[kanchilug] Re: Minutes of Meeting - Jan 8, 2011

  • From: Deepan Chakravarthy <codeshepherd@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:08:42 +0530

That is really amazing! seems like you guys are creating a nice ecosystem.




On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
>
> ---
>
> 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
>
>
> ---
>
> The Open Source Movie "Sintel" is displayed.
> I (Shrinivasan) explained about Blender and the open movie projects.
>
> Movie link:
> www.sintel.org
>
> ---
>
> 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
>
>
>
> ---
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Regards,
> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
> My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
> Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in
>
>

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