[ILUG-Cochin.org] ILUG Cochin Meeting on Sunday, 26th July 2009

[ILUG Cochin (Indian Libre User Group)]

Warm greetings to the FOSS Community,

Indian Libre User Group, Cochin (www.ilug-cochin.org) is holding its
regular meeting for this month on Sunday, 26th July 2009 (4th Sunday of
every month).

The details are as follows:

Date: 26/07/2009

Time: 2pm - 5.30pm

Venue :
Jay's Internet Club
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg,
Broadway Enclave
Broadway,
Kochi-682031
i.e. Behind Allappat Super Shoppe,On top of SBT Treasury wing

Agenda: Campaign to promote Free Software in Kerala - Bringing schools
              and Colleges closer to Free Software Community

Technical Presentation: GNU/Linux installation and troubleshooting

A Map showing the venue is available at :
http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/

Feel Free to call the numbers below
for any further information
Tel:+91 9995717112     ( Coordinator )
Tel:+91 484 2374862    ( Venue )
Tel:+91 484 4025077    ( Venue )

Details:
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Introduction:
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Introduction to Free Software, GNU Movement, Free Software
Licenses, Open Source Software.

We start of with our regular discussion on Free Software and related
topics. This is important for new users.

Agenda :
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- Campaign to promote Free Software in Kerala :-
Bringing schools and Colleges closer to Free Software Community

Free Software has gained much attention among the people of Kerala
especially among the school students. Students learn Free Software because
it is part of their syllabus. But they may not be aware of the  principles
behind the Free Software and they may not know the Free Software Community
who are dedicated to protect the Freedom of a
computer user.

In the case of colleges, Free Software has not got much attention. When
the students start thinking of doing their academic projects
they are not getting Freedom to choose FOSS platform to do their
project.

All these are because of the wide gap between the campuses and the Free
Software Community. So we the Free Software Community should
start a campaign to bring schools and colleges closer to the Community.


Technical Presentation:
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- GNU/Linux installation and troubleshooting

This session will demonstrate the installation of GNU/Linux and will
discuss the various troubles you may face during the installation. We have
already had a discussion on IRC about bringing hardware
vendors closer to Free Software. So this session will help the people who
are working in Computer Hardware field to install GNU/Linux fearlessly in
PCs which they are selling.

There will be a Q/A session.

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting.

Hoping to meet you all on Sunday

Thank You