My Memoir

Hello all ,

FStival ‘07 is the Free Software Festival conducted by GLUGOT – GNU/Linux User group of Tce and GLUG-Madurai to celebrate Software freedom Day which is an international effort to educate people about the importance of software freedom.It was conducted this year on September 15th.

Software Freedom day celebrations started in 2004 and FStival has been conducted from 2004 in TCE. There are generally two sessions .The first would include a talk about Free software in general by a FOSS enthusiast and the next would be demo stalls on various GNU tools.

This year , Mr.Praveen Krishnamoorthi , Mr.Senthil Kumaran (from HP )and Mr Subramanian (from Spike Source) , alumi of our college graced the occasion. Praveen talked on Software Freedom and its importance , GNU/Linux in educational institutions and GNU/Linux in industries. After that there was a demo of installation of GNU/Linux(Ubuntu)These took place in KS Auditorium. Subramani showed the audience some eye candy features like Compiz fusion and looking glass.

After that we had demo stalls on various GNU tools like ,

GIMP,vi,emacs,Blender , LAMP , debuggers like GDB , valgrind , LaTex, Open Office,Bluefish, Games , Linux Day to Day , GTK+/Glade , Database tools , etc

Apart from TCEians people from other colleges , and even schools had come.The demo stalls really helped them get to know the tools … FStival ‘07 enlightened a lotta people this time and hats off to the team which made this happen !!!

 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 ………

hello all , this was the first ever meeting about sun club . I conducted it for the second and
first year students on January 31 st (Well blogging it late as usual . I booked the KS auditorium of our college and nearly 210 people came to the meeting. I spoke for one hour and fifteen minutes giving people introduction on the following,

1. Sun Microsystems- its excellence as a “technology” company
2. Cool products of Sun
Java – J2SE, J2ME, J2EE
NFS
Open Solaris – its features like ZFS,

dtrace,and

i told them what are zones
We had demo session on dtrace . Bala did that for many who wanted to see the cool new tool !

2.Netbeans
3.what is SDN
4.Open Source and Free Software
5.how to get benefitted from SAI
6.What is Open Sparc
This was just an inroductory session to what we are going to teach them through out the year.
We have planned to form a Sun Club in our college soon and
we are planning the inauguration session to be conducted as soon as
possible.
I was really stunned by the overwhelming response!!! ( I
had already went to all classes privately and i spoke to people and
canvassed them to attend the meeting and join the sun club) I did a
mistake by forgettin to take the camera with me!!!
It was a grand success and i hope i can make our sun
club very successful one!!