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, 27th June 2010 (4th Sunday of every month).
The Details are as follows Date : 27/06/2010, Sunday Time : 2pm - 5:30pm Venue : Jay's 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 : Ways of Contributing to Free Software Technical Discussion: Basics of GIMP A Map showing the venue is available at : http://www.ilug-cochin.org/content/view/31/ Directions to reach venue. http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/directions-to-meeting-venue/ Meeting FAQ at: http://www.ilug-cochin.org/faq/ Feel Free to call the numbers below for any further information Tel:+91 9995717112 Tel:+91 484 2374862 ( Venue ) Tel:+91 484 4025077 ( Venue ) [email protected] Details 1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement. Discussion on Free Software Licenses We start of with our regular discussion on Free Software and related topics. 2. Agenda : Ways of Contributing to Free Software Important Points for Discussion Contributing to Free Software for all kinds of users - How? - Spreading awareness about Free Software. - Helping Others with Free Software. - Contributing Ideas of new featues to existing Free Software Applications. - Writing/ Translating Documentation and Manuals. - Testing Free Software on specific Hardware. - Reporting Bugs. 3. Technical Presentation: GNU Image Manipulation Program About GIMP ---------- GIMP is a free software program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. http://www.gimp.org/about/introduction.html for more details. As time permits we will have our usual Q&A Session. 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 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
