Open Weekends

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AGENDA FOR OPENWEEKENDS

25-26th May 2013 | Railsfactory, Chennai | 10 a.m. To 4.30 p.m.

DAY 1 – 25TH MAY 2013 | TALK SESSIONS

1. Jai Pradeesh – About Fedora; How its architecture is built, how it fares better than other linux distros, Why Fedora?

Jai is a student ambassador with the Fedora Project.

2. Gautam Kumar – Basics of building a parser and lexer with ANTLR4, Constructing a Grammar, Listener and Visitor Patterns and building a simple DSL to generate html forms and an expression calculator

Gautam is a software engineer with Orangescape Technologies, Chennai.

3. Yogesh Girikumar – Openstack 101 – What it is, how it works, why we need.

Yogesh works for the CSS Corp and is a member of Open Stack community.

4. Ravishankar – WordPress – Hosting it, doing custom works in WordPress and doing business with it.

5. Soumya Deb and Gauthamraj- Mozilla Contributor Mentoring Days – how entry level contribution to Mozilla can be made easy. How you may contribute to Development, L10N, Design team, Web Dev, Webmaker and others within Mozilla project.

Soumya Deb is community member of Mozilla India and works for Red Hat. Gauthamraj works for Tata Consultancy Services.

DAY 2 – 26TH MAY 2013 | WIKIPEDIA SESSIONS AND HACKATHON

1) Sibichakravarthi – Introduction to Wikipedia
2) Surya Prakash – Introduction to Translate Wiki
3) Shanmugam P – Introduction to Bots in Wiki projects
4) Bala Jeyaraman – Introduction to Wiki data
5) Raveendraboopathi – Photography Tutorial

Hackathon Sessions

1. Mediawiki Hackathon

2. Firefox Hackathon – You may build addons for Firefox, customize your browser and make apps for the Firefox OS. There will be people to help you around. There will also be Firefox phones to test your apps realtime [ Yay! :) ]

The talk and hackathon sessions will happen in parallel.

EVENT GUIDELINES

Venue address:

Railsfactory,
Sedin Technologies Private Limited,
# 38/39, 3rd Floor,
White’s Road,
Royapettah,
Chennai (Near Sathyam cinemas)

Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/vGdfg

1. In between the event, we will be breaking for lunch. LUNCH will not be provided for the participants and they’ll have to bear it at their own cost. Food and bevarages are not allowed inside the venue. Please help keep the place clean.

2. Wifi internet connection will be provided at the venue. Please bring your own laptops with power cables to work.

3. There is limited parking at the venue. Plan your travel accordingly.

4. You are encouraged to bring a personal ID of some kind (Driving license, Student/Official ID etc.,)

5. You are responsible for your belongings.

6. Social :

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/events/152064334973643/?ref=3
Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cn8njencpl3leg9t74bh2o5aklo

Twitter: Tweet realtime with #openweekends #chennai

Don’t hesitate to bug these guys:

Dwarak – +91-9003297595 | me at dwarak.in

Gauthamraj – +91-9789299422 | vallavan2valluvan at gmail.com

If you’re willing to be a part of the Open Weekends event, please take a few minutes to fill up this form that’ll ease up the security process at the venue : http://goo.gl/EFHWX

Learn MySQL in Tamil – Ebook

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http://kaniyam.com/mysql-book-in-tamil

MySQL is one of the popular Free Open Source Database System used worldwide.
This book teaches you it in simple Tamil.

Kaniyam team is spreading content related Free and Open Source software in Tamil from 2012.
With the already published articles on MySQL, The author added more content in this book.

We are so happy to release this as a free ebook.

Share your thoughts and error details at editor@kaniyam.com

Garb your copy at http://kaniyam.com/mysql-book-in-tamil
Add your comments there.

Read and share with others happily.

This book is released with creative commons license.
Hence, you can

Share with anyone
Edit and re-release
Use commercially

But, you have to mention the original book, original author, kaniyam.com
You have to release with the same rights and creative commons license.

We thank all the contributors and readers who makes the kaniyam.

