Hi, I presented an introduction to Publican [1] at the Document Freedom Workshop 2012 [2] at the Computer and Statistical Service Centre (CSSC) [3], S N Bose Bhavan, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata [4], West Bengal, India held between March 28-29, 2012.
Day I A Mani [5] started the day's proceedings with an introduction to Free/Libre/Open Source Software, and basic shell commands. We had a computer lab with Fedora installed where the participants used the terminal to try out the hands-on exercises. I then introduced Publican to the audience comprising mostly of students and faculty. Jared Smith [6] had presented Publican during FUDCon Pune 2011 [7], and, with his permission, I added more content and a lab section. The participants were able to use Publican to create and build documents with Bengali content! After lunch, Sourav Sen Gupta [8] gave an introduction to LaTeX [9] and Beamer [10] with his "'Golden Ratio' for Typesetting - A quick and random introduction to LaTeX and Beamer" presentation. He used the Kile [11] editor to demonstrate LaTeX markups and for generating PDF files. I helped the students with the lab session in writing, and troubleshooting warnings and errors when using Kile with pdflatex. I also met and spoke with two physicists, John Smolin [12] and Damian Markham [13], who had come to present at another workshop on "Information and Security in Quantum World" [14]. John Smolin is an avid Fedora user! Day II The first session on the second day was by Jit Ray Chowdhury [15] on Moodle [16] CMS. He started with the basics of installing Apache, MySQL and PHP on Fedora, followed by creating a simple HTML, and PHP page. Participants then learnt how to install Drupal, Moodle and configure the same. Prof. Nagarjuna [17] then started his session on why document freedom is essential, and gave an introduction to Emacs org-mode [18], with examples. I also met Krishnakant Mane but couldn't attend his (post-lunch) session on "LibreOffice and Screen Readers" as I had to leave early to catch a flight. Thanks to the organizing committee: Prof. Mandar Mitra [19], A Mani, Partha Pratim Kundu, Malay Bhattacharya [20], and Tanmay Basu for the wonderful hospitality, and to Red Hat for sponsoring my travel. The publican presentation is available at: http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#publican Few photos taken during the event are available in my /gallery: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album79 SK [1] Publican. https://fedorahosted.org/publican/ [2] Document Freedom Workshop 2012. http://www.ilug-cal.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=185 [3] Computer and Statistical Service Centre. http://www.isical.ac.in/~cssc/ [4] Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. http://www.isical.ac.in/ [5] A Mani. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Amani [6] Jared Smith. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jsmith [7] FUDCon Pune 2011. http://fudcon.in/ [8] Sourav Sen Gupta. http://souravsengupta.com/ [9] LaTeX. http://www.latex-project.org/ [10] Beamer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_%28LaTeX%29 [11] Kile. http://kile.sourceforge.net/ [12] John Smolin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Smolin [13] Damian Markham. http://www.infres.enst.fr/~markham/ [14] "Information and Security in Quantum World" workshop. http://www.isical.ac.in/~coec/workshop/quant2012.html [15] Jit Ray Chowdhury. http://www.jitrc.com/ [16] Moodle. http://moodle.org/ [17] Prof. Nagarjuna. http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/people/academic/nagarjuna-g [18] Emacs org-mode. http://orgmode.org/ [19] Prof. Mandar Mitra. http://www.isical.ac.in/~mandar/ [20] Malay Bhattacharyya. http://www.isical.ac.in/~malay_r/ -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
