Hello Everyone, At our last to last meet-up on 29th July during which we celebrated Debian stretch release party we thought it was our best meet-up so far. But today it felt that this meet up was even better than the last and we hope our next meet-up will supersede this one and so forth.
The meetup was hosted at a central location accessible by everyone at Innov8 Co-working Space, Connaught Place which is at the vicinity of Rajiv Chowk metro station. The meet-up kicked off with introduction to ILUG-D as there were lots of first timers followed with introduction of audience. The volunteers have collected the stats related to the audience and would be shared soon with everyone. First talk of the day was a very lighthearted one by our own Manas kashyap, who is a budding superstar. He talked about his experiences with free and open source software. Curiosity of people started rising up during the second talk where our host from innov8 Saurabh Shandilya talked about TOR, more specifically problems related to it. This talk was very thought provoking, as the speaker kept throwing at us with lots of questions. The audience was very actively participating by pestering the speaker with more questions because as they say tit-for-tat. Break for snacks. The second half consisted of two hands-on sessions. One was introductory session on Arduino and raspberry pi. Shashank (banana) headed this one, where he talked how various things worked with the arduinos's and microcontrollers. The second one was a very informal session The next session was an informal Hackathon on Single Board computers conducted conceptualised by Raju Devidas and co-ordinated by the ILUGD team. The workshop/hackathon required people to be divided into groups of 8. Each group had an SBC(single board computers), typically a Raspberry Pi 2/3 and were given a couple of tasks to be performed. The tasks were quite simple and required everyone to run a simple web server which produces a page that everyone connected to local network should be able to see. Easy? No, the participants beg to differ. The participants had to connect to the local network that was created by a router we brought in. This resulted in people devising various techniques to solve a problem that crept in while solving another one like some boards didn't have wireless connection so they couldn't connect to the network, another board didn't have internet connection to download a web server and so forth. Each team achieved the end result by pure problem solving skills. One of the fastest teams didn't have wireless connection on board, so they passed the traffic from their laptops to the Ethernet port which was connected to the SBC (single board computer). It was a fun exercise for everyone. The meetup was concluded after hiring and pitching sessions and general feedback from the audience. Feedbacks received from the attendees at the meetup. 1). Improve quality of talks 2). Meetup timing should be from 2pm - 6pm (repeated from last MOM) 3). Put talk level tags in the description. 4). Preplan for next 2-3 meetups in advance like finalinsing the meetup dates and booking venues etc. 5). Publish meetup stats in the mailing list and these stats can be further added to ilugd website. 6). Involve college students and help them in starting college lugs. 7). Setup new domain "linuxdelhi.org" for our ilugd website(Initiative already taken). 8). Shift website hosting from github to some other private server in coming months Meetup Stats We had around 50-60 attendees. Most of them were students from colleges of Delhi, Noida, Gaziabad, Alwar, and some other places and rest were professionals. Here is the attendee count with specification System Admins -4 CTOs - 2 Enterpreneurs - 4 Software Developers - 4 Pen-testers - 1 Free lancers - 2 Students - 35 Few folks went out for feast, pictures below will ensue their tales. Photos link: https://goo.gl/photos/VJreA3VbS3pvcq8Q7 Slides Link: https://github.com/ILUGD/talks/blob/master/talks-log/2017.md Hiring Contacts Want to hire: 1). beyondevoltion.in Jobs : Java, android Developers and Embedded system Engineers contact: [email protected] 2). csinfotech.org Jobs: Information Security, Java Developers, PHP, Python, Designers contact: [email protected] 3). FlexMotiv Technologies Pvt Ltd. Job: Full stack developer Anyone interested in getting the first hand experience working with startups may apply unpaid internship for college students, or equity in return contact: auro@[email protected] Pitching Contacts Need an Internship/Job 1) Mohit Rajain Looking for job/internship related to Network security, system administration and full stack web development. contact : [email protected] --End Of MOM-- Many thanks to our host "Innov8 The CoWorking Space" for helping us to organise this meetup. https://innov8.work/ Regards, Shyam _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
