Warm Greetings To The FOSS Community,
We are holding our regular meeting for October on Sunday the 26th
The Details are as follows
Date : 26/10/2008, 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 the world of Free Software
As usual we start of with our regular discussion on Free Software and
related topics.
This is important for new users:
- Free Software : Free as in Freedom
- The GNU Movement
- Freedoms for all
- Open Source Software
- Licenses - GNU GPL, LGPL, FDL, AGPL
- GNU/ Linux
- Community
Technical Presentation 1: " A Introduction to Blender " by Zadeek
Blender(www.blender.org) is undoubtedly the numero uno tool that has
pushed Free Software into the professional 3D and Animation Field.
Open Movies like "Elephants Dream" (www.elephantsdream.org) and
"Big Buck Bunny" (www.bigbuckbunny.org) apart from their concepts
in themselves have contributed to the success of Blender by demonstrating
its power.
Blender is another tool that has demonstrated the power of Free Software
and the community to create a high quality 3D Modelling and animation
software.
Zadeek will take us through an introduction of the Blender interface
and illustrate with a small excercise to kickstart our journey into the 3D
world. Here is what you can expect .
Why Blender ?
What Blender can do and what it cannot.
A simple introduction to blender interface
Creating text with blender
Applying effects to text
Animating the text
Resources and the path to learning blender
How BBB and ED can be used
Technical Presentation 2 : " Package Management in GNU/Linux " by Shibin
The biggest advantage of Free Software is its capability to accomodate any
sort of application or software irrespective of the form it is in
( Binary / Source code ). Several times this is seen as a big hurdle to
user friendliness. But it is often the other way around and we will be
seeing that in this presentation when Shibin will unveil the simple
facts behind package management in Free Software.
We will have our Q&A Session after the Technical Presentations.
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
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