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ILUGC Monthly Meet - April 11, 2026 - 15:00 (3.00 PM) IST - IITM

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:39:12 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

For the month of April 2026, we shall meet Physically at Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (IITM), Aerospace Engineering. Registered participants through https://register.ilugc.in arriving at IITM gates need to tell that you are there to attend “ILUGC Monthly Meet” so that IITM security will verify your details and allow you to get in.

Meeting Minutes, March 2026

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:24:30 +0530

Here is the quick recap of what happend in ILUGC monthly meet, March 14, 2026

Intro

Gopi welcomed the participants and gave a small introduction about ILUGC

Talk 0

Shrinivasan started his talk on Prometheus
Showed how VPS is a hosting solution
Demonstrated Grafana for visualizing site analytics
Showed various python scripts that can be used to collect metrics
He talked about the importance of writing blogs and the RSS protocol

ILUGC Monthly Meet - March 14, 2026 - 15:00 (3.00 PM) IST - IITM

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:19:43 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

For the month of March 2026, we shall meet Physically at Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (IITM), Aerospace Engineering. Registered participants through https://register.ilugc.in arriving at IITM gates need to tell that you are there to attend “ILUGC Monthly Meet” so that IITM security will verify your details and allow you to get in.

Meeting Minutes, February 2026

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:24:30 +0530

Here is the quick recap of what happend in ILUGC monthly meet, February 14, 2026

Intro

Gopi welcomed the participants and gave a small introduction about ILUGC

Talk 0

Mohan talked about WebAuthn
First explained asymmetric encryption and how it functions as the cornerstone of modern communication
Enlisted various openssl commands that lets you pack public keys in certificates
Introduced WebAuthn as an asymmetric passwordless authentication
He demonstrated the usage of ubi key which can be used in WebAuthn
Concluded the talk by taking in few questions about encryption and authentication

ILUGC Monthly Meet - February 14, 2026 - 15:00 (3.00 PM) IST - IITM

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:19:43 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

For the month of February 2026, we shall meet Physically at Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (IITM), Aerospace Engineering. Registered participants through https://register.ilugc.in arriving at IITM gates need to tell that you are there to attend “ILUGC Monthly Meet” so that IITM security will verify your details and allow you to get in.

Meeting Minutes, January 10, 2026

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:27:00 +0530

Here is the quick recap of what happend in ILUGC Monthly meet, January 10, 2026.

Intro

Mohan welcomed participants and gave small introduction about ILUGC

Talk 0

Sridhar started his talk about Digital publication
Explained about traditional publication and compared it with digital publication
Explained more about different formats available for digital publication
Explained about epub and its importance in digital publication
Explained why epub don’t have page numbers concept
Showed simple way to create epub using Calibre

Old School Socializing

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:35:27 +0530

Human interaction has taken many forms since the dawn of the internet. From the humble beginnings of electronic mails, we now live in an era of instant messaging where the experience of communication afforded by platforms like Whatsapp or Telegram is nothing short of seamless. Provided that you have an account in these services, they allow you to call, text and even share any kind of multimedia content to another person using the same service. There are also other platforms like X (formerly Twitter) or Reddit where the structure of interaction is of a different kind. Instead of talking with people you already know, these platforms widen your exposure by allowing you to follow whoever you want, serving content based on your interests and preferences. Reddit, in particular, allows a user to subscribe and follow a “subreddit” where people come together to talk about a specific area of interest.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - January 10, 2026 - 15:00 (3.00 PM) IST - IITM

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:33:00 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

For the month of January 2026, we shall meet Physically at Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (IITM), Aerospace Engineering. Registered participants through https://register.ilugc.in arriving at IITM gates need to tell that you are there to attend “ILUGC Monthly Meet” so that IITM security will verify your details and allow you to get in.

Meeting Minutes, December 13, 2025

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:55:01 +0530

Here is the quick recap of what happend in Ilugc Monthly meet, Dec 13, 2025.

Intro

Mohan welcomed participants

Talk 0

Gopinathan started explaining about his experience debugging a broken window environment issue
During switching from KDE to Gnome, his packages screwed up and ended up without any Graphical Environment
The switch triggered segfault whenever Xorg starts
With help from mohan, Gopinathan installed official nvidia drivers properly
Issue got fixed

ILUGC Monthly Meet - December 13, 2025 - 15:00 (3.00 PM) IST - IITM

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:30:56 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

For the month of December 2025, we shall meet Physically at Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (IITM), Aerospace Engineering. Registered participants arriving at IITM gates need to tell that you are there to attend “ILUGC Monthly Meet” so that IITM security will verify your details and allow you to get in.

Meeting Minutes, November 8, 2025

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:11:03 +0530

Here is the quick recap of what happend in Ilugc Monthly meet, Nov 8, 2025.

