The meeting of the “Indian Libre User Group” was successfully held on Febraury 27th 2011.(4th Sunday of Every Month)

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

admin Meetings

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

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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admin Meetings meeting january 2011

Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community,

The meeting of the “Indian Libre User Group” was held on December 26 2010 successfully.(4th Sunday of Every Month)

Following is a brief snapshot of the meeting.

Date: 26-12-2010
Time: 2:00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam
Attendance : 13

2.15pm

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

2.15pm – 3.15pm

- Brief Introduction to ILUG Cochin and its activities.
- How to be a part of ILUG Cochin.

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
• 32bit vs 16bit machines
• What is Source Code, Binary Program
• Licenses – GNU GPL
• Concept of Copyleft
• Open Source Software and its Difference with Free Software
• Drawbacks of proprietary software
• Discussion on how freedom to study and freedom to modify can be used
• Concept of Community
• Development of Software through Free Software community
• Funding
• Commercial Model
• Creative Commons

3.15pm- 4.00pm

Agenda :

Discussions on things that happened in the Free Software Community in 2010.

• Android and other Free / Open Source Operating Systems on the Mobile Platforms
• Explosion of Mobile and Hand Held devices like Netbooks, Tablets. Need for Free Software on these Platforms.
• LibreOffice and the Document Foundation http://www.documentfoundation.org/
• - Diaspora Social Networking https://joindiaspora.com/
• Free Software social Networking platforms – gnewbook.com elgg.org
• UNESCO study of Free Software in Kerala
• Issues concerning privacy, freedoms.

4.00 pm
Tea Break

4.15pm
Technical Discussions:

1. Tiny core linux
tinycorelinux.org
Tinycore linux is a small 10MB distro. The presentation talked about how to use tinycore linux and its possibilities.

2. Tiddly Wiki
tiddlywiki.com
Tiddlywiki is a web based notebook application, that uses client side scripting to store information in the same file. The presentation talked about using tiddlywiki to store notes.
audio/ video encoding and Manipulation tool.

3. Using Fdisk
Fdisk is a console utility for managing partitions.

6. Diaspora
joindiaspora.com
Discussion on using diaspora.

5. Troubleshooting Discussions.

5.30pm
Conclusion

- People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next
meeting. (suggestions from attendees: Diaspora, kernel programming, network simulators)

- 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 : 23/01/2011

Details of the meeting available on the web site at

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

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

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Sreenadh Activity Updates

The meeting of the “Indian Libre User Group” was held on July 25th 2010 successfully.(4th Sunday of Every Month)

Following is a brief snapshot of the meeting.

Date: 25-07-2010
Time: 2:00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam
Attendance : 22

2.30pm

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

2.40pm – 4.00pm
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
- Licenses – GNU GPL
- Concept of Copyleft
- Open Source Software and its Difference with Free Software
- Drawbacks of proprietary software
- Free Software and Freeware
- Discussion on how freedom to study and freedom to modify can be used
- Concept of Community
- Development of Software through Free Software community
- Copyright aspects in other areas like Music and Movies
- Commercial aspect of Free Software

4.00 pm
Tea Break

4.30pm
Technical Discussions:

1. Emacs
www.gnu.org/emacs
Emacs is a powerful text editor.

2. Mencoder/ Mplayer
www.mplayerhq.hu
Mplayer is a powerful and versatile Multimedia Player and Mencoder is a audio/ video encoding and Manipulation tool.
Mencoder_Presentation

3. What is LTSP
www.ltsp.org
Linux Terminal Server Project(LTSP) is a Thin Client/ Diskless Node server.

4. Creating a Bootable USB Storage Device with RMS GNU/Linux
www.rmsgnulinux.org
RMS is mostly SLAX, A complete Libre distribution based on slax. Can be used on USB Drives and has a small footprint.

5. Troubleshooting Discussions.

5.45pm
Conclusion

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

- All people who came for the Meeting were thanked.

Next meeting : 22/08/2010

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

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