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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]
Posted by Atul Vidwansa on March 27, 2007 at 05:39 AM PDT #