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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

Tamil Wikipedia is conducting a Media Contest. Participate and upload your photos, audio and video files, animations, graphs and maps related to Tamil and Tamils.

The TamilWiki Media contest is being organised to increase the quality media content related to Tamil and Tamilians in Wikimedia projects,
To attract non-text contributors like photographers, graphic artists, animators, map makers and videographers to Tamil wiki projects.

Not everyone can write articles can Wikipedia. Some may don't have enough time to write articles while some may not like writing articles. But taking photographs or videos might be easier and preferable for them. They might also possess many multimedia files they have created in the past. Moreover the procedure for uploading files to Wikimedia has become simple now. So anyone can take part in this contest easily and contribute to Tamil Wiki projects.

By uploading the files to Wikimedia Commons - a sister project of Wikipedia, they can be be used not only in Tamil Wikipedia but also in other language wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects like Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikinews

Dates: November 15, 2011 - February 29, 2012

Social Media: Facebook – #twmc on Twitter – Blog

E-Mail: tamil.wikipedia [at] gmail.com

Total Prize money: 850 US Dollars

I-II-III prizes - 200-100-50 $
Consolation prizes - 2 X 25 $
Continuous contribution prizes - 3 x 100 $
Special category prize - 150 $

Topics:
Photos, animations, videos, graphs, maps, audio files related to Tamil and Tamils

Upload : @Wikimedia Commons

Contest Portal:
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en

Banners: http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/விக்கிப்பீடியா:தமிழ்_விக்கி_ஊடகப்_போட்டி/பதாகைகள்

Post the banners with a link back to http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en
in all your blogs/sites.

Please spread the information to your friends and social media.

தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா ஒரு ஊடகப் போட்டி ஒன்றை நடத்துகிறது. இதில் கலந்து கொண்டு தமிழ் மற்றும் தமிழர் பற்றியான உங்கள் புகைப்படங்கள், ஒலி மற்றும் ஒளிக் கோப்புகள், வரைபடங்கள், நிலப்படங்கள் ஆகியவற்றைப் பதிவேற்றுங்கள்; பரிசுகளை வெல்லுங்கள்

தமிழ் - தமிழர் பற்றிய உயர்தர ஊடகக் கோப்புகளின் எண்ணிக்கையைக் கூட்டுவதற்காகவும், புகைப்படக் கலைஞர்கள், ஓவியர்கள், அசைப்பட ஆர்வலர்கள், நிலப்பட ஆர்வலர்கள் போன்றவர்களையும் விக்கிக்கு பங்களிப்பு செய்யத் தூண்டுவதற்குமாக இந்தப் போட்டி நடத்தப்படுகின்றது.

விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் கட்டுரை எழுதுவது அனைவராலும் முடிவதில்லை. கிடைக்கும் நேரம் அரிதாக இருப்பதும், கட்டுரை எழுதுவதில் ஆர்வமின்மையும் காரணங்களாக இருக்கலாம். ஆனால் படம் எடுப்பது சிலருக்கு எழுதுவதிலும் பார்க்க எளிய விசயமாக இருக்கலாம். மேலும் நீங்கள் ஏற்கனவே எடுத்த தரமான படங்கள், ஒலிக் கோப்புகள், ஒளிக் கோப்புகள் உங்களிடம் இருக்கலாம். தற்போது தரவேற்ற முறையும் மிகவும் எளிதாகி இருக்கின்றது. எனவே நீங்களும் இலகுவாக இந்தப் போட்டியில் பங்கேற்க முடியும். அதன்மூலம் தமிழ் விக்கித் திட்டங்களில் உங்கள் பங்களிப்பும் இடம்பெறும்.

விக்கிப்பீடியாவின் சகோதரத் திட்டமான விக்கிமீடியா காமன்சில் கோப்புகளைப் பதிவேற்றுவதன் மூலம், தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா மட்டுமன்றி பிற மொழி விக்கிப்பீடியாக்களிலும், விக்சனரி, விக்கிநூல்கள், விக்கிசெய்திகள் போன்ற பிற விக்கித் திட்டங்களிலும் இக்கோப்புகளைப் பயன்படுத்தலாம்.

மொத்தப் பரிசுத் தொகை 850 அமெரிக்க டாலர்கள்

I-II-III பரிசுகள் - 200-100-50
ஆறுதல் பரிசுகள் - 2 X 25 $
தொடர் பங்களிப்பு பரிசுகள் - 3 x 100 $
சிறப்புப் பரிசு - 150

போட்டி வலைவாசல்:
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/contest

பதாகைகள் : http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/விக்கிப்பீடியா:தமிழ்_விக்கி_ஊடகப்_போட்டி/பதாகைகள்

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