Warm Greetings To The FOSS Community, We are holding our regular meeting for September on Sunday, 28th September 2008. The Details are as follows
Date : 28/9/2008, 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 ) Introduction to Free Software, Open Source and the GNU Movement. We start of with our regular discussion on Free Software and related topics. This is important for new users. Technical Presentation 1: " Geo Visualization and Resource planning with Swathanthra Software " by Jaisen Geographical Information Systems is a field that has been least explored in spite of it being very challenging and providing lot of opportunities. Geo Visualization using Swathanthra Software is a little known fact to many. In fact the importance of Free Software in this field has been underestimated. At the meeting we will see an introduction to the concept of GeoVisualization and the field of GIS at a very simple level. We then take a look at its importance in our present society. The emphasis would be laid on why Swathanthra Software is important for this purpose and how it has been utilized in the best possible manner. Jaisen will explain everything with respect to his project (http://cheruvannur.web4all.in/) which will serve as the practical example of using Free Software in an effective and productive manner. The presentation has been planned for people who know nothing about the field, as well people who are looking for options as a career path. A break up of the session : - What is Geo visualization and resource planning. - What is the need for it in our society ? - Importance of Free Software ? - Government policies for resource planning and Swathanthra software - Implementation with Swathanthra Software ? - Future requirements for Swathanthra software in resource planning ? - GIS as a career path - How to get started with learning of Geo visualization using Free software ? Technical Presentation 2 : " File Managers " by Sreenadh For those who feel the Main presentation is too much above the head, we have another presentation on something very interesting. File Managers are undoubtedly the application we use most in our day to day activities. But we have seldom tried to understand the functionality and made effective and productive use of it. Well the presentation can help us for that, Heres what you can expect : What is a file manager? Classes: Spatial, Navigational etc Nautilus: How to effectively use nautilus? Customizing ? Add functionalities ? Tweaking . Konqueror: Features Customization What are "kio slaves"? Konqueror as a universal viewer .. Accessing man and info using Konqueror ? Troubleshooting Konqueror Whats new with latest version? We will have our Q&A Session after the Technical Presentation. We have very good presentations aligned for everyone this month. Hence we look forward to 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)) sameer dot thahir at gmail dot com Website : www.ilug-cochin.org IRC : #ilugkochi on irc.freenode.net ML : mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org _______________________________________________ Mailinglist mailing list [email protected] http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org
