---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM Subject: ILUGC Monthly Meet (October 8 th) To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ILUGC Monthly Meet (October 8 th):- ============================== Time : Sat October 8 , 2011 (3.00 - 5.30 PM) Venue: Classroom No 8, Areo Space Engineering, Near Gajendra Circle, IIT Madras. Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero 1. Topic: Introduction to Ruby On Rails Description: Ruby On Rails is an open source web framework that's optimized for programmwe happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favouring convension over configuration. link : http://rubyonrails.org/ Duration: 45 mins - 1hr Speaker: R Deepak Prasanna. [ deepaksrm AT gmail DOT com ] About the speaker: Deepak works for Artha42 Innovations and he loves to work on open source technologies. He blogs at http://deepakprasanna.blogspot.com 2. Topic: Exploring Functional Programming Description: The goal is to get a glimpse of the 'functional way' of doing things. As a teaser, in the FP way of doing things you cannot change the value of a `variable' This is a personal perspective of what is interesting and fascinating in FP. Speaker will be using Python to explore FP. He hopes to show a bit of Haskell too, but Python will be the bulk of it. Duration : 30 min Speaker : Asokan Pichai [ pasokan AT gmail DOT com ] About the speaker: He is a trainer fascinated with programming languages and training. Haskell is what he is currently (again) trying to get to grips with. Links : http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs345/whyfp.pdf 3. Topic: Introduction to Drupal 7 Description: How to setup a completely functional commerce site with tracking, newsletters and content SEO in one week. Duration: 1 hour Speaker : Antano Solar John [ solar345 AT gmail DOT com ] About the speaker: Antano is Co-Founder at School of Excellence, and Author at Packt Publishing. http://www.solarant.org/ 4. General group discussions on any queries, events etc. CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request. Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc. All are welcome. Entry Free -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge Kanchilug Blog : http://kanchilug.wordpress.com To subscribe/unsubscribe kanchilug mailing list : http://kanchilug.wordpress.com/join-mailing-list/