Warm greetings to the Free Software community,
Indian Libre User Group, Cochin turned 13 years last month. As like last
year there will be a one day special annual meeting on Sunday
(26th September). The meeting will have discussions, technical
presentations and talks to give awareness to people about free software.
The following are the details of the meet:
Date: Sunday, 26th September 2010.
Time: 9 AM
Venue:
Adhyapaka Bhavan
Kaarikkaamuri Road
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Ernakulam
Sessions:
- Introduction to Free Software and related topics
- Malayalam Computing in Free Software
- Latex Typesetting tool
- GNU/Linux Installation and configuration
- Content Management Systems
- GNU Khata Accounting Software
- GNU GPL and the protection of Freedom
- Contributing to Free Software community
- How the Free Software community works
- Finding help in the free software community.
- Free Software compatible hardware
- Koha Library management tool
- Free Software Tools for professional graphic designing
- Moodle course content creation tool
Other planned activities :
Quiz Competition
GNU/Linux Installation and Troubleshooting Booth
Free Software posters exhibition
Distribution of distros
Demo Machines for trying out free software applications
Parallel discussions brainstorming sessions
Kickoff of Malayalam localization initiatives
As you all know unlike normal meetings, this is the first time in ILUG
Cochin's history that the meeting is arranged outside the regular venue.
The reason being that the group has grown over the years and we intend to
accommodate more people and provide awareness to maximum people through
this effort. Hence please take special consideration in attending the
meeting, as well to spread the message in your colleges,
organizations, companies, neighborhood etc.
Contact:
George - 9633684801
Sameer - 9995717112
Sreenadh - 9747173432
Harikrishnan - 9495927003
Sanalkumar - 9496449969
Jay Jacob - 9447111771
We look forward to your wholehearted participation for this annual meeting.
Hope to meet you all on Sunday.
About ILUG Cochin
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From August 1997 ILUG Cochin has been working for the cause of Freedom inthe field of Software by promoting Free Software.