Hello Sir, Next meeting , you may please take " Cloud" as topic.We know little about it. Is there any open souce application available for Linux platform that can be used from client side. Regards. -K.V.Rajeev
======= At 2010-07-06, 12:00:00 you wrote: ======= >Send Mailinglist mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Mailinglist digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Technical Meetup Report (Sreenadh) > 2. Re: 12 of the most interesting, unusual and useful Linux > distros (Fayaz useful) > 3. Re: Graphics/Multimedia course enquiry (Fayaz useful) > 4. Re: Graphics/Multimedia course enquiry (John Joseph) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:12:11 +0530 >From: Sreenadh <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Technical Meetup Report >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Hi all, > >ILUG Cochin has successfully conducted technical meetup on Saturday >(July 3). >As you know the technical meetup has started with the aim of bringing more >people to contribute to Free Software. To achieve this aim first we need to >tell the people about the Free Software development tools and programming >languages and the community based development model. We have discussed >some topics to enlighten the programmers. They are the following > >1. GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) (June 5) >2. GNU Debugger (GDB) (June 5) >3. Setting up Apache for PHP development (June 5) >4. GUI Programming on GNU/Linux (June 19) >5. Wordpress plugin development (July 3) >6. Huffman coding and its applications (July 3) > >1. GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) by Praseed Pai > In this session the speaker gave a good introduction to GCC with > some examples. He showed how to compile single and multiple files > C and C++ programs using GCC with and without linking. He then showed > creating object files archive using the command 'ar'. Next he explained > the creation of shared library and its static and dynamic linking. > >See the writeup of this session with example codes by Sinu John in his blog >http://sinujohn.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/a-quick-introduction-to-gcc/ > >2. GNU Debugger (GDB) by Ashok Shenoy > Bugs are part of software development. Using a good debugger can help > minimize the time required to find the bugs. In this session the speaker > talked about GDB and showed how to use it. There was also a quick intro > to GNU 'data display debugger' (ddd), a graphical front-end for GDB. > >3. LAMP setup by Sreenadh H > When we talk about web development the first thing that came to our mind > is LAMP stack. In this session the speaker showed how to setup a AMP > development environment on GNU/Linux. He talked about Apache, MySQL > and PHP and showed the result of 'hello world' PHP script in browser. > >4. GUI programming on GNU/Linux by Praseed Pai > In this session the speaker talked about the history of GUI on >GNU/Linux. > He also covered the following topics along with compiling example >programs. > > a) GUI programming with Xlib (C ) > b) GUI programming with GTK+/GDK (C) > c) GUI programming with Qt (C++) > d) GUI programming with WxWidgets (C++) > >5. Wordpress Plugin development by Binny V.A. > Wordpress (www.wordpress.org) is one of the popular free web >application for > creating blogs and websites (ILUG website runs on Wordpress). It has >a lot of > plugins contributed by developers all over the world >(wordpress.org/extend/plugins). > The speaker is one among such developers. He talked about wordpress >plugin > development by explaining his own plugin, quartz >(http://www.bin-co.com/tools/wordpress/plugins/quartz/). > He explained how wordpress plugin works and gave an idea about >Wordpress hooks > and filters. > >6. Huffman coding and its applications by Azad N > In the field of data communication compression has an important >role. It reduces > the consumption of expensive resources such as bandwidth and >storage. Compression > can be classified into lossless and lossy compression. Data >compression involves > encoding and decoding using some algorithms. Huffman coding is an >entropy encoding > algorithm for lossless data compression. It is commonly used as the >final stage of > compression in applications like gzip and png. The speaker gave an >idea about Huffman > coding with diagrams. As you can see this session has used the >'second freedom' in > Free Software definition ie the freedom to learn how the program works. > >We hope that the above sessions could inspire atleast a few people to >start programming >on GNU/Linux. > >We have not yet decided the topic for the next meetup. If you are >interested in taking >sessions in any of the Free Software related topics please feel free to >come forward. > >We would like to thank Praseed Pai, Ashok Shenoy, Binny and Azad for >taking effort >in taking highly informative sessions. We also thank all people who >attended the meetups. > >Hope next meeting is bigger and better. > >Send your valuable feedback. > >Happy Hacking. > >Regards, >Sreenadh > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 08:35:18 +0530 >From: Fayaz useful <[email protected]> >To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software" > <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] 12 of the most