LUGM open week

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LUGM Open Week

Final dates : Monday,23st March - Monday,30th March 2009

Requirements from speakers : "
- Slides to be prepared on topic
- Slides are to shown to other people and topics added/removed (this is for everyone's benefit) ;-)
- A common rough schedule to be prepared on speaking of topics.
- Please mention the amount of time you intend to speak on your topic to get a rough idea.

Lists

Posters Designed by Sheeladitya

Events

This is based on the discussion that took place on one of the meetings and is liable to change until finalized. The speakers are also not finalized yet. Please discuss the event with the LUGM before you chage this page. Also add it to the change log.

Day 1 : An introduction to the week:

- Talk on Open Source (Sameer)
- Introduction to LUGM (Proposed: Neelav Kumar, Accepted by Neelav Kumar)
- Basic Intro. to LINUX and its different flavours. (Proposed: Manish,Accepted: Manish)
- Information on the agenda of the week ,schedule etc (Proposed: DJ , accepted by DJ)
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Day 2 - Day 3 : Install fest

Proposed Poster : InstallFest

- Distro selected : Fedora 10 Cambridge

- Day 2
--- preparation for installation :
> Basic Steps such as partitioning<Proposed: DJ, accepted by DJ>
> Distribution of Open Week User's Kit (Including Install DVD, Local Repo CD, Sticker sheet, instructions etc.)

- Day 3 --- Actual Installation and setup <Everybody>

Day 4 : Users' day

-Making the system usable for users:

--- Media support
> Codecs and media players <Present in repo.. A little talking - Ankur Sinha>
> Browsers(proposed Saahil, accepted by Saahil)
> chat clients <Ankur Sinha>
> GIMP (Proposed: Akshay,accepted by Akshay)
> Thunderbird/ Evolution (proposed Ankur, Accepted by Ankur)
> Open office <talk? Intro - Ankur Sinha>
> Torrent clients(Proposed: DJ , accepted by DJ)
> Games (Proposed: Soumen, Accepted by Soumen)
> Compiz (Proposed: Akshay,accepted by Akshay)
> Basic intro to Terminal, file permissions, navigation etc.(Proposed Ankur, Accepted Ankur)

Day 5 - 6 : Devs' day>

--- Using linux for development/programming:
> VIM & Gedit(Proposed: Ankur, Accepted by Ankur)
> GCC/gdb <Proposed: Anomit, Accepted: Anomit>
> Eclipse (Proposed: Saahil, Accepted by Saahil)
> Geany (Proposed: Tushar, Accepted by Tushar)
> Python (Anomit)
> JAVA (Proposed: Sameer,Accepted: Sameer)
> PHP (Proposed: Sameer,Accepted:Sameer)
> Some simple GUI frontends using GTK+2.0 (suggested) (Proposed: Saahil, Accepted: Saahil)
> Other text editors and IDEs like Kate, KDevelop(Neelav)

Day ??: Hackathon (under discussion)

--- Picking and hacking an open source software..

Change log

• 18 Feb 2009 Wed, Tushar Dadlani

- Accepted the proposal on geany.

• 18 Feb 2009 Wed, Ankur Sinha

- Changed vi and gedit to make them under one topic

• 16 Feb 2009 Mon, Ankur Sinha

- Added a link to the proposed poster for the openweek install fest - Added Poster Designer (Sheel's) name to the Page.

• 14 Feb 2009 , Ankur Shrivastava (OS)

- Withdrawn proposals

• 4 Feb 2009 , Ankur Sinha

- Changed dates

• 17 Dec 2008, Saahil

- Edited page, added proposals under Browsers and "Other text editors and IDEs". Accepted proposals.

• 17 Dec 2008, Ankur Shrivastava (OS)

- Edited page, made hackathon under discussion and dev days are extended to 2 days.....

• 16 Dec 2008, Ankur Sinha

- Edited page, Added/Edited Entries, Accepted proposals

• 9 DEC 2008 , Ankur Shrivastava (OS)

- Edited page, accepted the proposed topics

• 8 DEC 2008 , Manish Sinha

- Edited page, changed all the status to Proposed, plus to mark the topics finalized to be picked by speakers

• 8 DEC 2008 , Dhananjay Singh

- Edited Page , adding talks to his to-do list

• 1 NOV 2008 Sat, Ankur Sinha

- created the page