Recently, the ILUGC organised a demo day for IEEE [pronounced as I-triple-E] at the Central Lecture Theatre, IIT Madras. Brief minutes about the meet is available at:

http://www.chennailug.org/meeting/minutes/yr2004/ilugc-112004.html

My talk was on on "FSF and GNU", and the slides I used for the talk is available at: http://personal.vsnl.com/ramanraj/FSF_and_GNU.tar.gz [99K] The purpose of the talk was to briefly introduce FSF and GNU to an audience totally new to free software. I should thank Bharathi for organising the event, giving the opportunity and for choosing a nice topic to talk about :)

Though I used OO Impress for the talk, I have converted the file for use with MagicPoint, a X11 based presentation tool. The presentation file (FSF_and_GNU.mgp) is just a text file which may be easily modified or improved. MagicPoint allows presentation files to be created quickly with a text editor, building with tag directives for embedding graphics, grabbing command outputs into foils for live displays during presentations etc. After installing MagicPoint, to start the presentation give the command:

# mgp <file_name>

Official home page of MagicPoint is at: http://www.Mew.org/mgp/

Shakthi Kannan, gave a presentation on "GNU/Linux Software Applications for Engineers and Tech Support" and is available for download from http://www.geocities.com/cyborg4k/ieee1104.tar.gz [1MB] released under the Creative Commons-Attribution/Non-commercial/ Shared-Alike Version 2.0 License:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Sivasankar Chander also introduced Gnu/Linux to the audience, but I do not have the link to his slides. In all, about 30 IEEE members, 70 IIT-M Students, and few others attended the demo day workshop. __