KanchiLUG Weekly Discussion Schedule

KanchiLUG's Weekly discussion - Sep 29, 2024

Hi everyone,
This week in KanchiLUG we have scheduled an weekly discussion as online meeting on Sunday, Sep 29, 2024 17:00 - 18:00 IST

Meeting Link

Weekly discussion is an open and friendly discussion where topics related to Linux/FOSS technologies will be discussed. We will meet in the online jitsi meeting and discuss new linux things everyone explored this week and we chat about linux news and topics. If you are facing any issues with linux or any FOSS applications, you can also share your issues during the discussion. Our KanchiLUG community will help to debug or suggest some good alternatives.

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

KanchiLUG's Weekly discussion - Oct 06, 2024

Hi everyone,
This week in KanchiLUG we have scheduled an weekly discussion as online meeting on Sunday, Oct 06, 2024 17:00 - 18:00 IST

Meeting Link

Weekly discussion is an open and friendly discussion where topics related to Linux/FOSS technologies will be discussed. We will meet in the online jitsi meeting and discuss new linux things everyone explored this week and we chat about linux news and topics. If you are facing any issues with linux or any FOSS applications, you can also share your issues during the discussion. Our KanchiLUG community will help to debug or suggest some good alternatives.

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

Hi everyone,
This week in KanchiLUG we have scheduled an weekly discussion as online meeting on Sunday, Oct 20, 2024 17:00 - 18:00 IST

Meeting Link

We also have a talk scheduled

Talk Details

Talk 0:

Topic: Introduction to open-tamil python library

Duration: 30 mins

Speaker Name: Shrinivasan T

About speaker: A Linux Lover. Editor of free software magazine in Tamil Kaniyam
Ebooks Publisher at FreeTamilEbooks
Founder - Kaniyam Foundation

Weekly discussion is an open and friendly discussion where topics related to Linux/FOSS technologies will be discussed. We will meet in the online jitsi meeting and discuss new linux things everyone explored this week and we chat about linux news and topics. If you are facing any issues with linux or any FOSS applications, you can also share your issues during the discussion. Our KanchiLUG community will help to debug or suggest some good alternatives.

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

Hi everyone,
This week in KanchiLUG we have scheduled an weekly discussion as online meeting on Sunday, Oct 27, 2024 17:00 - 18:00 IST

Meeting Link

We also have a talk scheduled

Talk Details
Talk 0:
Topic: Introduction to Database & PosgreSQL
Description: In this session we will go through some basics of Databases. Why do we need a database? What are the types of Databases? How did databases evolve over time? How to choose a database? Finally we will see a quick intro about PostgreSQL.
Duration: 45 mins
Speaker Name: Sethupandian
About: My name is Sethu and I work as a practice manager for an Insurance company in Canada. Back in India, I am from Salem. Completed my engineering in Electrical & Electronics, at Kongu Engineering College(2000-2004). Started my IT career in the year 2005 and worked in companies like Ramco Systems, Verizon, TCS, Cognizant before joining my current employer. I have always got an interest towards learning things that is fascinating. And through Payilagam and Muthu sir, I came to know about Kaniyam and KanchiLUG. I am happy to be part of this great initiative. I wish and hope I can contribute whatever possible from my side.

Weekly discussion is an open and friendly discussion where topics related to Linux/FOSS technologies will be discussed. We will meet in the online jitsi meeting and discuss new linux things everyone explored this week and we chat about linux news and topics. If you are facing any issues with linux or any FOSS applications, you can also share your issues during the discussion. Our KanchiLUG community will help to debug or suggest some good alternatives.

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

KanchiLUG's Weekly discussion - Nov 03, 2024

Hi everyone,
This week in KanchiLUG we have scheduled an weekly discussion as online meeting on Sunday, Nov 03, 2024 16:00 - 17:00 IST

Meeting Link

Weekly discussion is an open and friendly discussion where topics related to Linux/FOSS technologies will be discussed. We will meet in the online jitsi meeting and discuss new linux things everyone explored this week and we chat about linux news and topics. If you are facing any issues with linux or any FOSS applications, you can also share your issues during the discussion. Our KanchiLUG community will help to debug or suggest some good alternatives.

