Hi! Everyone Here are the minutes of january meeting of linux user group delhi, conducted at Faridabad Industry association. I had tried to be serious at the places where important things are discussed. So here are the minutes of meetings -------------------------------------------------------
Recording for minutes of meting was started when I (vivek khurana) reached the venue half an hour late after wandering in faridabad for half an hour trying to locate venue and counting 6 redlights. In the venue there were more press persons than linux delhi members. Only 4 linux delhi members reached the venue till 1:30 pm. Sudev showed his love for matri bhasha by distributing press release in English for hindi newspapers. So after waiting and gossiping it was decided that we should start the meet. Sudev started by introducing himself, and forcing others to introduce themselves. Sudev told the audience how he got trapped in linux. He kept wondering through out his introduction that why linux is ignored even when it has such a low cost of switching and operation. After that it was the turn of vivek to intoduce himself. He bored the audience for few minutes, discussing a skirmish he had in the morning with a manager of a big software firm of the country (read the name of company i...). Following vivek khurana came rahul kumar, who works in java on linux. Introducing himself he became senty about why open source community runs away from java. After calming him down it was turn of a tyre checker Mr. Arvind who just had bumped into the meeting as it was being conducted in faridabad. He scared the young computer users with the names of ancient computers and archaic operating systems. During his introduction Kishore 'treasurer' Bhargawa reached the venue. So he was the next one to be introduced. Kishore started by <snip>“boasting”</snip> that he had being using linux even before Linus Trovalds and how he got linux kernel in yr 1992 in India. He advocated the redhat "unstable" fedora before taking his seat. The remaining introductions were short one line intros each one describing there trysts and terrors with linux. During the last phase of introductions Raj mathur arrived according to Indian Stretchable Time at 3 pm. The first agenda item was an introduction to open source software by Raj. Raj opened his age-old presentation. He started with his, why what when and blah blah and demonstrated his hands up and down actions. The boredom continued for an hour till the audience and Raj got fed up of the presentation. Reading the mood of the meeting sudev announced a tea break. The menu turned out to be a shahri one instead of expected (by me), dehati lassi/chaach, pakode and aaloo ke parodthe. All the members had samosas, dhokla, barfi and sophisticated dip-dip tea. So after few minutes of useless discussions everyone went back to the meeting hall. Sudev brar started with his LTSP demo, with Anand holding the mouse to click for next slide. He started with discussion of basics such as GUI, tools etc. Discussion reached RAID tools, Raj suggested against using software RAID and also suggested using only one set of standardized tools to reduce memory loading/requirements. Sudev showed that you need only 2MB of video memory to run LTSP client. At this juncture RAJ came up with following formula to decide the video memory required (resolution * no. of bits of depth)/ 8 Following the invention of formula and nomination for Raj for Nobel Prize in mathematics, sudev described how to setup LTSP server and clients and showed how policy manipulation on the server is reflected on each client. After description, there was a live demo of LTSP client boot. The presentation continued with demonstration of export features of openoffice. This presentation ended with discussion of cost involved in setting up LTSP project. The second agenda taken up was demo of hindi on linux by Anand. Demo was shown on fedora with hindi written in Bangla(on initial screen). Demo continued with anand showing Gnome menus and application names in hindi. Here anand suggested following three approaches for translation. 1. Use original English words and type them in hindi 2. Translate every word to hindi 3. Translate everything conceptually and rename everything. Anand went to show some typing in hindi and how to learn typing in hindi with help of inscription keyboard. The presentation ended with anand demonstrating string conversion using Gtranslator. Soon after the end of presentaion the meting was called of by sudev brar when he got fed up with the translation of English gnome menus to mumbaiaa hindi by Raj, Kishore and vivek. For organizing the meet, Raj awarded the "alankaar" of Mr. to sudev so, now he will be called Mr. Sudev . So who so ever is reading these minutes of meetings please re-read them with prefixing Mr everywhere Mr. Sudev's name appears. Date for next meets was decided as 22nd feb with tarun dua agreeing on a presentation of java development on linux. After this, all of us went home hoping that some day sudev brar oops Mr. Sudev Brar will stop threating to learn linux, SPOONMAN will give the demo of games on linux and JAVA User Group meeting will occur, some day “who meeting kabhi to aayegi”. with regards vivek ===== Mailing for the love of SHARKS __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
