Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community, Indian Libre User Group, Cochin (www.ilug-cochin.org) is holding its regular meeting for this month on Sunday, 26th April 2009 (4th Sunday of every month).
The Details are as follows Date : 26/04/2009, 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, Agenda : Community Based Curriculum and TextBooks Technical Presentation: Introduction to Bash Scripting 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 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Details :: Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement. Discussion on Free Software Licenses, Open Source Software. We start of with our regular discussion on Free Software and related topics. This is important for new users. Agenda : Community Based Curriculum and TextBooks As already known ,ILUG Cochin is running a campaign to bring the teachers closer to the Free Software Community. The last three meetings have been based on this. http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/march-2009-meeting-report/ http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/february-2009-meeting-report/ http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/january_2009_meeting_details/ The media has also been supporting our campaign for bringing teachers closer to the Free Software Community. http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/26/stories/2008122650810200.htm http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/23/stories/2009012357890200.htm http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/12/stories/2009021250610200.htm http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/20/stories/2009042059870300.htm As discussed during the March meeting, we embark on a mission to create a community based curriculum and text book dealing with IT and computer science subjects for the students. An initiative in this regard has been started already by people in the Free Software Community. http://gnulinux4cbse.pbwiki.com/ is a great kickoff in terms of what we have been planning. As we had discussed in the last meeting, we need to take up our initiative seriously and thereby contribute our part to the above link. Indeed with the changes happening in the wiki and the encouraging developments, we believe we will reach our final goal by collaborating with others in the Free Software Community. Since our last meeting was just the beginning, we hope to continue the discussion forward in the April Meeting bringing out some concrete ideas to take forward this initiative and create a strong foundation based on the above link. Technical Presentation: Introduction to Bash Scripting by Kurian The session will cover the basics of shell scripting. The session will aim to throw light on how some of the common problems we face can be solved using bash scripting. Basic syntax and constructs of bash and few sample programs like Backing up Home directory, Converting Files formats (eg: mp3->ogg) in batch mode etc. will form the main part of the session. After this as time permits we will address the common difficulties faced by teachers and provide guidelines for dealing with issues. We hope more people from the community will make it to the meeting. This will enable a very exciting interaction with the teachers and free software community. We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting!!! Hoping to meet you all on Sunday Thank You Regards Co-ordinator Indian Libre User Group, Cochin 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
