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From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2018-03-09 14:12 GMT+05:30
Subject: ILUGC Monthly Meet - March 10, 2018 - 3-5 pm - IITM
To: ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "Dr. Parthasarathy S" <drpartha@xxxxxxxxx>, Nithya Duraisamy
<nithyadurai87@xxxxxxxxx>
Hello all,
Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] is spreading awareness on
Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.
We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the
month of March we shall meet on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 1500
IST.
Venue: Classroom No 1,
Aerospace Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.
Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iitm-aero
Talk Details:
Talk 1 :
Title: L A TEX for mathematicians and all others
Speaker: S. Parthasarathy, drpartha@xxxxxxxxx
Synopsis : L A TEX is a very powerful and versatile typesetting system, for
high-quality publishing. It is used internationally, by a wide variety
of users.
It was originally conceived by Prof. Donald E Knuth, the greatest computer
scientist of our times. L A TEX is available for free (gratis), on
all, modern, Linux
systems.
This short lecture will present an overview of L A TEX with a special
focus on creating mathematically-rich publications.
Duration : Approx. 90 minutes.
Profile of the Lecturer : Parthasarathy is a retired teacher of discrete
mathematics, and is based in Hyderabad. He is an experienced user of L
A TEX and an aggressive promoter of FOSS. He is also a special editor
of PracTex journal, the official
journal of the TeX Users Group (TUG).
All his L A TEX related publications are available under a CC-BY-SA
license,
at : http://drpartha.org.in/publications/downloadlatx.htm.
Prof. Parthasarathy’s profile is available
at: http://drpartha.org.in/profpartha/profile.pdf
Talk 2:
Topic : How to create a sandhi checker for Tamil using python ?
Description : Sandhi is kind of conjunction for tamil words. To check
for this error is one of the tasks of a tamil spell checker. Tamil
grammar gives clear rules to check for the error.
Let us explore on how to implement tamil rules using python.
Duration : 30 min
Speaker : Nithya Duraisamy, nithyadurai87@xxxxxxxxx
Writer, Dancer, and Programmer.
Get her books at http://freetamilebooks.com/authors/nithyaduraisamy/
Links :
https://github.com/nithyadurai87/tamil-sandhi-checker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC82S7wOr3E
Talk 3:
Topic : brainstorm on building an organization for tamil computing
Description: Discussion with all on why/how to start an organization
for tamil computing. How free software can be a core value for it?
What should be activities for it? What to learn from other free
software based organizations?
Duration : 45 min
Talk 4:
Any lightling talk, questions/answer session.
Entry free. All are welcome.
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