Sun Club Inaugurated in TCE!!
The Sun Club(Sun forum) of our college has been inaugurated.The function took place at the K.M auditorium of our college.(not good acoustics though !! )the number of students who came for the function exceeded 300, we were quite surprised!!!
We had invited Mr. Ganesh Hiregoudar from Sun to inaugurate the club but as he was not able to come due to inevitable reasons, our Principal and HOD accepted to inaugurate the club.
The registration for the Sun Club was also done immediately at the end of function and almost all those who attended the function registered for the club activities.
This is actually a forum which will serve as the point of contact for all activities related to Sun microsystems. I would say this is an excellent initiative taken by the college The Club was inaugurated by our HOD, Dr.R.Rajaram. He spoke on the importance of FOSS based tools and softwares. Then there was a talk on computers in the past and present by the HOD of IT Dr. U.Nirai Chandran.
Then I spoke on what is Sun Club and its proposed activities. I started from various products of Sun, and then towards, the way in which the Club will function and so on.I spoke on arranging for project interns, arranging seminars, workshops and hands on sessions for the various products from SUN including Open Solaris, Java, NetBeans etc.
We had very good support from our staff-co-ordinators, Ms Subhatra and Mr.Emil Selvan. They spent a lot of time with us and helped us in organising this event.
The Club’s mailing list can be joined http://mail.tce.edu/mailman/listinfo/sunclub .
These are a few activities that have been planned.
- Certification Programmes
- Project Internships
- Workshops/Seminars/Hands-on sessions
- Lectures from Sun people
- Regular classes on great sun tech stuff including OpenSolaris, Java, Netbeans
This time i took pics 
and will be uploading them soon ………
Very cool! As an alumni of TCE and an OpenSolaris enthusiast, I am very pleased to see this. Now, would TCE students be the first students from India (or probably Asia) to do a putback to OpenSolaris.
I will be glad to see that honor to TCE. And there will be a special prize from me for the student who does the first putback. Before that, lots of steps to go through. Install opensolaris, install the source, build and boot your own kernel. And then pick up one of those bite sized bugs and finally a putback. A long way. But, what an addition to your resume – I putback code to OpenSolaris!
Joe G
February 18, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Hi Krithika,
Congratulations on being selected as the Sun ambassador at the campus. Do be sure to spread warmth and cheer around!
I’m an alumnus of TCE (MCA, ‘91). I was in the college recently (Jan 20-21) for an Alumni meet, and the Principal did mention how proud he was of various tech clubs at TCE.
I recently posted a blog entry – “Walk down memory lane at TCE” (at http://thisthoughtcounts.blogspot.com/), and would love to have your comments from a “current student” perspective.
Karthik Ramamurthy
February 20, 2007 at 8:35 am