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Linux-Announce Digest #533
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Shareware: txt2pdf 6.7 (sanface@sanface.com)
GOA-ECAP: FLOSS talks in focus.... ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: sanface@sanface.com
Subject: Shareware: txt2pdf 6.7
Date: 10 Sep 2003 15:05:01 GMT
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More information with -verbose option.
Test txt2pdf 6.7!
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GOA-ECAP: FLOSS talks in focus....
Date: 11 Sep 2003 01:20:08 GMT
IN FOCUS: FLOSS talks at ECAP
VOLUNTEERS OF the India Linux Users' Group (Goa) will put up a wide range of
talks, during the ECAP in Panjim and Margao. ECAP is the Exhibition of
Computers and Allied Products, to be organised by the Computer Society
of India (CSI-Goa chapter) on Sept 13/14 in Panjim and Sept 20/21 in
Margao. This is intended to be of interest to the enterprise segment,
home-users, students, educationists and parents. In particular, there will
be a special focus during the demos, scheduled to be held on the first
floor of Hotel Mandovi, on September 13/14. More details from
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa.
Below are some of the talks to be scheduled during the ECAP:
Dr Gurunandan Bhat
Enterprise Mail and Messaging Solutions With Linux
Animesh Nerurkar
Prof Kshama Fernandes, GIM
Free Software In The World Of Finance
Topic: Kshama has been using Debian for her research in Finance. She
will talk and demo the tools used, why these tools were selected
etc.
o LaTeX -Documentation
o PERL 5 -Data and File manipulation and simulation.
o Shell Scripts - Data and File Manipulation and Wrapper Scripts.
o Jgraph -building graphs from Data.
o R -Statistical calculations
o Gnumeric -Data manipulation and Data conversion.
o Awk - for data manipulation
o R - statistical software
o Gnuplot
o Pdfscreen - for slide shows
Stata -Statistical calculations Intended
Intended audience: Any newbie or professional who has questions
about the power of GNU/Linux or wishes to witness the demo of this
simulation.
Prof George Easaw, GEC
Latex, the document preparation system in
GNU/Linux.
An introduction to Magicpoint.
Mario Alvarez, alienwiz.com
Goaing For A Holiday: A Made-In-Goa Hotel Management
Software developed with GNU/Linux tools.
Tushar Joshi, currently runs the London Linux group
www.lonix.org.uk
Linux In London: What, How and Why
Specially meant for LUG members. Others welcome too.
Dr Gurunandan Bhat
Intranets
Dr Anil Seth, Head of IT, PCC
Python, Without Venom
The talk will walk through a small, mundane utility program and in
the process demonstrate how we can exploit Python to work at a very
high level. We will assume that a person knows very little about
Python but has some background about computers. We will discuss one
concern at a time and discuss how to learn just what is needed to
solve the problem on hand. The speaker hopes to convey the
underlying simplicity of Python, the amazing power it gives us and
the philosophy of Guido van Rossum to make programming accessible to
all.
Bijon Shaha
Linux... Made Easy!
Yunus Shaikh
Embedded Linux
Arvind Clement
Computer Security: A Primer For All Computer Users
Ashley Delaney
Multimedia and GNU/Linux at home
This talk will attempt to focus on the multimedia aspects of the operating
system that home-users generally deploy. It attempts to bridge the gap
betwen commanplace Windows software and its GNU/Linux equivalents. It will
showcase examples of a true mustitasking and home usage of comman tasks on a
stable and virus free OS.
Arvind Yadav
FLOSS in the corporate world
Sanil Talaulikar
Getting It Straight: Options For A Software Developer Under GNU/Linux (with
a special focus on Sossegado, a game being built on the FLOSS platform.)
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DURING THE DEMOS, there will be special focus on the educational software
put out in the special distro 'FreEDUC'.
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You can meet ECAP volunteers at the 'Rampon', Hotel Mandovi, Panjim (Sept
13/14, whole day), or at Adarsh Vidyalaya, Margao (Sept 20/21). FN
More details from:
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