February Monthly Meet 13 Feb 2016

Next monthly meet will be on Saturday, Feb 13 2016 at 1500 IST.

Venue: Classroom No 1, Aerospace Engineering, Near Gajendra Circle, IIT Madras.

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

Talk schedule for the meet

Talk 1: something with Emacs.

  • Speaker: Shantakumar
  • Description: Emacs is a text editor.
  • Duration: 10-15min.
  • About Speaker: Shantakumar - Emacs Newbie.

Talk 2: Project Kalam

  • Speaker: Shakthi Kannan
  • Description: Community initiated free and open source software projects to cater to ILUG-C. Discussion on mailing list migration and fossconf.in.
  • Duration: 20 minutes
  • About Speaker: Shakthi Kannan is a Free Software enthusiast who blogs at shakthimaan.com.

Talk 3: Contributing to LibreOffice

  • Speakers: Arul Micheal, Kumar T, Yogesh Desai
  • Description
    • A quick introduction to getting started with contributing to LibreOffice
    • A summary of some of our recent bug fixes
  • Duration - 20 minutes
  • About speakers - Arul, Kumar and Yogesh are LibreOffice contributors

Talk 4: DrivePass - experimental password manager in Golang

  • Speaker: Sahasranaman M S
  • Description:
    • Introduction to GUI programming in Golang with Gotk3
    • Encryption libraries present in Golang
    • Looking for feedback and ideas
  • Duration - 15 minutes
  • About Speaker - I am a C++ programmer, currently experimenting with Golang

Talk 5: Templates in Golang

  • Speaker: Udaya Kumar
  • Description: Templates in Golang.
  • Duration: 30mins
  • About Speaker: Sw Eng