Development -  Powered by Linux

Objective:

• To educate, propagate and increase awareness on Linux as a potential platform for software development
  
• To indicate the ease of using Linux as a cross platform base on which development work can be done

Target Audience:

• Software professionals, Managers (!), Tech leads, students..... general public

Demo Lineup:

• Emacs / Gvim
• MICO / Orbit / Omniorb
• KDevelop
• Glade / GTK / QT
• Perl
• Visual Age for Java
• Jessie (the debugger, not the person!)
• Porting - DJGPP / ncurses / allegro

Total no. of machines:

• 2 machines 

Hardware Config:

• High end -Athlon, 128MB large 17" monitor no multimedia / fancy frills required
• Low end PII, 32MB+, No multimedia / fancy frills

Network Config:

• The bandwidth requirements are on the low side

Floor space required:

• 18 (3x6) Square feet for machines
• Ample standing place for visitors

Power Requirements:

• At least 1KV power source
• 2 power-strips
• UPS? Do we need them?

Handout material for interested visitors:

• Documentation reqd for all items exhibited or demo ed.
• Details should include:

  - Hardware specs of the machines

  - Applications software used

  - What distro is being used (incld. kernel details)

  - Config steps (Basically a quick start guide)

Poster designs:

• Oops. And that is not Object Oriented..... Needs work. 

Volunteer Status:

1. Madhu M Kurup (Group co-ordinator)
2. Sharat Chandra - Glade / GTK
3. Sibin - Dev-Cpp, Cygwin
4. Sushant              - OpenGl, Pascal
5. Mithun              - C/C++, IDE
6. Cheedu              - Generic
   

Contributions: