Wednesday Mar 25, 2009
The Open Quiz was held in two stages. The first round was a prelims where we selected 5 best teams from IEC for the stage 2 finals . Team Intaxicated [Pavan and Raj] nailed the prelims crossword! 4 more teams, OSoM Hunters, 0xF001BAR, "Sheke Magas" [in Kannada] and Quizbusters made it to the finals. OSoM Hunters [pronounced Awesome Hunters - Pramod Batni and Saurabh Vyas] nailed the finals at the end of the day. The audience turnout for the finals was huge! They
cheered on their teammates and shouted out loud. Lots of audience prizes were given away too. An incredible thanks to all those who participated and attended the Quiz Finals and made some noise. For those who missed the quiz, the content is given below. Take a crack at it! If you need the answers, drop a mail to sharath.srinivasan@<you know where>.com
We hope you enjoyed the Quiz!
P.S: Special thanks to Anjana for coming up with some creative posters for the event. Another special mention to Team Sunspot [Nelson and Nithya] who actually made it to the finals, but could not attend the same.
--Prathyush/Rohini/Sharath from the Enthus
Wednesday Mar 25, 2009
Everyone loves a free lunch 
Everyone loves to win goodies. Here are the folks who were lucky on the first day of the IEC Open Source Mela, 2009:
- Suman V - I Pod
- Padma J - Electric Mug
- Ajit Roy - Electric Mug
Wednesday Mar 25, 2009
The IEC Open Source mela 2009 was kicked off by KNR:
Considering it was 10:30 AM, there was a prettty good turnout.
After KNR's key note, the technical talks started in full swing. Here is Sanjeev giving the first talk of the mela:
The enthus kept the crowd enthu: Tirthankar & Chetana:
Besides the talks, various teams were demoing their products an technologies:
The Gaming Arcade had Quake running on Open Solaris :D:
More pictures from Day 1 are available at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=97515&id=583231662&l=a6d66d7e24
Wednesday Mar 25, 2009
The Open Quiz finals were held yesterday. Sharath- the quizmaster and the main organizer put together a highly exciting and mind bending quiz for the finalists:
Pramod and Saurabh were the winners by a long margin- they hit a century:
followed by Pavan and Rajkumar:
Tuesday Mar 24, 2009
After a preliminary round of fun cross word solving , five teams are going to take part in the Quiz finals today. The finalists are:
- Intaxicated - Pavan and Rajkumar
- OSoM Hunters - Saurabh and Pramod
- Sheke Magas - Abhijit and Kannan
- 0xFoo1Bar - Amit and Tirthankar
- Quizbusters - Shiva and Mohit
Tuesday Mar 24, 2009
The fun guys and gals have got to work. Leg pulling or plain fooling. Not many had the respite
The "enthus" group presents a 'predict & win' contest:
The organizers of this event:
The participants had to predict the winners of the various contests
that were going to be held during the coming two days of the mela:
Wednesday Mar 26, 2008
Two great talks wrapped up the mela today:
- "Digital Colonization and Open Source Technologies" by Dr. Jaijit Bhattacharya
- "Why free and open source software?" by Prof. Andrew Lynn
Both the talks offered a whole new perspective to think about free and open source software. The talks focused on using open source software to reach out to more people. Dr. Jaijit's talk covered patents and intellectual property with lot of interesting anecdotes. Prof. Andrew talked about why open source is just great. These presentations generated a lot of audience questions too.
This was followed by Open Source TV and "lucky-dip". Two lucky winners walked away with iPod Shuffle. Enjoy the closing moments of open source mela right here:
Wednesday Mar 26, 2008
I caught up with Tirthankar Das in the hallway this afternoon. What does he think about the mela? See for yourself.
Wednesday Mar 26, 2008
Welcome to day 2 of open source mela. Day 2 started with a presentation from Joe George on "What every Sun employee should know about open source?". The presentation covered basics of open source and also addressed common myths about open source. Building and interacting with communities were also part of the presentation. The audience had lot of questions on legal/copyright aspects.
