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Last Friday, Dec 3, We had a workshop on Gnu/Linux at
SRK Engineering College, Poonamalee, Chennai.

We had around 30 participants from vatious colleges and organizations.
College provided the LAB with redhat machines for the practice.

Arun Eapen, from RedHat
http://people.redhat.com/aeapen/
gave intro about the FOSS History and its growth.
Then, he moved to explained the concepts of "Visualization".

Using the "virt-manager" in the computers, he demonstrated on how to install another OS inside a host.
Participants explored the "virt-manager" and the hands on session was interesting to all of them.

I showed a demo of ubuntu desktop, multimedia, office applications, and other alternate applications.

Raman trained on the shell commands and linux file system architecture.
Then, he moved on "Perl" Training.
It was so interesting to see the participants learning perl with much interest.
Myself and Dhilip were helping them to practise.

Due to less time, I missed the handson training on Python.
Just showed a slideshow about Python.
http://www.slideshare.net/arulalan/python-an-intro

Ended with the talk on "Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai" [ http://ilugc.in ]

The feedback from the audience is delightful for all.
they want more workshops like this.
Let us plan and do more.

Thanks for Safia, Sathya Sai, Munisamy, Muthu and other college staff for the
excellent hosting, food, travel, lab arrangements and the efforts.

The interest on FOSS shown by the college management is so great.
Hoping for more sessions in the college.

Thanks for Arun Eapen, Raman and Dhilip for making this event a good start for the upcoming events.

Some snaps are here.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=44078&id=133359730009404

SKR Engineering College, Chennai is organizing a national level
workshop on GNU/Linux and other Open Source Technologies,
supported by Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai.

We invite you to participate in the workshop.

Date: December 03, 2010 Friday
Time: 9.00 am – 3.00 pm

Session 1: Open source Architecture and Cloud Computing on Open source
by Arun Eapen, Redhat

Session 2: FOSS History and concepts, Demo and Practice on Alternate
Applications

Session 3: File System Architecture, Command line, Installing
Applications, Setting up PHP and MySQL

Session 4 : Training on PHP and Perl, Demo on CMS like Joomla, Wordpress.

By Raman, Baskar and Shrinivasan, Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai

A lab with linux machines is provided for the practical sessions for
the participants.

Registration Fee : Rs 100
Can be paid in the venue.

Lunch/Tea/Snacks will be provided

Address:

SKR Engineering College,
Agarmel,
Near Nazarathpet,
Poonamalee,
Chennai – 602 130

Contact :

skr.linuxworkshop2010@gmail.com

Mr.K Tamilarasan - 9443464426

Please Inform this to your friends, to explore the possibilities of
the GNU/Linux and other free open source software.

There are lakhs of Computer Students coming out of colleges every year.
Most students buy projects or they do the same old railway
registration/library management etc.

On the other side, there are tons of open source projects waiting for contribution.
Let us encourage students to contribute to FOSS projects.

Please add here, if you need any open source project for your own need
or refer some open source project that need contribution with links.

http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_List

For any student, to do some project in the open source world, he/she
needs to learn some basic things like

Linux Installation
Connecting with internet
Joining Mailing lists
Creating filters for mailing lists
Mailing list guidelines
IRC tools and Joining in Channels
Choosing a suitable Project
Learning the language like c,c++,Python,Perl,Ruby,LAMP,
Web,Java technologies
Revision Control Systems like svn, git
Documenting the code

and more.

Though they can learn by themself, if we mentor them in the initial
stages of the FOSS contributions,
Their progress will be quicker and they will get more interest to contribute.

Please add your details here.
http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_Mentors

We can help students from get in the project and till they start
discussing with main stream project developers.

we can mentor them by online media like mail,chat,irc etc.

We can share these links to the college students so that they can choose
their projects and mentors and start contributing.

Now you view the list of FOSS Clubs at various schools / Colleges here

If you want your listing to be presented here, please login to add new foss club here

If you are not registered, please register here.