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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...
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