Gora / Luggers, My name is Ajay Kumar, and after having been a reasonably accomplished technologist, I am now working full time on Education Technology facilitation.
Would love to meet the LUG and make new friends in Delhi, to which I know I am welcome. I also wanted to know if I could make a slight pitch for the need of OSS to increase focus on social development issues like Digital Learning, Community Radio, Telecenters, etc. The thoughts that I want to share are on the lines of the mindmap posted at http://www.classapart.org. Wondering if the last minute addition of agenda is possible.? Cheers, Ajay Gora Mohanty wrote: > Hi, > The next ILUG-Delhi meeting will be held at 2pm, at the JNU > Bio-Informatics Centre, on Sun., Aug., 19th. I am posting this > on behalf of our esteemed general secretary who is indisposed > courtesy of a non-fatal motorcycle accident (normally I would > extend more sympathy, but on a motorcycle on Delhi roads, you > are asking for it, in my opinion. Gaurav is up and about, and > should be at the meeting). Here is a tentative agenda: > 1. Presentation on OpenMoko by Deepank Gupta: > Introduction to OpenMoko > ------------------------- > OpenMoko is the first truly open platform for Mobile Phones > and other Embedded Systems. Although we have open solution > for applications and GUI in PCs but there is nothing in the > Mobile phones. OpenMoko will provide the building blocks > which will give mobile developers the freedom to create > complex and innovative applications and will benifit everyone > ranging from consumers to service providers, hardware developers > and tech-enthusiasts. > > This presentation will aim at introducing openMoko platform > along with the specifications and the hardware of neo1973 (the > first phone over which openMoko has been implemented). OpenMoko > platform is built over openEmbedded and provides its own set of > libraries over conventional Linux such as GSM, dbus, GPS etc. > The presentation will discuss about the current state of work > done on the platform and provide an introduction on the various > build tools such as bitbake and openembedded needed for the > development. It will also include a sneak preview into QEMU. > > The platform is still in a pre-alpha stage and is undergoing > rapid development. So, the current phone is only meant for > geeks and tech-enthusiasts, I will include a tutorial on > flashing openMoko on the neo and will also include demos for > playing songs and making calls from the phone. > > 2. Review of status of freed.in, and open call for volunteers: > If you are interested in working for freed.in 2007, please > be at the meeting. > > 3. Atul Chitnis, of foss.in fame, will also be at the meeting. > According to him, he is only here to listen, so it is up to > you all to show up and stop him from speaking. Seriously > though, this is a good opportunity to show up, and hear > about the refocused aims of foss.in, and to talk about how > better to join hands to foster a genuine FOSS movement across > India. > > Regards, > Gora > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
