--- Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ..tuxies and gentlepenguins, let me present before > you, the minutes of the meeting held on the 26th day > of May, in the year 2002. > The LUG meeting started at the stipulated time > (11:00 hrs, IST, Antarctica Standard time not > known), at the PDSIT, Bengal Engineering College > (DU), Shibpur with a lot of confused penguins losing > their > bearings, and turning up a little late (however, no > umbrella chasing scenes occurred - so no case of > wounded penguins;). > > Attendance: > ----------- > > This meeting saw the largest turnout the LUG has > ever witnessed, and as far as my "Attendance Record" > ..."Present Please, Sir!".. sez, there were an all > together of 26 Tuxes:- > > /*Starting handwriting parser - WARNING: Beta > Software*/ > > 1. R. Kankaria > 2. P.K. Sharma (Our beloved PK:) > 3. Saurabh Kumar Das (The enthusiastic newbie) > 4. Ritwik Mondal > 5. Sumanta Karmakar > 6. Deepesh Basu > 7. Saugata Ghosh > 8. Tathagata Banerjee (The gaming-Tux) > 9. Siddharta Basu (The download-Tux) > 10. Kaushik Saha > 11. Rakhi Choudhury > 12. Anupam Pattanayak > 13. Alok Dugar (our previous meeting-Tux) > 14. Pinaki Ranjan Sarkar > 15. Amit Saha > > /*WARNING: Parser Carshes..segmentation fault*/ > > 16. Sayamindu Dasgupta > > /*Parser restarting*/ > > 17. Sutanu K. Ghosh > 18. Sanjay Bhatacharya > 19. Soumi Roy > 20. Sunny Ghosh > > /*Parser crashing again: This program has made a > legal operation and will shutdown*/ > /*Fatal error: Cannot recognise pattern: trying to > output what is best*/ > > 21. Anagha Saha > > /*Recovering*/ > > 22. Arindam Chakraborty > 23. Indranil Das Gupta (The benevolent > dict-Tux..Indra-da, u sed this thing urself :) > 24. JP Mathew (Mr. Mathew..our thanx again, and do > u mind if we call you our present > "meeting-Tux"??) > 25. Sumitabha Das > 26. Pabitra Pal Choudhury > > /*Shutting down parser*/ > > > NOTE: I'm not giving out the mail addresses due to > spam problem > > Minutes > ------- > > The meeting started with addresses from Mr. > Sumitabha Das, and Mr. JP Mathew. Mr Mathew gave the > basic information regarding the new server at the > PDSIT: > > Hostname: ilugcal.becdu.ac.in > IP: 203.197.107.24 > OS: Mandrake 8.2 (with apache, qmail, blah, > blah) > > Then Indranil Das Gupta - Indra da gave a brief idea > regarding ILUG-CAL, it's history, the general > membership policies, and mailing list subscription > procedures. > > After that, we had a very very interesting and > informative lecture from Prof. Pabitra Pal Choudhury > (from Indian Statistical Institute) on the > fundamental concepts behind an Operating System. > This continued for around 2 hours, and as the > lecture continued, coffee and biscuits were served > to all. The lecture was very helpful to newbies like > myself to grasp the basic concepts behind the the > OS. All of us at ILUG-CAL would like to thank Prof. > Pal Choudhury for this lucid and informative > lecture. > > The next thing that came up was an introduction > round, where each of the meeting attendees > introduced her/himself. It seems that we have quite > an interesting mix of members....from many walks of > life:) > > We had a brief history of ILUG-CAL from Indra-da > when he was introducing himself. During this Mr. > Sutanu K. Ghosh pointed out that ilug-cal can try to > interact with people like assemblers, > hardware dealers, and try to make them sell at least > some PCs pre-installed with Linux. Nice idea, > Sutanu-babu. > > Then we had a general discussion round, where > naturally, the topic on the new web server and > stuffs came up. It was decided that we would make > full use of both setups at Canada and BE College, > with one setup acting as the mirror of the main (as > www1.ilug-cal.org), so that when one server goes > down, the other one can immediately take up the job. > However, which setup will be the main one, and which > will be the mirror was *not* decided and we have > decided to debate that out on the list. > > Moreover, there was a decision to hold some kind of > regular workshops > for the hard core techies and wannabe techies where > things like kernel structure, embedded systems, PVM, > etc can be discussed, and people can try out their > hands at devices, boxes, etc. Mr. Saurabh K. Das > also suggested that these workshops can be > alternated with workshops on lighter topics like > those on gaming in Linux, multimedia apps, etc. Mr. > Mathew also added that as the PDSIT facilities can > be used on Sundays, every alternate Sundays these > workshops can be held, with the hardcore ones > alternating with the lighter ones. > > Apart from this, we also had some debates on why > Linux is not being adopted in a large scale in the > corporate and normal Jo-user level, and how to > propagate this, whether to refer to the OS as free > or not, whether the "freeness" (not according the > free software definition) creates a negative image > of Linux in the mind of the non-academic > user, etc. > > The meeting ended at around 15:00 hrs, IST, with Mr. > Mathew showing a sample of the famous Simputer to > us, and after that, all the tuxes went back home, > eager to have their afternoon herrings >
Mr. R. Kankaria also showed us a small device (most probably a router) running on embedded linux. > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
