[ILUG-Cochin.org] July 2008 Meeting Details

[madhu kannan]

I am attending Cochin ilug meet after two years and am  happy to see very
good attendance, peoples interest in gnu/linux  .But one thing i have noted
that the number of gnu /linux users other than developers is not increasing,
there was only two or three people in 32 attendees who are desktop gnu/linux
users or home users . since these type of people  (non devolopers )
constitue the majority of computer users,  We have to plan some thing to
increse the awreness and penitration of gnu in general users .
like a camp for paretnts of school students who uses it at school. many of
them  finds gnu/linux  difficult to install on thir home system . and
training for teachers (some of them propagates  its very difficult to use ).


regards ,
Madhu .


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Sameer Mohamed Thahir <
sameer.thahir at gmail.com> wrote:

> Warm Greetings To The FOSS Community,
>
> The Meeting for the month of July (27/07/2008) was conducted successfully.
> This time also we had a great turnout, with lot of people braving the
> climate to
> attend the meeting. The were "32" people from far off places who
> attended the meeting,
>
> Some brief snapshots from the meeting.
>
> Date: 27-07-2008
> Time: 2pm - 5.30pm
> Venue: Internet Club, IInd <javascript:;> Floor, AMI Trust Building,
> Broadway Enclave, Broadway, Ernakulam
> Attendance : 32
>
> The meeting started a bit late waiting for people to arrive. There was
> the customary introduction,
> after which the moderator talked about Free Software ,the GNU Movement,
> Open Source Software and
> Licenses. There was a discussion on the aspects of the Open Source
> Software. There was also a
> small introduction to the Affero GPL and LGPL. The concept of Zero
> Knowledge was also discussed.
>
> GnewSense <javascript:;> GNU/Linux Installation
>
> The discussion moved onto the agenda for the day, with the speaker
> giving an introduction to the
> Gnewsense distribution and how it was different from Ubuntu. The
> Installation session started by
> explaining the prerequisites. The speaker talked about some important
> things that need to be taken
> care before installation (eg : like checking the media etc ..). Since
> GNU/Linux distributions provide
> very easy Installation programs especially with a live cd, the
> explanations were satisfactory.
> And also considering the fact that there were only 5 people who hadnt
> installed GNU/Linux before.
>
> There were questions ranging from how a live cd works to hibernation
> requirements. Partitioning
> was one area were there were questions from many of the attendees.
>
> The Installation was wound up by 4pm.
>
> After the discussions the audience moved on to have tea and snacks.
> In fact the break was one point the meeting became alive.
> After tea the audience moved on to attend the technical presentation of
> the day.
>
> Basics of Content Management Systems by Kurian
>
> A brief introduction on the concept of the Content Management System was
> given in the beginning followed by a
> small overview on how WWW works and also how a CMS behaves on the
> internet was also discussed.
> The audience provided several inputs and the discussion was build on top
> of those ideas.
>
> Then session moved on to the Installation of Mambo. The following
> relevant sections were presented:
> - Instructions on installing the main components - Apache, PHP and MySQL
> <javascript:;> were provided.
> - Configuring Apache, creating and granting permissions for MySQL
> <javascript:;> user for Mambo etc ..
> - Mambo was installed using web interface and the site was hosted locally.
> - A small content was created then and was posted and published in the
> site.
> - Types of users in Mambo, their roles, importance of Sections,
> Categories and Menus were discussed .
>
> Audience were mainly focused on the versatile scope of a CMS. Finally
> the links for documentation and the forum that is maintained by the
> Mambo Foundation were shared.
>
> The App of the Month (Nautilus) by Sreenadh was cancelled in order to
> wind up the meeting earlier. It was basically to avoid
> inconvenience to the attendees because of the serious security situation
> in the city.
>
> Finally it was time for winding up for the day, and everyone assembled
> for the
> concluding session. Few Firefox Stickers given by Mr Mathew Chacko and some
> low quality tiny GNU Stickers were distributed, the audience were asked to
> put their feedback into the ML.
>
>
> The meeting wound up at 5.30pm with the recitation of the national anthem.
>
>
> We thank all the attendees for coming and request all to put in their
> feedback
> for the meeting on the Mailing List or my email so we can improve future
> meetings.
>
>
> Thanks to
> Sreenadh for his earnest efforts in organizing the meeting.
> (including the GNU Stickers)
> Kurian for the technical presentation.
> Madhu for the wonderful meeting photos.
> Mr Mathew Chacko for the firefox stickers.
> Raju, Sanjai, Shibin, Binny, Kurian and Venkat for the conduct of the
> meeting.
>
>
> Further details of the meeting and photos will be available on the
> website in a few days.
>
> And hope the next meeting is bigger and better :-)
>
> Attendees
>
> Praseed Pai K.J.
> Abhilash Kumar V.S.
> Amal N.S.
> Kurian Mathew Thayil
> T. Sravanakumar
> E.M.George
> Baiju V
> Nithin Nishanth
> P.C.Kabeer
> Shalvin P.D.
> Syam Kumar R
> Albin Sebastin
> Amal Dominic
> Santhosh K
> Anoop A
> Binny V.A.
> Faisal A.V.
> John K George
> Muhammed Sabir
> Rathin R
> Sanjai
> Devaraj K.P.
> Raju Ramdas
> Shibin K Reeny
> Joseph Justin
> George John K
> Sreenadh
> Madhu K.K
> Mathew Chacko
> G.Venkata Subramahmanian
> Sameer M. Thahir
> Jay Jacob
>
>
> Thank You
>
> Regards
> Sameer Mohamed Thahir
> Co-ordinator (Indian Linux Users Group - Cochin / Kochi
> Chapter(ILUG-Cochin <javascript:;>))
> sameer.thahir at gmail.com
>
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