Intro

Mohan welcomed participants
Participants introduced themselves

Talk 0

Mohan started explaining about process isolation
Explained how file system isolation of a process traditionally achieved through chroot for long time in Unix based systems
Explained how modern linux have more types of process isolation including file system isolation using namespaces
Explained different container systems like lxc, systemd-nspawn, docker and podman
Showed that container images are nothing but root file system packed in a particular way
Explained what is scratch containers and demonstrated how it can be used to reduce the container image

ILUGC Monthly Meet - November 8, 2025 - 15:00 (3.00 PM) IST - IITM

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:08:10 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

For the month of November 2025, we shall meet Physically at Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (IITM), Aerospace Engineering. Registered participants arriving at IITM gates need to tell that you are there to attend “ILUGC Monthly Meet” so that IITM security will verify your details and allow you to get in.

Meeting Minutes - ILUGC Meet, October 11, 2025 (Physical, IITM)

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:54:25 +0530

Here is the quick recap of what happend in Ilugc Monthly meet, Oct 11, 2025.

Intro

Mohan welcomed participants and give intro about ILUGC
Thanked the friend from IITM who helped to resume ILUGC in IITM again

Talk 0

Briefly talk about what is Graphical Environment
Explained wayland protocol, what is compositors, what is framebuffers and what is textures
Explained how an image gets displayed
Explained different types of Graphical applications
Briefly explained what is pixel format and how an Image data stored in a array

ILUGC Meet, October 11, 2025 (Physical, IITM)

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:20:36 +0530

Hi,

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

For the month of October, 2025 we shall meet Physically at Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (IITM), Aerospace Engineering.

Time: 15:00 (3.00 PM) IST

Place:

OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?#map=19/12.991898/80.228289&layers=T
GM: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=12.991861%2C%2080.22848

Talk details

Talk 0

Topic: Introduction to wlroots (Backbone of Wayland Compositors)
Description: In this talk we will get to know about what is Wayland, what are compositors, and generally how the Linux graphics stack works.
Duration: 45 Minutes
Full Name: Mohan Raman
About Yourself: Just another FOSS Enthusiast

Talk 1

Topic: Intro to writing LLVM passes
Description: LLVM is an open source compiler framework. In this talk, we will look at what an LLVM pass is, and learn by example how to write a few simple LLVM passes.
Duration: 45 minutes
Full Name: Abdun Nihaal
About Yourself: Graduate student in Computer Science

The talk will be followed by Q&A and discussions.

ILUGC Online Monthly Meet - September 13, 2025 - 2.00 PM IST

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:16:07 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of September, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday September 13, 2025 at 1400 IST.

Meet Link

ILUGC Online Monthly Meet - August 9, 2025 - 2.00 PM IST

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 07:53:57 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of August, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday August 9, 2025 at 1400 IST.

Meet Link

ILUGC Online Monthly Meet - July 5, 2025 - 2.00 PM IST

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:47:33 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of July, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday July 5, 2025 at 1400 IST.

Meet Link

ILUGC Online Monthly Meet - June 14, 2025 - 2.00 PM IST

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:40:50 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of June, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 14, 2025 at 1400 IST.

Meet Link

ILUGC Monthly Meet - November 9, 2024 - 3.00 PM IST

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:20:00 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of November, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 11, 2024 at 1500 IST.

Meet Link

ILUGC Monthly Meet - October 12, 2024 - 3.00 PM IST

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:20:00 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of October, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 12, 2024 at 1500 IST.

Meet Link

ILUGC Monthly Meet - January 13, 2024 - 3.00 PM IST

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:30:00 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of January, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 13, 2024 at 1500 IST.

Meet Link

ILUGC Monthly Meet - December 09, 2023 - 3.00 PM IST

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 09:30:00 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of december, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 09, 2023 at 1500 IST.

https://meet.jit.si/ILUGCMeet09122023

ILUGC OFFLINE Meet - April 08, 2023

Sat, 15 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0530

Hi all,

ILUGC social was completed a few minutes ago.

After long back seeing everyone in person gave a lot of energy and had a joyful time.

Here is what happened today in the offline meet.

Firstly each and every member were coming one by one.

Guhan came early to the spot and then Dhanasekar came sharply at 4 PM

Few minutes later Nihaal joined them, the three of them were discussing about the ongoing activities on ILUGC and how they reached the spot.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - March 11, 2023 - 3.00 PM IST

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of March, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 11, 2023 at 1500 IST.

https://meet.jit.si/ILUGCMeet11032023

ILUGC Monthly Meet - February 11, 2023 - 3.00 PM IST

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of February, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 11, 2023 at 1500 IST.

https://meet.jit.si/ILUGCMeet11022023

Arch is more than a btw thing

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 18:00:00 +0530

Disclaimer: This is the my first blog post writing experience so bear with my mistakes and flow

Arch Linux , you may know this distribution through memes and linux slander videos.But at the same time due to this, it is rated as one of top famous linux distribution in the past years.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - January 21, 2023 - 3.00 PM IST

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:30:00 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of January, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 21, 2023 at 1500 IST.

https://meet.jit.si/ILUGCMeet21012023

ILUGC Monthly Meet - July 09, 2022 - 3.00 PM IST

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 13:19:54 +0530

Hi,

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of July, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 09, 2022 at 1500 IST.

https://meet.jit.si/ILUGCMeet09072022

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - July 2022

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 13:36:00 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of July, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 9, 2022 at 1500 IST.

