Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] is spreading awareness on Free Open Source Software in Chennai since Jan 1998. We meet regularly on every month second saturday with technical talks and discussions on various Free software. Check our website http://ilugc.in for further details. Join our mailing list at http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc We have our April 2012 Meet. Check the details below. ILUGC Monthly Meet (April 14 th):- ================================= Time : Sat April 14, 2012 (3.00 – 5.30 PM) Venue: Classroom No 3, Areo Space Engineering, Near Gajendra Circle, IIT Madras. Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero 1. Topic: Dancer - perl web framework Description: dancer is simple but powerful web application framework in perl. Links: perldancer.org Duration: 20 minutes About Speaker: Raman.P [ raamanp AT yahoo.co.in ] He is working as DBA in Railways. An ardent user of linux and perl for over a decade. His blog: http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com 2. Topic : Snort - Intrusion detection system Description : Installation of snort. Simple signature creation & using snort to detect the security attacks via intrusion. Links: snort.org Duration : Max 45 to 1 hour About Speaker : Balasubramaniam Natarajan [ bala150985 AT gmail.com ] Bala is an Information Security Engineer. He creates Video tutorials in Tamil and English. You can get them here. www.etutorshop.com/moodle/ 3. Topic: Giving Back to the Community Description: Everybody who comes to know about the principles of open source, gets excited about giving back to the community. But, Many of them are not sure about how to contribute in a way that actually adds value to the project and the community. In this talk, I'll tell about how I started giving back, and how it changed my life. Duration: 30 min About Speaker: Sathish Manohar [ design.sathish AT gmail.com ] I learned web design/development all by myself because of generous people all around the world who shared their knowledge, through Internet, now I'm reciprocating the favor. I do client work for web design and development. When I'm not working, you can find me cooking or messing with friends. I create video tutorials in Tamil on various open source technologies. Find them here. http://www.youtube.com/user/sathishmanohar/videos 4. 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 -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge Kanchilug Blog : http://kanchilug.wordpress.com To subscribe/unsubscribe kanchilug mailing list : http://kanchilug.wordpress.com/join-mailing-list/