Warm Greetings To The FOSS Community, We are holding our regular meeting for the month of March on Sunday. The Details are as follows
Date : 23/3/2008, Sunday Time : 2pm - 5:30pm Venue : Internet Club IInd Floor, AMI Trust Bldg, Broadway Enclave Broadway, Kochi-682031 i.e. Behind Allappat Super Shoppe, On top of SBT Treasury wing, A Map showing the venue is available at : http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/ Feel Free to call the numbers below for any further information Tel:+91 9995717112 ( Coordinator ) Tel:+91 484 2374862 ( Venue ) Tel:+91 484 4025077 ( Venue ) Meeting Agenda : "Open Document Formats" (proposed) The discussion will concentrate mainly on the following important questions : -> Free Document Formats - Why we need to worry ? -> Why India as a Democratic country should adopt Open Formats ? -> Dangers with proprietary formats ? -> What we can do at the grass root level to implement these formats as standards. - Create Awareness - Educate people - Provide training The first "Document Freedom Day" will be celebrated on March 26. ( http://www.documentfreedom.org ) The discussion being held on Open Document Formats will definitely provide a boost to the activities. Technical Presentation : " GIMP in Daily Use " by Arun The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a Free Software raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. (www.gimp.org) The presentation will touch upon the basic aspects of Photo Editing with GIMP and few tips and tricks for daily use. We will have our usual Q&A Session after the Technical Presentation. Looking forward to all your participation for the meeting. Hoping to meet you all on Sunday 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) --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20080318/b90109c7/attachment.html
