dear diwakar
great to know about the event.
in fact it seems that in a meeting of students with director sir and dean of students, dr. lalit, students had shown interest in knowing about free source softwares. all the heads were informed about that few days back. so there is scope of spreading the culture of free softwares.
all the best for future events.
anoop
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:55 PM, diwakar jha
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Hi All,
Yesterday we celebrated software freedom day(SFD) in our college. Me,varun and ashwini organised it.
We didn't expected many people since it being a holiday and also people were off to their home just after periodical. even we put the notice just one day before as everyone was busy in periodical.
The event consisted of
1 Introduction to glug-nith and campus ambassador program sarted by SunMicrosystem in our college.
2 A detailed step by step installation of
fedora 9 and opensolaris build 79.
3 distibution of opensolaris dvd to everyone.
We started at 4:30 in the evening with some 25 people, mostly new faces from ist year. We started the session with the introduction to glug-nith and the ideology behind it, the opensouce concept and its learn and share philosophy!
We had plans of warping up everything within one hour, but people kept pouring in and within half an hour some 55 people were their in the seminar hall! infact three of us had to stand thoroughout the session as their was
no chair left.
Student were quite interested and they did come up with lots of basic but interesting question!
Varun and Ashwini covered the the installation of fedora and i did the opensolaris part!
After that Ashwini covered the benefit of linux or rather open source over propitery OS.
We have also told them to join our mailing list
In the end we distributed the dvd of opensolaris . It all took more than 2 hours but needless to say it was really great and much more than what we expected.
Regards
Diwakar.
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