Code for Freedom Workshop 6/10/2007
We began October in full swing with propagandas about Solaris/Netbeans/Code for freedom and information about our future workshops and demos. The response was immense. We received more than 250 e-mail registrations in our group and TONS AND TONS of questions. The interest in the campus with these technologies is immense. Mr. Ganeshram Nagaraj from Sun Microsystems came over to our campus on 6/10/07 for a workshop on Code for Freedom. More than 150 people turned up. A few were a bit zapped(1st yrs and some Electronics guys) with all the information about Dtrace, ZFS, the various open source technologies et al. but the guys came back and fired us with just more questions. I would say the workshop was an immense success considering the turnout amidst 3 more workshops on the same day (on Ubuntu, ethical hacking etc). Caching in on the interest we will be holding an install fest of OpenSolaris where we will install it one of our labs and as many volunteer machines as possible. Those who are apprehensive about screwing their machines; we'll give them a belenix liveCD to test and get a feel of the OS. Later in the day we plan to hold a Netbeans workshop where we'll give demos as to make Desktop applications et al.
Posted at 12:55PM Oct 07, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Sun | Comments[0]