June 2009 IRC Meeting Details
July 1st, 2009
Indeed it was encouraging to see almost 20- 25 people coming for the
first IRC meeting. As there was no agenda as such, what was experienced
was total chaos, discussions on various topics and various aspects,
Although many where unhappy at the lack of a definitive agenda, indeed
it was a chance for many to try out IRC for the first time and to discuss
things online. We hope that the coming meetings ( 3rd sunday of every month)
will see better participation and collaboration with a fixed agenda and objective.
Date : 21.06.2009
Time : 4.15pm - 6pm
Attendance : 20-25
The attendees were from various fields including professionals, freelancers,
the media, etc..
The meeting concluded on ILUG Cochin starting a campaign, more discussions on this
would happen at the official meeting on 28/06/2009 and the next IRC meeting.
The next IRC meeting agenda would be “Campaign to promote Free Software in Kerala”.
( as voted by majority).
Indeed for people who were eager but unable to attend the official meetings at broadway,
the IRC meeting was indeed a very good experience ( from the feedback ).
Hope the next meeting is more exciting.
All India Radio ILUG Cochin Programme
June 15th, 2009
All India Radio interviewed Jay Jacob of ILUG Cochin in a one hour programme involving other ILUG Cochin Members as well. Here are the details.
Organized by All India Radio
Programme : Surabhi,
Subject : Swathanthra Software: Digital logathe Jandhipathya Prakhyapanam
Date : 10/06/2009
Time : 3pm - 4pm.
Files: Low Quality Ogg Audio( 5.3 MB]
Pour in your comments on the programme.
How to use IRC?
June 8th, 2009
What is IRC?
IRC stands for “Internet Relay Chat”. It was originally written by Jarkko Oikarinen in 1988. Since starting in Finland, it has been used in over 60 countries around the world. IRC is a multi-user chat system, where people meet on “channels” (rooms, virtual places, usually with a certain topic of conversation) to talk in groups, or privately. There is no restriction to the number of people that can participate in a given discussion, or the number of channels that can be formed on IRC.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfers via Direct Client-to-Client.
As of May 2009, the top 100 IRC networks served more than half a million users at a time, with hundreds of thousands of channels (the vast majority of which stand mostly vacant), operating on a total of roughly 1,500 servers world-wide.
1. How can I use IRC on my machine.?
You need an IRC Client ( A program that connects to the IRC Servers). Every client follows guidelines form RFC2812 (basic rules that define how to communicate between client and server) if you are interested go through it, you will understand irc clients better.
- Select the IRC server from the list
- Decide your nick name ( just like your username for an email id )
- [optional] register your nick
- Connect
- Select / Join your channel
These are most popular clients available for IRC,
May 2009 Meeting Report
June 3rd, 2009
The third meeting of the “Indian Libre User Group” was held on May 24 2009.(4th Sunday of Every Month)
Following is a brief snapshot of the meeting.
Date: 24-05-2009
Time: 2:15pm - 5.35pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam
Attendance : 21
2.15pm
Customary Introduction
2.20pm
Introduction to
- Free Software
- 4 Freedoms
- GNU Movement and its history
- Open Source Software
- GNU/Linux and other GNU based Operating Systems
- Licenses - GNU GPL
- Free Software Foundation and its role.
2.40pm
Agenda Discussion
Community Based Curriculum
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The Community based curriculum project was explained in brief. The project
was delinked from the ILUG Cochin meetings as it was an initiative that is
going to be involving not only the Free Software Community but the entire
society. Also the initiative had its own importance in the present day, that
it required a seperate team from the free software community with specific
meetings and plans.
www.communitybasedcurriculum.wikia.com will be the starting point.
2.50pm
Converting Kerala to Free Software.
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The meeting kicked off what has been discussed in the Mailing List. The aim was to make the meeting synchronized with the Mailing List and the attendees and the Mailing List subscribers to collaborate more freely. The discussion started of with Roshin Roy suggesting to list out the various areas of development the community needs to consider with specific agendas.His Mail below summarizes the discussion for the meeting.
http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/2009-May/003919.html
This will be put up in the ILUG wiki ( yet to be setup ) soon. The meeting was a kickoff to what the community finally aims at.
4.00pm
Tea Break
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4.15pm
Technical Presentation: Package Management on GNU/Linux by Kevin Sha
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The presentation started with the basics of what a software package is and what is meant by ” Installing an Application”. Later moved on explaining dpkg, apt and Synaptic with relation to Debian GNU/Linux.
5.25 pm
Conclusion
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The Meeting concluded with plans of continuing the Agenda discussion on “Converting Kerala to Free Software” for the next meeting. An important point about Mailing List members not speaking up in Meetings and Meeting Attendees not speaking up in Mailing Lists was highlighted. The attendees and contributors were thanked and meeting wound up by 5.35pm. Detailed Feedback was collected from the Attendees.
Attendees
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Sreenadh
Manu Ram
Vishu V
Fayaz Yusuf Khan
Mahesh Aravind
Jayachandran CS
Binny VA
Roshin Roy
NJ Mathew
Harikrishnan TR
Bilal MK
Santhosh Lal VS
Punnoose PJ
Tomcy Varghese
Laiju Thomas
KG Harikumar
Lenins George
VK Nizar
Sameer
Jay Jacob
Kevin Sha
We thank all the attendees for coming and urge them to put their feedback on the mailing list so we can improve future meetings.
And hope the next meeting on 28/06/2009 is bigger and better.
Swathanthra Software Sangamam - 2nd Edition on May 25-29
May 21st, 2009
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin Chapter is proud to present the second edition of the Swathanthra Software Sangamam from 25th to 29th of May 2009 at Vocational Higher Secondary School, Irimpanam, Thrippunithura. This event brings together the Free Software community, teachers and students for 5 days of knowledge sharing programmes.
Objectives of the Program
● To teach the basics of Computing and Programming through Command Line
Interface and Python Programming.
● To spread awareness on the importance of Free Software in Schools.
● To create a free thinking group among the students, teachers and the community to
study, share and collaborate thereby developing skills for generating ideas and
technologies for the country.
● To unravel the internals of computer hardware.
● Engage them in fun filled activities for learning.
Date: 25 - 29th May 2009
Venue: Vocational Higher Secondary School,
Irimpanam,
Thripunithura
Kochi
Programme schedule:
May 25 -28:
Workshop on Programming using the Python Language
May 29:
Inauguration of Swathanthra Software Kuttayma, VHSS Irimpinam
Free Software Quiz Contest
Computer Hardware Internals Demonstration
Swathanthra Software Seminars
- Free Software, Free Society by Jay Jacob
- Future of Student Community through Swathanthra Software by Vimal Joseph
The complete details are given in the following files.