cloud

The Last meeting of this year is so interesting with a mix of talks on Cloud Computing, Language Computing and GUI programming.

Yogesh explored the basics of Cloud Computing.

He explained about the following.

• What is cloud?
• Why we need it?
• Resource As A Service
• Public, Private, hybrid clouds
• Scalability
• Elasticity
• Bursting
• How Time Magazine spent only 240$ instead of 1/2 million dollars using clouds?
• HybridFox - Firefox Addon for cloud
• Eucalyptus -  The Open Source Cloud
• OpenStack - Another Open Source Cloud

The slides are available here
http://www.slideshare.net/ilugc/floss-cloud

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FOSS Contributor of the Month, Santhosh Thottingal
came up with talk on the "Project Silpa"

Silpa, is a web framework and library written in Python
for Language Processing in Indian Languages.
It has 78 modules.
Provides JSON Based RPC services.
Can be connected with any application.

He executed the local demo and explored the following

• The web interface
• The Modules for python
• Guessing the typed Language
• Encoding Converter
• Approximate Search
• Syllabalize
• Indic Soundex
• Webfonts
• Comparing text documents for similarities

You can test yourself at the project site: http://smc.org.in/silpa/

Project Silpa is contributing to MediaWiki and wikipedia
to convert the articles in Indian languages to PDF and to publish wikibooks.

The Indic Language Processing has to improve a lot and it needs your contributions.
Please contact Santhosh, If you wish to work on this project.
http://thottingal.in/blog/about/

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Karthikeyan explained about the GUI Programming in C

• The history of GTK
• GTK+
• Binding for other languages like python,ruby,php etc
• The GTK+ stack
• The GTK+ Widget Hierarchy
• Hello world Programs - Live demo
• Demo for Window
• Demo for PopUp
• Demo for Table
• Demo for expander
• Links to Read

Slides are here
http://www.slideshare.net/ilugc/basics-of-gtkilugc

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In the QA Session, Raghavan from SRM expressed his wish on doing a project in linux kernel
and requested for mentorship.

Sudharsan and others explained the process of getting into kernel programming and contributing.

The ideas are here.

• Decide the finite task to do
• look in the bugtracker of kernel.org
• look for the feature requests
• find the mentors in irc
• read the presentation of Shakthi Kannan
• http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/i-want-2-do-proje...
• Fix the driver for Fingerprint reader in laptops
• Be patient and keep on learning
• Start working rather then searching for mentors
• Use Internet to learn the things yourself

The sessions were interactive and interesting.

We had 40 participants from Jaya Engg College, SRM University, Bharath Engg College, Sree Sastha Engg College, Velammal, MNMJ Engg College, MIT and Industries like Indian Railways, CollabNet, SlashProg, SS4U, CDAC, Serendio, Real Image, Corent Tech, Wipro, CSS Corp, TNQ, Aspire Solutions.

Thanks for making the last meet of the year as more interesting.

Some snaps are here.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=44572&id=133359730009404

ILUGC Monthly Meet (December 11 th):-
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Time : Sat December 11 , 2010 (3.00 - 5.30 PM)

Venue: Classroom No 6,
Areo Space Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.

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

1.
Topic: Cloud Computing using FOSS
Speaker: Yogesh
Duration : 45 min

Yogesh is one of the authors of the Book "Eucalyptus Beginners Guide Uec"
He shares his experiences and experiments in implementing a Cloud Computing Infrastructure in CSS Corporation.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/42134189/Book-Eucalyptus-Beginners-Guide-Uec-E...
http://cssoss.wordpress.com/

2. FOSS Contributor of the Month:

Project - Introduction to Silpa

Silpa, Swathanthra Indian Language Processing Applications is a web
platform to host the free(dom) software language processing
applications easily. It is a web framework and a set of applications
for processing Indian Languages in many ways. Or in other words, it is
a platform for porting existing and upcoming language processing
applications to the web. Silpa can also be used as a python library or
as a webservice from other applications.
To know more, http://silpa.smc.org.in/

http://silpa.smc.org.in/

Contributor : Santhosh Thottingal
Duration : 45 hr

Santhosh is contributing to Linguistic Projects like Silpa, dhvani.
He explains about the Silpa Projects and his contributions.

3.
Basic GUI designing using GTK+ with 'C'

http://zetcode.com/tutorials/gtktutorial/

Speaker : Karthick

Karthik is from CDAC, working on BOSS Linux Development.
He explores the GUI Desktop application development in C

Duration : 45 min

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.