We had a nice meeting in IITM.
Arulalan gave his talk on "Introduction to Latex".
He explained on how he prepared his College Project Report using Latex.
Raji could not attend the meeting.
Postponed the Django talk to next month meet.
Balakrishnan from kanchilug explained how they
brought the "Ubuntu manual in Tamil"
Discussed about the following.
1. Summer Workshop
1.1 Should create a web based form in ilugc.in
for talk registration and participant registration.
It will be easier to fill the details than wiki.
1.2 Need Place for conducting Workshops.
IITM
NRC-FOSS
LinuxPert Systems
Lynus Academy
Jaya Engg College
Anna University
Science Center, kotturpuram
SRM University - vadapalani
Easwari Engg College, Porur
A.M.Jain college, Meenanbakkam
Loyola College
Are some nice places for workshops.
Need volunteers to contact these to organise workshop there.
Please collaborate with us if you have any contacts with above mentioned
organizations or any other place in chennai for conducting
Workshops, Events, LDD,SFDs, Foss Conferences etc.
1.3 Until we get a place for summer workshop, we postponed all the workshops.
We need to get a place as soon as possible.
2. Monthly Meetings
2.1 Need to get more physical people in the monthly meetings.
2.2 Meetings should be announced at least 1 week before. No Last
minute announcements
2.3 Minimum three topics. Should include a student talk, for
beginners, for experts.
2.4 There may a series of talk every month.
ex : session on Linux administration that covers LPI/RHCE syllabus
/ PHP/ Perl/ Python etc
2.5 Should Invite the speakers individually
2.6 Announce the upcoming/planned talks in wiki or site
2.7 how to bring more people to monthly meets? - Need more ideas
3. FossConf 2010
3.1 Need a place. Any college should organize the event.
Jaya engg is interested. SSN also would be interested.
3.2 Should contact Arts & Science colleges also.
3.3 We can have the event on August-September month for 2 days
3.4 Need Physical Volunteers
3.5 If not possible in chennai, then we can contact south india
colleges like mepco.
4 Workshop on "Doing Business with FOSS"
4.1 I am discussing with some entrepreneurs, who are doing business with FOSS.
They agreed to give talk on such a workshop.
4.2 Birla Planetarium will be nice place for such a workshop.
Will contact them and announce it soon.
5 Adopting Students
5.1 Should adopt a college or group of students and train them continuously
5.2 Have to conduct series of sessions on various topics for them
5.3 We can train them for GSoc like competitions
5.4 Have to make them to contribute to FOSS
Participants : 16
Some snaps are here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=23279&id=133359730009404&ref=pb
