Warm Greetings To The Swathanthra Software Community,
The Meeting for the month of September 2008 was conducted successfully.
There were 20 people from different walks of life who attended the meeting.
Some brief snapshots from the meeting.
Date: 28-09-2008
Time: 2:15pm - 5:30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd <javascript:;> Floor, AMI Trust Building,
Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam
Attendance : 20
The meeting started at 2.15pm.
The first session was an Introduction to Free Software, GNU Movement,
Open Source Software, Licenses
and GNU/Linux.
The main agenda of the meeting was the technical presentation by Jaisen,
"Geo Visualization and Resource planning with Swathanthra Software"
The session started with the speaker talking about the history of maps
the different types of geographical mapping methods and types of maps.
The concept of Cartography and the scientific methods used were explained
in detail. This was important because these were the building blocks of GIS.
The speaker moved on to describe his project "Geographical
Visualization of Cheruvannoor Panchayat in Kozhikode".
He started by explaining the functioning of Grama Panchayats,
need for resource planning and the government policies related
to Resource planning and Swathanthra Software.
He described his objectives and requirements for the project.
The fact that the audience were eagerly following the presentation could
be seen from the volley of questions that had started coming from the
moment the session started. The speaker was able to clear all the
doubts. Some people among the audience already working in GIS field
shared their experience and knowledge in the field.
The speaker demonstrated the Map Server and the web based interface.
(http://cheruvannur.web4all.in/)
He also briefed through the configuration for setting up the same.
The attendees then moved on to have tea and snacks after the session.
The Next session described the most commonly used
File managers in GNU/Linux - Nautilus and Konqueror.
The session started with the explanation of basics of the File Manager.
The people who already had knowledge
on these subjects shared their ideas. There were lot of doubts as well.
The speaker explained the importance of knowing more about File Managers.
He said that knowing how to use file managers would help us to
efficiently speed up the work.
After that session Jay Jacob gave a brief introduction to the upcoming
National Free Software Conference. He encouraged the audience to
participate in the
conference, present projects and technical papers. He explained the
importance of the
event and how the Free Software community should benefit from this event.
A small briefing about the activities of ILUG Cochin and how ILUG Cochin
and the
Swathanthra Software community needed the active participation from
those who
came for the meeting was emphasized.
The meeting concluded up at 5.30pm with the recitation of the National
Anthem.
Attendees
Fr.V.V.Thomas
M.T.Cherian
Sunil Kumar AU
K B Smart
Sathish
Jaisen N D
Manu V
Mohammed Rashad K M
Punnoose P.J.
Unnikrishnan G
Sreejith K S
Sanjai
Kevin Sha
Binny V A
Mahesh Aravind
Zaheer M K
G Venkata Subramanian
Sameer Mohammed Thahir
Jay Jacob
Sreenadh H
We thank all the attendees for coming and urge them to put their
feedback on the mailing list
so we can improve future meetings.
And hope the next meeting is bigger and better.
Photos and further details of the meeting will be available on the web
site soon.
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
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