Warm Greetings To The FOSS Community, We are holding our regular meeting for June on Sunday, 22th June 2008. The Details are as follows
Date : 22/6/2008, Sunday Time : 2pm - 5:30pm Venue : Internet Club IInd <javascript:;> 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 ) Meeting Agenda : " Localization and Free Software " (proposed) Localization is a very important factor in bridging the digital divide. It brings the common man closer to technology breaking the "linguistic barriers". Indeed localization in free software is another important agenda with regard to spreading awareness and educating people about the concept. Our discussion will primarily focus on the following topics : - Importance of localization in Free Software. - Malayalam Localization projects - Swathanthra Malayalam Computing. - Contributing to localization projects. - Digital Content in Malayalam ( Malayalam documentation ). The focus here is mainly on our Native language although the concepts are applicable to any localization discussion. We all are aware of the Localization project undertaken by the government of Kerala called " Nammude Bhasha Nammude Computerinu" (Our language Our Computer )(www.malayalam.kerala.gov.in) The discussion will be held in light of this project and how the Free Software Community can contribute to the implementation of full fledged localization solutions in order to realize the goals of this project. The idea behind the discussion is to encourage people to contribute at different levels of localization. We must definitely consider the fact that localization projects are top priority because it is one aspect that is going to help boost the Swathanthra Software Movement and bring it closer to the common man. Technical Presentation 1 : " Malayalam with Tex " by Venkat http://sarovar.org/projects/malayalam/ The presentation will take us through a step by step guide to creating Malayalam documents using the powerful typesetting tool Latex. Technical Presentation 2 : " Malayalam with Openoffice " by Sreenadh http://malayalam.kerala.gov.in/index.php/EnableMalayalam Using Malayalam with Openoffice is very much important for creating documents. The presentation will throw some light to configuring Openoffice to use Malayalam. Application of the Month : Firefox 3 Starting this month we will be giving a small introduction to a FOSS Application every month. This month undoubtedly it is Mozilla Firefox 3 www.mozilla.com/firefox SPECIAL PRESENTATION :: Screening of the Big Buck Bunny Open Movie and small talk about the concept of Open movie. (Thanks to Mr IB Manoj for the projector ) We will have our usual Q&A Session after the Presentations , if time permits There is going to be lot of action this months meeting , so make sure you brave the traffic and rains and reach there on time. Looking forward to all your participation for this exciting 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 <javascript:;>)) sameer.thahir at gmail.com Website : www.ilug-cochin.org IRC : #ilugkochi on irc.freenode.net ML : mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org
