Learn python with us – Schedule

Date	Time	Link
October 15, 2022	17:00 IST	https://meet.jit.si/learnpythonwithus
October 16, 2022	10:00 IST	https://meet.jit.si/learnpythonwithus
October 22, 2022	10:00 IST	https://meet.jit.si/learnpythonwithus
October 22, 2022	17:00 IST	https://meet.jit.si/learnpythonwithus
October 30, 2022	11:00 IST	https://meet.jit.si/learnpythonwithus
November 05, 2022	10:00 IST	https://meet.jit.si/learnpythonwithus

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Learn Python with us – An online workshop in KanchiLUG

Hi All,

As you all know, in this year, KanchiLUG has been conducting only two events: weekly discussions and monthly meets.
But it is not limited to those events alone. In the past KanchiLUG conducted many workshops, technical stalls and install fests for linux etc.,
To start the activity back, I am planning on conducting an online Python workshop in KanchiLUG.
Below is the plan for the workshop,

Title : Learn Python with us
Frequency of workshop : Weekends ( Both saturdays and sundays)
Timing : Dynamic (Will be announced in mailing list and here on every Friday prior to the class on saturday)
Duration : Approx. 1 hr on weekends
Starting date : Oct 15
Target audience : Complete beginners (Even who don’t have prior experience of programming can attend)

Topics to be covered:

• Programming and its need
• Why specifically python?
• Input and outputs
• Data types
• Operators and variables
• How to get help and explore python?
• Methods and type casting
• Data structures – (List, tuple, set, dictionary)
• Control statements – (If else and all other types)
• Looping – (for and while)
• File handling
• Practical use cases (
  Web scraping
  Connecting to API
  Exception handling
  Automation
  Cryptography with python
  Creating a assistant with python
  …more exciting projects )

Things you will need:

• A laptop
• Internet connection

Note: This is a workshop so everyone has to practice it and learn it.

Timings of the first session will be sent out in a mail on coming Friday.
Kindly share this to everyone, who can benefit from this

Side note: If you interested in teaching some topics of this workshop, you are welcome kindly contact me

Any more queries: You can ask in KanchiLUG mailing list (or) you can also text me on telegram – https://t.me/paramesh2703

Thanks and Regards,
Parameshwar Arunachalam
stark20236@gmail.com

Monthly Meeting Schedule – October 09, 2022

Hi everyone,
KanchiLUG’s Monthly meet is scheduled as online meeting this week on Sunday, 09 October 2022 4:00 PM – 5:00PM

Meeting link : https://meet.jit.si/kanchilugmonthlymeet
(Note: This monthly meeting link is different from weekly discussion link. So kindly use the above link to join the Monthly meeting)

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

Talk Details
Talk 0:

Topic : Rofi – A modern and more customizable launcher for everything

Description : Still using the default menu coming with DE(Desktop Environment) and bored with lack of customization. Let’s take a look at Rofi, an all-in-one launcher application for everything in linux.

I have been using this for the past 2 months now. It has most customizable features and it is a fast all-in-one launcher with customer scripting feature to create menus.

Let me show you how it works and what it is capable of.

Estimated Duration : 30 -45 minutes
Speaker Name : Parameshwar Arunachalam
About speaker : A (btw) linux user : )

After Talks : Q&A, General discussion

About KanchiLUG : Kanchi Linux Users Group [ KanchiLUG ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Kanchipuram since November 2006.

Anyone can join! (Entry is free)
Everyone is welcome
Feel free to share this to your friends

Regards,
Parameshwar Arunachalam
stark20236@gmail.com

Monthly Meeting Schedule – September 2022

Hi everyone,
KanchiLUG’s Monthly meet is scheduled as online meeting this week on Sunday, 11 September 2022 4:00 PM – 5:00PM

Meeting link : https://meet.jit.si/kanchilugmonthlymeet
(Note: This monthly meeting link is different from weekly discussion link. So kindly use the above link to join the Monthly meeting)

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

Talk Details
Talk 0:
Topic : Desktop Environments and Window Managers
Description : A short intro to desktop environments and window managers. What exactly are they ?
Estimated Duration : 30 -45 minutes
Speaker Name : Parameshwar Arunachalam
About speaker : A (btw) linux user and a developer in a service based IT company.

