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From: Venkatesh Hariharan venkyh@gmail.com Reply-To: Venkatesh Hariharan venkyh@gmail.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in, fred@bytesforall.org Subject: GLUG meet 22nd May 2005 on Eclipse Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:05:40 +0530

The next GLUG meet will be held on 22nd May 2005 at 3PM at the DEP auditorium of the Kanwal Rekhi School of IT (KReSIT), IIT Bombay. The topic for this GLUG meet will be Eclipse, an integrated development environment that was open-sourced by IBM. Mohan Jayakar of IBM will be giving us an introduction to Eclipse. You can read more about Eclipse at www.eclipse.org.

Eclipse has gained a lot of momentum and is gaining more and more developers. A roundup of Eclipse related news can be had from this link:

http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,1738,1485700,00.asp

I am not aware of past history but this could be the first pan-Indian GLUG meet!!! This GLUG meet is being held in the Distance Education Program auditorium at KReSIT, IIT Bombay and will be broadcast to the other 11 DEP remote centers listed below:

1) Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 2) Mahatma Gandhi Mission's College of Engineering and Technology, Nanded 3) Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 4) Shri G.S. Institute of Technology and Science, Indore 5) Sinhgad Technical Education Society, Pune 6) Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur 7) Virtual Institute of Training of Goa University, Goa 8) Persistant Systems Pvt. Ltd., Pune 9) K.C.E. Society's, Mooljee Jaitha College, Jalgaon 10) Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad 11) Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute,Mumbai

GLUG members at these remote centers are also welcome to attend this GLUG meet and IIT will also be sending out invitations to its collaborators at the remote centers. As always, the program is open to everyone and there are no fees for attending this GLUG meet.

See you all on the 22nd of May, 3PM for a non-solar Eclipse!

Venky

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