Hi, PLUG meeting for June 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 6th June 2009, 4pm @ SICSR
These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: We will have some talks and discussions. ------------------------------------ Technical Talk at PLUG Meeting. # Title: XUL, OpenLayers and Solving A Real Life Problem. # Speakers: Kevin Gomes, BE (IT) Vijay Patil, BE (Mech), MTech (IEOR) Software developers working on challenging technical problems, interesting technology and free software, for last 5 years. Currently working at Indictranstech Technologies, Pune. # Technical Talk Description: This talk is about a real life technical problem and a software solution "On Time" built using free software components, to solve the problem. On Time is a tool for managing, planning public transportation schedule and publishing timetable for passengers. Part 1: Schedule Planning, Management and Publishing : Problem definition 5 Mins, + Schedule data distributed. Central place needed. + Ad hoc data. Relational database needed. + Unique ids for bus stops. Longitude, latitude. + Marathi Content. Part 2: XUL 10 Mins, + Introduction to XUL. How and why are we using it. + Localization in XUL. + Controlling appearance in XUL. + Marathi Input: JavaScript library for transliteration. Part 3: Map and Satellite Picture. 15 Mins, + Introduction to Openlayers JavaScript Library. How and why we are using it. + Adding placemarks. + Adding polygons. + Adding polylines. + Relevance of Open Street Map project. Part 4: Unsolved/Tough Problems 10 Mins, + Transport: Finding actual trip time. + Tripfinder/Routefinder + GUI: Datepicker Bug in XUL for GNU/Linux. + GUI: Automatic updates using Internet. + Map: Drawing actual shape of the road. + Map: Printing high quality maps. -------------------------- Discussions on potentially holding official druapl code and documentation sprint in Pune. -------------------------- And if time permits : Presentation bye Vivek Khurana on a python based application platform that allows you to build application by reusing existing application components. -------------------------------- We have a Marathi L10N meet after the PLUG meeting. You are all invited to attend that meeting also. Confirmation of that meeting is already sent. -------------------------------------------- You can book CD/DVDs and collect them after the meeting. Apart from the older distros, the new ones like Centos 5.3, Ubuntu 9.04, Mandriva 2009 Spring are available with us now. We have a few DRUPALCAMP T shirts available (on first come first served basis) for Rs. 200/- each. You can collect them at the meeting. We will be accepting formal membership at the meeting. CD/DVDs will be made available at the meeting. You can send your bookings to me and/or Dexter. Kindly make yourself available for the meeting. -Sudhanwa -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! Have you tried the new "FREE" Devanagari (Marathi) font family "Aksharyogini" we have released? Please get it from http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.sudhanwa.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list IndLinux-group@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