After Talks : Q&A, General discussion

About KanchiLUG : Kanchi Linux Users Group [ KanchiLUG ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Kanchipuram since November 2006.

Anyone can join! (Entry is free)
Everyone is welcome
Feel free to share this to your friends

Regards,
Parameshwar Arunachalam
stark20236@gmail.com

Call for speakers – KanchiLUG Monthly Meet on 11th September 2022

Hi All,
Kanchi Linux Users Group, Kanchipuram [ KanchiLUG ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Kanchipuram since November 2006

KanchiLUG Monthly meet
Date : Sunday, September 11, 2022
Mode : Online meeting (Jitsi meet)
Timing : 16:00 IST

We are inviting speakers to give a talk on things they have been working on FOSS Technologies like Linux, Free/Libre/Open Source Softwares/Technologies, Open Source Programming Languages/Frameworks etc.

This is an open stage for talking about open source. You can be at any experience level (from beginners to advanced) . We are very happy to schedule your session and listen to your open source experience.

Follow the below steps to give a talk in this week’s meeting:
Step 1: If you are already a member of KanchiLUG mailing list you can skip this step1
If you are not a member of KanchiLUG mailing list then,
Go to this link : https://kanchilug.wordpress.com/join-mailing-list/
Follow the procedure mentioned in that link to join the mailing list.
(Note: You must be a member of the mailing list to send a mail to the mailing list)

Step 2: send a mail to kanchilug@freelists.org with below mentioned details
Topic:
Description:
Duration:
Your Name:
About Yourself:

You will get a confirmation mail within 24 hrs.
Note: If you haven’t received any reply mail within 24 hrs, you can remind me in my personal mail id : stark20236@gmail.com.

Entry is free!
Feel free to share this to your friends

Regards,
Parameshwar Arunachalam
stark20236@gmail.com

Weekly Discussion on 4th September 2022

Hi everyone,
This week in KanchiLUG we have scheduled an weekly discussion as online meeting on Sunday, 4th September 2022, 4:00PM – 5:00PM

Meeting link : https://meet.jit.si/kanchilugweeklydiscussion

This weekly discussion is a new initiative, started to create more friendly discussions about Linux and things happening in the FOSS world.

Weekly discussion is an open and friendly discussion where topics related to Linux/FOSS technologies will be discussed. We will meet in the online jitsi meeting and discuss new linux things everyone explored this week and we chat about linux news and topics. If you are facing any issues with linux or any FOSS applications, you can also share your issues during the discussion. Our KanchiLUG community will help to debug or suggest some good alternatives.

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

About KanchiLUG : Kanchi Linux Users Group [ KanchiLUG ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Kanchipuram since November 2006.

Anyone can join! (Entry is free)
Everyone is welcome
Feel free to share this to your friends

Regards,
Parameshwar Arunachalam
stark20236@gmail.com

Call for speakers -Tamil Open Source Software Conference 2022

Hi All,

Good morning!

Tamil Open Source Software Conference 2022 is planned to be held on September 17, 2022 as a physical meet. The finalized venue for the conference will be shared shortly.

In this conference, there will be technical stalls for speakers where they can explain and share about Open source technologies.

We are hereby inviting speakers for the technical stalls in the Tamil Open Source Software Conference 2022. Below are the few recommended topics you can present on these stalls and feel free to add technical topics of your own but make sure it comes under FOSS Technologies like Linux, Free/Libre/Open Source Softwares/Technologies, Open Source Programming Languages/Frameworks, Open Source Hardwares etc.

