[kanchilug] Minutes of Meeting - Jan 8, 2011
- From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:55:41 +0530
The first meeting of the new year 2011 was on Jan 8, 2011
with 26 participants.
Kumaran, The youngest RHCE holder, started his presentation
on how he migrated his father's LAW office into FOSS.
He explained the issues he faced on changing the systems and people.
Here are the slides.
http://j.mp/foss-at-law-office
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Senthil Kumar, explained his expereinces with Android Programing.
Then he moved to the open source project he is contributing.
"Keryx" is a offline package downloader for ubuntu systems.
It is used to bring the packages with all dependencies to the non-internet
connected machines.
The project needs more volunteers to add more features like support for fedora,
arch, slackware, suse and other distros.
Join and contribute:
http://keryxproject.org/
https://launchpad.net/keryx
Slides are here:
http://j.mp/keryx-demo-at-ilugc
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The Open Source Movie "Sintel" is displayed.
I (Shrinivasan) explained about Blender and the open movie projects.
Movie link:
www.sintel.org
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2010 achievements:
I narrated on our achievements on 2010.
2010 Achievements:
2337 members
8921 emails
2708 threads
69 zero reply queries
174 one day one app mails
111 tips
71 job posts
A new list for tamil
12 meetings
39 FOSS events in various colleges
30 FOSS Labs by Baskar Selvaraj
New website
New wiki
Project lists and Mentors for students
New IRC Channel
New Office Boy
Software Freedom Day celebrations
Meet with ILUGC Founder Prabhu
Stalls in OSI Days events
Most Active and Helpful LUG In India - by LFY
Slides:
http://j.mp/ilugc-at-2010
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We discussed about the activities to do in the year 2011.
The participants gave many action items like more meetings, handsons
and trainings.
Thanks for all the members and FOSS contributors.
Let us hope for more activities this year.
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in
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