*Minutes of November GLUG-Meet @ Netcore*

The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held its November GLUG meet at Netcore Solutions premises at lower parel on 21st Novmber 2004. This meet was attended by about 20 people coming from all over the city (mostly western) Following discussions and talks were conducted.

-> Community Building Software - by Veer Bothra Veer talked about the relevence and importance of community building software in todays context. From the era when internet became accessible to the common person, to today's world there has been a lot of change in how people have tried to made communities on the net. From Yahoo! Geocities in those days to Blogs and Ryze of today, the central aim has been same. "To empower the common man with the power to express freely" (and create content for the respective sites unknowingly!). Veer talked about the in and out of community building software and their importance.

[Tea break]

-> Semantic Web - by Nagarjuna Nagarjuna talked about his vision of the semantic web computing model. He gave update about Gnowledge project aimed to create a new framework of semantic computing.

-> Presentation slides are available at: http://emergic.org/ctxbin/wiki.pl Pictures of this meet are available with (hacker turned photographer) Karunakar.

*Details of next GLUG Meet* Date: 19 December 2004 Agenda: For December meet we have decided to take up some technical topics. -> Python - by Steve -> Mono - by Amish Venue: -> To be decided after a poll

Please see homepage for updates on next GLUG meet

-Anurag

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