Date: 22-01-2012

Time: 2:00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam

2.30pm – 2.45pm

Customary Self Introduction.
People shared their experience with Free Software

2.45pm – 4.30pm – Session by G. Venkit Subramanian

The main session started with the introduction to Nmap.Nmap (Network Mapper) is a security scanner originally written by Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich) used to discover hosts and services on a computer network, thus creating a “map” of the network. To accomplish its goal, Nmap sends specially crafted packets to the target host and then analyzes the responses. Unlike many simple port scanners that just send packets at some predefined constant rate, Nmap accounts for the network conditions (latency fluctuations, network congestion, the target interference with the scan) during the run.

4.30pm – 5.30pm

Tea break

Concluding Session

People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting.

Thanks to all the attendees for coming and they are requested to put their feedback on the mailing list so that we can improve future meetings.

Special Session with Richard Stallman from 5:30-7.30pm

Richard Stallman, the guru of the world-wide free software movement, reiterated here on Sunday that proprietary software inherently took away the people’s freedom and free software was not only efficient but also moral as it did not eat into people’s freedom. He was interacting with members of ILUG-Cochin as part of the 15th anniversary of Indian Libre User Group, established in 1997.

Dr. Stallman said that when he set himself on his mission in 1983 he was not so articulate in his comprehension of proprietary software. Any non-free software is evil, he said as he appealed to all to avoid using proprietary software.Use proprietary software only to help the cause of free software, he said. He also cautioned about the privacy threat, the facebook users are exposed to.He was also of the opinion that the mobile phones are on proprietary software and then they are used as listening devices by their creators.He was also very concerned about the censorship brought in to control freedom of expression and speech in America (SOPA & PIPA) and India (Social Networking Sites).

Next meeting : 26 February 2012

Indian Libre User Group is spreading Free Software awareness in society
through its regular monthly meetings ( 4th Sunday of every month ),
conducted since 1997. ILUG Cochin (www.ilug-cochin.org) is holding its
regular meeting along with a special session for this month on
Sunday, 22nd January 2012.

The Details are as follows

Date : 22/01/2012, 22nd January, Sunday

Time : 2pm-5:30pm (main meeting schedule 1-4)
5:30pm-8:30pm (special session schedule 5)

Venue :

Internet Club
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg,
Broadway Enclave
Broadway,
Kochi-682031
Location: Behind Allappat Super Shoppe,On top of SBT Treasury wing

Meeting Schedule
================
1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement
2. Agenda : Introduction to NMAP
3. Technical Discussions
4. Q&A Session
5. Special Session with Richard Stallman from 5:30-8:30pm

A Map showing the venue is available at :

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/

Directions to reach venue.

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/directions-to-meeting-venue/

Get answers to your questions about the meeting at:

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/faq/

For further information contact :
Tel:+91 9447111771
Tel:+91 9995717112
Tel:+91 9747173432
Tel:+91 9496449969
Tel:+91 484 2374862 ( Venue )
Tel:+91 484 4025077 ( Venue )
contact at ilug-cochin.org

Details

1. Introduction to Free Software

We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of
the Free Software Movement and related topics.

2. Agenda : Introduction to NMAP

We will have an introduction discussion about the features of
NMAP & specifics of port scanning. We will also discuss the relevance in
the world of cyberspace.

3. Technical Discussions

Attendees will discuss and/or present topics of interest. They will share
their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical
Session part of the Meeting.

4. Q&A Session

This would be used to answer doubts that users have concerning Free Software.

5. Special Session with Richard Stallman from 5:30-8.30pm

There is a special session at 5:30pm till 8:30pm, at which time we expect
to have prescence of Richard Stallman and we hope hear about his success
on Free Software.

Please confirm your ability to attend, as there is limited space for
seating, therefore please send a confirmation about your ability to attend
both the main meeting(schedule 1-4) and special session(schedule 5)
separately to ilugcoordinator@gmail.com. We will be able to accomodate
only as many seats are available at ILUG-COCHIN. We hope to give a reply
confirmation to all those who wish to attend as soon as we able to do
so(Total seating capacity at ILUG-COCHIN aprox 50+).