We are inviting speakers to give a talk on things they have been working on or fiddling with lately related to FOSS Technologies like Linux, Free/Libre/Open Source Softwares/Technologies, Open Source Programming Languages/Frameworks etc. People from all levels are invited to present at the meetup, we have had the opportunity to witness talks from school kids to senior professors and from freshers to experienced software developers at ILUGC meetups.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - June 11, 2022 - 3.00 PM IST

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:23:21 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of June, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 11, 2022 at 1500 IST.

https://meet.jit.si/ILUGCMeet11062022

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - June 2022

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:47:37 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of June, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 11, 2022 at 1500 IST.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - May 14, 2022 - 3.00 PM IST

Fri, 13 May 2022 17:10:21 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of May, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 14, 2022 at 1500 IST.

https://meet.jit.si/ILUGCMeet14052022

ILUGC Monthly Meet - April 09, 2022 - 3.00 PM IST

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:18:54 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of April, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 09, 2022 at 1500 IST.

https://meet.jit.si/ILUGCMeet09042022

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - April 2022

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:14:19 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of April, we shall meet through Jitsi on Saturday 9, 2022 at 1500 IST.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - March 12, 2022 - 3.00 PM IST

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:19:13 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of March, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 12, 2022 at 1500 IST.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in libera.chat).

IRC Server: irc.libera.chat
Channel: #ilugc
Web IRC: https://meet.ilugc.in

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - March 2022

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:22:48 +0530

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in libera.chat). Register your Nick in Libera.Chat (you can also join irc channel without registering with libera.chat)

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of March, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 12, 2022 at 1500 IST.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - February 12, 2022 - 3.00 PM IST

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:11:57 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of February, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 12, 2022 at 1500 IST.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in libera.chat).

IRC Server: irc.libera.chat
Channel: #ilugc
Web IRC: https://meet.ilugc.in

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - February 2022

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:14:02 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of February, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 12, 2022 at 1500 IST.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - January 08, 2022 - 3.00 PM IST

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 21:14:07 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of January, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 08, 2022 at 1500 IST.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in libera.chat).

IRC Server: irc.libera.chat
Channel: #ilugc
Web IRC: https://meet.ilugc.in

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - January 2022

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 21:10:18 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of January, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 08, 2022 at 1500 IST.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - December 11, 2021 - 3.00 PM IST

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:39:43 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of December, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 11, 2021 at 1500 IST.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in libera.chat).

IRC Server: irc.libera.chat
Channel: #ilugc
Web IRC: https://meet.ilugc.in

ILUGC Monthly Meet - November 13, 2021 - 3-5 pm

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:31:47 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of November, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 13, 2021 at 1500 IST.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in libera.chat).

IRC Server: irc.libera.chat
Channel: #ilugc
Web IRC: https://meet.ilugc.in

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - November 2021

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:43:24 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of November, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 13, 2021 at 1500 IST.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - October 09, 2021 - 3-5 pm

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:41:35 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of October, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 09, 2021 at 1500 IST.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in libera.chat).

IRC Server: irc.libera.chat
Channel: #ilugc
Web IRC: https://meet.ilugc.in

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - October 2021

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:22:22 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of October, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 09, 2021 at 1500 IST.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - September 11, 2021 - 3-5 pm

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:31:28 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of September, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 11, 2021 at 1500 IST.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in libera.chat).

IRC Server: irc.libera.chat
Channel: #ilugc
Web IRC: https://meet.ilugc.in

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - September 2021

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:57:09 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of September, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 11, 2021 at 1500 IST.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - August 14, 2021 - 3-5 pm

Sat, 14 Aug 2021 12:43:27 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of August, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 14, 2021 at 1500 IST.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in libera.chat).

IRC Server: irc.libera.chat
Channel: #ilugc
Web IRC: https://meet.ilugc.in

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - August 2021

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 09:34:23 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of August, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 14, 2021 at 1500 IST.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - July 10, 2021 - 3-5 pm

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 19:04:54 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of July, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 10, 2021 at 1500 IST.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in libera.chat).

IRC Server: irc.libera.chat
Channel: #ilugc
Web IRC: https://meet.ilugc.in

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - July 2021

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:41:36 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of July, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 10, 2021 at 1500 IST.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - June 12, 2021 - 3-5 pm

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:34:06 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of June, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 12, 2021 at 1500 IST.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in libera.chat).

IRC Server: irc.libera.chat
Channel: #ilugc
Web IRC: https://meet.ilugc.in

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - June 2021

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:36:48 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of June, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 12, 2021 at 1500 IST.

