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From: Prasanna Venkadesh <prasmailme@xxxxxxxxx>
To: puduvailug <puduvailug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, vlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:14:14 +0530
This is the text only version of the recent blog post at PuduvaiLUG Blog.
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Interesting news, projects, events on GNU/Linux and Open Source / Free
Software all together.

In this Post:-
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*  1. Two Day FOSS Workshop at MIT, Anna University
*  2. Software Freedom Day at Puducherry
*  3. The Power of GIMP - Video
*  4. For Web Developers
*  5. Python Programming - Send SMS from Python
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1. Two Day Workshop on Free Open Source Software (MIT, Anna University,
Chennai)

2 day FOSS Workshop is to be conducted at Madras Institute of Technology,
Anna University Campus, Chennai on August 24 & 25th. To know more details
about the event and to download Registration form check the below link:

*link:- http://www.annauniv.edu/pdf/opensource.pdf


2. Software Freedom Day at Puducherry


”If you have a Cup of tea and you share it with your friend it becomes half
cup of tea, But if you have knowledge and share it with others it doubles
and grows exponentially “.

Do you use VLC Media Player, Mozilla Firefox, GIMP, Audacity, Chromium or
any other Free Software, ? Then why don’t you take a day to thank the
community that develops these Software and letting anyone (even you) to see
the code of the software, allows you to modify the code of the software,
distribute to anyone. The Day is near-by. Yes, Every year on the Month of
September 3rd Saturday falls the Software Freedom Day. This year it is on
September 15, 2012. Last year we celebrated the day at MIT, Anna University
Campus, Chennai with Indian Linux Users Group Chennai along with other
Volunteers, Students, and corporate. This year we are planning to Organize
here at Puducherry and open for Public. If you are a School or College
Student / Working professional / An Entrepreneur / Wikipedia Contributor /
Open Source Enthusiast / GNU/Linux user / Programmers then you are most
welcome to put your stalls and show case the Open source / Free software
tools that you use or love the most.

Note:- If you are interested to put a Demo stall, kindly email at ”
prasmailme @ gmail . com ” with the subject ” SFD 2012 “. More details like
Venue, Time, Resources will be updated soon.


*SFD 2011 :-
http://puduvailug.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/minutes-of-software-freedom-day-2011/

3. The Power of GIMP [Video - 1 minute]

A Time-lapse video showcasing the latest version of GIMP

*Youtube Video:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I82Efhght64

4. For Web Developers

Are you a Web Developer and looking for a Graph generating Infographic
Javascript library to embed into your Web page? Take a look at Graph.js
Demo here:-  http://graphjs.com/

5. Python Programming – Send SMS from Python

Do you want to Send SMS to any mobiles in India using your Way2SMS.com
account without going to the site? And that too from your GNU/Linux
Operating system using Python? Or Are you looking for a code that sends SMS
using Way2SMS.com to use in your project?

*link:- http://prasannavenkadesh.github.com/Py2SMS/

To See and download the code click on “View Project on Github ” at the
right top of the page.


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Regards,
Prasanna Venkadesh
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