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting. Hope to
meet you all on Sunday.

Thank You

Regards
Co-ordinator
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin

Date: 25-12-2011

Time: 2:00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam
Attendance : 8

2.30pm – 2.45pm

Customary Self Introduction.
People shared their experience with Free Software.

2.45pm – 4.30pm

The main session started with the introduction to Intrusion Detection, the way in which it is approached by System / Network Administrators, the advantages and disadvantages of Intusion Detection, how it can be coupled with a firewall and made more effective. The methodology used are usually anomaly and signature detection, but still it may be difficult ot pinpoint the latest methods of attack.

We can have both a host based and Network based Intrusion detection system, as well as a combination of both, that is hybrid, normally there are limitations to both Host based and Network based systems and most administrators opt for the hybrid system, but it requires a lot high end systems, with various types of detection tools.

We can minimise losses through the use of intrusion detection systems, though it can not be a called a panacea for intrusion security, most companies spend a neglible amount of their finances on Intrusion Detection and end up losing valuable data and business, even without realising what has happened.

4.30pm – 4.50pm

Tea break

4.50pm – 5.30pm

Concluding Session

People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting.

Thanks to all the attendees for coming and they are requested to put their feedback on the mailing list so that we can improve future meetings.

The list of attendees are

Jay Jacob
Aravind Vijayan
Gibin George
Nibas P K
Jos Collin
S. Ananthanarayanan
G. Venkit Subramanian
Sreenadh H

Next meeting : 22 January 2012

Indian Libre User Group is spreading Free Software awareness in society
through its regular monthly meetings ( 4th Sunday of every month ),
conducted since 1997. ILUG Cochin (www.ilug-cochin.org) is holding its
regular meeting for this month on Sunday, 25th December 2011.

The Details are as follows

Date : 25/12/2011, 25th December, Sunday

Time : 2pm – 5:30pm

Venue :

Internet Club
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg,
Broadway Enclave
Broadway,
Kochi-682031
Location: Behind Allappat Super Shoppe,On top of SBT Treasury wing

Meeting Schedule
================
1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement
2. Agenda : Introduction to Intrusion Detection
3. Technical Discussions
4. Q&A Session

A Map showing the venue is available at :

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/

Directions to reach venue.

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/directions-to-meeting-venue/

Get answers to your questions about the meeting at:

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/faq/

For further information contact :
Tel:+91 9447111771
Tel:+91 9995717112
Tel:+91 9747173432
Tel:+91 9496449969
Tel:+91 484 2374862 ( Venue )
Tel:+91 484 4025077 ( Venue )
contact at ilug-cochin.org

Details

1. Introduction to Free Software

We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of
the Free Software Movement and related topics.

2. Agenda : Introduction to Intrusion Detection

We will have an introduction discussion about the safety aspects of
Intrusion Detection & implementation. We will also discuss how this will
help system/network administrators.

3. Technical Discussions

Attendees will discuss and/or present topics of interest. They will share
their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical
Session part of the Meeting.

4. Q&A Session

This would be used to answer doubts that users have concerning Free Software.

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting. Hope to
meet you all on Sunday.

Thank You

Regards
Co-ordinator
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin

Following is a brief snapshot of the meeting.

Date: 27-11-2011
Time: 2:00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam
Attendance : 11

2.15pm – 2.45pm

Customary Self Introduction.
People shared their experience with Free Software.

2.45pm – 4.00pm

The Main session was about Packet Sniffing, the ways in which it can be useful for a system/network administrator for streamling traffic on the network and also to and from the internet, to find the vulnerable points on the network, where sensitive information is being sent without protection.

There was a detailed explanation of how packets are harvested, decoded and used for various purposes, the dangers of using this technique and the liability of it being used by the wrong people, at the same time the information can also be used by the law inforement agencies various crimes being committed on the internet.

