Warm Greetings To The FOSS Community, We are holding our regular meeting for November on Sunday, 23rd November 2008. The Details are as follows
Date : 23/11/2008, 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. Agenda : Why ILUG should be "Indian Libre User Group " ? This is an introspective, since 11 years now, we have never dived deep into our own minds and thought of where we are heading to. Probably this is one time when we are thinking of changing our name and reinforcing our principles, which are what the community is important for. We will think about how we being part of the Free Software Community, we need to move forward. Technical Presentation 1: " Learning PHP " by Binny www.php.net PHP is a Server-side HTML embedded scripting language. It has become popular over the last several years. And has also proved to be a powerful combination with the components of the LAMP stack. Binny with his experience in working with PHP over the years will guide us through an overview of the language and some important topics which would mostly comprise of the following : - Introduction to LAMP Stack - Hello World Program - Variables, Arrays, Associative Arrays - Operators - Control Flow : If, For, Foreach, While, Switch - Functions - OOPs in PHP - Class and Objects - PHP Help Manual - File Handling : Open, Read, Write, Close - String and Array Manipulation - Numbers (Rounding, Random, etc) - Date/Time Functions - Database Connectivity - Introduction to Databases - MySQL: Creating a connection, Executing Queries, Fetching the Result of Quries as Array, List, Objects - PHP and Web - Embedding PHP into HTML Page - <?php ?> - Handling Form Submissions GET/POST Technical Presentation 2 : "PS Utilities" by Sameer http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi/ PS Tricks is one explosive package that has a wide range of utilities helpful in creating wonderful documents, graphs, 3D objects, mathematical figures, circuits etc.. The presentation will through light on using pstricks to manipulate documents covering the following important topics : - Merging documents - Selecting pages - Changing document orientation - Creating booklets We will have our Q&A Session after the Technical Presentation. We have very good presentations aligned for everyone this month. Make sure you reach there on time. We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting!!! Hoping to meet you all on Sunday 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
