[Ilugc] PuduvaiLUG: Minutes of Meet - December

From: prasmailme@xxxxxxxxx (Prasanna Venkadesh)
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:57:59 +0530

After a long time we had our meet up.

*Details of meet:*

*Date* : 18.12.2011 (Sunday).
*Venue*: *Ocean Academy, East Coast Road (ECR), Opposite to Jeeva rukhmani
Marriage hall.*
*Time* : 10.00 AM

*Description:*

From this time we have categorized our sessions as follows:

1. General Session.
2. Technical Session.
3. Video Session
4. Future Plans.
5. Photo Session.

*1. General Session:*
This sesison includes talks on general topics like Wikipedia, Tamizh
contribution to Open Source, etc.
Venkatesh ? Spoke on how to contribute to tamil version of wikipedia and he
showed a live demo of where to start.
He also insisted to contribute as well participate in Tamil wiki-media
contest.

*2. Technical Session:*
This session includes talks on technical discussions like programming,
tweaking linux, etc.
*1. Prasanna* ? explained about what causes the power regression in mobile
devices running latest linux kernels.
The reason is due to ASPM being turned off by default for those devices
which is not ASPM compatible and forcing ASPM on this device would cause
battery life problems. One main issue is the hardware are now made windows
specific which makes devices not to support ASPM of Linux kernel.

He also explained about the application
?Whiz-Chat<http://github.com/prasannavenkadesh/whiz-chat>?
that he developed using Ruby programming language for linux users.

*2. Prakash* ? explained about how easy, fast and handy to use FFMPEG
encoder/decoder to convert audio and video formats.
He showed a live demo of how to convert a video into sequence of images and
also to convert sequence of images into a video.
Converting a video to sequnce of images:

* ffmpeg -i input_video_file.flv images/Screenshot%d.png*

In the above command -i indicates input file and the video can be of any
format you have. ?images? is the directory created and ?Screenshot%d?
indicates the output filename with prefix Screenshot and %d will be
replaced by the number for every images generated.
You can specify any image output format, here we have specified .png format.

*3. Video Session:*
Videos related to Open source projects, tools, linux etc can be played in
this session.
We played the following videos:
1. Blender Siggraph 2011 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbzE8jOO7_0
2. Firefox Flicks - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxflicks/
3. Mozilla Story ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDDVAErOI5U

*4. Future Plans:*
This session includes discussion on what can be done in upcoming meets and
future operations.
We discussed about
Punnagai-FSFTN<http://www.fsftn.org/content/inaugural-punnagai-community-computing-center-mylapore>and
also to reach poor children to educate them on computers in future.

*Prasath -* insisted to use Open Street Map
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/>and to locate important places in
Puducherry and this will be our
short-term future task.

*5. Photo Session:*
Pictures are worth thousand words, we will all have a group photo at this
session.

Check here for Pictures:
http://puduvailug.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/minutes-0f-meet/

--
Regards,
Prasanna Venkadesh
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