Muthu Subramanian K

Muthu has been working on openoffice/libreoffice for more than 5yrs now. He mostly works on the Calc parts. Currently he is doing independent consulting to Novell for the libreoffice team - contributing to the Calc code. His specialties include Open source software, Embedded systems, Applications & Device Driver development, Marketing, Market Research, Financial Analysis, Data Mining Analysis & Interpretation (via tools and scripts).

Tinu Cherian Abraham

Tinu is a software engineer from Bangalore.He is an administrator on en.wikipedia.org. He has over 52,000+ edits on Wikipedia making him one of the Top 100 article creators , top 300 global editors and one of top 4 wikipedia editors from India by number of edits. He is also a member of Bot Approval Group (BAG), which reviews, approves or denies requests for approval for software bots in english Wikipedia.

Srikanth Lakshmanan

Srikanth is a Software Engineer by day and pseudo geek by night.He did his B.E in Computer Science from SSN and is interested in Opensource / Opendata, Free culture movements and tries to contribute to them. His association with Wikipedia started around 2008 and has been contributing to English Wikipedia, has also started hacking around Wikipedia recently and keen on Wikipedia outreach.

Bala Jeyaraman

Bala Jeyaraman (alias Sodabottle) is a self employed financial speculator from Coimbatore. He has an engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from the College of Engineering, Guindy and a couple of MA degrees in History and English. He also writes non-fiction books in Tamil and English. He began contributing to Wikimedia projects in 2009 and is currently an administrator in the Tamil Wikipedia.

Pratul Kalia

Pratul (Lut4rp) is an active FOSS enthusiast and contributer. He worked on Drupal as a Google Summer of Code 2009 student. He blogs at pratul.in.

Yuvaraj Pandian

A student of KCG College of Technology, Chennai, coding geek, Google Summer of Code student under GNOME (worked on Cheese) and the techie behind busroutes.in - a crowd sourced site for bus routes in Chennai.

Surendran M

An alumni of NITT and chairman of GLUG-T during the 2007-08, Surendran is now working with Yahoo, Bangalore and an active contributor to the Libre Office Project. He was one of the lead organizers and speakers of Pengufest 2008. He has published an introductory 'getting-started' book/tutorial on Linux for intra-college circulation. He blogs at suren.in.

Day I (19th February 2011)

Session 1 (9:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m.)

Speaker : Pratul Kalia
Topic      : Introduction to Open Source and Contribution
Venue    : Octagon Annexe First Floor

The FOSS philosophy, introduction to contributing to Open Source, the structure of open source projects, Source Code Management (git), IRC Channels, Mailing lists, Ethics to be followed while participating in an Open Source Projects. Some famous Open Source projects like Drupal, GNOME, Chromium, etc.

Session 2 (02:00 p.m to 05:00 p.m.)

Speaker : Muthu Subramanian K and Surendran M
Topic      : Introduction and hacking into Libre Office
Venue    : Octagon Annexe First Floor

Experience in Open Source, Why contribute?, Introduction to Libre Office, Installing the development environment, Discussion

Day II (20th February 2011) 

Session 1 (9:00 a.m to 11:30 p.m.)

Speaker : Tinu Cherian Abraham, Srikanth Laxmanan, Bala Jeyaraman
Topic      : Wikipedia Tenth anniversary celebrations
Venue    : Octagon Annexe First Floor

Introduction , 10th Anniversary updates, How to Contribute to Wikipedia by Tinucherian, Introduction to Tamil Wikipedia by Bala Jeyaraman (Sodabottle), Hacking with Wikipedia by Srikanth (Logicwiki), Discussions and more.

Session 2 (01:00 p.m to 3:00 p.m.)

Speaker : Yuvaraj Pandian
Topic      : Contribution to GNOME - Getting Started
Venue    : Octagon Annexe First Floor

The GNOME project, using Git, downloading the source code, understanding the source code, bug triaging, bug fixing, submitting patches, becoming a committer. Introduction to GSoC and the way forward.

HACKATHON

Venue     : Computer Science Department Lab
Time        : 07:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. (19th February 2011)

Collaborate, Code, Contribute

Note: The details of the project you will be working on will be put up soon. Keep checking this space.

Duration       : Two Days 

Date              : 19^th and 20^th February, 2011

Organisers    : GNU/LINUX Users Group - Trichy (GLUG - T)

Fee                : Rs.200/- per student

Please bring a print out of the registration confirmation mail when coming for the workshop.

A lot of goodies await all participants. 

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+91 94867 19607

For any queries please mail to : pengufest@pragyan.org

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