[SRMLUG]:ILUGC MONTHLY MEET (DECEMBER 11) , IIT MADRAS

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ILUGC Monthly Meet (December 11 th):-
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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,
Shaswat Nimesh