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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

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

It was a great meet to get most of the old ILUGCians like Bharathi Subramanian, Kumar Appiah, Thyagarajan, Ravi Jaya etc.
Hall was filled with old faces and new faces, counting 32 as the participants.

Kumar explained the basics of cryptography. Alice, Bob and Eve played the roles in the play.
Public key and private key mechanism was explained well. Kumar narrated the concepts of
authentication, authorization using the keys. He explained how can we secure our emails
using signatures and GPG keys.

Since, Cryptography is a great ocean, he explored it from the seashore, on how to live a safer digital life.

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Next, Arun SAG, started the Fedora 15 Release Party. Snack and Drinks are served.

He explained the new systemd service, which replaced the init to start the services in parallel.
He demonstrated the gnome 3 and its features.
Then he invited for the Fedora Users Developers Conference FUDCon.
Audience shot many questions and Arun answered them all with patience.

Here is the presentation.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/57871609/Fedora15-Overview

[scribd id=57871609 key=key-2emruu258cpemvoeu5lg mode=slideshow]

Source: https://gitorious.org/saga-presentations/presentations/blobs/master/Fedora_15_overview/Fedora15_Overview.tex

Download: http://zer0c00l.in/downloads/Fedora15_Overview.pdf

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Thyagarajan explained the need of a content submission software for the project "Spoken Tutorial" [ http://spoken-tutorial.org ]
He demonstrated the features of the project that he started to develop.
He described about various reports and navigation features. He invited the audience for participating in the project.

In the lightning talk section, he expressed his views on the ILUGC activities.

• ILUGC should do more activities for the foss community.
• We should reach not only engineering colleges, but also the arts & science, polytechinc etc.
• Co-ordinator should be changed every two years.
• ILUGC should become a registered organization to do commercial activities also.
• College students should be trained on linux installation on the FOSS Labs.
• Distro freedom should be given to college students.
• ilugc-tamil mailing list should be active.
• Info on any workshop/seminar in colleges should be announced in prior so that any freelancer can participate.

He reported that current co-ordinator,

• did not announced the project offer for spoken tutorial to the list.
• he did not attributed his ideas on a report for spoken-tutorial project.
• he refused to give status report to thyagarajan in the report for spoken-tutorial.
• he did not allowed thyagarajan to teach in a workshop at kanchipuram.
• he is not conducting any Linux Demo Days.
• he is not inspiring many people to come to the meets.

The luggies and Co-ordinator replied for his queries.

We requested thyagarajan to discuss all his queries in the mailing list,
and the community will make good decisions for all his requests.

Here are the snaps of the event. [ A pulic Album, anyone can view ]
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.227854213893288.68512.133359730009404&l=535ac5d500

Thanks for Arun SAG for sharing the expense for the party.
Thanks for all speakers and participants.

ILUGC Monthly Meet (June 11 th):-
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Time : Sat June 11 , 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: Public/Private cryptography with the GNU Privacy Guard

Description:

Authentication and security have always been important aspects in
deploying electronic communication and storage solutions. With
electronic communication becoming more ubiquitous and data storage
increasingly becoming cloud based, the need to secure data when using
these services is of utmost importance, there are tools which enable
users to take control of security into their own hands.

I will talk about the need to secure our data, and describe the basic
concepts behind public/private key cryptography, signing data,
encrypting data, and using GnuPG along with key pairs to perform all
these functionalities. I will cover the concepts more than cover the
tool itself; I will point to better documentation on how to use the
tools. The hope is that the documentation should be much easier to
follow when all the jargon I talk about is clear.

Duration: 1 Hr

About Speaker:

Speaker: Kumar Appaiah is a Ph.D. student of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Earlier, he was
a student of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, during which he
would regularly attend in ILUGC meetings and participate in some LUG
activities (like GNU Linux Vidyashram).

His primary interests in the FOSS world are free and open source tools
for design and implementation of digital signal processing and
communication systems. He occasionally contributes patches and
maintains packages for the Debian project.

He is the 5th debian developer from India.
Here is list of packages maintained by Kumar.
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=akumar%40ee.iitm.ac.in&comaint=yes

IRC Nick Name : kmap

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2.

Party Time : Fedora Release Party

Topic: Introduction to Fedora 15 (Lovelock)

Description:

Fedora 15 (Lovelock) is released recently. Let us explore the new
features like Gnome 3.

