The first meeting of the new year 2011 was on Jan 8, 2011 with 26 participants.
Kumaran, The youngest RHCE holder, started his presentation on how he migrated his father's LAW office into FOSS. He explained the issues he faced on changing the systems and people. Here are the slides. http://j.mp/foss-at-law-office --- Senthil Kumar, explained his expereinces with Android Programing. Then he moved to the open source project he is contributing. "Keryx" is a offline package downloader for ubuntu systems. It is used to bring the packages with all dependencies to the non-internet connected machines. The project needs more volunteers to add more features like support for fedora, arch, slackware, suse and other distros. Join and contribute: http://keryxproject.org/ https://launchpad.net/keryx Slides are here: http://j.mp/keryx-demo-at-ilugc --- The Open Source Movie "Sintel" is displayed. I (Shrinivasan) explained about Blender and the open movie projects. Movie link: www.sintel.org --- 2010 achievements: I narrated on our achievements on 2010. 2010 Achievements: 2337 members 8921 emails 2708 threads 69 zero reply queries 174 one day one app mails 111 tips 71 job posts A new list for tamil 12 meetings 39 FOSS events in various colleges 30 FOSS Labs by Baskar Selvaraj New website New wiki Project lists and Mentors for students New IRC Channel New Office Boy Software Freedom Day celebrations Meet with ILUGC Founder Prabhu Stalls in OSI Days events Most Active and Helpful LUG In India - by LFY Slides: http://j.mp/ilugc-at-2010 --- We discussed about the activities to do in the year 2011. The participants gave many action items like more meetings, handsons and trainings. Thanks for all the members and FOSS contributors. Let us hope for more activities this year. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