Shrini
Editor,
kaniyam.com

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ChennaiPy May Monthly Meet

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= May Monthly Meet

== Date & Time

25 May
3:00pm to 5:00pm

== Venue

Zilogic Systems,
Fourth Main Road,
Kamaraj Nagar,
Thiruvanmiyur,
Chennai

Location map: http://www.zilogic.com/contact.html

== Agenda

Talk 1: Py-notify
by Kausikram

Py-notify  is a Python  package  providing  tools  for  implementing
Observer   programming   pattern.   These  tools  include   signals,
conditions and variables.

Signals  are  lists of  handlers  that are  called  when  signal  is
emitted.  Conditions are basically  boolean variables coupled with a
signal that is emitted when  condition  state  changes.  They can be
combined  using  standard  logical  operators  (not, and, etc.) into
compound  conditions.  Variables,  unlike  conditions,  can hold any
Python  object, not just  booleans,  but they cannot be combined.

– http://home.gna.org/py-notify/

Talk 2: Pexpect and pxssh
by Rengaraj

Pexpect is a pure Python  module that makes Python a better tool for
controlling and automating other programs. Pexpect is similar to the
Don Libes `Expect` system, but Pexpect as a different interface that
is easier to  understand.  Pexpect is  basically a pattern  matching
system. It runs programs and watches  output. When output  matches a
given  pattern  Pexpect  can  respond  as  if a  human  were  typing
responses.  Pexpect can be used for automation,  testing, and screen
scraping.  Pexpect can be used for  automating  interactive  console
applications   such   as  ssh,   ftp,   passwd,   telnet,   etc.

– http://www.noah.org/wiki/pexpect

If you would like to give a talk, just come  prepared, we will be able
to accommodate you.

If you are new to Python, the  tutorial  ”Learn  Python in 10 Minutes”
http://www.korokithakis.net/tutorials/python/  will  give  you a quick
overview of what Python is all about.

Regards,

OpenStack June month meetup at chennai on June 8

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Open Stack June month meetup is planned at chennai on

Saturday, June 8, 2013
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

ICSR-Hall 3, IIT Madras Sardar Patel Road, Kanagam,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036, Chennai

Register here to attend the meeting.
http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/120677342/

Free for all.
Anyone can register and attend.

About OpenStack:
OpenStack is a python based open source cloud computing framework.

It is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing project that is free open
source software released under the terms of the Apache License. The project is managed by

the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in
September 2012 to promote, protect and empower OpenStack software and
its community.

More than 150 companies have joined the project among which are AMD, Intel, Canonical,

SUSE Linux, Red Hat, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, NEC, VMware and Yahoo!.
It is portable software, but is mostly developed and used on the Linux
operating system.

The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that control large pools

of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed
through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to
provision resources through a web interface.

Links to read:
http://www.openstack.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack

Change of ILUGC Meeting Address – May 11

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Just now knew that the IITM team is on vacation.
There is no one now to give the keys for the rooms.

Thanks for FSFTN for providing their office for our meeting.

Please note down the below address for tomorrow’s meeting:

Free Software Foundation TamilNadu.

36(old no. 24) Thanikachalam Road,
Flat No. 2, First Floor,
B Block,
Silver Park appartments,
T.Nagar,
Chennai 600017.
India

For further details about the meeting:

http://ilugc.in/content/ilugc-monthly-meet-may-11-2013/

Contacts :
Arun Prakash – 94 88 000 707   /   90 80 90 33 02
Welkin – 996 22 400 50
Shrinivasan – 98 41 79 54 68

ILUGC Monthly Meet (May 11 2013 )

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ILUGC Monthly Meet (May 11 2013 )
==================================

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] is spreading awareness on
Free Open Source Software in Chennai since Jan 1998. We meet regularly
on every month second Saturday with technical talks and discussions on
various Free software.

Check our website http://ilugc.in for further details.

Join our mailing list at http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

We have our Meet on May 11, 2013

Check the details below.

ILUGC Monthly Meet (May 11 2013):-
==============================

Time : Sat May 11, 2013 (3.00 – 5.30 PM)

Venue:

Free Software Foundation TamilNadu.

36(old no. 24) Thanikachalam Road,
Flat No. 2, First Floor,
B Block,
Silver Park appartments,
T.Nagar,
Chennai 600017.
India

1.

Topic: Demonstration of Freedom Toaster

Description:

We wish to demonstarte the Freedom Toaster we have built based on the
idea from Seneca College Freedom Toaster (1) and Washington Lee
Freedom Toaster (2).

