--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ILUG-Goa's GNU/Linux links: From Goa, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ILUG-Goa http://www.ilug-goa.org http://www.ilug-margao.org

Mailing-list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa

To subscribe, send a blank email to ilug-goa-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Teach-Yourself-Linux To join: teach-yourself-linux-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

List of software available in Goa http://sofall.vze.com (Ajay Cuncoliencar's site)

For CDs in Goa: Clinton Vaz <klintvaz at gmx.net> Ph 2736828 or 9822123535

Possible speakers from ILUG-Goa:

Tech: Gurunandan Bhat (2461520, 2453199), Arvind Yadav (2415460/61), Arvind Clement (2700891 or 9422018922), Dr Anil Seth (2741872), Prof George Easaw of GEC (2319185), etc. For an entire list of possible speakers and other GNU/Linux contacts, ask FN (fred at bytesforall.org).

For links across India

http://www.linux-india.org Linux India network Check out the three mailing lists on this site (LIG-Linux India General for news, LIH-Linux India Help for tech help discussions, and LIP-Linux India Programming)

Free Software Foundation-India http://gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends The mailing list, fsf-friends, is as above.

Project Resource Centre Get ideas on what could be a good GNU/Linux project http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc

Coverage of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in the tech press: Linux For You, monthly, Rs 50 with CD DeveloperIQ, monthly PCQuest, Digit/Chip, etc also offer occasional coverage. Mostly available in Panjim. Enquire Varsha Bookstall: 2425832

Free Software and Open Source Free Software http://fsf.org/ Open Source http://www.opensource.org/

Some useful sites explaining various terms:

http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/frames.html The New Hacker's Dictionary

http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/glossary/index.html Salon's Free Software Project, Glossary

http://www.walthowe.com/glossary/ Walt's Internet Glossary

http://www.tucows.com/help/glos.html Tucows Glossary

http://www.fdt.net/support/q-z.html Florida Digital Turnpike Glossary of Terms Q-Z

http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/acro/index.htm The UNIX Acronym List

Some FLOSS information sites:

GNU http://gnu.org

Linux http://www.linux.org/

Linux Journal http://www.linuxjournal.com

Newsforge http://newsforge.com

Open Source Initiative http://www.opensource.org

Richard Stallman http://stallman.org

Slashdot http://slashdot.org

Most successful FLOSS projects and technologies

Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org

SuSe Linux http://www.suse.com

Red Hat Linux http://www.redhat.com

Apache (world's most popular web server) http://www.apache.org

Mozilla (wonderful web browser) http://www.mozilla.org

Openoffice.org (wordprocessing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, data charting, formula editing, file-conversion) http://www.openoffice.org

Koha (integrated library system) http://www.koha.org/

Sendmail (most widely used mail server) http://www.sendmail.org

Postfix (newer mail server) http://www.postfix.org

BIND (program for turning host names into IP addresses) http://www.isc.org/

PHP (general purpose scripting language, specially suited for Web development, and can be embedded into HTML) http:/www.php.org/

Perl (high-level programming language, favourite tool of sys admins) http://www.perl.org/

MySQL (most popular open source database in the world) http://www.mysql.com

Samba (file and printer sharing) http://www.samba.org/

Zope (application server, specializing in content management, portals and custom applications. Zope enables team to collaborate in the creation and management of dynamic web-based business applications like intranets and portals) http://www.zope.org/

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ########################################################################## # ILUG-Goa meets in Panjim (Goa) on the fourth Saturday of each month, # # from 4 to 6.30 pm, at the Computer Society of India, Goa chapter. # # Location: Third Floor, Naguesh Apts, Opposite Hotel Navtara, Market # # Area, Panjim 403001. In Margao, we meet on the second Saturday of each # # month at Adarsh Vidyalaya School. There are also meetings held at # # the Goa Engineering College, depending on timings suitable to # # students at Farmagudi. We would support the setting up of similar # # user-groups in other areas of Goa. Membership open to all. # ########################################################################## --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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