---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:49 PM Subject: ILUGC Monthly Meet (June 11, 2011) To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ILUGC Monthly Meet (June 11 th):- ============================== Time : Sat June 11 , 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: Public/Private cryptography with the GNU Privacy Guard Description: Authentication and security have always been important aspects in deploying electronic communication and storage solutions. With electronic communication becoming more ubiquitous and data storage increasingly becoming cloud based, the need to secure data when using these services is of utmost importance, there are tools which enable users to take control of security into their own hands. I will talk about the need to secure our data, and describe the basic concepts behind public/private key cryptography, signing data, encrypting data, and using GnuPG along with key pairs to perform all these functionalities. I will cover the concepts more than cover the tool itself; I will point to better documentation on how to use the tools. The hope is that the documentation should be much easier to follow when all the jargon I talk about is clear. Duration: 1 Hr About Speaker: Speaker: Kumar Appaiah is a Ph.D. student of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Earlier, he was a student of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, during which he would regularly attend in ILUGC meetings and participate in some LUG activities (like GNU Linux Vidyashram). His primary interests in the FOSS world are free and open source tools for design and implementation of digital signal processing and communication systems. He occasionally contributes patches and maintains packages for the Debian project. He is the 5th debian developer from India. Here is list of packages maintained by Kumar. http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=akumar%40ee.iitm.ac.in&comaint=yes IRC Nick Name : kmap ============================== 2. Party Time : Fedora Release Party Topic: Introduction to Fedora 15 (Lovelock) Description: Fedora 15 (Lovelock) is released recently. Let us explore the new features like Gnome 3. Duration: 30 min Speaker : Arun SAG [ sagarun AT gmail DOT com ] About Speaker: Arun SAG am a Fedora Ambassador package maintainer for Fedora and EPEL. He am known as zer0c00l in freenode and you can see him hanging around in #fedora-india #fedora-devel #dgplug and #mukt.in Here is the list of packages Arun maintains https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/sagarun [ Snacks and CoolDrinks will be provided, along with the Fedora 15 ISO. Bring your Pen Drives. Dont Miss it ] ============================== 3. Topic: Content Submission Software for spoken-tutorial.org Description: spoken-tutorial.org project needs a custom software to manage the video, script and translations submissions, to manage the workflow, to make the process of contribution more easy. Let us discuss the requirements of this software. Duration: 30 mins Speaker : Thyagarajan Shanmugham. About Speaker : Thyagarajan is a foss follower,currently developing the software for spoken-tutorial.org content submission and workflow management tool. 4. Lightning Talk: Duration : 15 min Discussion on the review of our performance in ilugc, discussion on chat script between the co-ordinator with Thyagarajan, his past experience in meeting the hurdles in promoting foss in ilugc. 5. 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