== Date & Time

28 Jan
3:00pm to 5:00pm

=== Venue

Zilogic Systems,
Fourth Main Road,
Kamaraj Nagar,
Thiruvanmiyur,
Chennai

Location map: http://www.zilogic.com/contact.html

Agenda
–

1. Lightning Talks – 30 min.

- lxml – Processing XML with Python – Vijay Kumar
- AlphaBubbles – Siva Chandran
If you would like to give a lightning talk, just come prepared,
we will be able to accommodate you.

2. PyCon 2011 Video: API Design anti-patterns
by Alex Martelli – 45 min.

Designing interfaces so that other code can interact with ours
(whether our code is a library, framework, application,
website…) is a very common and clearly crucial activity, but
fraught with dangers — stuff we all keep doing wrong time after
time. This talks shows some common cases of API design errors
encountered in the wild, with tips on how to avoid them when you
design your next API.

entry free.
all are welcome.

Please give your ideas for the development.

http://www.spritle.com/community/ideas_for_opensource_mobileapps.html

as RMS is visiting Chennai, we feel that organizers should be clear on the free software concepts, difference between free software and open source etc.

there is a training session on these for volunteers and organizers for the event.

date – January 26 , 2012
time – 10.00 – 1.00
place – computer science block, room 32. iit madras, Chennai

all are welcome.

it Will be a memorable event in our life to be a part of organizing team on such great event.

see you tomorrow.

Time : Sat January 21, 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: Online Event Registration & Ticketing System

Description:

Allsymposium.com is a Free online event & management portal where Students & Academicians benefit by Creating, Configuring (with themes, background etc) ,Sharing with Social networking  sites, Online ticketing & Managing user registrations via My Dashboard their events like Seminars, Symposiums,Culturals,Workshops,Conference etc. You can have a look at
http://www.allsymposium.com

Speaker Profile: Senthil kumar [ sekumar123 AT gmail.com ]

Before moving in to Open Source Applications & technologies, he has worked in Several Industries and on various Proprietary Enterprise Applications for over a decade. Have Implemented large Scale projects across the Globe on various technologies. He is passionate about sharing his wealth of knowledge & experience through various Seminars & Workshops.  Allsymposium.com
is developed after understanding the difficulties faced by Students & Academicians in organizing and conducting events.

*Duration: *30-45 Min (A demo on the features of Allsymposium.com is included)

2.

Topic:  Introduction to Regular Expressions

In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means for “matching” (specifying and recognizing) strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Abbreviations for “regular expression” include “regex” and “regexp”. The concept of regular expressions was first popularized by utilities provided by Unix distributions, in particular the editor ed and the filter grep.[citation needed] A regular expression is written in a formal language that can be interpreted by a regular expression processor, which is a program that either serves as a parser generator or examines text and identifies parts that match the provided specification. Historically, the concept of regular expressions is associated with Kleene’s formalism of regular sets, introduced in the 1950s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

Speaker : R Hariram Aatreya [ rhariram AT gmail.com ]

Hariram Aatreya is a computer engineer and Vedic scholar.

3.

Topics : Introducing Wikimedia India Chapter

Description:

The Wikimedia India Chapter (Registered Name: Wikimedia Chapter) is an independent and not-for-profit organization that supports, promotes and educate the general Indian public about the availability and use of free and open educational content, which includes the ability to access, develop and contribute to encyclopaedias, dictionaries, books, images, etc. It is an autonomous entity that does not have any editorial control over content on Wikipedia and its related projects. The Chapter does not have access to the servers hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation in the USA.

Wikimedia Chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote Wikimedia projects within a country. Chapters are formed by people from within the community and enable volunteers to take their work beyond what they can do individually, besides providing the benefit of a formal organisational set-up. While independent, chapters are recognised by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wikimedia India was formally approved by the Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation after the recommendation of the Chapters Committee in June 2010 and India became the 29th country to host a Wikimedia Chapter. The Wikimedia Chapter was formally registered as a Non-profit Society vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District on 03 Jan 2011.

