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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.

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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

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

Contributing to FOSS is always giving back in the form of satisfaction, new friends, nice job with good pay, great community, knowledge, social responsibility and more.

Now, it starts to give Free College Education too.

Kumaran, is one of our ILUGC [ Indian Linux Users Group - Chennai ] Member.
We can say that one of the youngest members.
Yes. He is studying his +2.

He is a FOSS fan for years. He completed his RHCE few years back and spreading FOSS
in his school by teaching other students and staff.

He attends the LUG meets regularly and gave a talk on "Ubuntu 11.04 features".
He rolled out his own fedora fork as "KumOS".

He was invited to give a talk on Software Freedom Day celebrations to Jaya Engineering College, Chennai.
Impressed by his talk and activities, Jaya Engineering College Chairman offered him a free 4 year Engineering Education in the college.

Here, Raman, writes up to the list on this.

Happy news. ILUGC child(??) prodigy Kumaran (now a +2 student) delivered a lecture in the above celebration.

Impressed by his work, the Chairman of Jaya Engineering College Prof.Kanakaraj during his valedictory address, offered him a free seat - free for all the four years- if he chooses to join this college.

On behalf of ILUGC I wish to thank the Chairman, faculty and Jayafoss club for this offer.

http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2011-September/067627.html

Kumaran's Reply:

First of all a big thank you... Yes FOSS is good... :-)

Actually my given topic for the speech at Jaya Engineering College was for creating a Fedora remix, but I couldn't do that because all the students were 1st years who didn't know anything about Linux.

So I proceeded to talk to them about the history of Free Software and why they should use GNU/Linux.

My thanks to the college chairman for offering me a seat..

But IMHO, the most important person for helping Jaya Engineering College is Kumaran Sir, the HOD of CSC dept.

So a big thanks to him too for helping to bring the college to this level.... :-)

http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2011-September/067637.html

Wishes for the young FOSS contributor Kumaran.

Thanks for Jaya FOSS Club, HOD Kumaran sir and the Chairman.

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

.

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

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ http://ilugc.in ] is celebrating the "Software Freedom Day"
[ http://softwarefreedomday.org ]
every year on September month. We setup the demo stalls on various
Free Open source Software to public to demonstrate them.

In 2011, we celebrate it on September 17.

Place is yet to confirm. Will confirm it soon.

We need volunteers for the Free Software Demo.

Please add your details in the following page, if you are interested
in having a demo stall.
http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Sfd2011

Thanks.

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