GLUG Meeting on 13th July, 4pm at KReSIT, IIT Campus, Powai. ---------------------------------------------------------- Sameer,
Thx for the mention and i do agree that with my progress into the commercial world i have reduced the amount of time i spend towards encouraging - educating others. As of now, lets focus on an annual FSF - OS workshop on GNU - Linux. I can do my best to rope in sponsors for the same. Even if i get held up in other personal issues i promise to devote as much time as possible. Trevor On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 15:37, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote: > GLUG Meeting on 13th July, 4pm at KReSIT, IIT Campus, Powai. > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Hi guys, > > Sending in the minutes of the meeting held on 13th July. I put in as > much as I could remember, please fill in if I missed anything. > > First thing to mention is the HUGE turnout for the meet ... the entire > KReSIT classroom was filled with people, which means the attendance was > roughly in the neighbourhood of 60. And on top of that, if you see > faces like Philip, Trevor, Dinesh, Manish, and Terrence in the same meet, > you /know/ its BIG! > > The meeting started out with a session on KDE/Qt programming by Amish > Munshi. He talked about the set of tools that go into building a KDE > application, with a quick tour of the documentation. Overall impression was > the simplicity with which one can build apps the KDE way. > > After that, though not officially on the agenda, Trevor jumped in with a > screeing of "The Code", featuring a lot of the prominent personalities from > the FLOSS community. The movie is pretty interesting, and highly recommended > for people who aim to convert techies into the FLOSS philosophy. The movie > really gives a flavour of the community as a whole and how good software > gets done in the Open Source way. An interesting part is where the movie > highlights the difference between Open Source and Free Software through > their prime advocates ESR and RMS respectively. > > The next talk was Prof. Jitendra Shah, about the on the ongoing effort on > localisation of GNU/Linux for India. He mentioned a website which intends to > keep track of the translation efforts and a short introduction to how a > non-techie can help in translation. > http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~swapnil/indictrans/ > > Karunakar also demonstrated the IndLinux (Milan) CD based no a re-mastered > Morphix CD. The CD has a number of partially completed Indian locales to use > normal applications. Answering a doubt raised by Trevor, Karunakar explained > that all the work being done in the localisation is already being merged > into the mainstream repositories. This means that the new releases of most > distros will have built-in Indian Locale support. Debian Sid (unstable) for > example, already has Indian Locale support since it is based on bleeding > edge package versions. > > Finally there as a call for volunteers and planning help from SameerDS for a > GNU/Linux workshop to be conducted in the IITB Distance Education Program. > Such a workshop will be conducted in KReSIT premises, to be attended by > participants in 5 different cities over the DEP telecom network. The popular > suggestion was to hold this talk for PC Vendors, since they are the best > medium to take GNU/Linux to bigger masses such as SOHO users and > individuals. The workshop will primarily be a series of talks, to be held on > Sunday, 24th of August. > > Unfortunately, the topic for the venue of the next meet did not come up, > which will have to be decided on the List now. > > Sameer. > -- > Research Scholar, KReSIT, IIT Bombay > http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/ -- ( >- LINUX, It's all about CHOICE -< ) /~\ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ /~\ | \) / Pre Sales Consultant - Red Hat \ (/ | |_|_ \ 9820349221(M) | 22881326(O) / _|_| \___________________________________/ -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
