Merry Christmas :-)
Liqvid, Noida
25th December, 2005
The meeting officially started at 2:30 PM
2:30 PM)
Supreet gave an informative presentation on C++
* What more it offers than other languages
* Future of C++
- OpenMP Library
- Bounds checking
* C/C++ Interpreter - mentioned by Dr Gora
(http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html)
3:15 PM)
- A brief talk by Dr. Gora on NRCF & its efforts in promoting FOSS.
- The talk was followed by an intense discussion on how to promote FOSS
* Mentor more students projects related to FOSS
- Finding good mentors
* Ease the migration process to FOSS
- Status of the current syllabus & the way its tightly
clutched
into the claws of closed source software
* Encourage Indic language support
- Punjabi
- Kannad
- Dr. Gora volunteered (in conjunction with NRCF) to
* Find mentors for various FOSS projects
* Identify colleges where this mentorship model can be applied.
4:30 PM)
- A brief talk by Aarti which "seemingly" was about some aspect of
software engineering
- Distribution of Sarai's quaterly "Broadsheet" (which seemed as
broad & as tall :-P)
- "Probably" the talk by Aarti was something about the FOSS software
engineering being more nearer to the people who use the FOSS software
rather than some "comittee" ((c) Raj) deciding which features are
added/removed from the software.
- A discussion on the same topic.
- The discussion then turned on what is the significance of user
groups such as ILUGD & how are they different on other SIG's/etc.
- An interesting question was then raised...
* What does Sarai actually does?
- A "Three Lines" quantifiable answer, is still
expected from the
ILUGD GS, Mary :-P
- Sandip raised an interesting point that he'll be leaving for Yahoo!
(Bangalore) next week
* Hence
- Should there be re-elections for post of Vice
President?
- Should Sandip continue as ILUGD's Vice president? &
try to bring
in sponsorships from Yahoo! :-)
- Matter was left open...
5:15 PM)
- Action plan for LA 2006
* Should EFY be approached for a stall at LA2006? Or should
ILUGD
wait for their offer?
- Was decided that Sudev & Mary will get in toush with
LFY people
for the same.
- Another event at Jamia Humdard
* Raj was taking the talks further.
- Ubuntu Business Tour
- Freedel 06
* Focus on
- Academics
- Business tracks
The day ended with almost everyone going for a "Drink" & some opting
to get back /home.
--
regards,
makuchaku
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When you speak out with the courage of your convictions, people listen!
-- Valmik Thapar, Wildlife Conservationist.
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