Duration: 30 min

Speaker : Arun SAG [ sagarun AT gmail DOT com  ]

About Speaker:

Arun SAG is a Fedora Ambassador package maintainer for Fedora and EPEL.
He am known as zer0c00l in freenode and you can see him hanging around in
#fedora-india #fedora-devel #dgplug and #mukt.in

Here is the list of packages Arun maintains
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/sagarun

[ Snacks and CoolDrinks will be provided, along with the Fedora 15 ISO.
Bring your Pen Drives. Dont Miss it ]

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3.

Topic: Content Submission Software for spoken-tutorial.org

Description:

spoken-tutorial.org project needs a custom software to manage the video, script
and translations submissions, to manage the workflow, to make the process of
contribution more easy.
Let us discuss the requirements of this software.

Duration: 30 mins

Speaker : Thyagarajan Shanmugham [ citizenofgnu AT gmail  DOT com ]

About Speaker :

Thyagarajan is a foss follower,currently developing the software
for spoken-tutorial.org content submission and workflow management tool.

4.

Lightning Talk:

Duration : 15 min

Discussion on the review of our performance in ilugc,
discussion on chat script between the co-ordinator
with Thyagarajan, his past experience in meeting
the hurdles in promoting foss in ilugc.

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

March Month ILUGC Meet, was a good meet with 20 participants.

Vijay explained about the progress of LAB Manual preparation for Anna university students.
He demonstrated asciidoc and dia for preparing the manual.
He coveted asciidoc formatted text into fine PDF file.

Raman explored the continuity, a library to provide statefullness to web applications using perl.
He demonstrated developing web applications similar to desktop/cli applications.
A Simple chat application is explained.

link : http://continuity.tlt42.org/

Raju from Third Eye Technology Volunteers Group, explained their activities
to provide technical assistance to the blind people.

They build applications using Free Open Source Tools for the blind people.

Some of the applications are

• Screen Reader in English and Tamil
• OCR in Tamil
• OCR in Mobile phones
• Barcode Reader for Mobile
• Currency Identifier for Mobile
• Text to Speech in Tamil and Kannada

All the projects are done by college students and open source contributors.
Check their site for more details.
http://www.thirdeyetvg.com

They need more contributions.
Please join with them to help the blind people.

Our FOSS Hero Baskar selvaraj, explained about his activities of Setting up FOSS LAB in colleges.
Please contact him if you need to setup a FOSS LAB in your college or Office.

Kumaran, released his own distro, a fedora spin, KumOS.
He demonstrated the distro.

Here are the snaps.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=55229&l=8c29466f3a&id=133359730009404

Thanks for all the participants.

ILUGC Monthly Meet (October 9th):-
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Time : Sat October 9 , 2010 (3.00 - 5.30 PM)

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

1.
Topic : Introduction to Drupal

Discussion on Drupal's strengths and weakness. Hands-on
with installing Drupal core and essential modules.

Speaker : Raja Subraminian
Raja is an active FOSS promoter and an entrepreneur.

Duration : 30 min

2.
Topic : Getting Started with Rails 3

Live coding a rails application and highlight some
of the new features of rails 3 in the process.

Speaker : Vagmi Mudumbai
Vagmi is a passionate hacker. He is a founder and a director at Artha42
Innovations Pvt Ltd. He likes coding in dynamic languages and shipping
quality software.

Duration : 45 min

3.
Title : Introduction to OpenLdap
Live demo on installing openldap and migrating local users to openldap

Speaker : Baskar K
Baskar is a freelance FOSS trainer

Duration : 30 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.

It is said to be one of the biggest meet of ilugc in recent times, 67
members came for the meet, yes, you heard it right, I repeat the number, it
is '67'.

Chandrasekhar Babu started with his talk on mariadb and explained about
optimising the db and explained features of Maria DB.

Senthil Kumar gave a talk on his experience of getting converted to open
source business model.

FSFTN Speaker Siddharth, taken the presentation on the preambles of Free
Software Movement.

Raman taken class for System administration.

The session went over for three and half hours continuously.

Thanks a lot for the participants and speakers.
We expect the such support from community in all upcoming meetings and events.

Here are some snaps.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ILUGC/133359730009404

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

The Computer Science & Engineering department of IIT Madras brings you, Exebit 2010, offering you a plethora of events ranging from hard-core programming contests, nerve-wracking puzzles and games to enriching workshops and presentations. The fest will be conducted in two phases, the online and the on-site.