Moving from Freenode to LiberaChat

Fri, 28 May 2021 13:28:07 +0530

Considering the events unfolding in freenode.net . We will be moving our #ilugc channel from freenode.net to libera.chat , closing the existing #ilugc channel in freenode.net.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - May 08, 2021 - 3-5 pm

Sat, 08 May 2021 08:07:07 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

Jitsi link will be shared in mailing-list as well as in #ilugc IRC channel 15 minutes before the beginning of the meet.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of May, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 08, 2021 at 1500 IST.

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - May 2021 - Lets meet on IRC (#ilugc in freenode.net)

Sat, 08 May 2021 07:44:49 +0530

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

We will provide Jitsi link 15 minutes before the meet start time through #ilugc irc channel as well as through this mailing list.

Please register your Nick in Freenode. Following link can get you started with IRC

https://richard.esplins.org/siwi/2011/07/08/getting-started-freenode-irc/

ILUGC Monthly Meet - April 10, 2021 - 3-4 pm

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 21:08:56 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

Jitsi link will be shared in mailing-list as well as in #ilugc IRC channel 15 minutes before the beginning of the meet.

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of April, we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 10, 2021 at 1500 IST.

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - April 2021 - Lets meet on IRC (#ilugc in freenode.net)

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 02:43:39 +0530

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

We will provide Jitsi link 15 minutes before the meet start time through #ilugc irc channel as well as through this mailing list.

Please register your Nick in Freenode. Following link can get you started with IRC

https://richard.esplins.org/siwi/2011/07/08/getting-started-freenode-irc/

ILUGC Monthly Meet - March 13, 2021 - 3-6 pm

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:50:31 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use https://meet.jit.si (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - March 2021 - Lets meet on IRC (#ilugc in freenode.net)

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:44:10 +0530

Hi,

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use Jitsi (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

Please register your Nick in Freenode. Following link can get you started with IRC

https://richard.esplins.org/siwi/2011/07/08/getting-started-freenode-irc/

ILUGC Monthly Meet - February 13, 2021 - 3-6 pm

Sat, 13 Feb 2021 04:58:07 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use https://meet.jit.si (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - February 2021 - Lets meet on IRC (#ilugc in freenode.net)

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:57:30 +0530

Hi,

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use Jitsi (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

Please register your Nick in Freenode. Following link can get you started with IRC

https://richard.esplins.org/siwi/2011/07/08/getting-started-freenode-irc/

ILUGC Monthly Meet - January 09, 2021 - 3-6 pm

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:14:54 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use https://meet.jit.si (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

ILUGC Monthly Meet - December 12, 2020 - 3-6 pm

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 10:56:28 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use https://meet.jit.si (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

Meeting Minutes - ILUGC - November 2020 Meet (conducted on 21-11-2020)

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 21:02:19 +0530

Here is the summary of what happened on this month’s ILUGC meet

systemd-nspawn

Mohan welcomed participants and started his session about systemd-nspawn , gave a brief gave a brief overview about how containers are created in Linux, what are the building blocks for container, how a good old chroot is one type of container etc.

ILUGC Monthly Meet - November 21, 2020 - 3-6 pm

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:48:14 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use https://meet.jit.si (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

ILUGC Monthly Meet - October 10, 2020 - 3-6 pm

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 07:34:25 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use https://meet.jit.si (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

ILUGC Monthly Meet - August 08, 2020 - 3-6 pm

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:09:38 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use https://meet.jit.si (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

Announcement: Emacs APAC virtual meetup, Saturday, July 25, 2020 (#emacs on Freenode and Jitsi)

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:29:34 +0530

Announcing call for speakers for Emacs APAC (Asia Pacific) virtual meetup on #emacs (irc.freenode.net) and Jitsi scheduled for Saturday, July 25, 2020 (1400-1500 IST).

If you would like to give a demo or talk (maximum 20 minutes) on GNU Emacs or any variant, please ping me (“mbuf”) on Freenode with your talk details:

Topic
Description
Duration
About Yourself

The Jitsi URL for the session will be announced 30 minutes prior to the session on #emacs.

Meeting Minutes - sh - Posix Shell Session - Day 5 - July 10, 2020

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 08:00:24 +0530

Here are the topics covered on the last and final day of this session,

introducing function
how it is basically a custom built-in command which we define
emulating ‘cd’ command using custom ‘replicate_cd’ function
introducing positional parameters
howto get current program name through "${0}"
howto get all positional parameters through "${@}"
difference between "${@}" and "${*}"
howto get number of given positional parameters using "${#}"
introducing shell patterns
how we can use * anywhere in the filename to match multiple files
howto filter filename matching using prefix with *
howto filter filename matching using suffix with *
howto we can use range pattern to match different characters in filenames
introducing find command
providing -maxdepth to find command
filtering filenames through -name in find command
two types of post processing after find
find with while-do-done and read command
providing -exec to find command
a very small introduction to BRE (Basic Regular Expression) through grep command
importance of ed command and how grep and sed commands are one functionalities of ed command
writing shell script
basic struction of a shell script
the #! importance
providing shell name after #!
how a shell script is basically a function stored as file
using chmod +x to make a normal text file as excutable
thanking everyone who attended this 5 day session

