[Mailinglist] October 2007 Meeting Details

[Sameer Thahir]

Warm Greetings To The FOSS Community,

The Meeting for the month of September was conducted successfully. 
The were 20 people who attended the meeting, which was more than 
last time.

The meeting started of as usual with the Proposed Agenda 
"FOSS based Mobile Platforms". The presentation started of with 
talking about OS on Mobile Phones and their functions. 

It went on to talk about the changing face of Mobile Phones and 
how smart phones will change the market trends. The audience was 
bit conserved when the talk started about Smart phones and PDAs 
because of the high price.

But the speaker assured them of how cheap phones would become 
within a year, and how many of the attendees would have one of the
new gadgets.

Next the Speaker went on to talk about the ethical issues of
using propreitary OS on a mobile phones.

The second section described the advantages of a FOSS platform.

The next section dealt with the Industry approach to FOSS.The 
challenges faced by industry was discussed and how they plan to 
overcome them by using FOSS.

The discussion then switched to OpenMoko. The first truly 
"Open Mobile Platform". The important aspects of OpenMoko were 
explained.

Also a presentation by Sean Pultz, open moko founder which was 
shown at "open source in mobile conference" was shown.
 
The meeting concluded with discussions on consumer choices with 
regard to Mobile Phone OS.

Everyone agreed on the fact that sometime in the future they will 
come across the situation where a choice will have to be made 
for a MObile phone OS, just like they will have to for a PC.

Then during the usual tea break, we had the customary self introduction.
People talked about how they started using FOSS and what are their plans.
One person talked about his GIS project using Grass and another talked 
about his ideas for an embedded systems project on GNU/Linux.

Although the second session planned was a GNU/Solaris Installation,
the plan was changed, because the concerned person could not attend the 
meeting due to serious health problems.

After the tea break the second session conducted was a Python Class by
Balakrishnan Sir.

It was a continuation of the class taken at the last month's meeting.
The class started with an introduction to programming, for the non developer
audience and a summary of the previous class, then it went on to explain 
several components of the Python framework including Visual Python, tkinter, 
pyqt etc..using examples. Integrated Development Environments(IDEs) for 
application development using Python was demonstrated. The class was quite 
interesting as always.

The meeting concluded with the attendees providing their feedback.
The presentation slides of the First session "FOSS based Mobile Platforms"
is available here.

http://www.ilug-cochin.org/images/stories//foss_on_mobile.pdf

The Python presentation slides are available here
http://www.ilug-cochin.org/images/stories//pythonpresentation.pdf

Further details of the meeting and photos will be available on the website in a few days.

We thank all the attendees for coming.

And hope the next meeting is bigger and better.

Thank You

Regards
Sameer Mohamed Thahir
Co-ordinator (Indian Linux Users Group - Cochin / Kochi Chapter(ILUG-Cochin))
sameerthahir at yahoo.com

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Sameer Mohamed Thahir
(sameerthahir at yahoo.com)


Sameer Mohamed Thahir
(sameerthahir at yahoo.com)
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