CampusWorld is here...
In India, we were thinking of how can we capture our CAs efforts in a
nut shell. Then IPG team stood up and told me we can design a newsletter
and publish. Thanks to Geetha who heads IPG team in India and her team
members Chinmayee and Rahim, put lot of effort in putting this together.
Thanks a lot to make this happen.
This'll be made available in http://in.sun.com/univ website, please let
us know if you have any suggestions to campusworld-fb@sun.com
Newsletter can be downloaded from : CampusWorld
Posted at 03:47AM Feb 15, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Rewards and recognition to top performing CAs in India
Its my great pleasure to announce our top performers for their excellent
contribution to CA program.
July - Prashanth from AKCE, Krithika from TCE and Ramya from BIT
They have conducted training to faculties on opensolaris and open source
technologies
August - Sudhakar from JNTU Hyderabad, Kumar BiPallav from SRM
Sudhakar did a excellent job in mukt.in event by conducting a sessions
on opensolaris with the help of Raju Alluri
Kumar BiPallav did a great job in conducting a solaris demo during their
techfest and quizing competition
*September* - Tauheed and team from JMI Delhi helped in hosting CA
induction training program to CAs
October - Kartik from BVB, Trisha from BMS, Alok from Assam University
and Ankit from DA-IICT
Kartik has done Sun Software freedom week which was figured in top 10 in
the world and also did a install mania
Trisha has organized a two days workshop on CFF
Alok has helped in hiring, motivating CAs in north east
Ankit has initiated Sun Grand Challenge contest and done couple of demos
on opensolaris, helped in organizing two days workshop on CFF
November - Ramprasad from IIIT Allahabad, Angad from JIIT university and
Parantap from Manipal
Ramprasad has done lots of demos on opensolaris as part of the techfest
and installed netbeans in most of the labs and hostels
Angad and team has developed Robocontrol using netbeans 6.0
Parantap has done more demos on netbeans and very aggressive in
evangelizing activities in MIT
December - Kshitiz from IIT Kanpur
Sun club from IITK floated a summer projects and delivered series of
lectures on projects.
Jan* *- Archana from Amrita, Sushant Kumar, SMVD University
Archana has conducted as many 30 demos on opensolaris in contributing to
CFF
Sushant has done lots of demos and other activities like conducting
classes for students who are doing their projects and researchers.
Its a great effort folks, keep up the great spirit and enthusiasm.
Posted at 03:56AM Feb 05, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Code For Freedom Contest
Please go to http://in.sun.com/codeforfreedom and register for yourself for contributing the code in the following open source technologies
opensolaris
netbeans
glassfish
apache derby
open portal
Guys, lots of prizes lined up, go for grabbing the prizes. Lets do lot many things in building open source community in India. This is an opportunity for student community to participate in this movement.
Sun as a company always believe in open source philosophy and providing the platform to student community to contribute in this.
Posted at 12:39AM Aug 15, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
PSG Tech, Coimbatore faculty training
Its my great pleasure that our campus ambassadors Prashanth from AKCE
Madurai, Krithika from TCE Madurai and Ramya from BannariAmman,
delivered a faculty training at PSG Tech, Coimbatore sponsored by AICTE.
This is about 15 days program and we participated in one day
event(threee days activities, see below for details). The training was
attended by 25 faculties from 15 engineering colleges from TN and Kerala.
The amazing part was that they were shocked when our CAs told them that
"we are students representing Sun Microsystems" . They were enjoyed all
the sessions. Interesting thing was that faculties are from multi
disciplinary domains from engineering colleges and this was organized by
PSG to create an awareness about open source technologies.
Prashanth had setup a 3D desktop using compiz with opensolaris build 64,
after looking at the features and usability in opensolaris, faculties
wanted to use sun studio, netbeans and of course open solaris.
Before delivering the sessions to faculties on July 2nd, our CAs
conducted sessions on Sun technologies to M.Tech and B.Tech students on
weekend, please see the schedule below for details. After looking at the
level of expertise of these CAs, faculties from PSG invited them for
delivering a guest lecture sessions on sun technologies.
This is one more feather to the accomplishments from CA program in India.
Thanks guys, great job done! Keep the flag high.
The *Schedule of events at PSG Tech, Coimbatore* :
*30th June 2007 :
*10AM to 6PM
* Installation and configuration of opensolaris in open source
technology lab
* Resolved all outstanding installation issues
* Presentation to IT dept. faculties about open source and Sun.
