ILUGC Monthly Meet (December 11 th):- ============================== Time : Sat December 11 , 2010 (3.00 - 5.30 PM) Venue: Classroom No 6, Areo Space Engineering, Near Gajendra Circle, IIT Madras. Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero 1. Topic: Cloud Computing using FOSS Speaker: Yogesh Duration : 45 min Yogesh is one of the authors of the Book "Eucalyptus Beginners Guide Uec" He shares his experiences and experiments in implementing a Cloud Computing Infrastructure in CSS Corporation. http://www.scribd.com/doc/42134189/Book-Eucalyptus-Beginners-Guide-Uec-Edition1 http://cssoss.wordpress.com/ 2. FOSS Contributor of the Month: Project - Introduction to Silpa Silpa, Swathanthra Indian Language Processing Applications is a web platform to host the free(dom) software language processing applications easily. It is a web framework and a set of applications for processing Indian Languages in many ways. Or in other words, it is a platform for porting existing and upcoming language processing applications to the web. Silpa can also be used as a python library or as a webservice from other applications. To know more, http://silpa.smc.org.in/ http://silpa.smc.org.in/ Contributor : Santhosh Thottingal Duration : 45 hr Santhosh is contributing to Linguistic Projects like Silpa, dhvani. He explains about the Silpa Projects and his contributions. 3. Basic GUI designing using GTK+ with 'C' http://zetcode.com/tutorials/gtktutorial/ Speaker : Karthick Karthik is from CDAC, working on BOSS Linux Development. He explores the GUI Desktop application development in C Duration : 45 min 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