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

Hi everyone,
This week in KanchiLUG we have scheduled an weekly discussion as online meeting on Sunday, Nov 17, 2024 17:00 - 18:00 IST

Meeting Link

We also have a talk scheduled

Talk Details

Talk 0:

Topic: IRC
Description: Internet Relay Chat
Duration: 20 mins

Speaker Name: Sugirtha Kumarasamy

About Speaker: After a long gap trying to resume my career. Student at Payilagam right now, .

Talk 1:

Topic: Postgres Installation in Linux
Description: In this session we will see how to install postgresql in Linux
Duration: 45 mins
Speaker Name: Sethupandian
About Yourself: My name is Sethu and I work as a practice manager for an Insurance company in Canada. Back in India, I am from Salem. Completed my engineering in Electrical & Electronics, at Kongu Engineering College(2000-2004). Started my IT career in the year 2005 and worked in companies like Ramco Systems, Verizon, TCS, Cognizant before joining my current employer. I have always got an interest towards learning things that is fascinating. And through Payilagam and Muthu sir, I came to know about Kaniyam and KanchiLUG. I am happy to be part of this great initiative. I wish and hope I can contribute whatever possible from my side.

Weekly discussion is an open and friendly discussion where topics related to Linux/FOSS technologies will be discussed. We will meet in the online jitsi meeting and discuss new linux things everyone explored this week and we chat about linux news and topics. If you are facing any issues with linux or any FOSS applications, you can also share your issues during the discussion. Our KanchiLUG community will help to debug or suggest some good alternatives.

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

KanchiLUG Weekly Discussion - Nov 24, 2024

Hi everyone,
This week in KanchiLUG we have scheduled an weekly discussion as online meeting on Sunday, Nov 24, 2024 17:00 - 18:00 IST

Meeting link

We also hava talk scheduled as well

Talk Details:

Talk 0:

Topic: Technical Writing
Description: Technical Writing and Creative Writing
Duration: 20 mins

Speaker Name: Sugirtha Kumarasamy

About Speaker: After a long gap trying to resume my career. Student at Payilagam right now, .

Weekly discussion is an open and friendly discussion where topics related to Linux/FOSS technologies will be discussed. We will meet in the online jitsi meeting and discuss new linux things everyone explored this week and we chat about linux news and topics. If you are facing any issues with linux or any FOSS applications, you can also share your issues during the discussion. Our KanchiLUG community will help to debug or suggest some good alternatives.

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

About KanchiLUG : Kanchi Linux Users Group [ KanchiLUG ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Kanchipuram since November 2006.

Anyone can join! (Entry is free)
Everyone is welcome
Feel free to share this to your friends

Hi everyone,
This week in KanchiLUG we have scheduled an weekly discussion as online meeting on Sunday, Dec 01, 2024 17:00 - 18:00 IST

Meeting link

We also hava talk scheduled as well

Talk Details:
Talk 0:
Topic: Caddy - Web server
Description: Caddy is an open source web server written in Go
Duration: 30 mins
Speaker Name: Thanga ayyanar aka Gold Ayan
About speaker: a curious linux kiddo ; )

Talk 1:
Topic: HA Proxy
Description: HAProxy is a high-performance, open source load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) applications. Users can use HAProxy to distribute workloads and improve website and application performance. Performance improvements include minimized response times and increased throughput.
Duration: 30 mins
Speaker Name: Syed Jafer
About speaker: an open source enthusiast

Weekly discussion is an open and friendly discussion where topics related to Linux/FOSS technologies will be discussed. We will meet in the online jitsi meeting and discuss new linux things everyone explored this week and we chat about linux news and topics. If you are facing any issues with linux or any FOSS applications, you can also share your issues during the discussion. Our KanchiLUG community will help to debug or suggest some good alternatives.