*1st July 2007 :
*9:00AM to 1:00PM
* About CA program
* Academic developer initiatives
* Presentation to M.Tech and B.Tech students on Sun technologies and
hands on approach on sun studio and netbeans and projects
* How Application management is superior in solaris when compared to
Windows..
* RDMA
* Awareness about training and certification from Sun
*2nd July, Faculty training*
8.00 to 9.30
- installation in seminar hall
- checking out projector
- Checking audio systems
9.30 – 10.20
Introduction of Sun,Open Source,Community
By krithika
10.20-10.30
Break
10.30-12.00
Generating Solaris from Windows
Installation
By A.Prashanth
12.00-1.30
Lunch Break
1.30-2.50
Belenix – Krithika and Ramya
Netbeans – Krithika and Ramya
Sun Studio – A.Prashanth
Open Solaris – Ramya
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Posted at 10:26PM Jul 03, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
June Monthly Awards to Campus Ambassadors, India
In India, May to July period is kind of quite period as most of the universities have got exams followed by summer vacation.
In spite of having exams and vacation, this month two things have done extremely brilliant.
So, the excellent achievers of this month are, Prashanth from AKCE, Madurai and IIT Kanpur, Sun club under the supervision of Madhuresh.
Prashanth from AKCE has conducted 6 days of summer workshop(planned for 10 days)
The Agenda of this camp..
1. Differentiation between x86 and SPARC
2. Solaris Installation Demonstration
3. Netbeans Demo
4. Temple of Sun gaming 1 hour daily
5. Java refreshment
6. Projects in Netbeans
The project topics are 1. Optical Character Recognition 2 . face recognition 3. Complete office automation 4. Students information tracking system etc..
Also quiz being organized at the end and students received a prizes from Prashanth. Ram Gokul and Sindhu from AKCE also helped Prashanth in conducting this workshop. Sudhakar Kamadi, Director AKCE and other faculty members helped Prashanth in organizing this workshop and students from neighbouring colleges were also participated.
Details : http://blogs.sun.com/PrashanthAyyavu
IIT Kanpur, Sun Club :
They have organized
(1) Sun Club Summer Workshop
(2) Sun Club Speaker Series
during this summer.
Feedback from Audience: Many students have decided to join the Sun Club and are willing to write their own mobile games.
CAs spent about 1-2 hrs everyday till June 14th towards the Sun Club Summer Projects which they have started in early May. Some of the projects are about to finish now which we will soon be sharing for the certification after their presentations at IITK.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9480649@N04/
Workshops on :
* Game Programming using J2ME
* Servlets using NetBeans
On Solaris Side - Most of the students have already joined the project
communities at opensolaris.org.
On Java API sides, tons of project ideas being floated and they are nearing to completion.
This is really great job from you guys. You guys are amazingly brilliant. Kudos to both of you for this milestone.
Posted at 04:17AM Jul 02, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu | Comments[1]
May Monthly Awards to Campus Amassadors, India
This month is not active as most of our campus ambassadors are busy in
exams and few are on summer vacation. Out of their busy academic
schedule, campus ambassadors from Bangalore have done
exceptionally well in the month of May. This month the award goes to teamwork.
Its my great pleasure to announce team award for the month of May
to Bangalore campus ambassadors.
* Anand B, RVCE
* Anil G, JSS
* Ankita A, PESIT
* Jayanth R, UVCE
* Pooja A, RNSIT
* Pradeep M, MSRIT
* Trisha M, BMSCE
What they have done :
- Conducted Sun CA Day and the event name as CORONA(One at UVCE and other at PESIT)
* Identified the students from CA and non CA institutions in Bangalore
* Selected 8-10 students from each institute
* Campaigning, printing posters and banners
* Give aways(Temple of Sun DVDs, Pens, and snacks too)
* Conducted on the spot programming and distributed the prizes as USB sticks to the winners
* Technical hands on sessions being conducted by CAs on opensolaris, sun studio, netbeans and AJAX
- Promoted temple of Sun gaming contest in big way.
Congratulations to all of them.
Great team effort, keep up the great work.
All the best for your exams as well.
