Hi,
Apologies for posting minutes by delay. :)
The ILUG-Delhi meeting for the month of August held at
the JNU Bio-Informatics Centre at 2pm on Sun., 19/8. Total 35 people
attended , You can see the attendance at
http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/ILUGD/MeetingAttendance
The following items were discussed in Meeting:
1. (i) Deepank Gupta a Engineering student from NSIT presented a talk
on Openmoko and showcased many interesting features of Neo1973 Phone..
He is also a Soc participant working on openmoko .
(ii) Very Interesting Political Discussion went on , discussing
how Openmoko is the at the same position where linux was when linus
started the kernel, And possibly of implementation of Openmoko at
various places including villages .
(iii) Some Technical Issues also came up , Which triggered the
discussion of Porting Java on Openmoko Debating negative and positive
effects for that, For which Nalin Savara Volunteered :)
(Iv) Some of Wanted Addons requested was A Better Visual Interface
(Atul ) , Cluster Packages (Niyam) , Amarok (Kishore), Indic languages
(Someone) , So Everyone is requested to take out their 10 minutes and
add their wish to the wish list at
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wish_List
(v) Deepank Demonstrated some Very Cool Hand On Demos Which Included
Calculator, A Command Line Interface to Interface with Dialer Dameon,
He Showed how easy is to access your memory card and share the data
between PC and Phone.
(vi) ILUGD invite developers / Students to join deepank and work for
openmoko. ILUGD may provide assistance to concrete groups or plans
2. (i) Ajay Kumar of the fame of classpart.org Representing Himself ,
talked about some critical political deficiencies that exists and
wanted LUG to Join the force in rectifying them.
(ii) Ajay Outlined some particular places where our society is
facing problems
--> Education (Content Creation)
--> Community Radio
--> Telecenter
--> Hardware not easily compaitable to Linux
(iii) Valsa talked about the Projects she was involved with the
Government and suggested the possibililty of showcasing Kerala
Government work
(IV) Atul Made a point of lack of defined Proposals from Companies
and governing bodies.
(V) A very Interesting solution came in Proposing industry and
Academia bodies (like JNU and Intel ) could talk with Gvernment and in
Implementation could take Help from LUG people.
(VI) Valsa demanded a meeting devoted to a meeting or panel
discussion for content creation (Watch out for a Notice on Meeting for
content creation)
(Vii) Ajay showcased some screenshots which he claims can help
filling content creation problem. Nalin Suggested a Cool
**Properiatery** Software called Robodemo for creating some more
(Viii) Niyam and Raj raised points of flash being evil and make
content non-accessible to the people, Which Included "Forget Einstein
Children will not even become Frankenstein"
(IX)Sunil Suggested LUGS going to schol and training Teachers rather
than installing linux systems and Maintaining them
(X) Now Here are Some YHV (You have been Volunteered )
Andrew and Ajay --> Wiki page for dscussion of content creation
Raj --> put a Hardware hall of shame .
(Xi) ILUGD invites more discussion on the Problems described by Ajay,
Looking forward for Heating Flames .. Ouch
Regards,
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