Changed the subject as "Confirmed Talks for March Meet" -----------
1) State of the Tamil Wiki. by Surya Prakash S. A. (30 min with Q & A) Tamil Wikipedia has emerged as one of the strongest indic language wiki projects. From a modest start in 2003 it has grown to more than 50000 articles. Surya Prakash a Tamil wiki administrator will present a brief overview of Tamil Wiki, its history and the status of various projects of Tamil wiki - past, present and future. 2) Introduction to Tamil Wiktionary. by Thagaval Uzhavan (20 min with Q & A) Wikipedia might be the best known among wikimedia projects but it is not the only one. A good example of other well used wiki projects is Wiktionary. The Tamil Wiktionary is the second most active Wikiproject in Tamil after Wikipedia. Thagaval Uzhavan an administrator in Tamil Wikipedia will present an overview of the project, its history and explain the way of contributing to it. 3) State of Wikimedia India Chapter by Bala Jeyaraman (30 min with Q & A) Wikimedia Foundation oversees the sprawling Wiki movement. Its chapter in India is based in Bangalore and coordinates various off wiki volunteer activities. Bala Jeyaraman, a current member of its Executive Council will present a light on the organisation, its priorities, activities and plans for community expansion in Tamil Nadu. 4) A talk on openstack cloud computing framework by atul jha (yet to confirm the talk details) -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