Posted at 07:07AM Jun 09, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Sun CA Day
We are conducting a first ever "Sun CA Day" on May 12th @ UVCE, Bangalore organized by Bangalore Campus Ambassadors. The event name called as CORONA.
Its a hands-on sessions. We have selected 10 students from 7 institutions in Bangalore.
Sessions will be delivered by CAs on opensolaris, netbeans and sun studio.
More details after the event.
Posted at 08:07PM May 09, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
temple of sun
To promote sun studio in big way, we have temple of sun gaming contest and win 5000USD.
Please visit the following link and play the game.
http://www.sun.com/templeofthesun1
The contest will be closing on June 19th.
Posted at 07:58PM May 09, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
BITES
I visited JSS Academy Bangalore on Friday 4th and met HOD CSE, Prof Kamalesh. We discussed lot about academics and benefits from Sun. He also has lot of ideas in order to promote Sun technologies. Anil Gulecha who is our campus ambassador from JSS took us to Sun Lab who has setup the same in order to provide the facility to work on sun technologies. We did a round tour of JSS and in the course of that Kamalesh told me about the workshop. JSS and BITES(Board for IT Educatio Standards) jointly organized a workshop on "Funding opportunities for sponsored research" which was scheduled on 5th May and invited me to attend the same.
I went to JSS again on 5th May to attend the inaguaral function of workshop at 9AM.
This workshop was about how funding can be provided for academic research. Eight government organizations were participated and representatives from more than forty engineering institutions were participated. There was a press coverage on this. Dooradarshan and TV9 folks were also present.
In this opportunity I met lot of dignitaries from various sectors.
I met M N Vidyashankar, secretary to Government of Karnataka(IT, BT and S&T)
Dr. R Natarajan, former chairman AICTE and chairman - BITES
Dr K V Prahlad Rao, Director - BITES
Dr V K Aatre, IISc visiting professor
Dr A N N Murthy, JSS Principal
S K Gupta, AICTE advisory and so on.
I discussed about Sun academic initiative(SAI), STAR(Sun Technology and Academic resources) for education and research and also about university engagements. They all are excited about such initiatives from Sun. Soon I'll be talking to all these dignitaries in their respective offices for further engagements.
Posted at 10:28PM May 06, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
April Monthly Awards to Campus Ambassadors, India
I would like to recognize who have proposed lot of ideas for summer holidays.
* Kishore, IIT Guwahati
* Sun club co-ordinators, IIT Kanpur(Kshitiz, Madhuresh and Vikas)
* Prashanth A AKCE, Madurai
Thanks guys lets implement the same. Please look at the end of the blog about their ideas.
Now, its time for announcing the April month excellent achievers.
Most of you guys have exams followed by vacation starting from April.
In spite of that some of you have done extremely great job.
Its my great pleasure to announce this month award to Ankita Agarwal from PESIT, Bangalore and Abhishek Nagaraj from COEP, Pune.
What they have done :
Abhishek Nagaraj
* Conducted 4 day(hands on) workshop on “Web Development Using Netbeans”. Every morning from 9:00 am to 11 am.
1. NetBeans for the desktop.
2. Visual Web Pack for Netbeans
3. Java EE using Netbeans.
4. AJAX using Netbeans
Also discussed other issues (not in program) like
1. Designing for the web
2. Content Management Systems
3. Basic design principles etc.
* Gave a small demo during the workshop. Lots of people have crossed the initial levels and are waiting for the Sun Studio distros.(Windows/Linux and Solaris)
* Conducted a quizzing and 100 students were attended.
* Floating the project competition during summer holidays.
Ankita Agarwal
* Started conducting the workshop on Java from Feb 28th(about one and half hour of each session). In this month she has completed three and put together 10 workshops.(Attendence of around 75 each session)
* Showed netbeans about developer collaboration demo
* Quite active and helpful in conducting PESIT track(IEC engineers conduct these sessions of four hours every weekend)
Congratulations to Abhishek and Ankita.
Keep up the great work.
Excellent guys, all are doing good.
Lets give lot of push for "temple of sun" gaming contest for upcoming months.
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Update from Kishore, IIT Guwahati
The following e-mail sent to student community
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Dear all,
CSEA in associatoin with Sun Club, IITG is intending to conduct online
course in Solaris operating system basics during the summer holidays.
Solaris is new to almost all the entire IITG student community.
