InCochin

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.

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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

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ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(24^th Jan, 2010). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is Economic Aspects of Free Software and the technical pesentation will be .

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Introduction to Free Software, GNU Movement, Free Software Licenses, Open Source Software and there will be technical and non-technical sessions.

Agenda: We had many meetings discussing the social aspects of Free Software.
This month we will discuss its economic aspects.

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ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(22^nd Nov, 2009). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is Software Patents – A threat to mankind and the technical pesentation will be GNU Cash – A personal finance tracking program.

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Agenda: Software Patents – A threat to mankind

This month the meeting will discuss about the dangers of software patents
and how it will affect the FOSS community.

Technical Presentation: GNU Cash – A personal finance tracking program

GnuCash is a free and open source accounting software program that implements a double-entry bookkeeping system.

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ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(25^th Oct, 2009). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is Why Free Software and the technical pesentation will be PostgreSQL.

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This month’s meeting focus on people those who want to learn and use Free Software for doing their day to day activities. Free Software is getting more attention among the public and more and more people are interested in using Free Software. But what make them go back to their old setup after using Free Software for a while? Is it lack of proper technical knowledge or lack of support?

In Free Software there are lot of applications which are useful to a computer user for doing his day to day work. But most people even don’t know the name of the application. They may not know how to use/configure it. In this meeting we will introduce some of the Free Software applications.

Besides our usual discussion on Free Software, GNU, Linux etc we will have a session on PostgreSQL, an object relational database management system. This session demonstrates the installation, configuration and application
of PostgreSQL.

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ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(23^rd Aug, 2009). The meeting is from 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM. The agenda for the meeting is The Campaign for Promoting Free Software in Educational Institutions and the technical presentation will be ‘Exploring the Internals of the Operating System for normal users’ By Sameer.

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The meet starts with an introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement. Discussion on Free Software Licenses, Open Source Software.

The Campaign for Promoting Free Software in Educational Institutions

• Using Free Software
• At Higher secondary Schools for programming courses.
• For Back office and Administration work in schools and colleges
• Services offered by colleges and universities.
• Libraries.

Technical Presentation

• A brief introduction to Operating System Layers
• What are kernel and Device Drivers?
• How we see the kernel and interact with it
• Customizing the kernel to our needs
• Adding new drivers for devices.
• Optimizing the kernel for performance.

There will also be discussion on the feedback for “Community Based Curriculum” initiative from the “Syllabus Review Meeting” conducted by IT@Schools last week, in which ILUG Cochin participated.

As time permits there may be a Q&A session

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