Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community, The meeting of the "Indian Libre User Group" was successfully held on January 23rd 2011.(4th Sunday of Every Month)
Following is a brief snapshot of the meeting. Date: 23-1-2011 Time: 2:00pm - 5.30pm Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building, Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam Attendance : 13 2.15pm - Customary Introduction 2.15pm - 3.15pm - Brief Introduction to ILUG Cochin and its activities. Discussion on Concept of Free Software and other topics - Introduction to Free Software - History of the GNU Movement - History of GNU/Linux - Concept of an Operating System, Kernel - What is Source Code, Binary Program - Programming languages - Licenses - GNU GPL - Concept of Copyleft - Open Source Software and its Difference with Free Software - Other movements related to Free Software philosophy 3.15pm- 4.00pm Agenda : Need for Free Software on Mobile Platforms : - Role of software in mobile phones and portable devices. - Concept of ROM, Flash, - Programming the Flash with firmware/ software - Updating the software - The importance of privacy and freedom on portable devices. - Customization of Software on mobile phones. - How Free Software can work with the mobile phone market. - Android, OpenMoko, meebo and other free software related mobile phone stacks. - Standardization of Hardware - Hardware lock-in with mobile phones - Tablet PCs. 4.00 pm Tea Break 4.15pm Technical Discussions: 1. Syncplaces A Firefox addon for synchronizing bookmarks and files with user defined server. http://www.andyhalford.com/syncplaces/ 2. Reverse Proxy How Reverse proxy can be used in Apache http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html 3.pdfmod Utility to insert multiple pages in a single page and pdf tricks http://live.gnome.org/PdfMod 4. noveau - Nvidia free software driver Shared experience with the 3D functionality of the driver on Ubuntu 10.10 using. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ 5. wammu Mobile phone manager using Gammu as its backend. It works with any phone that Gammu supports, including many models from Nokia, Siemens, and Alcatel. http://wammu.eu/ 6. phatch simple to use cross-platform GUI Photo Batch Processor http://photobatch.stani.be 7. Meteor slides Wordpress plugin for creating quick slideshows using images http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/meteor-slides/ 8. Eventr Wordpress plugin for quickly creating forms to handle event registrations. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eventr/ 9. Creating a calendar in Inkscape Using the calendar plugin of inkscape we can create custom calendars using different options. inkscape.org 10.Booting an ISO image of Ubuntu from GRUB 2 ------------------------------ 1. Press 'c' at the grub command prompt. 2. Enter username and password if any. 3. Enter the following lines terminated by return key. set root=(hd0,1) loopback loop/ubuntu.iso set root=loop0 linux (loop)/boot/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/ubuntu_10.10.iso initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz boot ------------------------------ 11. ct flasher For burning ROMS (BOOTROMS) for LAN Cards http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctflasher/ 12. GNU/Linux comptible ISP kits Kits comprising the hardware (supporting GNU/Linux) and software are available in the local markets. http://yantrix.blogspot.com/2010/08/yantrix-antara-open-source-in-system.html http://yantrix.blogspot.com/2010/08/cross-platform-isp-for-at89s5x.html 13. VirtualMin Virtualmin is a powerful and flexible web hosting control panel, based on webmin which is a web-based interface for system administration http://www.virtualmin.com/ http://www.webmin.com/ 5.15pm Conclusion - People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting. - The different ways to involve in activities of ILUG Cochin were discussed. - The attendees were notified of a possible stall planned by ILUG Cochin and requested them to volunteer. - Different projects in the Free Software community needed contributors, everyone was encouraged to involve in these projects. - All people who came for the Meeting were thanked. Thanks to all the attendees for coming and they are requested to put their feedback on the mailing list so we can improve future meetings. Next meeting : 27/02/2011 Details of the meeting available on the web site at http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/january-2011-meeting-details/ Send your feedback about this report to contact at ilug-cochin dot org Thank You Regards Coordinator Indian Libre User Group, Cochin =============== About ILUG Cochin =============== >From August 1997 ILUG Cochin has been working for the cause of Freedom by promoting Free Software. ILUG Cochin has the vision to create a self sustaining Free Society, where individuals have Freedom to work and live in unison and harmony. ILUG Cochin hopes to do this by spreading the principles of Freedom and Truth which are embodied in the concept of Free Software. 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