The meeting started around 10.30 AM and here are the minutes of the meeting.


The GLUGOT and GLUG-Madurai meeting for the month of August was held today at Z0 Hall,Dept. of CSE,TCE.About 20 members attended the meet.

Karthik Selvakumar of Final year CSE talked on:

Gnokii- Use and setup
Editing configuration for various phones
Using SMSD with Gnokii(live demo)
Application development using Gnokii

Gautham of Final Year ECE talked on:

Alternate Window Managers
Desktop Environments vs Window Managers
Need for other window managers
Demo of various managers such as openbox,enlightenment,ratpoison,awesome,blackbox etc

Venue: CSE Conference Hall,
CSE Department,
Thiagarajar College of Engineering,
Madurai - 625015

The meeting started as per schedule at 10.30 hrs. T. Raju of Final year CSE, talked about using Email and IM clients. How to setup and use Icedove mail client with Gmail and TCEMail was demoed. Then there was a talk about Pidgin IM client and its features followed by a short demo on configuring Pidgin for GoogleTalk IM service.

Following this, S. Venkatachalam of Final Year CSE, talked and demoed LaTeX. The various topics discussed and demoed were,

1.Creating an article
2.Creating a book
3.Displaying Mathematical notations.

About 15 students attended the meeting at the end of which we registered the new members to the GLUGOT mailing list.

Introduction about CMS
An introduction about what is a Content Management System (CMS),
different types of CMS, some advantages of using Drupal.

Drupal Terminolgy
Introduction to drupal related terms such as modules, blocks, themes,
menu, nodes. Explanation about each of these with some examples.
Overall layout of a drupal website.

Themes
Both 3 column and 2 column themes and their layout. Various theme
engines like php-templates, xtemplate.

Administration
Installing a Drupal website and how to get started. Related
configuration files were discussed in detail. A comparison in
installation of Drupal between older (4.x.x) and newer (5.x, 6.x)
version.

After this talk, we had discussion about "Software Freedom Day"

1. Intro about LAMP(Linux Apache Mysql Php)
2. LAMP application.
3. Installation of Apache2,Php,Mysql-admin,Mysql-server,Mysql-client,
libapache2-mod-python,Phpmyadmin
4. Apache Configuration Demo
5. Some basic programs in php.
6. Database application in php.
7. How to use the phpmyadmin(MysqlDB GUI Management Tool.)

Nearly 50 people attended this meeting.

Jquery Selectors:

The jquery selectors are used to select parts of a HTML document in a number of interesting ways.The selectors can be used to select say elements based on ids,classes,number etc.For example to select a html element with id="foobar" we can use $("#foobar") where $ is the factory function.

Jquery Event handlers:

Jquery has loads of event handlers associated with each HTML element and gave an introduction in an abstract way.


eg: $(ul li a).click(function(){
alert(($this).val());
});


This will actually select all anchor tags within a li which is in turn inside a ul element and alert the value of the anchor.

JQuery and Ajax:

Jquery has some awesome support for asynchronous request and reply this includes methods like $get,$post methods.The $getJson method can be used to fetch a JSON file and parse it to obtain data.

Topic: Latex with Kile
Speakers: Balachandran S

Timing: 20-01-2007 10:30-11:30 hrs

Venue:

Z0 hall,
Department of Computer Science,
Thiagarajar College of Engineering,
Madurai

The meeting was handled by S.Ashok on python Network Programming. The areas covered were:

1) The basics of client-server programming, TCP, UDP, sockets.

2) The history and evolution of BSD sockets and socket programming.

3) The python wrapper of BSD sockets, introduction to basic clients and servers using both the socket module in python. Sample program to explain the basics of sockets.

4) TCP - Socket sample program to show both socket model and the file descriptor model using makefile method.

5) UDP -socket sample program to show the differences of TCP and UDP communication.

Topic: Introduction to Python Socket programming
Speakers: Ashok S

Timing: 22-12-2006 10:30-11:30 hrs

Venue:

Z0 hall,
Department of Computer Science,
Thiagarajar College of Engineering,
Madurai

The meeting was started at 10:30. The topic for this month meeting was GNU Binutils. The tools discussed in this meeting are,

1. Gas - Introduction to GNU assembler was taken. A small example with basic operations, assembler directives were taken with an example.
2. nm, objdump, strings were explained with an object file.
3. ld - Introduction to GNU linker and the usage of linker scripts were discussed.
4. gprof - How we can use GNU profiler to determine which parts of a program are taking most of the execution time was discussed with an example.