Warm Greetings To The Free Software Community, The meeting of the "Indian Libre User Group" was successfully held on Febraury 27th 2011.(4th Sunday of Every Month)
Following is a brief snapshot of the meeting. Date: 27-2-2011 Time: 2:15pm - 5.30pm Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building, Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam Attendance : 12 2.15pm - 2.45pm - Customary Self Introduction. Some topics that were discussed: - General Free Software Troubleshooting Discussions - Free Software for Doctors - Concept of machine model in curriculum - FreeBSD Partitioning 2.15pm - 3.45pm Agenda : Customizing Free Software for our needs. Important Points discussed. - Basic concepts of Free Software - Application configuration at the user level - One level deeper - advanced configuration - Localization without source code - Software optimization (for performance) with source code. - Jumping into the source code - Learning programming 3.45pm- 4.00pm Tea break 4.15 pm 1. using mutt for accessing and sending email - installing and configuring mutt - features of mutt - sending mail using mutt - mutt aliases http://www.mutt.org 2. arista transcoder Arista is a simple multimedia transcoder, it focuses on being easy to use by making complex task of encoding for various devices simple. http://www.transcoder.org/ 2. Synergy keyboard/ mouse sharing application Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own display. http://synergy-foss.org/ 3.Configuring Internet through a mobile phone using wvdial 4. gnome subtitles GNOME Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME Desktop environment. It supports the most common subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, conversion, and synchronization by using a friendly user interface. http://gnome-subtitles.sourceforge.net/ 5. ffmpeg FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. http://ffmpeg.org/ 6. virtual box VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems to run on a GNU/ Linux system. http://www.virtualbox.org/ 7. freedos FreeDOS aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system http://www.freedos.org/ 5.00pm - 5.25pm Discussion on ILUG Cochin Stall at CUSAT. 5.25pm 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 : 27/03/2011 Details of the meeting available on the web site at http://www.ilug-cochin.org/meetings/february-2011-meeting-details/ Send your feedback about this report to contact at ilug-cochin dot org Thank You Regards Coordinator Indian Libre User Group, Cochin =============== About ILUG Cochin =============== >From August 1997 ILUG Cochin has been working for the cause of Freedom by promoting Free Software. ILUG Cochin has the vision to create a self sustaining Free Society, where individuals have Freedom to work and live in unison and harmony. ILUG Cochin hopes to do this by spreading the principles of Freedom and Truth which are embodied in the concept of Free Software. 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]
