Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community, The meeting of the "Indian Libre User Group" was held on July 25th 2010 successfully.(4th Sunday of Every Month)
Following is a brief snapshot of the meeting. Date: 25-07-2010 Time: 2:00pm - 5.30pm Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building, Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam Attendance : 22 2.30pm - Customary Introduction - People shared their experience with Free Software. 2.40pm - 4.00pm Discussion on Concept of Free Software and other topics - Introduction to Free Software - History of the GNU Movement - History of GNU/Linux - Concept of an Operating System, Kernel - What is Source Code, Binary Program - Licenses - GNU GPL - Concept of Copyleft - Open Source Software and its Difference with Free Software - Drawbacks of proprietary software - Free Software and Freeware - Discussion on how freedom to study and freedom to modify can be used - Concept of Community - Development of Software through Free Software community - Copyright aspects in other areas like Music and Movies - Commercial aspect of Free Software 4.00 pm Tea Break 4.30pm Technical Discussions: 1. Emacs www.gnu.org/emacs Emacs is a powerful text editor. 2. Mencoder/ Mplayer www.mplayerhq.hu Mplayer is a powerful and versatile Multimedia Player and Mencoder is a audio/ video encoding and Manipulation tool. Presentation available http://www.ilug-cochin.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Mencoder.odp 3. What is LTSP www.ltsp.org Linux Terminal Server Project(LTSP) is a Thin Client/ Diskless Node server. 4. Creating a Bootable USB Storage Device with RMS GNU/Linux www.rmsgnulinux.org RMS is mostly SLAX, A complete Libre distribution based on slax. Can be used on USB Drives and has a small footprint. 5. Troubleshooting Discussions. 5.45pm Conclusion - People were requested to handle small technical discussions for the next meeting. - All people who came for the Meeting were thanked. Thanks to all the attendees for coming and they are requested to put their feedback on the mailing list so we can improve future meetings. Next meeting : 22/08/2010 Details of the meeting available on the web site at http://www.ilug-cochin.org/uncategorized/july-2010-meeting-details/ Thank You Regards Coordinator Indian Libre User Group, Cochin Website : www.ilug-cochin.org IRC : #ilugkochi on irc.freenode.net ML : mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org _______________________________________________ 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]
