The Last meeting of this year is so interesting with a mix of talks on Cloud Computing, Language Computing and GUI programming.
Yogesh explored the basics of Cloud Computing. He explained about the following. What is cloud? Why we need it? Resource As A Service Public, Private, hybrid clouds Scalability Elasticity Bursting How Time Magazine spent only 240$ instead of 1/2 million dollars using clouds? HybridFox - Firefox Addon for cloud Eucalyptus - The Open Source Cloud OpenStack - Another Open Source Cloud The slides are available here http://www.slideshare.net/ilugc/floss-cloud ---- FOSS Contributor of the Month, Santhosh Thottingal came up with talk on the "Project Silpa" Silpa, is a web framework and library written in Python for Language Processing in Indian Languages. It has 78 modules. Provides JSON Based RPC services. Can be connected with any application. He executed the local demo and explored the following The web interface The Modules for python Guessing the typed Language Encoding Converter Approximate Search Syllabalize Indic Soundex Webfonts Comparing text documents for similarities You can test yourself at the project site: http://smc.org.in/silpa/ Project Silpa is contributing to MediaWiki and wikipedia to convert the articles in Indian languages to PDF and to publish wikibooks. The Indic Language Processing has to improve a lot and it needs your contributions. Please contact Santhosh, If you wish to work on this project. http://thottingal.in/blog/about/ ---- Karthikeyan explained about the GUI Programming in C The history of GTK GTK+ Binding for other languages like python,ruby,php etc The GTK+ stack The GTK+ Widget Hierarchy Hello world Programs - Live demo Demo for Window Demo for PopUp Demo for Table Demo for expander Links to Read Slides are here http://www.slideshare.net/ilugc/basics-of-gtkilugc ---- In the QA Session, Raghavan from SRM expressed his wish on doing a project in linux kernel and requested for mentorship. Sudharsan and others explained the process of getting into kernel programming and contributing. The ideas are here. Decide the finite task to do look in the bugtracker of kernel.org look for the feature requests find the mentors in irc read the presentation of Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat-2-do.pdf Fix the driver for Fingerprint reader in laptops Be patient and keep on learning Start working rather then searching for mentors Use Internet to learn the things yourself The sessions were interactive and interesting. We had 40 participants from Jaya Engg College, SRM University, Bharath Engg College, Sree Sastha Engg College, Velammal, MNMJ Engg College, MIT and Industries like Indian Railways, CollabNet, SlashProg, SS4U, CDAC, Serendio, Real Image, Corent Tech, Wipro, CSS Corp, TNQ, Aspire Solutions. Thanks for making the last meet of the year as more interesting. Some snaps are here. http://www.facebook.com/pages/ILUGC/133359730009404#!/album.php?aid=44572&id=133359730009404 -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
