Manipal Campus Talk 29/9/2007
Our college has very few Linux users and fewer still Solaris users (people prefer to use windows and the open source awareness is also less) Today I gave my first talk on our Campus. Around 30 people turned up of which we had some 15 professors/ lectures of our related departments(CSE,IT,ECE). We did this event on a very short notice, if we publicize it more probably we'll get a better turnout. Basically with this talk I wanted to introduce our future activities and evangalise our professors so that they could go back and encourage students to use Solaris. I gave an introduction to the various Open Source projects that are currently underway with special emphasis to the Code for Freedom(India specific). I gave a brief introduction to OpenSolaris(talking a wee bit about ZFS, Dtrace and Zones :: just to catch some of the professors' attention) Also talked about Sun Studio 12 and Netbeans 6.0 ; both the IDE's generated certain amount of interest. A major breakthrough was that I got permissions to install Solaris in our labs and infact our profs were keen to create an OSUG for the campus.
Posted at 12:50PM Oct 07, 2007 by Parantap Roy in Sun | Comments[0]