chennai

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

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

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 (October 8 th):-
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Time : Sat October 8 , 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 Ruby On Rails

Description:
Ruby On Rails is an open source web framework that's optimized for programmwe happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favouring convension over configuration.

link :  http://rubyonrails.org/

Duration: 45 mins - 1hr

Speaker: R Deepak Prasanna.  [ deepaksrm AT gmail DOT com ]

About the speaker:

Deepak works for Artha42 Innovations and he loves to work on open source technologies.  He blogs at http://deepakprasanna.blogspot.com

2.

Topic:
Exploring Functional Programming

Description:
The goal is to get a glimpse of the 'functional way' of doing things. As a teaser, in the FP way of doing things you cannot change the value of a `variable' This is a personal perspective of what is interesting and fascinating in FP.

Speaker will be using Python to explore FP. He hopes to show a bit of Haskell too, but Python will be the bulk of it.

Duration : 30 min

Speaker : Asokan Pichai [ pasokan AT gmail DOT com ]

About the speaker:
He is a trainer fascinated with programming languages and training. Haskell is what he is currently (again) trying to get to grips with.

Links :
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs345/whyfp.pdf

3.

Topic:
Introduction to Drupal 7

Description:
How to setup a completely functional commerce site with tracking, newsletters and content SEO in one week.

Duration: 1 hour

Speaker : Antano Solar John [ solar345 AT gmail DOT com ]

About the speaker:
Antano is Co-Founder at School of Excellence, and Author at Packt Publishing. http://www.solarant.org/

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

The Software Freedom Day 2011 Celebrations were filled with lot of fun
and enthusiasm at MIT,Chrompet Chennai on September 17, 2011

We had 18 stalls as follows

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1. Libre Office
2. Kompozer
3. FFMPEG, Audacity
4. Python
5. PHP
6. Drupal
7. Scilab
8. Subversion&GIT
9. Firefox Addons
10. Spoken-Tutorial
11. Mozilla
12. Tamil Wikipedia
13. Ruby
14. Joomla
15. Subversion Edge
16. Open Source CDs and Books
17. Ruby on Rails(RoR)
18. Educational Software

We had a lot of new volunteers for the stalls.

Though the visitors are less then any other years, the stall
volunteers shared the knowledge
to the attended visitors and other stall peers.

Spoken-Tutorial CDs for Linux/Python/Latex and stickers were
distributed to the visitors.

Yogesh explained on how to participate in a open source community to
get help and to contribute.
He emphasized the importance of doing the final year project by own
and doing it as a contribution for
any open source application.

Choosing the best stalls for prizes was so tough as everyone showed
their best enthusiasm.
Tamil Wikipedia, Ruby, Mozilla teams got the prizes.
We gave them the book "Introduction to Python"

We presented Rs 200 for all the stalls as a gift.

Thanks for all the volunteers and donors.
Thanks a lot for Mr.Vimalesh, computer Society of MIT and the team for
their endless efforts.
Thanks for MIT for hosting the event.

Here are some snaps:

     https://picasaweb.google.com/114046458718705656208/SoftwareFreedomDaySeptember172011

     https://picasaweb.google.com/102129583091345389661/SoftwareFreedomDay2011

ILUGC Monthly Meet (August 13 th):-
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Time : Sat August 13 , 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 calem EAM enterprise asset management tool and its functionality in the industries.

Description:
calem EAM [ http://www.calemeam.com ] is an open source tool. It is a Enterprise Asset Management which can be used for the industries for their manufacturing of their Products. Enterprise asset management is super set of CMMS(Computerized maintenance management system).

Duration: 30 min

Speaker: N.Naresh Aravindh.[aaravindh AT gmail dot com]

About the speaker:
The speaker is a 3rd year computer science student from Jaya engg college,chennai with interest towards FOSS and actively participating in Ilugc with inspiration from his HOD Mr.kumaran. He blogs at http://4etudiant-4etudiant.blogspot.com

2.

Topic:
osCommerce - building your own online store

Description:
Set up a online store in a minute using LAMP using the open source e-commerce web application osCommerce [ http://www.oscommerce.com ]

Duration : 45 min

Speaker : Balachandar Muruganantham [mbchandar AT gmail DOT com]

About the speaker:
Balachandar runs the online store http://chennaishopping.com. He is the maintainer of our site http://ilugc.in

3.

Topic:
Building commandline twitter client using c

Description:
Let us explore how we can build a commandline twitter client in c

Duration: 30 min

Speaker : Mohan [ mohan43u AT gmail DOT com ]

About the speaker:
Mohan loves c programming, packaging and documenting for open source projects. He contributes for FOSS lab manual.

4.
Lightning Talk

Topic : Software Freedom Day 2011 [http://softwarefreedomday.org]
is on Saturday 17th September 2011.
Let us plan for the celebrations.

5.

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

ILUGC Monthly Meet (July 9 th):-
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    Time : Sat July 9 , 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

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1.
Topic: Intro to Google App Engine with python sdk

Description :
An Introduction on how to get started and build a basic web application
with Google app engine and Python sdk .

Duration : 50 min

Speaker : Gautam [ gautham5678 AT gmail DOT com ]

About the speaker :

The speaker is a 4th Year Computer Engg student from Vels University, Chennai
with an interest in Web Application development , and FOSS development .

Links :
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/overview.html

http://www.slideshare.net/gautham56781/google-app-engine-8475296

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2.

Topic : Getting started: Android - Primer and discussion

Description :
Everything to get ourselves started in android. A bit about the Android SDK,
command line tools, etc. Very basic stuff. I'm a novice so let's learn together.

Duration : 40 min

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3.

Lightning Talk :

Topic : Bitcoin - concepts and theory

Description:

What bitcoins are, why use them, features, etc.

Links:

http://www.bitcoin.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

2 & 3 by

Speaker : Yogesh [ yogeshg1987 AT gmail DOT com ]

About Speaker :

Yogesh works for CSS Corp and is part of the open source services team.
He is involved in some open source community work and evangelism.
He co-authored the Eucalyptus beginner's guide.
http://cssoss.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/eucalyptus-beginner%E2%80%99s-guide-%E2%80%93-uec%C2%A0edition/ 

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4.

Topic: Introduction to Wikipedia

Description:

Wikipedia, is a is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project
supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 19 million articles (over 3.6 million in English)
have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles
can be edited by anyone with access to the site. As of May 2011, there were editions of Wikipedia in
281 languages. IT has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,
ranking around seventh among all websites on Alexa and having 365 million readers.

Let us discuss about wikipedia and how to contribute to wikipedia.

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

5.

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