The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, August 12th 2017 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: Introduction to Emacs Lisp Speaker: Shakthi Kannan Description: This is a tutorial session on Emacs Lisp using the GNU Emacs editor. The basic syntax, usage and examples for Emacs Lisp will be demonstrated.

Yocta Project Joshua explained about Yocta project. This is used to build tiny GNU/Linux distributions with only the minimal required tools and libraries. We can create many recipies and use them to design our own OS. He explained the build tool bitbake and demonstrated the processes. Few links to know more about it. https://www.yoctoproject.org/about https://www.slideshare.net/rossburton/the-yocto-project https://www.slideshare.net/coldnew/build-your-own-embedded-linux-distributions-by-yocto-project Open Street Maps Khaleel explained about OpenStreetMaps.org . He demonstrated how to add new roads, Point of interests and how to edit other’s works.

The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, July 8th 2017 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: Creating custom GNU/Linux OS for embedded devices using Yocto Speaker: Joshua Immanuel Project: Yocto Description: Applications built for embedded devices needs to be ported to a custom hardware with bare minimum components around it.

The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, March 12th 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: E-Passport - An Intro Speaker: Bharathi Subramanian Description: This is a 101 talk. I will give an introduction about ePassport and it’s related Standards and FOSS Projects. Duration: 45mins About Speaker: Ex-Office Boy of ILUGC.

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.

Here are a few free and open source software available for different use cases.

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.org.in for further details. Join our mailing list at https://www.freelists.org/list/ilugc We have our Meet on January 10, 2014 Check the details below. ILUGC Monthly Meet :- Time : Sat January 10, 2014 (3.

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.org.in for further details. Join our mailing list at https://www.freelists.org/list/ilugc We have our Meet on September 8, 2014 Check the details below. ILUGC Monthly Meet: Time: Sat November 8, 2014 (3.