Minutes for January 2005 GLUG meet at Netcore Solutions

The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held its January GLUG meet on 9th January 2005 at Netcore Solutions, Lower Parel. This meet was attended by about 30 people coming from all over the city. Philip, Kiran paid a surprise visit at the meet. This meet also saw us giving a farewell to Karunakar.

• Open Source Architecture - by Satish Mohan.

Satish Mohan from RedHat talked about the OpenSource architecture and the development work being carried out by RedHat in various areas. He talked about the GFS filesystem and redhat's RHN service which enables centralized management.

• Farewell to Karunakar G.

This meet also saw us giving a farewell to the stalwart of Indic Computing and Indian language localization, Indlinux.org project. Karunakar has played a tremendous role in resolving the technical issues around Indian language computing and his expertise has been sought by FLOSS localization groups in Nepal, Bhutan and other countries. Venky, Nagarjuna, Neerav shared their experiences with Karunakar and managed Karunakar to speak a few words. We will sorely miss him and wish him the best for his future plans.