IRC Logs

Meeting Minutes - sh - Posix Shell Session - Day 4 - July 09, 2020

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:29:00 +0530

Here are the topics we covered on day four,

importance of exitcode (or returncode)
howto retrive last executed command’s exitcode through ${?} special variable
howto use this exitcode in if-elif-else-fi command
howto use case-esac command
introducing ‘for-do-done’ loop
how this is different from regular for loop in ‘C’ programming
iterating through static values using for loop
introducing command substitution through $()
how command substitution can generate dynamic values for each iteration in for loop
importance of command substitution
introducing ‘while-do-done’ loop
introducing variable expansion, what exactly means ‘$’ before a word
difference between ${var} and “${var}”
different way to expand variables using :+, :=, :? and :-
howto do arithmetic expansion using $(())
built-in special variables which ‘sh’ provides by default
meaning of ‘${$}’
meaning of ‘${?}’
meaning of ‘${!}’
running background jobs using ‘&’ seperator
introducing ‘jobs’ command, also ‘bg’ and ‘fg’ commands

IRC Logs

ILUGC Monthly Meet - July 11, 2020 - 3-6 pm

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:03:13 +0530

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use https://meet.jit.si (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

Meeting Minutes - sh - Posix Shell Session - Day 3 - July 08, 2020

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 23:40:25 +0530

Todays session started on time. As usual Shrini provided free shell account to users to remote access to one of his temporary aws server for practice. Here are the topics we covered today

what is mean by default file descriptors and what are they
how these default file descriptors are mapped for each command
using ls -l /proc/<pid>/fd to view file descriptors mapping
the /proc special directory
the /proc/self special directory
using ’echo $$’ to get the pid of current shell
what is mean by pid
how the default file descriptors ‘0’, ‘1’ and ‘2’ all mapped to /dev/pts/1
what is mean by /dev/pts/1
how every terminal is basically a character device file resides in /dev/pts directory
how you access the default file descriptors as STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR in ‘c’ programming
how to do redirection by changing the mapping of these default file descriptors
introducing cat command
how cat commands reads standard input and writes it to standard output
redirecting cat command output to a file instead of using standard output
redirecting cat command input from a file instead of using standard input
how cat reports errors through STDERR
how to redirect standard error to /dev/null to silence cat command
what is mean by pipe
how pipes differ from redirection
how to join standard output of one command to standard input of another command using |
how to find process id of particular command using ps axf | grep <command>
introducing grep command and how it searches using standard input
Explaining famous “do one thing and do it well” unix philosophy
how this unix philosophy shaped unix by having lot of tools instead of having big monolithic GUI applications
introducing background jobs
how to start background job using &
how to view background jobs using jobs command
how to bring back an background executing job to foreground using fg command
introducing shell variables
introducing environment variables
how normal shell variables differ from environment variables
how to view environment variables using env command
how to export a normal variable to environment variable using export command
why a child shell only gets environment variables, not normal variables
introducing less command, how to navigate output through page by page
Q & A

IRC Logs

Meeting Minutes - sh - Posix Shell Session - Day 2 - July 07, 2020

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 23:38:49 +0530

After the lessons from yesterday, we were able to make sure no random messages in #ilugc channel during the session. Also, we encouraged participants to use Hexchat or Pidgin as personal irc clients apart from using freenode webchat. We also Shrini provided free shell account to users to remote access to one of his temporary aws server for practice. Here are the topics we covered in todays sessions.

what are manual pages, how to use man command to read them
importance of manual pages
what re manual section numbers like (1), (2) etc., what they represent
nine different sections of manuals
how to read manual page. Differnt parts of manual page
how to read SYNOPSIS
what is mean by short options
what is mean by long options
what is mean by optional arguments
what is mean by positional arguments
importance of SEE ALSO
why one should learn about manual pages to understand unix commands
introduction to compound commands
how to run multiple commands from a single line using ‘;’ seperator
how to logically execute two commands using ‘&&’
how to logically execute two commands using ‘||’
importance of returncode (or exitcode) of a command
how to use the returncode of a command to decide what to do next
true and false commands
Q & A

IRC Logs

Meeting Minutes - sh - Posix Shell Session - Day 1 - July 06, 2020

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 22:54:51 +0530

Starting of the meet was a perfect storm. After much struggle we were able to bring back control to #ilugc irc channel and was able to start the presentation through presenter terminal in meet.ilugc.in. Here are the topics we covered in this session

importance of pwd command, current working directory
overview of unix filesystem, directories files
the / directory
home directory
ls command, -l option to ls command
everything in unix is a file philosophy
cd command
three types of commands, regular, built-in, aliases with example
importance of PATH variable
which command
stat command
where unix commands are saved and how shell uses PATH variable to find the full path to the executable file of a particular command
Q & A