Some pictures from day 2:
Wednesday Mar 26, 2008
Here are the winning open source captions:
- "Source-related" (contributed by
Gopalakrishnan Sankaran): Freedom Matters, May the source be you, Let
the source be you, May the source be yours, Let the source be yours
- Contributed by Amol Chiplunkar: "Open Source Mela, IEC 2008... a chance to find your lost siblings"
- Contributed by Saurabh Vyas:
- Come all! Join the bandwagon of open source and add in your bit for this participation age!!
- OpenSource Mela - Calling all the hackers of the IEC: experience, explore & share
List of prize winners:
- Gopal Krishnan Sankaran
- Venkatraman C S
- Rohan Ranade
List of consolation prize winners:
- Srinivas K G
- Saurabh Vyas
- Amol Chiplunkar
Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
Mad-ad contest winners. Thanks to Sreelakshmi Padmanabhan for providing the information.
- First Prize: The Unknowns (Saurabh Vyas, Mayuresh Nirhali, Madhu KR)
- Second Prize: JavaFX Frontiers (Rakesh Menon,Srinivas Mandalika, Nizamudeen K
- Consolation prize: Voyagers (Vijay Upreti, Satyajit Tripati,Deepak Raja)
Acrostic puzzle winners. Thanks to Swathi Devulapalli for providing the information.
- First Prize: Rahimunnisa M
- Consolation Prizes: Sanjay Gianchandani, Sujit Nair, Gopalakrishnan Sankaran
Congratulations to all the prize winners!
Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
If you have been wondering who got so creative with the open source mela posters and e-mails, meet the creative engineers of IEC - Pallavi Madhusudhan & Manu Samuel. It's not an easy task to design these posters or come up with e-mails soliciting participation. These posters have to convey the essence of open source, and at the same time must be catchy too. They had to fit this task in between their regular work and deliver them at short notice. Thank you so much, Pallavi and Manu!
Take a look at one of the posters they designed. This poster invites contributions for the mad-ads contest.
Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
The second half of Day 1 is currently underway. Usually, enthusiasm dies down post-lunch. But just the opposite seems to be happening in IEC. Highlights from the second half of the day:
- Gamers queueing up to play Quake III Arena
- Big crowd to learn more about Sun SPOT
- Sessions filled up with just standing space for late-comers
- High level of participation in contests and quizzes
It's a packed schedule on both the days for IEC engineers.
Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
This blog captures just 33% of the excitement! A bird's eye view of what happened so far. There are at least three parallel sessions going on at any point of time, so I am trying to report from what I attended. This is just 33% of the excitement.
Day 1 of the open source mela started at 10am today. KNR gave a presentation on the open source efforts going on in IEC. He talked about the "open source culture" and the importance of thinking and being in the open. The hall started filling in as soon as KNR started to talk. This was followed by Harish's talk on open source technologies.
At 11am, there was an interesting talk by SaiSatish Vedam on "Architectures, Code, and Law". Sai talked about copyrights, controlled environments, and coding. In a proprietary software environment, there is an inherent copyright associated with the code we create (and the comments on the source code). The software industry is at a crossroads in terms of our understanding of the legal aspects of coding. This is not so straightforward unlike other industries. A lot of real-life examples helped the audience relate to what Sai talked about. Open source software comes to the software industry's rescue in these cases. In the ground floor conference room, Suvendu Ray talked about Sun's open source initiative and gave tips on how to participate in the open source programs. Incidentally, Suvendu is also one of the "think tanks" of Sun's open source agenda in IEC.
The 4th floor yoga room and cafeteria were abuzz with activity. Participants tried their luck on "how much do you know about Sun" quizzes and got a chance to talk to the engineers working on today's bleeding edge technologies.
Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
The open source mela begins today. The IEC Times carried a news article this morning.
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