The August meeting for ILUG-Delhi got unduly delayed this time around, and was finally 'gotten done with' in September :-). The last couple of months have been some kind of a sleepy period in Linux-Delhi, which looks to me like the proverbial 'lull before the storm'. 'The great societification' of ILUG-Delhi is now around the corner, and all other activities seem dormant in waiting for that big bang. The August meeting, or the September meeting, whatever you choose to call it, was a low key affair too, with less attendance, no agenda, but as usual -- lots of fun. Here's what happened. The schedule for the meeting was changed a bit this time, to accomodate Raju, who had a busy schedule for Sunday (which is the usual day for the meetings), and whose presence was important by view of the dopes he was to give on the ILUG-Delhi societification, and the fishy^H^H^H^H^Hconfusing Linux-India societification process. That happened, Raju talked about the Linux-Delhi societification, which is now imminent, subject to a couple more signatures and proof-of-residence documents being furnished. The names of the interim designation holders were announced, which are valid till the first General Body Meeting of ILUG-D. Here they are -- President - Raj Mathur. Vice President - Leo Fernandez Treasurer - Kishore Bhargava General Secretary - Sundeep Holani Secretary - Anand Babu. The Linux-India societification however seems to have run into some rough waters, and not much progress seems to have been made on the closed list that was formed for the city LUG representatives, to discuss the details. Apprehensions about the List being closed, however, were removed by Raju who has been very forthcoming and democratic in discussing the matters in the local forum. Kudos! However, the matter of immediate concern was the upcoming IT.COM in Bangalore, in which Linux-India wished to participate, but had run into some sponsorship issues due to the unofficial status of Linux-India currently. ILUG-Bangalore - pertaining to its being physically closest to the venue of IT.COM, its status as a registered society, and its experience in organising similar activities - has been nominated as Linux-India's representative for the event, this proposal was unanimously approved by Linux-Delhi. Next came the techie section. Supreet Sethi proceeded for a talk on TeX/LaTeX, and aided by inputs from Raju, made one heck of a presentation -- considering that he himself had been introduced to TeX just the day before. Next was Raju's impromptu talk about SANs or Storage Area Networks, for the uninitiated. Turned out to be really informative, but I'd rather skip the details. This was supplemented by a brief talk Anand Babu gave on some related topic, most of which went too technical for comfort. Details omitted ;-). Enough for talking, time for eats. Supreet and Pankaj, the two stars of Linux-Delhi had just got a job at SARAI, and they threw a bash at Nirulas. Turned out to be one of the greatest parties we at Linux-Delhi have had. Cheers for our young lads. Thereafter, the crowd dissipated, and went whereever they wanted to go :-). The end of another of the great Linux-Delhi meetings. Special thanks to the SARAI people, and Supreet and Pankaj for providing the venue and infrastructure, and for helping organise the meeting. On an interesting sidenote, there seemed to be some confusion about the changed schedule of the meeting, and a few people turned up the next day at the venue, too. So that was apparently the September meeting ;-). However, this was a result of some miscommunication between people in charge of organising the meeting, and should be avoided in the future. Regards, -- Sundeep. ------------------------------------------------ The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-delhi