IRC Logs

Tamil Open Source Conference Online - July 4-5 2020

Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:28:02 +0530

In this weekend, we have a online conference in Tamil on Open Source. See the schedule and more details here

http://www.kaniyam.com/schedule-of-tamil-open-source-conference-july-4-5-2020/

It is on live at https://www.youtube.com/omtamil/live

sh - Posix Shell - 5 Day Session - July 6, 2020 to July 10, 2020 (Through https://meet.ilugc.in)

Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:22:36 +0530

Date(s): From July 06, 2020 to July 10, 2020
Time: Evening 5.00 PM
Duration: 1 Hour
Place: https://meet.ilugc.in

Let’s get into the basics of Posix ‘sh’ Shell . Here are the Topics we will be covering

Call for Speakers - ILUGC Meet - July 2020 - Lets meet on IRC (#ilugc in freenode.net)

Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:20:57 +0530

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use https://meet.jit.si (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

[Job] [OSM-talk] Seeking a Senior Technical Lead for HOT_Tech

Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:22:04 +0530

Hi All,

Sharing the first opportunity of a few on the horizon for the HOT tech team. Looking for an ‘Audacious’ Senior Technical Lead to guide, support and mentor a wonderful team of digital humanitarians. Some key traits include:

Demonstrated commitment to open source projects and communities
Diverse Engineer/Dev experience
Respected as leader and mentor
OpenStreetMap technical experience would give you an edge.

Full listing is here > Senior Technical lead: https://www.hotosm.org/jobs/senior-technical-lead/

Online workshop on writing wikidata queries - June 21 2020 - 9 AM IST

Sat, 20 Jun 2020 14:11:21 +0530

Hello all,

This is a reminder that the “Writing Wikidata queries” workshop is coming up! It will take place this Sunday, June 21st at 9 am IST on the Zoom platform: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/99498586419

More details of the workshop are here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWT_Indic_Workshop_Series_2020/Workshops#Writing_Wikidata_queries

Talk Minutes - Ed - The Text Editor - June 16, 2020

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 19:22:41 +0530

Following are the important points discussed today about ’ed’

history about ed
how to invoke ed
why ’ed’ is a line editor
details about command mode
details about input mode
line numbers in ed
how to add content to ’ed’ current buffer
how to display whole buffer
print specific line or lines using line addresses
deleting and changing lines
saving current buffer to filesystem
opening files in ed
using regular expression instead of line address in ed
forward searching
reverse searching
global searching
intro to Basic Regular Expressions (BRE)

Links shared in the talk

’ed’ FreeBSD Man Page
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/regex.7.html
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ed.1p.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/
https://xkcd.com/378/

Session Replay

Talk: Ed - The Text Editor - June 16, 2020 - 16:00 IST - (through https://meet.ilugc.in)

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:40:09 +0530

As this talk was postponed due to lack of time in the last ILUGC monthly meet. ILUGC will be conducting this talk again.

Topic: Ed - The Text Editor
Description: One of the legendary text editors which is still available in every Unix like Operating System. In this talk we will go through how to do simple text editing with ’ed’ text editor.
Duration: 30 minutes
Speaker: Mohan R
About Speaker: Just another FOSS Enthusiast.

Steps to Join the talk:

Announcement: Emacs APAC virtual meetup, Saturday, June 27, 2020 (#emacs on Freenode and Jitsi)

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 18:46:33 +0530

Announcing call for speakers for Emacs APAC (Asia Pacific) virtual meetup on #emacs (irc.freenode.net) and Jitsi scheduled for Saturday, June 27, 2020 (1400-1500 IST).

If you would like to give a demo or talk (maximum 20 minutes) on GNU Emacs or any variant, please contact Sakthi Kannan (“mbuf”) on Freenode (reachable in #ilugc channel) with your talk details:

Topic
Description
Duration
About Yourself

The Jitsi URL for the session will be announced 30 minutes prior to the session on #emacs.

Meeting Minutes - ILUGC - June 2020 Meet (conducted on 13-06-2020)

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 18:16:24 +0530

Here is the summary of what happened at today’s ILUGC meet.

Emacs ‘org-mode’

Around 15:00 IST, shrini started his talk about how to organize tasks using emacs ‘org-mode’. His recent introduction with emacs and how he false started to learn emacs several times using spacemacs, doom etc. He talked about how he finally found the ’emacs-nox’ package and how he learned to use ’emacs -nw’ to use emacs in the terminal.

Meeting minutes February 2020

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 10:00:00 +0530

Hackerspace chennai opens soon?

