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ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(24^th Jul, 2011). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is GNU/Hurd and the technical pesentation will be LTSP Live.

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1. Introduction to Free Software

We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of
the Free Software Movement and related topics.

1. Agenda : GNU/Hurd

We will have a discussion about the benefits of GNU/Hurd. We will also
discuss about how we can contribute to the kernel development.

1. Technical Discussions

LTSP Live

Attendees will discuss and/or present topics of interest. They will share
their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical
Session part of the Meeting.

1. Q&A Session

This would be used to answer doubts that users have concerning Free Software.

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting. Hope to
meet you all on Sunday.

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ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(24^th Apr, 2011). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM.

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1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement
2. Agenda : Community Based Free Software Support Model
3. Technical Discussions
4. Q&A Session

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ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(27^th Mar, 2011). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is and the technical pesentation will be .

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1. Introduction to Free Software and GNU Movement
2. Agenda : Community Based Free Software Support Model
3. Technical Discussions
4. Q&A Session

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ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(22^nd Aug, 2010). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is Conducting Free Software Workshops and the technical pesentation will be .

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We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of
the Free Software Movement and related topics.

Important Points for Discussion

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

Agenda(ii): Conducting Free Software Workshops.
Free Software Workshops are happening almost everywhere. We will try to
discuss on the the important aspects of organizing small to large scale
Free Software Workshops, especially the community perspective.

Technical Discussion

Attendees will discuss and/or present topics of interest. They will share
their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical Session
part of the Meeting. See previous meeting details for topics discussed
during last meeting.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

Details

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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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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