Pune Linux Users Group Monthly meeting June 6, 2009

This is the monthly meeting of the Pune Linux Users Group. All those interested in Linux, or open source are welcome to attend. Good place to get Linux CDs, meet Linux and FOSS enthusiasts in Pune, and get your Linux issues solved.

Free and open to all. No registration required.

Detailed agenda:

# Title: XUL, OpenLayers and Solving A Real Life Problem.

# Speakers:
Kevin Gomes, BE (IT)
Vijay Patil, BE (Mech), MTech (IEOR)

Software developers working on challenging technical problems,
interesting technology and free software, for last 5 years. Currently
working at Indictranstech Technologies, Pune.

# Technical Talk Description:
This talk is about a real life technical problem and a software solution
"On Time" built using free software components, to solve the problem. On Time
is a tool for managing, planning public transportation schedule and publishing
timetable for passengers.

Part 1: Schedule Planning, Management and Publishing : Problem definition
5 Mins,
+ Schedule data distributed. Central place needed.
+ Ad hoc data. Relational database needed.
+ Unique ids for bus stops. Longitude, latitude.
+ Marathi Content.

Part 2: XUL
10 Mins,
+ Introduction to XUL. How and why are we using it.
+ Localization in XUL.
+ Controlling appearance in XUL.
+ Marathi Input: JavaScript library for transliteration.

Part 3: Map and Satellite Picture.
15 Mins,
+ Introduction to Openlayers JavaScript Library. How and why we are using it.
+ Adding placemarks.
+ Adding polygons.
+ Adding polylines.
+ Relevance of Open Street Map project.

Part 4: Unsolved/Tough Problems
10 Mins,
+ Transport: Finding actual trip time.
+ Tripfinder/Routefinder
+ GUI: Datepicker Bug in XUL for GNU/Linux.
+ GUI: Automatic updates using Internet.
+ Map: Drawing actual shape of the road.
+ Map: Printing high quality maps.
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Discussions on potentially holding official druapl code and
documentation sprint in Pune.
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And if time permits :

Presentation bye Vivek Khurana on a python based application platform
that allows you to build application by reusing existing application
components.
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We have a Marathi L10N meet after the PLUG meeting. You are all
invited to attend that meeting also. Confirmation of that meeting is
already sent.
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You can book CD/DVDs and collect them after the meeting. Apart from
the older distros, the new ones like Centos 5.3, Ubuntu 9.04, Mandriva
2009 Spring are available with us now.

We have a few DRUPALCAMP T shirts available (on first come first
served basis) for Rs. 200/- each. You can collect them at the
meeting.

We will be accepting formal membership at the meeting. CD/DVDs will be
made available at the meeting. You can send your bookings to me and/or
Dexter.