Warm Greetings To The FOSS Community,
The first meeting of 2008 was successfully conducted on
27/01/2008. The meeting was attended by over 23 people which was a pretty good
turnout giving way to great interactive discussions. Here are some brief
details about the meeting.
Date: 27-01-2008
Time: 2pm - 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building, Broadway Enclave,
Broadway, Ernakulam
The meeting started at 2.00 pm. The proposed agenda was Learning the GNU,
which was aimed at talking about the most effective and efficient way to learn
Free Software and GNU/Linux. The speaker gave an introduction to Free Software
and GNU and then went on to explain the importance of learning Free Software.
The core discussion was aimed at how to read and understand manual pages.
This was explained in correlation with basic GNU utilities and commands. The
commands were explained by demonstrating the different options.
Different sections and categories of the Man pages and their significance were
explained in brief. Also the speaker talked about preparing notes for studying
Free Software and general concepts.
The technical presentation for the day was ?Basics of the Linux Terminal Server
Project (LTSP)?
The basic aim and importance of LTSP was explained. The implementation of LTSP
was demonstrated by setting up a Low End client machine and a normal LTSP
Server. The Software requirements and implementation methodology was explained
in brief. The demonstration of the real time implementation of LTSP in the
Internet Cafe was a great addition to the session.
The attendees left with a desire to convert their old machines into real power
horses with LTSP.
The meeting was wound up by 5.30 pm.
Indeed it was a great participation for the first meeting in 2008.
We thank all the attendees for their participation and hope the next meeting is
bigger and better. The meeting details and photos will be available on the
website soon.
Thank You
Regards
Sameer Mohamed Thahir
Co-ordinator (Indian Linux Users Group - Cochin / Kochi Chapter(ILUG-Cochin))
sameerthahir at yahoo.com
Website : www.ilug-cochin.org
IRC : #ilugkochi on irc.freenode.net
ML : mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org
Sameer Mohamed Thahir
(sameerthahir at yahoo.com)
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