Few suggested topics :

– LibreOffice
– Firefox
– Games
– Gimp
– Inkscape
– 3d / blender
– Desktop environments – Gnome/KDE/…
– Free Software Philosophy
– Wikipedia
– FreeTamilEbooks
– Creative Commons License
– Docker
– Kubernetes
– Linux Network Servers
– Python
– Emacs
– Flatpak
– Programming
– Golang/Rust
– Voice Mozilla project
– Tesseract OCR
– Arduino
– Raspberry Pi

———-Note———-

Make sure you have a GNU/Linux installed laptop of your own for presenting in the technical stall and your availability on the day of conference for presenting.

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Please provide the following details in the kanchiLUG mailing list : kanchilug@freelists.org

Topic:

Your Name:

Email Id: 

Contact number: 

Weekly Discussion on 28th August

Hi everyone,
This week in KanchiLUG we have scheduled an weekly discussion as online meeting on Sunday, 28 August 2022 4:00PM – 5:00PM

Meeting link : https://meet.jit.si/kanchilugweeklydiscussion

This weekly discussion is a new initiative, started to create more friendly discussions about Linux and things happening in the FOSS world.

Weekly discussion is an open and friendly discussion where topics related to Linux/FOSS technologies will be discussed. We will meet in the online jitsi meeting and discuss new linux things everyone explored this week and we chat about linux news and topics. If you are facing any issues with linux or any FOSS applications, you can also share your issues during the discussion. Our KanchiLUG community will help to debug or suggest some good alternatives.

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

About KanchiLUG : Kanchi Linux Users Group [ KanchiLUG ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Kanchipuram since November 2006.

Anyone can join! (Entry is free)
Everyone is welcome
Feel free to share this to your friends

Regards,
Parameshwar Arunachalam
stark20236@gmail.com

Weekly Discussion on 21st August

Hi everyone,
This week in KanchiLUG we have scheduled an weekly discussion as online meeting on Sunday, 21st August 4:00 PM – 5:00PM

Meeting link : https://meet.jit.si/kanchilugweeklydiscussion
(Note: The link is new for weekly discussions. And it is different from the monthly meet link. So use above link for joining weekly discussions)

This weekly discussion is a new initiative, started to create more friendly discussions about Linux and things happening in the FOSS world.

Weekly discussion is an open and friendly discussion where topics related to Linux/FOSS technologies will be discussed. We will meet in the online jitsi meeting and discuss new linux things everyone explored this week and we chat about linux news and topics. If you are facing any issues with linux or any FOSS applications, you can also share your issues during the discussion. Our KanchiLUG community will help to debug or suggest some good alternatives.

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

About KanchiLUG : Kanchi Linux Users Group [ KanchiLUG ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Kanchipuram since November 2006.

Anyone can join! (Entry is free)
Everyone is welcome
Feel free to share this to your friends

Regards,
Parameshwar Arunachalam
stark20236@gmail.com

Monthly Meet schedule – 14th August 2022

Hi everyone,
KanchiLUG’s Monthly meet is scheduled as online meeting this week on Sunday, 14 August 2022 4:00 PM – 5:00PM

Meeting link : https://meet.jit.si/kanchilugmonthlymeet
(Note: This monthly meeting link is different from weekly discussion link. So kindly use the above link to join the Monthly meeting)

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

Talk Details
Talk 0:
Topic : String in java
Description : I want to talk about java String
Estimated Duration : 20 minutes
Speaker Name : Praveen.R
About speaker : Nothing to say about my self

Talk 1:
Topic : Multi-Threading in Java
Description : I am going to describe
-What is multi-threading,
-how to achieve multi-threading in java.

What are the challenges are there in multi-threading and
-Real time applications,
-Thread life cycle.
Estimated Duration : 30 Minutes
Speaker Name : Abirami
About speaker : I am a person who likes to contribute and learn open source software.

After Talks : Q&A, General discussion

About KanchiLUG : Kanchi Linux Users Group [ KanchiLUG ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Kanchipuram since November 2006.

Anyone can join! (Entry is free)
Everyone is welcome
Feel free to share this to your friends

Regards,
Parameshwar Arunachalam
stark20236@gmail.com