Event: Chennai Geeks June Hackathon

Start: June 22, 2013 10:00 am
End: June 23, 2013 5:00 pm

(Yes. Two days)

Organizer: Chennai Geeks
Phone: 9940138729
Email: madhuvishy, me

Venue: RailsFactory

Address: 38/39, 3rd Floor, Whites Road, Royapettah
(Corporation Bank Circular Building, Opp Sathyam theater car parking),
Chennai, TamilNadu, 600061, India

Register at: http://goo.gl/gImAq

Theme: Android apps development.

Workshop: To help those who are new to Android, we have a 6 hour free
Android beginners’ workshop during the hackathon, on Saturday. The
workshop will be run by Yuvi Panda, who works for the Wikimedia

Foundation. More on the workshop, can be found here.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yuvipanda/Android_beginners

Adding coolness: We are planning to have a cool Internet of things

gadget display during the hackathon the Internet of things enthusiast
community in Chennai. If you have a cool gadget to show off, you
should chime in too

Free for all.
Anyone can join.

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

Venue:

CollabNet Software Private Ltd,
The Lords, Block II,
4th Floor #1,2,
North Extension Area
Ekkatuthangal, Guindy
Chennai-600032, India

Phone: +91 44 4220-3700

Map  : http://bit.ly/11utU2l

Land Mark: Virtusa Building, Block 2, 4th floor.

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

Free for all.
Anyone can register and attend.

Agenda

Collabnet team – Keynote Session (20mins)
Openstack for Academia: RajaGopalan Varadan
storage systems on OpenStack, Swift and Ceph: Yogesh Girikumar
Puppet & OpenStack : Kavit Munshi: Aptira
Hi-Avalibllity in OpenStack : Syed Armani : Hastexo

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

Time : Sat June 8, 2013 (3.00 – 5.30 PM)

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

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

1.

Topic:

Implementing Web based SMS Management using Kalkun and Gammu in Raspberry Pi

Duration:  30 Minutes

About Speaker: S. Baskar, CEO, LinuXpert Systems, baskar AT linuxpert.in

Links to read:

http://kalkun.sourceforge.net/
http://wammu.eu/gammu/

2.

Topic: Website building using Django

Duration: 20 minutes

About Speaker: Sibi, Researcher in TCS Innovation Labs.
psibi2000 AT gmail.com

P.S: Plan is to give a demo of small website creation.

3.

Topic:
Photography Basics and Techniques.

Description:

Provides an insight on  to the Technical aspects of Photography and
techniques for better photography.
Exploring wikipedia commons and how to contribute to wikipedia using
photography.

Duration:  1-1:30 hours

About speakers:

RavindraBoopathi – An Photography Enthusiast, working in IT industry,
with contributions to wiki commons and magazines. Practices
photography as passion and hobby.

Pradeepkumar – An Photography Enthusiast, Working in IT industry,
Practices photography as passion and hobby.

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

Contact:
Shrinivasan – 98 41 79 54 68

The following things are available with me and I would like to distribute them freely for students / colleges.

Linux For You Magazine (September 2011 Issue) with CentOS 6.0 DVD – 200+ copies
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Desktop Edition) – 50+ nos.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Server Edition) – 100+ nos.
Kubuntu 10.04 LTS (Desktop Edition) – 20+ nos.

If anyone is interested, they can collect them from the following address:

Mr.V.S.Nagasayanam
New No.2/2 (Old No.2/20),
(Adjacent to Vijaya Traders),
Karuneegar Street,
(Near Sivan Temple / JRK Matriculation School)
Vadapalani, Chennai – 600 026.
Phone: 2484 4815
E-mail: vsayanam@gmail.com

S. Baskar

== 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,

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

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

Thanks for FSFTN for providing their office for our meeting.

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

Free Software Foundation TamilNadu.

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

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.

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