ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(23^rd Mar, 2014). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is Openvz and the technical pesentation will be .

Details

Introduction to Free Software

We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of the Free Software Movement and related topics.

Agenda : Openvz(Proposed Workshop)

Container based Virtualisation, creating multiple secure GNU/Linux containers. Please confirm immediately and bring your laptops for software installation,before the meeting preferably before the meeting on weekdays or on saturday (with prior time confirmation towards the afternoon-evening). Any change would be notified before the meeting.

Technical Discussions

Attendees will discuss and/or present topics of interest. They will share their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical Session part of the Meeting.

Q&A Session

This would be used to answer doubts that users have concerning Free Software.

We look forward to your participation for this exciting meeting. Hope to meet you all on Sunday.

Venue

JavaScript meetup is being held at Cavatina Solutions, 2nd Floor, Mootheril building on 22^nd Mar 2014, 02:00 PM. This is a 3 hours event.

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Schedule

• 2.00 – Introduction
• 2.30 – Introduction to Web Components , by +Revath S Kumar
• 3.30 – Networking break / Tea time!
• 4.00 – Flash Talks

Venue
Cavatina Solutions,
2nd Floor, Mootheril building,
Opposite Park Central (Hotel),
Kaloor-Kadavanthara Road,
Kaloor, Cochin,
Kerala.

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6th Kerala Bird Race is being held at Cochin on 18 Nov 2012, 06:00 AM. This is a full day event.

The sixth Kerala Bird Race will be held on 18th November 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode. Kerala Birder along with The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) and Yuhina Eco-Media is organizing the HSBC Bird Race in Kerala, a signature event of the Bank, on 18th November 2012. Kerala Bird Race is a dawn to dusk event where teams of bird-watchers will spend the entire day birding in and around each city. There are no pre-determined routes – you can watch birds in multiple locations all within 100km radius of each of the site to see as many species as you can. The participants will try to record as many species of birds as possible; learn about the finer points of bird-watching from the experts & the experienced, and then later in the evening, all teams will meet at a suitable venue over dinner and an interactive tête-à-tête.

While there are strict rules, there is a fun element to this exercise, which will help stimulate enormous interest in bird-watching as a highly popular hobby. The event will give us a good idea of the nature of this region’s birdlife and helped build up support for environment and nature conservation.

Of course, there is also the team spirit and participation that comes into focus here. To ensure that the results are as infallible and in principle as correct as possible, each city has two or three special adjudicators who analyze the results and announce the winners at a special programme held in the evening. The adjudicators are either highly experienced bird-watchers or much-respected senior naturalists or conservationists.

Each Team gets an opportunity to interact with the others and recount their day’s experiences. All in all, it is a great end to a day well spent with and for the feather-folk, and for nature.

Last year, we had more than 350 bird-watchers on the field on a single day, many of them fresh into the hobby. A few of the teams came up with whooping tally of 140+ species on a single day. Birdwatchers from other states are encouraged to take it as a chance to do some great birding in Kerala. We regularly have participants from Kanyakumari district joining us at Thiruvananthapuram.

The Grand Plan

Play the race hard – try to see as many species as you can from dawn to dusk before assembling to your chosen site for the evening dinner. Play the race to enjoy and share – each of you can treat it as an opportunity to make one another person interested in birds and share the joy.

Birdwatchers across Kerala (& outside) shall participate in this event – choose a convenient city where you can assemble for the evening of Nov 18th and contact the right coordinator.

Sites could be outside the district or even state.

You are free to make your own team. Each team can be 3 or 4 members; but there should be one good birdwatcher with every team who can identify most of the species around the city. You should name your team with a bird’s name – we had several interesting names last time like “Falcons”, “Cuckoos”, “Flycatchers” etc. Also, make sure you drop in your phone numbers with the coordinators.

If you are a beginner bird-watcher and is not able to find a team, you still can contact the coordinators and they will help you out for finding you a team with a good bird-watcher in it.

This event has many nature conservation organisations from Kerala in the lead – WWF-Kerala, Kottayam Nature Society, Cochin Natural History Society, Malabar Natural History Society, Nature Education Society, Thrissur,Kottayam Nature Society, Thanal and several others. HSBC is our sponsor.

Cochin Contact:
Vishnupriyan Kartha (CNHS)
Phone: 9446437410
Email: cochinnhsATyahoo.com

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The next BarCamp Kerala(13) is at FISAT, Angamaly on 4th November. BarCamp Kerala is an ad-hoc gathering rooted in the desire to share and learn in an open and friendly environment.

For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is…

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event

Venue

BCK 13 will be held at FISAT College, Angamaly. For more details, go here

Registration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. As of yet we have 149 attendees.

Sessions

So far we have 15 sessions. If you want to handle a session at this event, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still unsure about coming to BarCamp Kerala, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

• At Barcamp 7
• BarCamp Kerala edition – 2
• BarCamp Kerala 9 (BCK 9) To Be Conducted in Amritapuri Campus
• BarCamp Kerala 8 @ Thiruvalla
• Kerala BarCamp 2 – In Cochin

HTML5 Workshop is being held at The Woods Manor, Cochin on 03 Nov 2012, 10:00 AM. This is a full day event – so it ends at 03 Nov 2012, 05:00 PM.

Bridge India is providing a great learning opportunity for developers this time with Opera – A Full Day Workshop on “HTML5 and Upcoming Web Technologies” by Shwetank Dixit

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Bridge India and Startup Village is providing a great learning opportunity for developers by organizing a full day workshop on “HTML5 and Upcoming Web Technologies” with Opera.

When? – November 3rd, 10 am – 5 pm

Where? – The Woods Manor, Cochin

Speaker – Shwetank Dixit, Web Evangelist of Opera Software in India

More details & register at www.interface-tech.in

Shwetank Dixit works as a Web Evangelist of Opera Software in India. He is co-steering Opera’s ‘Open the Web’ Site Compatibility project, which involves working with the biggest web properties in the world and ensuring compatibility and advising better coding methodologies. He is also part of the W3C Mobile Web for Social Development Group. His interviews, thoughts and articles have been published in various publications like PCQuest, The Hindu, Times of India, .Net Magazine, DevOpera, Electronics4U and DeveloperFusion, among others. He is also involved in evangelism of Open web standards, particularly in South Asia and represents Opera Software in various events, seminars and conferences.

Note:

This is not a free event. You can buy the tickets here – http://interface-tech.in/register

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We are planning the next Cochin Meetup. It will be at Kahawa Bristo, Atlantis on 5^th August, 2012(Sunday). Join us if you are interested.

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