4.00pm – 4.20pm

Tea break

4.20pm – 5.30pm

The second half started with an introduction to Intrusion Detection, some of the tools that were used for this purpose and a short discussion on how people can secure themselves from intrusion, this session may be concluded in a later meeting as there was request for more information.

Concluding Session

People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting.

Thanks to all the attendees for coming and they are requested to put their feedback on the mailing list so that we can improve future meetings.

The list of attendees are

Jay Jacob
V V Thomas
Ali Arshad V P
Nishanth A I
Nibas P P
Sanno Shaju
Jobi Joseph
Aravind Vijayan
Gibin George
Francis Jose
Sreenadh

Indian Libre User Group is spreading Free Software awareness in society
through its regular monthly meetings ( 4th Sunday of every month ),
conducted since 1997. ILUG Cochin (www.ilug-cochin.org) is holding its
regular meeting for this month on Sunday, 27th November 2011.

The Details are as follows

Date : 27/11/2011, 27th November, Sunday

Time : 2pm – 5:30pm

Venue :
Internet Club
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg,
Broadway Enclave
Broadway,
Kochi-682031
Location: Behind Allappat Super Shoppe,On top of SBT Treasury wing

Meeting Schedule
================
1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement
2. Agenda : Introduction to Packet Sniffing
3. Technical Discussions
4. Q&A Session

A Map showing the venue is available at :

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/

Directions to reach venue.

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/directions-to-meeting-venue/

Get answers to your questions about the meeting at:

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/faq/

For further information contact :
Tel:+91 9447111771
Tel:+91 9995717112
Tel:+91 9747173432
Tel:+91 9496449969
Tel:+91 484 2374862 ( Venue )
Tel:+91 484 4025077 ( Venue )
contact at ilug-cochin.org

Details

1. Introduction to Free Software

We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of
the Free Software Movement and related topics.

2. Agenda : Introduction to Packet Sniffing

We will have an introduction discussion about the technical aspects of
Packet Sniffing related security. We will also discuss counter measures.

3. Technical Discussions

Intrusion detection

Attendees will discuss and/or present topics of interest. They will share
their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical
Session part of the Meeting.

4. Q&A Session

This would be used to answer doubts that users have concerning Free Software.

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting. Hope to
meet you all on Sunday.

Thank You

Regards
Co-ordinator
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin

Following is a brief snapshot of the meeting.

Date: 23-10-2011
Time: 2:00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam
Attendance : 16

2.15pm – 2.45pm

Customary Self Introduction.
People shared their experience with Free Software.

2.45pm – 4.00pm

Agenda : MetaSploit Framework – The Ultimate Tool for Penetration Testing

The MetaSploit Project

The Metasploit Project is an open-source computer security project which provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development.

Its most well-known sub-project is the Metasploit Framework, a tool for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine.

Metasploit was created by HD Moore in 2003 as a portable network tool using the Perl scripting language. Later, the Metasploit Framework was then completely rewritten in the Ruby programming language. In addition, it is a tool for third-party security researchers to investigate potential vulnerabilities.

Potential Uses of the Metasploit Framework:

1) Metasploit can be used during penetration testing to validate the reports by other automatic vulnerability assessment tools to prove that the vulnerablity is not a false positive and can be exploited. Care has to taken because not only does it disprove false positives, but it can also break things.

2) Metasploit can be used to test the new exploits that come up nearly everyday on your locally hosted test servers to understand the effectiveness of the exploit.

3) Metasploit is also a great testing tool for your intrusion detection systems to test whether the IDS is successful in preventing the attacks that we use to bypass it.

4.00pm – 4.20pm

Tea break

4.20pm – 5.30pm

Concluding Session

Everyone assembled again for the final concluding session.

People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting.

Thanks to all the attendees for coming and they are requested to put their feedback on the mailing list so that we can improve future meetings.