interesting, unusual and > useful Linux distros >Message-ID: > <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Really nice article... > >On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:18, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote: > >> some useful ones here :-) >> >> >> http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/351651/12_most_interesting_unusual_useful_linux_distros/ >> >> --Siju >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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] >> > > > >-- >Fayaz Yusuf Khan >B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering(2007-2011) >Model Engineering College, Kochi, Kerala, India >+91-9746-830-823 >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20100706/a33a1c99/attachment-0001.html> > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 08:59:20 +0530 >From: Fayaz useful <[email protected]> >To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software" > <[email protected]> >Cc: TVM LinuxUsersGroup <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Graphics/Multimedia course enquiry >Message-ID: > <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Well, we could join hands and sign a petition or something. If it's >necessary... I would consider it to be an achievement if we could put in at >least one tiny chapter in their curriculum. And what does the Dubai LUG have >to say about this? > >On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 09:14, John Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Friends >> Last week , one of my family friend asked me advice on good course for >> graphics and multimedia here in Dubai. I scanned for reputable institutes. >> Checked them with the syllabus. One institute I checked was MAHE, Dubai . >> they have one year certificate course " >> http://www.manipaldubai.com/InformationTechnology/Programs/CertificateProgram/Pages/GraphicsandMultimedia.aspx"; >> . I checked with the syllabus. There was no mention of any of the Open >> Source graphics Applications, like Inkscape, GIMP etc. I gave my feedback >> saying that my friend want to join the course and we would like to join >> institutes which can provide exposure to this packages. Few days after I did >> receive the call from them. I explained to them about this applications and >> why I do prefer recommending them to others. I tried my best in making them >> understand. Hope it might make some changes. >> Thanks >> Joseph John >> http://www.oss101.com >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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] >> > > > >-- >Fayaz Yusuf Khan >B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering(2007-2011) >Model Engineering College, Kochi, Kerala, India >+91-9746-830-823 >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20100706/6b26f128/attachment-0001.html> > >------------------------------ > >Message: 4 >Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 22:48:01 -0700 (PDT) >From: John Joseph <[email protected]> >To: GPL SoftwareThis List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU > <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Graphics/Multimedia course enquiry >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >Hi Fayaz > Thanks for the mail. It is a good idea to sign a mass petition. If they > are convinced that GIMP , inkscape and other tools are needed for the course > , they will change it for the students benifit > > I did post to DubaiLUG,I expect some else also might have given feedback to > manipal. May be if we can a have a petition more people from DubaiLUG will > sign for it > thanks > > >--- On Tue, 6/7/10, Fayaz useful <[email protected]> wrote: > >From: Fayaz useful <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Graphics/Multimedia course enquiry >To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software" ><[email protected]> >Cc: "TVM LinuxUsersGroup" <[email protected]> >Date: Tuesday, 6 July, 2010, 7:59 AM > >Well, we could join hands and sign a petition or something. If it's >necessary... I would consider it to be an achievement if we could put in at >least one tiny chapter in their curriculum. And what does the Dubai LUG have >to say about this? > > >On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 09:14, John Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi Friends > >? ? Last week , one of my family friend asked me advice on good course for >graphics and multimedia here in Dubai. I scanned for ?reputable ?institutes. >Checked them with the syllabus. One institute I checked was MAHE, Dubai . they >have one year certificate course >"http://www.manipaldubai.com/InformationTechnology/Programs/CertificateProgram/Pages/GraphicsandMultimedia.aspx"; > . I checked with the syllabus. There was no mention of any of the Open Source >graphics Applications, like Inkscape, GIMP etc. I gave my feedback saying that >my friend want to join the course and we would like to join institutes which >can provide exposure to this packages. Few days after I did receive the call >from them. I explained to them about this applications and why I do prefer >recommending them to ?others. I tried my best in making them understand. Hope >it might make some changes. > > > ? ? ? Thanks > > ? ? ? ? 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