Participating in this programme will make you the pioneers of
OSUG(OpenSolaris User Group) that is set up in IITG.
Course will be completely online. We will have the course content
dispersed over the net and talk among ourselves with chat conferences.
Believe me, this will be a very nice experience that you wouldn't want to
miss.
The outline will be as follows. It is tentative and will be changed as the
need arises.
1. UNIX - philosophy
2. open source - philosophy
3. Introduction, Installation - Live CD, virtualisation (Virtual PC,
VMWare, Qemu), actual install
4. Command line usage
5. Everyday tasks - howto (PDFs, Players etc)
6. Simple administration (net config, web server etc)
7. C programming (editors, debuggers, profilers)
8. Other C programming issues - (libraries, make)
9. Networking basics - (servers, clients)
10. Socket programming
11. Operating system basics
12. ZFS, DTrace, Zones - real good stuff here
13. A project
As you can see the course starts with real basics and we can proceed at a
very slow pace to grasp the entire content. We will have a 2 hr meeting
every week and the participant would need to spend 3 - 5 hrs a week.
The above course will be completed in a period of 1.5 months. The next
15-20 days will be dedicated for the project. We will involve in very good
projects that will be useful to the IITG community and deployed in the
next semester. The projects may be paid ones (not yet confirmed).
Requirements:
1. Interest and dedication to participate and learn
2. A net connection at hand during holidays
No previous knowledge of Solaris is required whatsoever.
To participate please reply to this mail with your NAME, ROLL, BRANCH.
(The course will be more CSE oriented but is useful to other branches
also)
This course is supported and sponsored by SUN Microsystems, India.
Cheers,
CSEA.
Kishore
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Kishore you rock!
Sun club, IIT Kanpur(Kshitiz, Maduresh, and Vikas) announces the
following projects for summer
Gtalk connector - bluetooth will be used to connect mobile phone to the PC
and the phone will then serve the purpose of speakers and Mic .
J2ME games - basically we are focusing on developing mutli player games
over bluetooth analogous to multi player games over LAN
Guitar chords- synthesizing musical notes from a playing mp3 or from an
audio input from a guitar
Solaris System monitor - the students will try to develop a system
monitor for open Solaris. for this basically they will rely heavily on
using Dtrace as a system probe.
Update from Prashanth, AKCE Madurai
Seminars have been announced for Second Years in the following Topics..
dTrace
ZFS
NIAGARA
Belenix
Sun Vs Microsoft
RISC
Advantages of Solaris 10
Netbeans
etc..
One month time have been given for Preparation
i.e., after their examination they will be asked to present.
some goodies will be given for good presos..
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Posted at 10:45AM Apr 30, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu | Comments[2]
Trip to Madurai
Visit to Madurai :
I've visited the following during my visit to Madurai.
* AKCE University
* TCE, campus
* Fatima college
As per request from Pratima, SLS sales manager that I should be the speaker at Fatima college, Madurai to talk about "open source technologies". I accepted her request and decided to go to Madurai on April 1st by Bus as I didn't have the connecting flight to Madurai. I reached Madurai in the morning 7:30AM, car was waiting for me. I went to the hotel and quickly had my breakfast and headed towards AKCE. AKCE is away from Madurai around 65kms from the city. We have campus ambassador, Prashanth A and wanted to meet him as well as to faculties to talk about curriculum adoption.
I reached AKCE around 9:30AM and met Mr. Sudhakar, director(corporate relations). He showed me network security lab and spoke about TIFAC-core intitiaves. Later Prashanth and others took me around the campus. They have huge infrastructure setup, the entire campus runs on sun fire 4800. They have dedicated lab for conducting SCJP and solaris administration courses. Also they have sunray clients which are made compulsory to the students for internet access.
Later I went to Vice Chancellor's office. There I met vice chancellor Dr. C Thangaraj and directors of academics and so on. I made a presentation to them about sun india university programs and spoke about curriculum adoption. They are very eager to adopt sun technologies into their curriculum and als they spoke about adding sun member into their advisory body. After that I had a quick meeting with Prashanth and Mr. Sudhakar, coroporate relations discussed about our next plan of action.
It was around 11:30AM and left AKCE rushing towards TCE, Madurai.