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page

Duration: 30 Mins

Speaker : Surya Prakash [ suryasalem2010 AT gmail DOT com ]

About Speaker :

Surya Prakash, is a second year, Mechanical Engineering student at Anna University.
He contributes to Tamil wikipedia and wikimedia community.

http://tawp.in/r/1nmq

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

If your college do not have a GLUG and you would like to be part of
the organizing team for RMS visit, please contact us. All Free
Software enthusiasts who are interested in this may please mail or
call us.

Time: 10-00 am – 12.00 am

Contact:
shanu@fsftn.org 9884792347
alagunambiwelkin@fsftn.org 9962240050

Please forward this to all Free Software and public mailing lists you know of.

As founder of the GNU project and the FSF and also as one of the pioneers of the idea of ‘Copyleft‘ , he has contributed majorly to revolutionising the field of software by imagining and creating an alternative to the world of proprietary software and technology. Mr. Stallman’s visit to Chennai, after a considerable gap, will be an excellent occasion for the academicians, students and professionals of the city to gain inspiration and advice from a legendary figure and also interact with fellow enthusiasts, all of which, we are sure, will be a life-changing experience for many.

The Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu, has been constantly striving to spread awareness of the importance and advantages of free software in various fields such as education, public policy and health care. Our activities include workshops, community computing centres and partnerships with institutions in the use and promotion of free software. It is in this context that we are honoured to host such a famous figure.

This would be an ideal opportunity to like-minded groups, organizations, technical groups, users groups, and its members in and around Chennai to join hands and utilize this opportunity to spread the knowledge on Free Software to as many people as we can. If you as an individual feel you can help us in any possible means, we would be happy to have you with us.

If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring this event, we have a variety of sponsorship options that you can consider. Do contact us off-list to know more details.

More details will be announced soon.Please stay tuned to our mailing-list [ http://ilugc.in ] or this blog.

For any information or queries please feel free to call us at, Shanu: 9884792347, Prasanth: 9176661086, Welkin: 9962240050.

PPT:
http://www.usedisk.com/downloads/277_Advanced_Shell_Scripting_ppt_2012_01_19

About the Instructor:

Instructor has 10 years experience in Linux. He has written many real time
automation scripts and tools which is running on many production servers
around the world.

Interested people please contact “Madeeswer V” <madhiv@gmail.com> The entry will be based on first come
first serve.

Location:Chennai
Venue: Spiro Technologies,T.Nagar.

Cost: 4499 /-

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year 2012 !!!

Wikimedians in Bangalore cordially invites you to attend the Wikipedia 11th anniversary celebrations in Bangalore !

15th January 2012 is the 11th Anniversary of Wikipedia !

The Wikimedia India Chapter turned one year on 3rd Jan 2012 !

Join us to celebrate the Wikipedia anniversary at the 41st Wiki-meetup in Bangalore.

And Cake – cutting too !

Date : Sunday, 15-January-2012 Time: 4:00 PM IST

Venue : The Centre for Internet and Society, No. 194, , 2nd ‘C’ Cross, 4th Main Domlur 2nd Stage , Opposite to Domlur Club, Bangalore 560 071 Karnataka

Agenda :
Introductions.
Welcoming , and About Wikipedia 11 and other Wikipedia Projects
15 Minute Google hangout with all cities that are doing parallel events at the same time 4:30 PM
Wikimedia India Chapter – 1 year
Launch of Wikimedia Portals -
Cake Cutting
More details : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore41
https://www.facebook.com/events/327765823923926/ ( Facebook invite)

7 other Indian cities are also celebrating …. Are you attending? http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Eleven

Regards
Tinu Cherian

( P.S. Feel Free to forward this to your friends, colleagues and other possibly interested mailing lists)

There’s a Wikipedia Hackathon being planned in Chennai on March 17th, 2012. It’s a ‘Wikipedia’/WikiProjects hackathon, rather than a MediaWiki hackathon – hacks of various types utilizing the Wikipedia API/Data are what we are looking at.

You can find more details here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012

Suggestions for hacks that the community would find useful are

welcome. Registrations are open, so please do sign up if you are
interested!

Note: This is *not* an official WMF sponsored workshop, just something
the a few of us are putting up (me, Srikanth Lakshmanan and the

members of the Chennai Geeks community).