The major credit for this project goes to Mr. Arun from ILUGCBE, a
final year ECE student in PSG College of Technology who has helped in
improving the UI part and added some useful features to it.

The Freedom Toaster contains nearly 50+ GNU/Linux and BSD
distributions and some popular FOSS software for Windows also.

Participants are requested to bring Blank DVD for burning their desired distros.

Duration: 20 Minutes

About Speaker: S. Baskar, Free Software Activist, CEO – LinuXpert Systems

(1) Seneca Freedom Toaster
http://cdot.senecac.on.ca/projects/toaster/

(2) Washington-Lee High School Freedom Toaster Project.
http://washlee.net/toaster/)

2.

Topic: Challenge of putting free software in corporates

Duration: 30 mins

About Speaker: Karthikeyan AK is a rails developer. Main contributor
to Sorkandu project. [ mindaslab at gmail dot com ]

3.

Topic: OpenStack is for You

Description:

OpenStack is a python based open source cloud computing framework.

It is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing project that is free open
source software released under the terms of the Apache License. The project is managed by
the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in
September 2012 to promote, protect and empower OpenStack software and its community.

More than 150 companies have joined the project among which are AMD, Intel, Canonical,
SUSE Linux, Red Hat, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, NEC, VMware and Yahoo!.
It is portable software, but is mostly developed and used on the Linux operating system.

The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that control large pools
of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed
through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to
provision resources through a web interface.

Links to read:
http://www.openstack.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack

http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-storage/

Speaker : Atul Jha [ koolhead17 AT gmail DOT com ]

Atul jha is one of the coordinators for OpenStack India chapter,
they are actively involved in promoting and organizing OpenStack in India.

http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group
http://twitter.com/openstackindia

He contributes to OpenStack Documentation.
he co authored the book “OpenStack Beginner’s Guide V3.0”
http://cssoss.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/openstackbookv3-0_csscorp2.pdf

Duration : 30 min

4.
General group discussions on any queries, events etc.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.
Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.

All are welcome. Entry Free

 

Contacts :
Arun Prakash – 94 88 000 707   /   90 80 90 33 02
Welkin – 996 22 400 50
Shrinivasan – 98 41 79 54 68

ILUGC Monthly Meet (April 13 2013 )

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ILUGC Monthly Meet (April 13 2013 )

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] is spreading awareness on
Free Open Source Software in Chennai since Jan 1998. We meet regularly
on every month second Saturday with technical talks and discussions on
various Free software.

Check our website http://ilugc.in for further details.

Join our mailing list at http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

We have our Meet on April 13, 2013

Check the details below.

ILUGC Monthly Meet (April 13 2013):-


Time : Sat April 13, 2013 (3.00 – 5.30 PM)

Venue: Classroom No 3,
Areo Space Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.

Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero

1.

Topic – FOSS philosophy & goals

Description – Understand the power of FOSS and contribute to FOSS

Duration – 30 mins.

About speaker – Kumaravel. Working as Technical Lead at Hcl Technologies,
chennai. [ kumaraveltech at gmail.com ]

links to read -
http://freeopensourcesoftware.org/index.php?title=FOSS_Philosophy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

2.

Topic – Sorkandu – Building a corpus for Tamil

Description : Sorkandu team is building a software on Ruby on Rails to
build a crowd sourced corpus for tamil.
 Let us explore how the software is built and have a demo.

Duration: 30 mins

About Speaker: Karthikeyan AK is a rails developer. Main contributor
to Sorkandu project. [ mindaslab at gmail dot com ]

links:
requirements: goinggnu.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/requirements-for-creating-a-free-corpus-for-tamil-language/
code: https://github.com/mindaslab/tamil_corpus
demo: sorkandu.herokuapp.com/

3.

Topic: Open Source in Enterprises

Description:

Exploring the current status of usage of open source applications in
enterprises with examples.

About Speaker :

The speaker Jobin is a PMP certified Project Manager with more than
10+ years of experience, with expertise in
Product/Operations/Project Management for Global Companies like Dell,
HP, Oracle, Sun, Motorola, Philips, Juniper Networks
passionate about open source technologies and the concept behind Free Software.

jobinsmailid AT gmail DOT com

Duration: 30 min

4.
General group discussions on any queries, events etc.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.
Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.

