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ILUGC Monthly Meet (February 12 th)

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ILUGC Monthly Meet (February 12 th):-
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Time : Sat February 12 , 2010 (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 : Glimpse at OpenERP

Introduction to OpenERP and a elementary walk through of its
functionalities and features.

Speaker: SatheeshKumar. P [ satheesh @ e-ndicus . com ]
Duration : 30 min

About the Speaker :
ERP developer at SG E-ndicus Infotech Pvt Ltd

2.

Topic : Introduction to Photo Editing using Gimp
Speaker : Natarajan V [ rajanvn @ gmail . com ]

Level: Novice

The session will introduce you to some of the very basics of Photo
editing in general and using Gimp. The session aims at getting the
audiance around Gimp, the tools available and some of the terminology.
This will help the users to understand tutorials from the net and
follow them.

Duration: 45 mins.

3.
FOSS Contributor of the Month:

Topic : Google Summer of Code - What, Why, How.

Speaker : Arun Tejasvi Chaganty http://arun.chagantys.org/

Description : Google Summer of Code is an awesome initiative by Google
to encourage students to develop open-source projects during their
summers (Flip burgers not bits) (http://code.google.com/soc/). As a
GSoC participant in 2008, Arun will talk about what the program is
about, what it's like being a GSoCer, and some details about the
application process.

Duration: 20-30 minutes, or more depending on questions.

About the Speaker:

He is a 4th year Dual Degree student studying Computer Science in IIT
Madras. He has been using linux for over 5-6 years now, and has been
contributing on and off to GNOME and other open-source projects. He did
a GSoC with GNOME in 2008, working on integrating Vim into Anjuta.

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.

Minutes of Meeting - Jan 8, 2011

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Minutes of Meeting - Jan 8, 2011

The first meeting of the new year 2011 was on Jan 8, 2011
with 26 participants.

Kumaran, The youngest RHCE holder, started his presentation
on how he migrated his father's LAW office into FOSS.
He explained the issues he faced on changing the systems and people.

Here are the slides.
http://j.mp/foss-at-law-office

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Senthil Kumar, explained his expereinces with Android Programing.
Then he moved to the open source project he is contributing.
"Keryx"  is a offline package downloader for ubuntu systems.
It is used to bring the packages with all dependencies to the non-internet
connected machines.

The project needs more volunteers to add more features like support for fedora,
arch, slackware, suse and other distros.

Join and contribute:
http://keryxproject.org/
https://launchpad.net/keryx

Slides are here:
http://j.mp/keryx-demo-at-ilugc

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The Open Source Movie "Sintel" is displayed.
I (Shrinivasan) explained about Blender and the open movie projects.

Movie link:
www.sintel.org

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2010 achievements:
I narrated on our achievements on 2010.

 
2337 members
8921 emails
2708 threads
69 zero reply queries
174 one day one app mails
111 tips
71 job posts
A new list for tamil
12 meetings
39 FOSS events in various colleges
30 FOSS Labs by Baskar Selvaraj
New website
New wiki
Project lists and Mentors for students
New IRC Channel
New Office Boy
Software Freedom Day celebrations
Meet with ILUGC Founder Prabhu
Stalls in OSI Days events
Most Active and Helpful LUG In India - by LFY

Slides:
http://j.mp/ilugc-at-2010

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We discussed about the activities to do in the year 2011.
The participants gave many action items like more meetings, handsons and trainings.

Thanks for all the members and FOSS contributors.
Let us hope for more activities this year.

The snaps are here.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=48359&id=133359730009404

Minutes of Meetings - Aug 2010 meet

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Again, ILUGC meet made a history.Yes. The participants count is 70

:-)

Thanks to all.

We started at 3.20 PM.we have to make it sharp at 3 in the upcoming meetings.

Raman stated with the meeting information with CDAC about BOSS.Then, he started his Linux Admin Session.Today, he explained "File Permissions in Linux"Different file types, User, Group, Others,read,write,execute permissions,chmod,stickybit, setuid,setgid are the topics he covered with live demo.

Chandrashekar Babu started his Ruby Talk.He explored Object Oriented Nature, strings, Classes,Loops, File System Handling, irb, threads in Ruby.He compared Ruby with shell, perl scripting withlot of live code examples.

Suki Venkat showed his open source application "MultiFlow".It is a easy software for authoring Latex Documents easily.He showed the XUL and javascript code, he developed.

We had a discussion about Software Freedom Day 2010 on sep 18.We got place at Birla Planetarium.Thyagarajan started the discussion for volunteers and stalls.We got request for stalls from MIT, Jaya Engg College, AVIT, SRM, Fedora Team,Sworks and kanchilug.Ma.Sivakumar accepted to volunteer for the publicity in media likemagazines,social media, FM, web, colleges, poster, banner etc.

We will discuss the list of stalls and volunteers in a separate thread.

Here is the article in Tamil about this month meet by Ma.Sivakumar.http://kaniporul.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post_14.html

Here are some snaps. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=27638&id=133359730009404

I thank all the speakers and participants.

Regards,
Shrinivasan

Minutes of the Meeting - July Monthly Meet

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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

October Meet

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> Talk 1: WebTest
Speaker : Bhuvaneswaran A
Duration: 45mins

Webtest is an automated testing tool for web applications.
This talk will cover the following details:

* Quick overview of the tool
* Webtest presentation
* Howto write a simple test for a web page -- Demo
* Webtest result report

Link: http://webtest.canoo.com/

> Talk 2: IRC Step by Step
Speaker : Kenneth Gonsalves
Duration: 20mins

This talk will try to answer the following Qs:

* What is an IRC?
* Howto join in an IRC discussion?
* Text and GUI IRC Clients
* Very useful IRC Channels for newbies
* Dos and Don't in IRC

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

HTH :)
--
Bharathi S

Meeting Place: 
ADI-TeNeT Seminar Hall, Room No: CSD 320, Electrical Science Block (ESB), IIT-Madras. Map: http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/locn-map.php (Our Meet is @ CSD Block of ESB)
Meeting Date: 
10 Oct 2009 - 15:00 - 17:00

September Meet

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Meeting will be part of SFD

Meeting Place: 
Birla Planetarium, Kotturpuram
Meeting Date: 
19 Sep 2009 (All day)
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