The list of attendees are

Jay Jacob
Vettical V Thomas
Jobi Joseph
Aravind Vijayan
Joyi
Arun
Gibin George
Francis Jose
Jos Collin
Kabeer P.M
S.Ananthanarayanan
Adrin Jo Kasper
Lino Charly
Fasial P.P
Harshad P.A
G.Venkit Subramanian

Next meeting : 27 November 2011

Indian Libre User Group is spreading Free Software awareness in society
through its regular monthly meetings ( 4th Sunday of every month ),
conducted since 1997. ILUG Cochin (www.ilug-cochin.org) is holding its
regular meeting for this month on Sunday, 23rd October 2011.

The Details are as follows

Date : 23/10/2011, 23rd October, Sunday

Time : 2pm – 5:30pm

Venue :
Internet Club
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg,
Broadway Enclave
Broadway,
Kochi-682031
Location: Behind Allappat Super Shoppe,On top of SBT Treasury wing

Meeting Schedule
================
1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement
2. Agenda : MetaSploit Framework
3. Technical Discussions
4. Q&A Session

A Map showing the venue is available at :

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/

Directions to reach venue.

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/directions-to-meeting-venue/

Get answers to your questions about the meeting at:

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/faq/

For further information contact :
Tel:+91 9447111771
Tel:+91 9995717112
Tel:+91 9747173432
Tel:+91 9496449969
Tel:+91 484 2374862 ( Venue )mailinglist@ilug-cochin.org
Tel:+91 484 4025077 ( Venue )
contact at ilug-cochin.org

Details

1. Introduction to Free Software

We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of
the Free Software Movement and related topics.

2. Agenda : MetaSploit Framework

We will have a more in depth discussion about the technical aspects of
GNU/Linux Security. We will also discuss safeguards for security purposes.

3. Technical Discussions

Securing Networks (continued from last session)

Attendees will discuss and/or present topics of interest. They will share
their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical
Session part of the Meeting.

4. Q&A Session

This would be used to answer doubts that users have concerning Free Software.

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting. Hope to
meet you all on Sunday.

Thank You

Regards
Co-ordinator
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin

Following is a brief snapshot of the meeting.

Date: 27-2-2011
Time: 2:15pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam
Attendance :  12

2.15pm – 2.45pm

- Customary Self Introduction.
Some topics that were discussed:
- General Free Software Troubleshooting Discussions
- Free Software for Doctors
- Concept of machine model in curriculum
- FreeBSD Partitioning

2.15pm – 3.45pm
Agenda : Customizing Free Software for our needs. Important Points discussed.
- Basic concepts of Free Software
- Application configuration at the user level
- One level deeper – advanced configuration
- Localization without source code
- Software optimization (for performance) with source code.
- Jumping into the source code
- Learning programming

3.45pm- 4.00pm

Tea break

4.15 pm

1. using mutt for accessing and sending email
- installing and configuring mutt
- features of mutt
- sending mail using mutt
- mutt aliases

http://www.mutt.org

2. arista gtk transcoder
Arista is a simple multimedia transcoder, it focuses on being easy to use by making complex task of encoding for various devices simple.

http://www.transcoder.org/

2. Synergy keyboard/ mouse sharing application
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own display.

http://synergy-foss.org/

3.Configuring Internet through a mobile phone using wvdial

4. gnome subtitles
GNOME Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME Desktop environment. It supports the most common subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, conversion, and synchronization by using a friendly user interface.

http://gnome-subtitles.sourceforge.net/

5. ffmpeg
FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

http://ffmpeg.org/

6. virtual box
VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems to run on a GNU/ Linux system.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

7. freedos
FreeDOS aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system

http://www.freedos.org/

5.00pm – 5.25pm
Discussion on ILUG Cochin Stall at CUSAT:

5.25pm
Conclusion

- People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting.
- 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 : 27/03/2011

Send your feedback about this report to contact at ilug-cochin dot org

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

Send your feedback about this report to contact at ilug-cochin dot org

Thank You
Regards
Coordinator
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin

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About ILUG Cochin
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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.

Website : www.ilug-cochin.org
IRC : #ilugkochi on irc.freenode.net
ML : mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org

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