhariram AT gmail.com ]

Hariram Aatreya is a computer engineer and Vedic scholar.

3.

Topics : Introducing Wikimedia India Chapter

Description:

The Wikimedia India Chapter (Registered Name: Wikimedia Chapter) is an independent and not-for-profit organization that supports, promotes and educate the general Indian public about the availability and use of free and open educational content, which includes the ability to access, develop and contribute to encyclopaedias, dictionaries, books, images, etc. It is an autonomous entity that does not have any editorial control over content on Wikipedia and its related projects. The Chapter does not have access to the servers hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation in the USA.

Wikimedia Chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote Wikimedia projects within a country. Chapters are formed by people from within the community and enable volunteers to take their work beyond what they can do individually, besides providing the benefit of a formal organisational set-up. While independent, chapters are recognised by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wikimedia India was formally approved by the Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation after the recommendation of the Chapters Committee in June 2010 and India became the 29th country to host a Wikimedia Chapter. The Wikimedia Chapter was formally registered as a Non-profit Society vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District on 03 Jan 2011.

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page

Duration: 30 Mins

Speaker : Surya Prakash [ suryasalem2010 AT gmail DOT com ]

About Speaker :

Surya Prakash, is a second year, Mechanical Engineering student at Anna University.
He contributes to Tamil wikipedia and wikimedia community.

http://tawp.in/r/1nmq

4.

General group discussions on any queries, events etc.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.
Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.

All are welcome. Entry Free

Two days workshop on Free Software Philosophy: A dive into the depths, 7th 8th of Jan 2012

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 6 January, 2012 - 14:56
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Dear Friends,

Have you ever wondered:
- How free software can transform education?
- What kind of an impact Free Software can have on the Indian Economy?
- Why Social Change is necessary through Free Software?

and so much more more...

Then, this is your chance to find the answers in a fun, interactive sessions and substance-full discussions with with like-minded students and activists.

Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu, presents a two days workshop on the Philosophy of Free Software.
The following topics will be discussed.

- GNU project and Manifesto
- Ownership of Software
- Open source and Free software
- Patents
- CopyLeft
- Licenses

Days: 7th & 8th of Jan 2012

Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Place: University of Madras, Chepauk.

Place:
The workshop venue has been changed to,

ICSA Programme Centre,
Pantheon Road,
Opposite to Connemara Library (or) National Museum,
Egmore.

We are regret to inform you that we would be charging 100 Rs. as registration fee.
Unfortunately the University of Madras venue(which was free) has been changed due to its internal university events to this new venue(which is paid).

We believe this would be an opportunity where Geeks, Beginners, Newbies, attain the next level.

Note:
- Limited Seats!
- Participation has to be conformed in prior to the event through mail to alagunambiwelkin at fsftn dot org (or) contact 9962240050 / 9176661086.
- No registration fee, Food, Accommodation on your own.

--
Alagunambi Welkin
Executive Committee Member,
Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu,
part of Free Software Movement of India.
http://www.fsftn.org

ILUGC- Dec 2011 meeting minutes

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 22 December, 2011 - 17:48
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Indian Linux Users Group - Chennai [ http://ilugc.in ] December 2011 meet held on 10/12/2011

We had 20 participants.

Sathya explained about the CakePHP.
He demonstrated how to create a simple blog system using cakephp.

Logesh narrated about WordPress and its features.
He explained on how wordpress can be used as CMS.
He demonstrated the wordpress installation and features.

[scribd id=75855094 key=key-2emgvd4jevz4ih7cgo79 mode=list]

http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/75855094?access_key=key-2emgvd4jevz4ih7cgo79

Chakravarthy explained about iptables and its rules.
He explored its features and securing a linux server with iptables.

Yogesh brought some 10 students from Layola Engineering College.
They are looking for a linux or any programming training in their exam vocation.
Requested them to ask a lab in their college for a training.
Will update to the list once they get permission.

Thanks for all participants.

Here are some snaps. [ Public URL ]

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.330997760245599.87661.133359730009404&type=3&l=9eecb5514d

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