[glug-t] Hacker Crackdown: Lights Camera Action.

Dear GLUG-T members,

'Hacker Crackdown' was a coup of sorts for GLUG-T, and it sure did 
bring quality, talent and Trichy hackers together. We had 3 full days
of power packed lectures, hacks, demos and source code. What more,
with expertise from open source developers at Novell, and Infosys,
'Hacker Crackdown' had its rightful bunch of hackers.

Im writing the small notes of what happened at 'Hacker Crackdown'.

Hacker Crackdown was a 3 day event, spanning 21,22 ,23 of January,
organised by GLUG-T, at Civil Engineering seminar Hall, NIT-T.

On day one [21st January 2005], we started off with a discussion of Free
Software philosopy 
at some time closer to 10.02am. 

Hemant spoke about the motive of free software, what forces sustain the 
movement,
why free software attracts the passions it does. Hemant mentioned
the work of RMS, why he refused Non Disclosure Agreements [NDA's] and how the
fall of 
MIT hacker community led to the creation of GNU project[www.gnu.org], and later
the FSF[www.fsf.org].

Manik took his shot at explaining the Free Software philosopy. Why GNU needs
free software, and 
GNU project ideals. He explained the 4 freedoms Free software offers to the
users, community, and developers.
Manik took a few questions on GPL. Some how his sessions went to topics like
copyrights and patents where
Muthu did his bit of explanation on why patents kill free software.

Manik continued with free software business models, and how we could make
commercial free sofware, while 
running a profitable show like RedHat, Mandrake, CyGNU's et-al.

The first tech session was Qt Hacking in two parts. Ramasamy did his talks on
why people would use Qt,
and stripped the complexity of Qt,projects, building make files etc. His demo on
using QtDesigner and its
interests were very helpful.

People broke for lunch, and met up at 1.00pm for Qt hacking part 2, by Hemant.

The second part of Qt Hacking took up eclectic topics like [i18n]
Internationalization, and Decop Service
in KDE. Hemant demonstrated using linguist, Qt applications with Hindi/English
menus could be built, 
and how to choose languages at runtime. The session on Decop service which runs
the messaging framework
of KDE was also very interesting.


By 2.30pm Muthu's presented  'GTK Hacking'. Muthu started by going around the
history of GTK,
why its a success, what projects use GTK et-al. Then he detailed the
architecture of GTK toolkit.
He explained the GUI concepts of GTK+ with Glade tools, and how to write GUI
code separte from Application logic.
He concluded showing examples of libglade integration, and drag-and-drop, with
some X concepts.

We concluded the day with tea, and snacks.


The event was attended by people from thanjavur, sivakasi, coimbatore,
karaikudi, and trichy. {[Bangalore]
if you take into count the developers.}

Day 2 Events tomorrow.

P.S: Im running short of time, so Ill be writing this in three installments,
plus one 'behind the scenes'.

Lets Hack Octave-Gtk.
http://octave-gtk.sourceforge.net

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