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We are planning the next Cochin Meetup. It will be at Coffee Cube, Convent Jn on 1^st August, 2010(Sunday). Join us if you are interested.

A tweetup to meet those tweeps who made your timeline live and active so far. Come and join if you’re one among us. Lets party. \m/

For the uninitiated, a tweetup is An organized or impromptu gathering of people that use Twitter. A meet up of people that ‘tweet’ using Twitter. (source)

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ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(25^th Jul, 2010). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is Free/Open Standards.

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Free/Open Standards

Important Points for Discussion

• Standards
• Free/Open Standards
• File Formats
• Free Software, Open Standards, Free/ Open File formats

Venue

ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(27^th Jun, 2010). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is Ways of Contributing to Free Software and the technical pesentation will be GNU Image Manipulation Program.

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Ways of Contributing to Free Software

Contributing to Free Software for all kinds of users – How?

• Spreading awareness about Free Software.
• Helping Others with Free Software.
• Contributing Ideas of new featues to existing Free Software Applications.
• Writing/ Translating Documentation and Manuals.
• Testing Free Software on specific Hardware.
• Reporting Bugs.

GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIMP is a free software program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Venue

We are planning the next Cochin Meetup. It will be at Coffee Cube, Convent Jn on 30^th May, 2010(Sunday) at 4 PM. Join us if you are interested.

For the uninitiated, a tweetup is An organized or impromptu gathering of people that use Twitter. A meet up of people that ‘tweet’ using Twitter. (source)

Meetup Announcement

ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(23^rd May, 2010). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is Community based Learning Centers and the technical pesentation will be Basics of Shell Scripting.

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Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement. Discussion on Free Software Licenses, Open Source Software.

We start of with our regular discussion on Free Software and related topics.

Agenda: Community based Learning Centers

• Are “Free Software Community” based learning centers need of the hour ?
• What is the self sustaining model ?
• How the Free Software Community should support ?

Technical Presentation: Basics of Shell (Bash) Scripting

Shell Scripting is the true Swiss Knife to tackle day to day problems, as well to develop custom solutions for complex tasks.

A brief overview of developing shell scripts to find solutions to our basic needs will be covered.

As time permits we will have our usual Q&A Session.

Venue

ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(25^th Apr, 2010). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is The Free Software Movemement in the next decade. and the technical pesentation will be Power of ImageMagick.

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1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement.

Discussion on Free Software Licenses, Open Source Software.

We start of with our regular discussion on Free Software and related topics. This is important for new users.

2. Agenda : The Free Software Movement in the next decade.

- Looking back at the Last 10 years, how do we the see the road ahead for one of the biggest revolution that has taken place for mankind.

- What are the new challenges and goals.

- How does the community need to look forward to the coming years.

- Changing role of User Groups.

3. Technical Presentation: Power of Imagemagick.

ImageMagick is a software suite to
- create, edit, and compose bitmap images.
- read, convert and write images in a variety of formats,
- translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images,
- adjust image colors,
- apply various special effects,
- draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.

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Venue

ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(28^th Mar, 2010). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is DRM and the technical presentation will be Introduction to Latex.

Details

We start of with our regular discussion on Free Software and related
topics. This is important for new users.

Agenda: DRM

What is DRM and its intension, the conspiracy and the threat to Freedom.

• Products with DRM.
• The fight against DRM and the campaigns organized by FSF.
• What you can do to eliminate DRM and what are the precautions we should take.

Technical Presentation: Introduction to Latex

Venue

Cochin Twestival 2010 will be held on 25 March, 2010 from 5 PM to 8 PM at Somewhere Else Cafe. Cochin Twestival is, in short, a Twitter Festival.

RSVP for Cochin Twestival

For those of you who don’t know what a Twestival is…

On Thursday 25 March 2010, people in hundreds of cities around the world will come together offline to rally around the important cause of Education by hosting local events to have fun and create awareness. Twestival(or Twitter Festival) uses social media for social good. All of the local events are organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of all ticket sales and donations go direct to projects.

Twestival Global

Venue

Twestival Cochin 2010 will be at Somewhere Else Cafe. For more details, go here

Registration

You can register for the event in the Facebook Event Page.

BarCamp Kerala 8 will be held on March 28^th, 2010 at MACFAST, Thiruvala. Finally its here to refresh the minds with technical beverages – its Barcamp time.

Hearing the word ‘barcamp’ for the first time?

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Wikipedia

Venue

BarCamp Kerala 8 will be held at MACFAST, Thiruvala. More details are available at the venue page

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. Till now we have 65 attendees.

Sessions

Till now we have 6 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions at BarCamp, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still undecided about coming to the BarCamp, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

• Barcamp Kerala 6 – my experience
• BarCamp Kerala Part 5
• BarCamp Kerala 5 @ Technopark on May 3rd
• Barcamp Kerala LiveBlog
• BarCamp Kerala on May 3

PS: Yes, this is not a Cochin event. But a lot of Cochin guys are going. That’s why I added it here.