ILUGC Monthly Meet (January 8 th):- ============================== Time : Sat January 8 , 2010 (3.00 - 5.30 PM)
Venue: Classroom No 6, Areo Space Engineering, Near Gajendra Circle, IIT Madras. Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero 1. Topic : FOSS is the boss in Law Office - A Erode based Law Office switches and stays with FOSS Speaker: Kumaran R Duration : 45 min About the Speaker : (In his words) I am Studying in Class XI at Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram, Chennai. To start with, my interest in computers made me finish my MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) exam in SQL Server at the age of 10 years, making me one of the world's youngest MCPs. Within a short time I was taken up by FOSS. As per my mentor's guidance I also made it to RHCE (Redhat Certified Engineer) Certification at the age of 12. Its five years since I am active with FOSS, admiring the joys of using it. After coming to Chennai - I have also been attracted to ILUGC (Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai) and now I am an active member, waiting for the monthly meetings. With a deep urge to promote FOSS - Wherever I go I make it a point to talk, install and try to convert people to use FOSS. I think for a beginner it's a good start for having converted 30 of my friends and class-mates in my school and also my computer teacher to FOSS. I think and hope to convert my school to FOSS as well. The Yi (Young Indians) Net of Bhavan's gave me an opportunity to use FOSS (Drupal for web-site designing and GIMP for Poster and Banner making). In the Design for Change contest, in which our school was one of the top 20, in the country, out of 900 schools, I designed the presentation with Open Office.org. (One of the reasons for getting the top 20 is that ours was the only school in the country that used open format i.e. .odp for the presentation) The Hindu wrote about me when I was in my 7th standard. There was also an article about me in Linux For You in the July edition of the year 2006. My talk will be It is about how I opened the doors of FOSS in my dad's office and led them away from Windows. 2. FOSS Contributor of the Month: Project: Keryx Keryx is a free and open source tool for easily managing packages on offline Debian based computers including support for Ubuntu and Linux Mint. It provides an easy graphical interface to help install and upgrade software. To know more, http://keryxproject.org/ Duration : 45 Mins About the Speaker : Senthil Kumar mostly known online as " webrsk ". An open source enthusiastic and skilled in Web and Mobile technologies. Developer of Keryx project and Ubuntu - Tour. 3. Movie Time: Movie: Sintel A computer animated short film created with Blender and released under a creative commons license. Official site, offering full quality free downloads of the film. Site: http://www.sintel.org Duration : 15 min 4. Topic : ILUGC at 2010 Speaker: T Shrinivasan Duration : 15 min A review about the activities and achievements of ILUGC in 2010. and a discussion about the roadmap for 2011. 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. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
