ILUGC Monthly Meet (July 9 th):-
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Time : Sat July 9 , 2011 (3.00 - 5.30 PM)
Venue: Classroom No 8,
Areo Space Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.
Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero
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1.
Topic: Intro to Google App Engine with python sdk
Description :
An Introduction on how to get started and build a basic web application
with Google app engine and Python sdk .
Duration : 50 min
Speaker : Gautam [ gautham5678 AT gmail DOT com ]
About the speaker :
The speaker is a 4th Year Computer Engg student from Vels University, Chennai
with an interest in Web Application development , and FOSS development .
Links :
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/overview.html
http://www.slideshare.net/gautham56781/google-app-engine-8475296
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2.
Topic : Getting started: Android - Primer and discussion
Description :
Everything to get ourselves started in android. A bit about the Android SDK,
command line tools, etc. Very basic stuff. I'm a novice so let's learn together.
Duration : 40 min
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3.
Lightning Talk :
Topic : Bitcoin - concepts and theory
Description:
What bitcoins are, why use them, features, etc.
Links:
http://www.bitcoin.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
2 & 3 by
Speaker : Yogesh [ yogeshg1987 AT gmail DOT com ]
About Speaker :
Yogesh works for CSS Corp and is part of the open source services team.
He is involved in some open source community work and evangelism.
He co-authored the Eucalyptus beginner's guide.
http://cssoss.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/eucalyptus-beginner%E2%80%99s-guide-%E2%80%93-uec%C2%A0edition/
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4.
Topic: Introduction to Wikipedia
Description:
Wikipedia, is a is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual
encyclopedia project
supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 19 million
articles (over 3.6 million in English)
have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and
almost all of its articles
can be edited by anyone with access to the site. As of May 2011, there
were editions of Wikipedia in
281 languages. IT has become the largest and most popular general
reference work on the Internet,
ranking around seventh among all websites on Alexa and having 365
million readers.
Let us discuss about wikipedia and how to contribute to wikipedia.
Duration: 30 mins
Speaker : Surya Prakash [ suryasalem2010 AT gmail DOT com ]
About Speaker :
Surya Prakash, is a second year, Mechanical Engineering student at
Anna University.
He contributes to Tamil wikipedia and wikimedia community.
http://tawp.in/r/1nmq
5.
General group discussions on any queries, events etc.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.
Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.
All are welcome. Entry Free
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in
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