Christoph Müller gave a talk on Hackerspaces. He described hackerspace as a community operated space where people come to make things, learn and meet people. He described a hackerspace in Switzerland called Ruum42. You can view projects made at Ruum42 at https://ruum42.ch/projekte . At Ruum42, people also conduct weekly Linux install fests called Linuxtreff which is open to all.

Meeting Minutes September 2018

Sun, 09 Sep 2018 12:43:00 +0530

We had a great meeting yesterday with 31 participants.

Arvind from elastic.co explored the following

The history of ELK stack
About Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats etc
How Elasticsearch works and indexes
Live Demo on ELK stack
A quiz on the concepts explored
Prizes for the winners and goodies for all.
Good Q&A Session

Thanks Arvind for the nice talk.

Here are some Pics. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ilugc/albums/72157671061150837

Monthly Meet May 12 2018

Sat, 12 May 2018 11:56:38 +0530

The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, May 12th 2018 at 1600 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: Encryption using openSSH

Speaker : Nandagopal Devaraj(nandadevaraj91@xxxxxxxxx)

Monthly Meet April 21 2018

Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:56:38 +0530

The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, April 21th 2018 at 1600 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: iproute2

Speaker: Mohan.R
Description: Linux networking swiss army knife
Duration: 30 mins
About Speaker: Just another linux user

Talk 2: Android is my distro - Termux

Speaker: Ajay K.
Description: Linux has done very well on the server, supercomputers, and now mobile, but it never got very far on the desktop. However, Android, which is built with linux, is now starting to focus on desktop use, with docks like Samsung’s DeX or laptop shells like Sentio’s Superbook. I’ll talk about some of the technical underpinnings of Android as a desktop OS, and present a live demo of the Termux app, an open source terminal and package manager for Android.
Duration: 30-45 mins, depending on questions
About Speaker: Ajay K., a software engineer in Chennai

Talk 3: Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG)

Speaker : Karthik Karunamoorthi
Description : Secure electronic communication
Duration : 30 - 45 Minutes
About Speaker : UNIX and GNU/Linux Administrator

Monthly Meet March 10 2018

Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:56:38 +0530

The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, March 10th 2018 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: L A TEX for mathematicians and all others

Speaker: S. Parthasarathy

Meeting Minutes February 2018

Sat, 10 Feb 2018 13:10:43 +0530

It was a small gathering this time.

Magesh spoke about his recent experience trying to disable typographic ligatures on Xubuntu
Gautham spoke about his experience with Lubuntu and how it consumed less resources and made it possible to use his old hardware
Magesh addressed a question from the audience (from a IIT EEE faculty, I don’t remember his name, sorry) about VirtualBox and how it’s able to provide a way to transfer operating system between different hardware configurations.
It was followed by a question/discussion from the same person about if GPU can be made available within a virtual machine. Discussion touched upon the topic of integrated and dedicated GPU and how linux has some way to go to offer seamless GPU switching/support for end users.
Then a smaller group continued casual discussions at the canteen.

Thanks Akash/friends (Jaya Engg college) for sponsoring refreshments.

Monthly Meet February 10 2018

Sat, 10 Feb 2018 11:56:38 +0530

The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, February 10th 2018 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: Disabling typographic ligatures on Xubuntu 16.04

Speaker: Magesh Dhasayyan
Description: Will briefly go over my attempts at disabling typographic ligatures on a specific font on Xubuntu 16.04
Duration: 20 mins
About Speaker: I’m Magesh Dhasayyan, a Senior Software Developer at Duta (Chennai); fairly familiar with server-side application programming, been working on it for a few years now.

Monthly Meet January 20 2018

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 11:56:38 +0530

The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, January 20th 2018 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: Hacker’s guide to Rust Programming

Speaker: Vigneshwer Dhinakaran
Description: Venture deep into the belly of the Rust programming language design and concepts to uncover the secret incantations to create safe and fast applications.
Duration: 20 mins
About Speaker: Vigneshwer from Bengaluru. An AI researcher during the day and an active Mozilla community volunteer by night.

Talk 2: An introduction to dicom -medical image standard and open source dicom viewer ginkgocadx.

Speaker: Raman.P
Duration: 20minutes
About Speaker: Raman.P, working in Railway Hospital and develop Hospital Information System

Meeting Minutes December 2017

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 13:10:43 +0530

We had our last meet of the year 2017 on december 9, 2017 at IIT Madras.

Magesh started the show with his experiences on emacs. He explored the key bindings, buffers and usage of emacs.

Explained on Emacs plugin system https://melpa.org and emacs bundles http://spacemacs.org/

Monthly Meet December 9 2017

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 11:56:38 +0530

The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, December 9th 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: A simple programming workflow in emacs

Speaker: Magesh Dhasayyan
Description: Demonstrates a simple workflow showing one of the main reasons, why I started using emacs during my early days working on *NIX
Duration: 20 mins
About Yourself: I’m a Senior Software Developer at Duta (Chennai); fairly familiar with server-side application programming, been working on it for a few years now.

