[ILUG-Cochin.org] June Meeting Details

[Sameer Mohamed Thahir]

Warm Greetings To The FOSS Community,

The Meeting for the month of June (22/06/2008) was conducted successfully.
The were "40" people who attended the meeting, which was the highest 
turnout
in several years. There were people from all walks of life who attended 
the meeting.

The venue was turned into a vibrant zone, with presentations and 
discussions in
full swing. Indeed it was really awesome to see such a wonderful gathering.
And it also shows how the concept of Swathanthra Software has spread around.
Some brief snapshots from the meeting.

Date: 22-06-2008
Time: 2pm - 5.30pm
Venue: Internet Club, IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building, Broadway Enclave, 
Broadway, Ernakulam

The meeting started at 2:15 pm, with the special programme, screening of 
the "The Big Buck Bunny"
Open Movie. The concept of the Open movie was explained and the audience 
were enlightened
of the fact that the movie was meant to promote the use of Free Software 
for Animation and Modeling.
Indeed the short movie was definitely enjoyed by the audience.

After the Peach project Movie, the First Open Movie called "Elephants 
Dream" was also
screened.

The audience were encouraged to try their hands at Blender and other 
Free Software tools.
The speaker told the audience that the Production files and the movie 
was available at the meeting.

Since the discussion room was incapable of accommodating all the 
attendees, they were split into two groups.
One group began discussions about the agenda "Localization and Free 
Software" and the other
group which mainly consisted of new users, who wanted to know more about 
Free Software,
discussed on the concept of Free Software and how they can get started.

The agenda discussion was very much interactive and the audience were 
convinced of the fact that
Malayalam computing was very important and that they really needed to 
get into contributing to
projects like Swathanthra Malayalam Computing.

After the discussions the audience moved on to have tea and snacks.

The technical presentation had a small delay in starting due to a few 
hiccups in
configuration. But the attendees were patient enough. The two presentations
on using Malayalam with Open Office and Latex were accepted well by the 
audience.

Finally it was time for winding up for the day, and everyone assembled 
for the
concluding session. Although there was supposed to be a small 
presentation on Firefox 3 it
was canceled due to lack of time ( as well as the Q&A session ).

But the speaker talked a few things about Firefox 3. Majority of the 
people from the
audience were already using Firefox and hence needed no introduction to 
the powerful
Browser.

Everyone was requested to try their hands on Blender and to contribute 
to projects like SMC.
They were also asked to contribute towards the activities of the 
group.The speaker thanked all
attendees for coming. The session was wound up by 5:35 pm

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.

The following are some people who need to be given a vote of thanks for 
making the meeting a
big success

I B Manoj, ArunKumar, Sreenadh, Venkat, Kurian, Shibin, Raju, Sanjay, 
Binny, Ajith, Mahesh,


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


Rathin R
Cyriac Thomas
Vivek R
Cijo George
Aparna V
Sathosh
Subin V Sivadas
M Jayadev
Elwin K Charly
Manu S Madhav
Mohamed Shakir P
EM George
Ajeya Anand
I B Manoj Kumar
Manhal A Basheer
Ajith C
Kurien C
Anoop A
Sanjeev C Vijayan
Mahesh Aravind
Sanjai KC
Raju Ramdas
Rajagopal V
Hari Raj K
Brahu PS
Christopher
Vijayakumar PN
KP Narayanan
Deepu Joseph
Abin Joseph Alexis
Hariraj MR
Arun  Kumar  K.C.   
Shibin  K  Reeny   
Kurian Mathew Thayyil  
Fr.Thomas  V.V.   
Sreenadh  
Binny  V.A.   
Jay Jacob  
G.Venkata Subramahmanian  
Sameer M Thahir  




Thank You

Regards
Sameer Mohamed Thahir
Co-ordinator (Indian Linux Users Group - Cochin / Kochi 
Chapter(ILUG-Cochin))
sameer.thahir at gmail.com

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