*Minutes of February GLUG-Meet @ HBCSE*
The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held its February GLUG meet on 19th February 2006 at HBCSE, Mankhurd. Meet was attended by about 25 people coming from all over the city. This meet consisted more of technical sessions with handson demonstrations.
Following talks were held.
* Backup and restoring
We started with a talk about backup and restore of data. We saw the demonstration on how one can use the utilities like tar/cp/rsync to create incremental/differential backups.
* Professional Certifications - By Mr. Shankar Iyer (RedHat)
Shankar talked about the value of professional certifications in today's scenario, and the various certifications available from RedHat for upcoming professionals.
--- tea break :-)
* LaTeX document preparation system - By Ms. Meena (HBCSE)
Meena talked about the oldest and best document preparations system availabe, LaTeX. Starting with few simple examples demonstrating the basic text formatting capabilities of LaTeX, we moved on to see how good LaTeX is at rendering mathematical equations, creating books, thesis, letters etc.
LaTeX sources of examples covered in the talk are available here: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/lug-meetings/Feb-2006/latex-examples.tar.gz
---- *Details of next GLUG meet*
Date: To be decided -> Agenda : Talk on Qt/KDE development -> Location: To be decided
* Pictures: Pictures taken in this meet have been posted on ILUG-BOM picture gallery ``http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/pics/''.
Anurag