[glug-t] Re: GNUCleus 2003: insider report.

 




Nice touch Muthu Logistics had failed  somewhere ? 

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deepak 

  >From: Muthiah Annamalai >Reply-To: glug_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To:
glug_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [glug-t] GNUCleus 2003: insider report.
>Date:Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:12:20 +0530 >>GNucleus's 2003: >>GNUcleus 2003 ,was
organized to celebrate the 20th anniversary of founding >the "Project GNU".
>Project GNU was started by RMS[Richard M Stallman] on the 27th of September
,20 >years ago. >>GNUcleus was organized by the GNU/Linux User Group Trichy,
at the SASTRA >college on 27th of >September.The following is report of what
happened on that Saturday and how. >>On that Saturday morning, of 27th
September we had all assembled at the TIFAC- >CORE conference >hall in
SASTRA,Thanjavur to celebrate the 20 years of freedom that Project GNU >has
come to >symbolize.There were two guest lectures from Mr.Srikishnan Chitoor
&Mr. >Bharathi ,both of them >who had come all the way from chennai.A quiz
competition was planned &>conducted by Mr.Vijay. >We also had a software
presentation by Arun Ponniah,a student from Thiagarajar >College,Madurai.
>>The show began at sometime around 10.00am.Meeting was thin.Many of us went
pale >at that sight. >Some thought logistics had failed somewhere.
>>Introduction &Welcome Address >>Vijay invited the chief guest Mr. Chitoor
to the dias and as Mr. Bharati >couldn't arrive earlier >we had to start the
proceedings.Vijay went on to deliver his welcome >address.Vijay expressed
that >he was sad, to see not many people come to this event.But soon we were
>listening to the guru speak. >>"20 years ago in the long dark ages there
wasslavery.." began vijay and >extolled the many >virtues of project GNU and
explained why it was very important.he welcomed the >guests and >the
audience.Promising a very entertaining day, vijay concluded by wishing all
>ahappy b'day >to GNU. >>Next Mr.Chitoor spoke.He was unprepared for giving
the keynote address,as he >himself said >during the course of the same.Mr.
Chitoor first talked about the utility of >GNU/Linux and >shared his views
that GNU/Linux was something more of academic curiosity.he >also said that
>from a business point of view only costs matter, and philosophy was
>secondary.Not many were >pleased by this I guess.Then he had asked the
audience to ask him queries and >questions on >everything they needed to
knowabout GNU/Linux in the market. >>Next we had a short tea break at around
11.00am."HP" [Hewlett Packkard] had >sponsored the >snacks &tea. >>After the
break, we had Mr. Shot talk on CVS,AutoConf &AutoMake >He used tools
&tutorials from the INTERNET to guide us through the CVS methods >practiced
in >their organization.We were shown a simulated development environment
&how>people could >work in open source projects with "check-in" ,
"check-out"concepts.The demo >was an interactive, >step-by-step hand guiding
one for us all.Autoconf &Automake were quicker I >felt.They were explained
>to be tool for the porting code across many platforms with various versions
of >the libraries. >>At the end of his talk Vijaykumar presented Mr.Chitoor
with a memento.Next was >the releasing of >books and T-shirts,with Quiz
preliminary round. >>Releasing T-Shirts &Books &Cd's >>VijayKumar released
the new T-Shirt &the printed copy of the book "Free >Software &Free Society"
>brought by out group. >>We had made GNU/Linux T-Shirts with a GNU head in
front and a relaxing GNU at >the back,with the >bold words "celebrating 20
years of freedom" below the picture on the back.A >neat white colored
>T-shirt, you would say.Thanks to Manik &Vijay for the
design-to-conception.T- >shirts are still >available. >>We had ordered for
copies of the book "Free Software,Free Society; a collection >of essays by
RMS" >to be printer, and distributed them to the interested.Interested
peoplecould >get the book from >Manik [manik_d5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]. >>Cd's of
GNU/Linux distributions were burned and sold. >We had Mandrake 9.1 ,Debian
GNU/Linux,and Red hat 9.0. >>FUN: >The quiz prelims was scheduled just
beforelunch-break, following the >Lecture.But as we were already >late we
decided to break up &meet after the luncheon. >>Lunch break details ? well
they were pretty edible things in the only >ramshackle eateries !exotic.
>Maybe we could describe a lunch ,if we ever had it with RMS ;-) >>Soon
afterthe break we had the prelims of the quiz. >It was a written round.We
hadto write/fill up/choose/match/ the proper >answers.Question on >Debian
GNU/Linux , free software "authors &programs".There were some 20 teams
>writing this. >Later vijay shortlisted 4 people into the finals. >>Next to
follow was Mr.Bharathi's presentation on "I18N &L10N". >First we needed
demystification.I18N was Internationalization.L10N was >Localization. >Mr
Barathi was a fluent mix of english when it demanded and a casual flow of
>Tamil >for the talk. >First he explained about the encoding used in the
storage transmission >of >data in various languages.Then the mechanisms
wherein the keyboard is used to >input >and how it finally comes up onto the
screen as an image.Then moving on to the >concept >of I18N he said how
effectively we could use locales and support the several >languages >at
once.>Later a pragmatic example ,he showed us how the characters in Tamil
>like >"ko" ,and "Na" would be represented as glyphs on the screen.He talked
of the >difficulty >in coding the xinput manager that takes care of
keys/pointer .Also he showed us >how to >program in C for foreign languages
using the gettext function in C.Also the >various >intricacies in handling
Arabic [R->L language],Tamil [Multi glyph] languages >were explained. >>With
a slide show presentation of the various softwares created in the TENET
>group IITM >for multilingual applications from Ind Linux project was also
showcased.The >talk was >applauded well and Mr.Balaji presented a memento to
Mr.Bharathi. >>Next we had the software presentation by Mr.Arun Ponniah from
TEC,Madurai.He >had made a software >called Ginterface.It was a chat program
that used TCP/IP sockets &allowed >someone to communicate. >The key points
were the nice GUI,clean code[GPL'ed] and it was already widely >used in his
CSE department. >The project is to be featured in a Linux magazine,he
said.Adding that his >friend would also make a GTK >port for windows
also.Itsinteresting to note that Mr.Arun belongs to the >Madurai GLUG.He was
the only >competitor &walked away with the prizes [7pack Debian V 3.0 R 0]
>>Mr.Chitoor took us through a tour of his company's flagship product "Rain
Mail" >intranet server. >He explained many features and nifty points about
the product. >>Finally we had what [aptly too] the Quiz Finals! >This was a
neat event, with 5 rounds and lots of questions on free >software,free
software history, >project GNU,compilers ,free software hackers and
personalities,Patents and >Copyrights. >Finally the winners were spotted
&Cd's awarded. >>The Vote of Thanks was proposed by Mr.Deepak Barua who
co-ordinated the event >in SASTRA,and helped the guests >all of the time.Now
it was good bye. >>We gLugges Lugged our way back home. >Cheers >Muthu.
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