Talk 2: Introduction to Aerospike

Speaker: Shakthi Kannan
Description: Aerospike is a Free and Open Source distributed, key-value, NoSQL database that is optimized for SSDs. It is very useful for high performant, low latency, scalable applications. In this talk, I will introduce you to the basic architecture of Aerospike, its installation and usage.
Duration: 1 hour
About Speaker : Shakthi Kannan is a Free Software enthusiast who blogs at shakthimaan.com .

Talk 3: Introduction to Bitcoin

Speaker: Sivakkumaran
Description: what is Bitcoin ? Bitcoin future ? How to buy ?
Duration: 45 mins
About Yourself: Sivakkumaran, A veteran Bitcoin and crypto currency consultant

Meeting Minutes November 2017

Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:10:43 +0530

VIM - Edit at the speed of thought

Sarath Srinivas gave an introduction to Vim. Vim is a powerful modal text editor based on vi. He explained the various key commands used for navigation and editing. He explained the concepts of verbs, modifiers and text objects in vim and demonstrated how they can be used to perform edits quickly.

Monthly Meet November 11 2017

Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:56:38 +0530

The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, November 11th 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: Wayland for dummies

Speaker: Mohan R
Description: Talk about Display servers, X11 and where we are now
Duration: 30 mins
About Speaker : Mohan R, just another Linux User

Talk 2: VIM - Edit at the speed of thought

Speaker: Sarath Srinivas
Description: VIM is thought to be not so user-friendly. I will try in this talk to convince you why VIM makes editing fast at the speed of thought.
Duration: 30 min
About Speaker: Sarath Srinivas , Research Scholar, Physics dept. IIT Madras. A member of IITM-LUG.

Talk 3: Introduction to HA Proxy

Speaker: Gopinath
Description : How to use and configure HA Proxy (haproxy.org), the Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
Duration : 20 min
About Speaker : Gopinath, Attended last ilugc meet for the first time. Like to share my experiences with HAProxy

Monthly Meet October 14 2017

Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:56:38 +0530

The next monthly meet is scheduled on Saturday, October 14th 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: Install/demo Tamil TTS

Speaker: T Shrinivasan
Duration: 30 min
Description: Recently, we found ways to install Tamill TTS provided by IITM donlab and SSN college of Engineering, Chennai

Here is the install script - https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-tts-install

Meeting Minutes August 2017

Sun, 13 Aug 2017 15:40:43 +0530

Introduction to Emacs Lisp

Shakthi Kannan gave a brief explanation about the Emacs Lisp using the GNU Emacs editor. He clearly explained about the basic syntax, usage and examples for Emacs Lisp.

This was a great hands-on exercises about the Emacs Lisp. Emacs has a complete build in documentation. It will be helpful for the new users.

August Monthly Meet August 12 2017

Sat, 12 Aug 2017 11:56:38 +0530

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. Please bring your laptops to try out code and do hands-on exercises.
Duration: 1 hour
About Speaker: Shakthi Kannan is a Free Software enthusiast who blogs at shakthimaan.com.

Talk 2: Building static websites using Hugo

Speaker: Srinivasan Rangarajan
Description: Hugo is an open source static website generator written in Go. This session will be a quick start tutorial on how to create a personal blog using hugo.
Duration: 15 min
About Speaker: Srini is a Solutions Architect at Mad Street Den and blogs occasionally at https://cnu.name .

Meeting Minutes July 2017

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:10:43 +0530

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.

Monthly Meet July 8 2017

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 13:10:43 +0530

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. Such task is laborious and error prone when the process has to be repeated. Yocto Project provides infrastructure and tools to achieve this with ease.
Duration: 30 - 45 minutes

Talk 2: Introduction to OpenStreetMaps

Speaker: Khaleel Jageer
Duration: 45 Min
About Speaker: Free software Activist & Mozilla Rep.

March Monthly Meet 12 March 2016

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:32:30 +0000

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.

Talk 2: Project Kalam

Speaker: Shakthi Kannan
Description: Community initiated free and open source software projects to cater to ILUG-C. I shall be giving a demo of the xetex-book-template [1], and fossconf.in discussions.
Duration: 20 minutes
About Speaker: Shakthi Kannan is a Free Software enthusiast who blogs at shakthimaan.com.

Talk 3: Html Parsing in Golang

Speaker: Udaya Kumar
Description: Parsing html file in GO by regex & dom.
Duration: 30mins
About Speaker: Sw Engineer.

Talk 4: MonetDB and column based databases

Speaker: Sahasranaman M S
Description
- difference from Row-oriented databases
- why we need them, when to use them
- working/performance of MonetDB
Duration - 30 minutes
About Speaker - I am a programmer.

February Monthly Meet 13 Feb 2016

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 08:03:48 +0000

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

Free Tools Available

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:12:48 +0000

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

Monthly Meet January 10 2015

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:14:36 +0000

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.

Monthly Meet November 8 2014

Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:21:35 +0000

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