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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

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

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

ChennaiPy December Monthly Meet Announcement

== Date & Time

24 Dec 3:00pm to 5:00pm

=== Venue

Zilogic Systems,
Fourth Main Road,
Kamaraj Nagar,
Thiruvanmiyur,
Chennai

Location map: http://www.zilogic.com/contact.html

Agenda

1. Lightning Talks - 60 min.

- Closures - Vijay Kumar
- Python & MySQL - Abdul
- String Handling - Rengaraj
- Python & WxWidgets - Bala

If you would like to give a lightning talk, just come prepared,
we will be able to accommodate you.

2. PyCon 2011 Video: Hidden Treasures in the Standard Library
by Doug Hellmann - 30 min.

Doug Hellmann is the man behind the Python Module of the Week
(PyMOTW). http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/ This presentation
by Doug Hellman covers features of the standard library not
widely known or used. Each feature is presented with a short
demonstration program and explanation.

Entry Free.

Open to all.

Topic: Perl programming

Date: 18th December Sunday (9 am to 4 pm)

speaker – Girish Venkatachalam

Venue: TalentSprint
66 Gaudia Mutt Road
Royappettah,
Chennai

Right next to Gaudia Mutt
A little ahead of Ponnuswamy Hotel
5 minutes walk from Music Academy

Fee per head to cover expenses: Rs. 150/-

Good. Now for the other blurb.

It goes without saying that tea/coffee,biscuits will be served once in
the morning and once in the afternoon.
Lunch is on you. ;)

G3 Tech
Networking appliance company
web: http://g3tech.in
mail: girishvenkatachalam @ gmail.com

ILUGC Monthly Meet (December 10 th):-
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Time : Sat December 10 , 2011 (3.00 - 5.30 PM)

Venue: Classroom No 8,
Areo Space Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.

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

1.

Topic: Introduction to CakePHP

Description: CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that
provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and
deploying applications. For more info: http://cakephp.org/

Duration: 30 Mins

Speaker: Sathia Narayanan.S, Web Developer works for CloudMint
he blogs at http://sathia27.wordpress.com and http://lquery.com/

Contact : "Sathia"  <sathia2704 AT gmail DOT com>

2.

Topic:  Introduction to using WordPress as a CMS

Description: WordPress, a well known blogging platform, is also
evolving as a user friendly CMS. 14.7% of sites online are powered by
WordPress. This talk will give a brief introduction about using
WordPress as a CMS.

Duration: 30 Mins

About the speakers: Ravishankar. A and Logesh Kumar. R are WordPress
developers at Ravidreams.com

Contact : Ravishankar <ravidreams AT gmail DOT com>

Links to read: http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/14/matt-mullenweg-state-of-the-word-2011/

3.

Topic: Securing Linux Servers using iptables firewall

Description:
This talk contains the information on how enhanced the security in Linux systems are and security achieved through Linux Firewalls Using iptables. speaker will describe on how the iptables work and how to implement it in different ways to achieve a better security.

Duration: 30 Mins

About the speaker:
Chakravarthy is working in CollabNet for over one year as a Technical Support Engineer for Subversion. He have finished RHCE now and more interested in the open source. This is his first talk and first community meet.  He would love to contribute his part to the Open source.

Contact : Chakravarthy  <schakravarthy36 AT yahoo DOT com
 

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

Tamil Wikipedia is conducting a Media Contest. Participate and upload your photos, audio and video files, animations, graphs and maps related to Tamil and Tamils.

The TamilWiki Media contest is being organised to increase the quality media content related to Tamil and Tamilians in Wikimedia projects,
To attract non-text contributors like photographers, graphic artists, animators, map makers and videographers to Tamil wiki projects.

Not everyone can write articles can Wikipedia. Some may don't have enough time to write articles while some may not like writing articles. But taking photographs or videos might be easier and preferable for them. They might also possess many multimedia files they have created in the past. Moreover the procedure for uploading files to Wikimedia has become simple now. So anyone can take part in this contest easily and contribute to Tamil Wiki projects.

By uploading the files to Wikimedia Commons - a sister project of Wikipedia, they can be be used not only in Tamil Wikipedia but also in other language wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects like Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikinews

Dates: November 15, 2011 - February 29, 2012

Social Media: Facebook – #twmc on Twitter – Blog

E-Mail: tamil.wikipedia [at] gmail.com

Total Prize money: 850 US Dollars

I-II-III prizes - 200-100-50 $
Consolation prizes - 2 X 25 $
Continuous contribution prizes - 3 x 100 $
Special category prize - 150 $

Topics:
Photos, animations, videos, graphs, maps, audio files related to Tamil and Tamils

Upload : @Wikimedia Commons

Contest Portal:
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en

Banners: http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/விக்கிப்பீடியா:தமிழ்_விக்கி_ஊடகப்_போட்டி/பதாகைகள்

Post the banners with a link back to http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en
in all your blogs/sites.

Please spread the information to your friends and social media.

தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா ஒரு ஊடகப் போட்டி ஒன்றை நடத்துகிறது. இதில் கலந்து கொண்டு தமிழ் மற்றும் தமிழர் பற்றியான உங்கள் புகைப்படங்கள், ஒலி மற்றும் ஒளிக் கோப்புகள், வரைபடங்கள், நிலப்படங்கள் ஆகியவற்றைப் பதிவேற்றுங்கள்; பரிசுகளை வெல்லுங்கள்

தமிழ் - தமிழர் பற்றிய உயர்தர ஊடகக் கோப்புகளின் எண்ணிக்கையைக் கூட்டுவதற்காகவும், புகைப்படக் கலைஞர்கள், ஓவியர்கள், அசைப்பட ஆர்வலர்கள், நிலப்பட ஆர்வலர்கள் போன்றவர்களையும் விக்கிக்கு பங்களிப்பு செய்யத் தூண்டுவதற்குமாக இந்தப் போட்டி நடத்தப்படுகின்றது.

விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் கட்டுரை எழுதுவது அனைவராலும் முடிவதில்லை. கிடைக்கும் நேரம் அரிதாக இருப்பதும், கட்டுரை எழுதுவதில் ஆர்வமின்மையும் காரணங்களாக இருக்கலாம். ஆனால் படம் எடுப்பது சிலருக்கு எழுதுவதிலும் பார்க்க எளிய விசயமாக இருக்கலாம். மேலும் நீங்கள் ஏற்கனவே எடுத்த தரமான படங்கள், ஒலிக் கோப்புகள், ஒளிக் கோப்புகள் உங்களிடம் இருக்கலாம். தற்போது தரவேற்ற முறையும் மிகவும் எளிதாகி இருக்கின்றது. எனவே நீங்களும் இலகுவாக இந்தப் போட்டியில் பங்கேற்க முடியும். அதன்மூலம் தமிழ் விக்கித் திட்டங்களில் உங்கள் பங்களிப்பும் இடம்பெறும்.

விக்கிப்பீடியாவின் சகோதரத் திட்டமான விக்கிமீடியா காமன்சில் கோப்புகளைப் பதிவேற்றுவதன் மூலம், தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா மட்டுமன்றி பிற மொழி விக்கிப்பீடியாக்களிலும், விக்சனரி, விக்கிநூல்கள், விக்கிசெய்திகள் போன்ற பிற விக்கித் திட்டங்களிலும் இக்கோப்புகளைப் பயன்படுத்தலாம்.

மொத்தப் பரிசுத் தொகை 850 அமெரிக்க டாலர்கள்

I-II-III பரிசுகள் - 200-100-50
ஆறுதல் பரிசுகள் - 2 X 25 $
தொடர் பங்களிப்பு பரிசுகள் - 3 x 100 $
சிறப்புப் பரிசு - 150

போட்டி வலைவாசல்:
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/contest

பதாகைகள் : http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/விக்கிப்பீடியா:தமிழ்_விக்கி_ஊடகப்_போட்டி/பதாகைகள்

Source : http://groups.drupal.org/node/190929

Dear Friends,

We are planning to organize Chennai Drupal Meet on 19-Nov-11.

This meet is aim to discuss about the following

1.Members to share their experience of meeting with Dries during
Drupal Camp Deccan and participation experience.
2.Discuss the next steps to work with IEEE to take Drupal to the
Schools and Colleges.
Interested people Please sign up.

Venue:

UniMity Solutions Pvt Ltd
5th Floor Kasi Arcade
T.Nagar
Opp to Residency Towers
www.unimity.com

Best Regards
Kumar
UniMity

ILUGC Monthly Meet (November 12 th):-
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Time : Sat November 12 , 2011 (3.00 - 5.30 PM)
Venue: Classroom No 8,
Areo Space Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.

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

1.

Topic: Introduction to CakePHP

Description: CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that
provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and
deploying applications. For more info: http://cakephp.org/

Duration: 30 Mins

Speaker: Sathia Narayanan.S, Web Developer works for CloudMint
he blogs at http://sathia27.wordpress.com and http://lquery.com/

2.

Topic: Revolution OS Documentaty film with Tamil Subtitles

Description:

Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU,
Linux, open source, and the free software movement.

Directed by J. T. S. Moore, the film features interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs
including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond,
Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf.

ILUGC is working on dubbing the movie into tamil.
As a part of this project, the subtitle is translated into tamil.

Let us see the movie with the tamil subtitle and discuss on further steps.

Duration : 100 min

Links :
http://www.revolution-os.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_OS

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

The Thamizha community and the ILUGC community are organizing a hackathon to create free software on October 9th. I request those who haven't registered to provide response at this form. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFdtTVpzdXo4RlQzSU9zWGlfWjRYVmc6MQ

The information is given below:

Date:

9th October 2011

Time:

9AM to 5PM

Venue:

Directions:

Agenda:

0. 8.30 - 9.00 AM: Arrivals and arrangements at the venue
1. 9.00 - 9.15 AM: Introduction to Thamizha Projects
2. 9.15 - 9.45 AM: A talk on using Git and Github thamizha organisation
3. 9.45 AM - 1.00 PM: Project idea discussions and coding. This can also be translation work for the non-techies.
4. 1.00 - 2.00PM: Lunch (Yay!)
5. 2.00 - 2.30PM: Introduction to Qt and e-Kalappai compilation
6. 2.30 - 5.00PM: More hacking.
7. 5.00 - 5.30PM: Time to say goodbyes and pack up.

Also for those of you on twitter and want "in" on the live action... follow the #thamizha hashtag
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23thamizha

And on the #thamizha IRC channel (group chat for those who don't know what IRC is...)
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=thamizha

Arunmozhi will organise a skype-box for video conferencing as well.