All are welcome. Entry Free

Chennai Ruby Users Group Meet April 6 2013

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Hi all,

System Insights is happy to welcome you all for tomorrow’s meetup.
The location is here http://systeminsights.com/locations.

Date: 06-04-2013
Timings 10.30 AM to 1 PM.

Talks,
1. Hadooping with Ruby(Deepak Prasanna R)
2. Building Large Rails App(Karthikeyan A K).

Directions to reach the venue,
1. Take Tambaram-Velachery main road.
2. Reach Santhoshpuram bus stop.
3. Take Vengaivasal main road, and travel 2 kms straight until you see IMGears pvt ltd.
4. SystemInsights is right next to IMGears.

After reaching Santhoshpuram, ask for “Vengaivasal bus stop” or “IMGears” if you are lost.
If you need help, please ring me up on 9884688011.

Thanks,
Deepak.

Kaniyam – 15th edition

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http://www.kaniyam.com/release-15/

Happy to release the 15th edition of the Kaniyam, an eMagazine for
Free/ Open Source Software in Tamil.

In this edition,

  • Free For All – part 2
  • Let us learn C – part 4
  • Boot Loaders in Linux – part 1
  • Learn PHP – Part 3
  • Enhance all your photos using aaphoto
  • Learn Python – part 8
  • Free Software for science
  • HTML5 – part 5
  • Digital Rights Management
  • How to use open DNS in ubuntu?
  • Introduction to Version Control System – Part 1
  • Organizations with Free Software

Thanks for all the continuous contributors and readers.

You can also write for kaniyam.
Write any article about any Free / Open Source Software in Tamil and
send to editor

Are you Looking for ideas on what to write?
http://dev.kaniyam.com/projects/kaniyam/wiki/Translation_Recommendations
You can get articles to translate from the above link.

Read and share kaniyam with all.

Reviewer for tutorials Joomla and gChemPaint

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Dear Friends,

Greetings from Spoken Tutorial Project at IIT Bombay.

The Spoken Tutorial project is the initiative of the "Talk to a
Teacher" project of the National Mission on Education through
Information Communication through Technology, launched by MHRD, Govt
of India.

Spoken Tutorials team creates tutorial on various Free and Open 
Source Software (FOSS) in various Indian regional languages. Please visit http://www.spoken-tutorial.org for more details.

We are looking for a reviewer to review the outline, scripts 
and video tutorials on gChemPaint (proprietary equivalent is ChemDraw) and Joomla (CMS). Reviewer should be either a faculty member of an
institution/university or a person with 2-3 years of working
experience in gChemPaint (proprietary equivalent is ChemDraw) and
Joomla (CMS).

A reasonable honorarium will be paid to the reviewer.

Those who are interested, please get back to us at the earliest.

Thanks & Regards

Shahid Farooqui

 

FOSS Workshop in KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology

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Dear all,

KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Arasur, Coimbatore Dt.
(www.kpriet.ac.in) organized a two days National Level Workshop on 
OpenSource Software on 15/03/2013 and 16/03/2013.

Myself conducted a session on 'GNU/Linux and FOSS in Engineering 
Education'on 15/03/2013.

Around 70+ participants from 20 engineering colleges attended 
the workshop.

On behalf of ILUGC I thank KPR College Management and the following 
persons for organizing the workshop.

Dr. K.P.Arulshri - Principal,
Prof. Pon. Harshavardhanan - HOD / CSE
Mr. T. Rajasekaran - AP / CSE

March 16, 2013:
---------------

A 32 seat FOSS Lab was setup in CSI College of Engineering, Ketti 
Valley, Near Ooty (www.csice.org) using Fedora 18/14 for the Dept. ofCSE.

Contact person: Mr. Prasath / Lecturer - CSE

This FOSS Lab implementation is dedicated to our beloved KG (as he 
asked me last year whether I had done for this college and it was done now).  
A three days FOSS workshop has been planned to be conducted from March 25th - 27th, 2013.

Regards

S. Baskar

Twitter  : http://twitter.com/linuxbaskar
LinkedIN : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/baskar-selvaraj/21/881/b29
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