Can join with any browser or JitSi android app.
All the Discussions are in Tamil.

About KanchiLUG : Kanchi Linux Users Group [ KanchiLUG ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Kanchipuram since November 2006.

Anyone can join! (Entry is free)
Everyone is welcome
Feel free to share this to your friends

Minutes of Meeting | Dec 1st 2024

Minutes of Meeting

Meeting Details

Date: Dec 1st 2024
Time: 5PM TO 8PM
Location/Platform: Online - https://meet.jit.si/KanchiLugWeeklyDiscussion
Organizer: Parameshwar

Agenda
1. Caddy, Speaker - Thanga Ayyanar
2. HAProxy, Speaker - Syed Jafer
3. cURLFTPfs, Speaker - Hariharan
3. General Discussions

Discussion Summary

1. Caddy
	Speaker: Thanga Ayyanar
	Live Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4ALZiz95c
	Docs: https://caddyserver.com/docs/, https://cloudnetworks.io/2021-08-23-understanding-proxies-1/
	
2. HAProxy
	Speaker: Syed Jafer
	Live Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfHDLoqbg4Q
	Docs: https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-configuration-tutorials/
	Resources: https://github.com/syedjaferk/HAProxy_Session, https://parottasalna.com
	
3. cURLFTPfs
	Speaker: Hariharan
	Live Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ujxke3PG4
	Docs: https://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/, https://github.com/JackSlateur/curlftpfs
	Resources: https://programmerlife1.wordpress.com/2024/12/01/curlftpfs-%e0%ae%92%e0%ae%b0%e0%af%81-%e0%ae%aa%e0%ae%be%e0%ae%b0%e0%af%8d%e0%ae%b5%e0%af%88/
	
4. Discussion happend on opensource filesystems. [Thanga Ayyanar, Hari]
	a. https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
	b. https://rclone.org/
	
5. Noise Suppression Tool
	a. https://github.com/IniasP/rnnoise-cli?tab=readme-ov-file
	
6. Local SSL [Thanga Ayyanar, Syed Jafer]
	a. https://github.com/cheeselemon/ophiuchi-desktop
	b. caddy
	
7. Discussion on Hosting Services [Shakil, Vijay, Hari]
	a. https://www.1freehosting.com/
	b. https://www.netcup.com/en
	c. https://www.ionos.com/
	d. https://www.digitalocean.com/
	e. https://www.scaleway.com/en/dedibox-vps/
	f. https://orangevps.com/
	g. https://www.infinityfree.com/
	
8. Awesome Self Hosted [Thanga Ayyanar]
	a. https://awesome-selfhosted.net/platforms/php.html

9. Discussion happened on parser used by hariharan for tamil dates. [Syed Jafer, Hariharan]
	a. Open Source tool by ZOHO for dates parsing - https://github.com/zoho/hawking

10. Discussion on Social Meet and Map-A-Thon [Syed Jafer, Thanga Ayyanar, Hariharan]
	a. We discussed on social meet for DEC 8th Sunday. Yet to decide on place and timing. 
	b. Planned to do a initial test for Map-A-Thon in kanchilug. 
	c. https://forums.tamillinuxcommunity.org/t/map-a-thon-kanchilug/2689
	d. Thanga Ayyanar, shared details from kerala map team. They have worked on https://github.com/Jungle-Bus/unroll. Seems they have implemented routing of public transport.
	e. Hariharan, shared details on his project with leaflet.js.
	f. OSM map download for asia https://download.geofabrik.de/asia.html
	g. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/info.zverev.ilya.every_door/

11. Guhan shared an interesting project on QR based attendance system, https://github.com/prathameshparit/QRCode-Attendence-System/tree/main/Ikshana-main

Next Meeting

Date: DEC 8th 2024
Time: Not Yet decided
Location/Platform: Possibly social meet. 

Announcements
Parameshwar announced that he will be relieving from the co-ordinator duties of KanchiLUG from today.