I attended this meet and kept typing in my observations to keep myself completely concentrated about what is being said. This has been sitting as a text file in my drive without purpose, so I thought it would be better taken care online.
3:50PM: Introduction by T.Shrinivasan
3.52PM: Technical talk 1: Swift by Yogesh
OpenStack - Swift - Object Storage Component
-> public cloud
-> private cloud, home server, admistration
-> VMs
-> Image Server
-> Volatile machines -> Virtual hard disk -> Block Storage -> Amazom EBS
-> Authentication Server -> User permissions
-> Object storage -> data stored in
Slide 1: Introduction
* Object Storage
* Analogous to AWS S3
* API based access only - no mount, no format, no file system - recent developements give a illusion of file system - Pyhton running over Aapache
* Major Usage - Media and Big Data Storage
Slide 2: Use Cases
* Media Storage
* Big Data Storage
* Backup and archival
* Conten Delivery
* Data distribution
Slide 3: Features
* REST based API
* versioning
* Scalable and distributed
* Redunant( Replications ) - Minimum of 3
* Streaming Support
* Cheap( community Servers )
Slide 4: Components
* Proxy Server - gateway to use the system - autheticates using authetication server
* Account Server - holds info about containers
* Container Server - hold info about object
* Object Server - holds the actual data
* Rings - Hashing of the data
* Caching Server - caching data and authetication code
Slide 5: Contribution
* Contibutor's License agreement
* Fork from Github / Pull Request
* Patches / Bug Fixes
* Python
Slide 6: Getting Help
* Mailing Lists
* Blogs & Social Media
* Documentation
* IRC
* Meetups - meetup.com
4.26PM: Wikimedia India Chapter - Bala Jeyaraman (SodaBottle)
Overview about the Wikipedia related talks
* Introduction to Bala and Surya Prakash
4.31PM: State of Tamil Wikipedia - Surya Prakash
* What is Wikipedia? - Online Refrence Wikipedia
* Contributors and what they do?
* Statistics about the Wikipedia usage
* Contibutors - Who they are? What they do?
* Edits - What are wikipedia edits?
* What do you achieve by editing wikipedia?
- Writing style and fluentcy
- Team work and co-operation
- Critical thinking and analysis
- Global Society
* Other Wikipedia Projects
- Wiki Source
- Wiki Books
- WikiPedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wiki News
- Wiki Quotes
- Wiktionary
* What wikipedia is not?
- a dictionary
- a text book
- an archive
- an advertisement board
- a chat room
- a blog
- a campign tool
- a correction tool
- a research publication
- an experimental tool
* User Contibution
- Writing a new article
- Translation from other language wikipedia articles
- Structuring the esssays
- Wikifying the content
- Referencing
- Updating the content
- Administartion work ( by Administrators )
- Introducing Wikipedia to others
- Coding by Programmers
- Adding Media
- User Opinions
- Verification of work
- Graphic Files & Sound files
* Tamil Input in Tamil Wikipedia
5.02PM: Copyright of Content contributed to Wikipedia - BalaJeyaraman answering to queries
5.21PM: State of Wikimedia India Chapter - Bala Jeyaraman
5.35PM: Interactive session
6.30PM: Exchanged pleasentaries and dispersed. Two college students tugged around me and I ended up talking non-stop 30-40mins about coding and GSoC