Exactly at 12:35PM I reached TCE and had a meeting with HODs of CS, IT and MCA along with faculties. I gave the excellent achiever award to Krithika, our campus ambassador. I spoke about sun india university programs and discussed couple of things about
* mentoring to student projects,
* collaborative research,
* guidance to the faculties
* faculty training
* guest lectures/tech day and so on.
After that Krithika and the team explained to me about TCEnet project and also about netbeans project. By that time its around 2PM. I was about to rush to Fatima college and got a call that my session is schedulled at 3PM. That means I had 60 more minutes to spend.
Quickly had a lunch and later met Principal Dr. V Abhaikumar, who is very helpful in all aspects. We spoke about curriculum adoption and other engagements with TCE. He was very excited. Later I saw the computing lab and left TCE.
Reached Fatima college at 3:20PM and started my presentation on "open source and Sun". Audience were faculties from various science colleges in and around Madurai.
Started my presentation by showing sun video and showed my presentation using odp format on opensolaris platform, by the introduction of opensource products being used during my presentation, all are amazed with the features and the technological innovation from Sun. It was nice interaction with the faculties. At the end of my presentation, I met Principal and discussed about sun academic initiative and sun India university programme. Principal agreed to setup a sun lab and also spoke about curriculum adoption.
I had very little time as I've to reach airport before 6PM as my flight was schedulled to departure at 7PM. Finally I reached airport in time.
All in all it was a great trip to Madurai.
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Posted at 05:12AM Apr 09, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
photos : Coimbatore trip
http://picasaweb.google.com/rramesh.cit/SunTechDaysAtCit
Posted at 03:02AM Apr 05, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
March Monthly Awards to Campus Ambassadors, India
I would like to recognize the three campus ambassadors from Pune, who
have put lot of effort in organizing the events in Pune on March 22nd
and 23rd March. Thanks to Abhishek from COEP, Akshay from MIT and
Vedang from PICT. Keep up the good work.
Now, its time for announcing the March month excellent achiever.
Its my great pleasure to announce this month award to Megha Gupta from
NIT Trichy. She is winning this award in consecutive second month.
What she has done :
* Conducted five days workshop on Java SE(2 to 2.5hrs every day)
(BASIC AND ADVANCED CONCEPTS + LAB EXERCISES PRACTICE SESSION USING NETBEANS)
* Installation of netbeans 5.5 in the internet laboratory(100 in no.s) and hostel computer center(50 in no)
* Presentation on core java exclusive features
* Solaris instllation on Sparc machines in sun lab.
* Quizzing : JAVA QUESTIONNAIRE & LAB ASSIGNMENTS AS A PART OF WORKSHOP
* JAVA TECHNICAL QUIZ CONDUCTED AT THE END OF WORKSHOP SESSION EACH DAY
Its because of Megha's dedication and effort, netbeans 5.5 is now being installed in all the computers of NIT Trichy.
Its just amazing. She has done this work with the help of sun club members(Theyagarajan, Mayank and Sourav)
Congratulations to Megha and Sun club members of NIT Trichy.
Keep up the great work.
Excellent guys, all are doing good.
Posted at 10:13AM Apr 03, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu | Comments[3]
Trip report - University tour @ Coimbatore
University tour @ Coimbatore
March 26th
We conducted a One day workshop at CIT, Coimbatore. Rameshkumar, who is an alumni of CIT started this initiative and finally planned and executed the same with great success. Kudos to Ramesh and the organizers of CIT.
We started the day with lightening of lamp and welcome speech from the faculty of CIT. It was just amazing, I think it was more than 700 students and faculties were attended the workshop. Vidya Sakar gave a brief about Sun and about open source initiatives. I gave a big picture on India university programs and the initiatives which we have. After that we headed towards guest house to meet Principal, HODs and the faculties of CS, IT and MCA depts. Principal is very focused and very helpful in executing the things. I presented about intitiatives and immediately he said that he is going to have a dedicated sun lab, where in students and faculties of CIT can work on Sun technologies. We have provided the necessary softwares. Faculties were very enthusiastic about knowing Sun technologies and also interested to work on research. They suggested that providing support from industry to the faculties help a lot. Also they wanted to do a research work on Java and related technologies.
After that we started the solaris talks in the mroning session. Nilesh and Vidya spoke about introduction to opensolaris and features of opensolaris respectively. After the talk at 2PM, students were not leaving the hall for lunch, they were all asking lot of very good questions to Vidya.
Afternoon sessions were covered by Srinidhi on Java and netbeans. Auditorium was fully packed with students and faculties. He showed some cool demos. Students were excited to learn lot on these technologies.
Ramya from BIT who is our campus ambassador came to CIT along with 25 students to attend the workshop. She also shared her experience about campus ambassador activities and the benefits to the students community after the lunch.
Vidya and myself went to PSG tech after the lunch to meet principal, HODs and faculties of IT, CS depts. They wanted to have a colloboration with Sun and Karpagam madam made a quite interesting presentation to us on open source intiatives . After that I presented the faculties about Sun India university programs and the initiatives. Prinicpal is very focused and immediately he told to the faculties about engaging with Sun technologies. Uma madam were also attended the meeting who was the part of faculty training being conducted in Bangalore during Jan 2007. After the meeting, we went to CS dept to see the open source laboratory and discussed lot about initiatives with HOD andKarpagam madam. Also we met Vishalakshi madam who is another member attended the faculty training at Bangalore.
Interesting discussion took place with CS HOD, he was speaking about astrologer and open source. It was about 6PM and went back to CIT to attend the valedictory function. Again we met proncipal and HOD of MCA in the evening and had quite an interesting discussion.
It was a royal treatment to all of us from CIT organizers. Hats off to CIT folks.
Special thanks to Anand, Arvind and CIT organizers of this workshop.
I'll be uploading the photos, stay tuned...
Posted at 04:10AM Mar 27, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu | Comments[2]
Trip report - University tour @ Pune
University tour @ Pune
(March 22nd and 23rd)
March 22nd
Vardhini, Tirthankar, Shantanu, Mayuresh, Amol Desai, and myself went to PICT event in the morning. Abhishek from COEP, Akshay from MIT and Vedang from PICT campus ambassadors also joined the event.
Kapil from PICT student co-ordinator and organizing committee welcomed us. The talks started in time around 10:15AM. The auditorium of 130 capacity was full with students participants from various colleges. We also had demo stall, started with very less folks and in the afternoon, some interested folks visited the stall.
Around 11AM, Vardhini, Vedang our campus ambassador and myself went to Principal's chamber. We met CS HOD and other faculties. Discussed about India University programs, they are looking for our involvement in the following
projects
internship
research activities
faculty training
It was fruitful discussion.
After the lunch, Vardhini and myself headed towards MIT, Pune and met Director/founder, placement officer, HOD of CSE and faculties and discussed about India university programs. MIT folks are looking for long term relationship with Sun and they were talking about some kind of MOU has to be signed to keep the momentum and to follow up as well. Here also proposals from the institutions, more or less same. Director has vision and updated to us lot of things. They were discussing about vision 2020 and also agreed for hosting the faculty training at their institute.
Later, we headed back to PICT for further activities.
The talks and the demos on Java was overwhelming at PICT.
After 5:30PM, we have launched POSUG – Pune Open Solaris User Group meeting.
Some community members and students from VIT and PICT were attended.
Amay(community speaker) spoke about the usage of having user group meetings and the benefits to the students communities. Shantanu showed the demo on ZFS and I talked about university programs and campus ambassador activities.
At 7:30PM, students from VIT were showing us their project on Vastfs (Ashwin, Saurabh, Nikhil and Bhooshan). These guys have done amzing stuff on solaris 10. Shantanu promised them to have a meeting with solaris team engineers.
That was all about first day.
March 23rd
We have organized two events on this day, one at I2IT and other at COEP.
Vardhini, Amol, Tirthankar and myself went to I2IT campus and Shantanu, Mayuresh went to COEP.
We met VP of Bajaj finance who is also taking care of IT and is chief guest at I2IT. He spoke about open source initiatives, Vardhini pitched in about India university programs. After the innaguaral ceremony, we had a discussion with Director and deputy director about university programs and also about grid computing infrastructure. Amol and Tirthankar started the talks on solaris and Java.
We headed towards COEP to meet HOD and director. They were already having sun ray lab and spoke about student projects and internship and also faculty training. It was wonderful discussion.
Sriram(community speaker) also gave the talk at COEP, after that we had lunch and back to airport to catch the flight. On the way to airport, we visited Ganesh temples.
Overall it was wonderful and hectic trip.
I'll be uploading the photos. Stay tuned.
Posted at 04:08AM Mar 27, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu | Comments[1]