Firefox 2.0 Hackathon

First of its kind for the members and Open Source enthusiasts.

TWINCLING Society is organizing 'Firefox 2.0 Hackathon' session on Sat, 20th January, 2007.

The current plan is as follows -

Pre Session (1.5 hours)
1. Firefox technology quick fire tutorials (XUL, RDF, JavaScript)
2. Firefox architecture, Source code layout, How to build

In Session (4 hours)
1. Problem statement discussion (TWINCLING Toolbar)
2. Hacking

Post Session (30 min)
1. Review of the product development by the audience
2. Sharing experience while hacking.

We will setup a Wireless Wifi 802.11 a/b/g router (DHCP enabled) and a build server.

There will be enough power ports for you to plug-in your laptop and start hacking !

Refreshments and Coffee will be served during the course of the event!

The setup and conf room can accomodate upto 50 participants. See you then !

The venue is as always at 5th Floor, Conference Room, CommVault, Ashoka Janardhan Chambers, Opposite Shopper's Stop, S. P. Road, Begumpet, Hyderabad 500 033.

Mark your calendar for 4pm on 20th, January, 2007 !

LFY and CSI Magazines at Linux Top20

For the benefits of the members of TWINCLING Society member, the Society will be displaying recent and current issues of Linux For You (LFY) magazine and Computer Society of India (CSI) Communications magazine.

Members are requested to take a look at the magazines and share with members any interesting article they appreciate.

The Society is also making available KNOPPIX, UBUNTU, XUBUNTU CD's at the venue.

Thank you once again for the tremendous response and look forward to see you at Linux Top20.

Linux Top20

Dear Friends,

We are bringing out an exciting event for all the Open Source enthusiasts on Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 5pm. Here is presenting Linux Top20.

A panel of five experts to provide you the very best of information on Linux and Applications on Linux.

Here is mix of speakers domain expertise -
- A storage & device driver specialist
- A scripting & process automation expert
- A build, integration and packaging wizard
- A network engineer
- A Desktop, Multimedia apps magician

Take a look at the topics that are going to keep you engrossed for the 3 hours.

1. Multi boot configuration, grub, lilo

2. Storage disk - IDE, ATA, SCSI, SATA, PATA

3. USB Storage Devices - usb devices, mounting camera

4. Processes, top, ps, services, run levels and rc scripts, xinetd

5. Package management with rpm, versioning, keys,
package compilation, dependency resolution, rpm commands

6. Display and resolution, X11, xorg.conf

7. firewall setup, VPN Client setup

8. PPP, broadband connectivity, internet, proxies

9. Desktop Environment configuration (GNOME, KDE)

10. Multimedia, subsystems and products

11. Play mp3, mpeg, watch video CD and DVD, codecs

12. Watch TV on Linux

13. Access Windows partition and SAMBA share

14. CD/DVD writing,burn Video CD and DVD

15. Access mails, fetchmail, POP3, IMAP, RSS feeds

16. Office applications (Open Office, KOffice etc.)

17. Browser plugins, shockwave, jre, mplayer plugins

18. OpenGL, nVidia, ATI Radeon, AGP

19. Gaming, Doom with awad file

20. Accessing Linux from Windows, running linux on windows

There is more to come !

So spread the news around, tell it to your friends and colleagues !

Join in on Saturday, 9th December at 5pm at Ashok Janardhan Chambers, 5th Floor Conference Room, CommVault Systems.

Mark your calendar today !

A unique theme every month

We are bringing out a new feature for all the members ie. a THEME

A "theme" is a subject matter of a conversation or discussion.

There will be unique theme every month that will reflect on -
* the mailing list
* the TSM talk
* the articles submitted for publication

This will help us focus on an domain and help create awareness and if explored well, even help develop reasonable expertise.

The theme for the month of December 2006 is - DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS !

You will be able to read, write and participate in discussions (on lists and saturday meets) specific to -
* GNOME
* KDE
* XFCE
* Desktop configuration
* Desktop hacks
* Desktop upgrades and migration
etc.

Please feel free to share this exciting news with your colleagues and friends.

regards
TWINCLING Society News & Editorial Team (TSNET)