Thursday Mar 26, 2009
Picasso quotes "I am always
doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
First of all, I never thought I could design posters! Thanks
for giving me this exciting opportunity.
What motivated me?
The hard work and the passion of the IEC Open Source Initiative team in
itself was a big motivation to work on these posters. To add to it, my
neighbor, Sreejith, would peep into the
posters while I'm working on them and provide his valuable inputs by
scratching his creative brain. And when you have an immensely talented
media designer, Prakash to help, any task becomes do-able.
How Open Source inspires art?
Well, apart from a few, most of the posters were created using Open source tools. I'd also like to add that an
artist resides in all/most of us and we can't go looking for
sophisticated and expensive tools to satisfy the "creative" urge. So,
Open Source it is! And there is not much difference between the posters
created with open source and licensed tools, right?
Why do we have this Mela?
The concept behind the IEC Open Source Mela is to generate awareness
about open source technologies among IEC folks and to help them
contribute to/incorporate them. The demos during the Mela are
instrumental in sharing/acquiring knowledge of Sun's various open
source products. Talks from the Gurus gave an
insight into open source from a completely different perspective. The panel discussion helped us assert that the concept of open source is indeed beneficial! And
while we were enhancing our Open Source Quotient (OQ), we got to munch on
some sumptuous snacks.
So, we made our presence felt by participating in the numerous contests,
setting up booths, demonstrating your
product, by blogging, or by listening to the talks
and presentations. And let's not limit it to the mela; let's spread the word across....
Though I think the agenda was good enough,
I hope the posters were equally compelling and pulled in large crowds!
The media expertise comes from....
Signing off until the next OS Mela....
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:
Monday Mar 23, 2009
The IEC Open Source Mela starts tomorrow. KNR, the IEC Site lead will kick off the extravaganza with the keynote at 10.30 AM tomorrow.
Following the key note, the talks will get going along with demos in a separate parallel track.
Monday Mar 23, 2009
What is in vogue this season@IEC? None other than, IEC Open Source Mela'09. With all the contests happening in full swing, we received tremendous response from IEC. Thanks to all!
Here are the short-listed candidates for the IEC Open Source Mela'09 Blogging Contest "So, you think you can blog?"
We shall all wait and watch, who wins the gift hamper.
-IEC Open Source Initiative team.
Tuesday Mar 17, 2009
The event organizer for the business plan competition, Amit writes the following in his blog on the competition:
The IEC Open Source Mela is just a week away. Apart from being one of the organising team members, I am also in charge of the business plan event- Swatantra Saudagar (two Hindi words, 'Swatantra' meaning 'Freedom' and 'Saudagar' meaning 'Businessman', or a 'Trader').
What is it all about?
Simple: Formulate a business plan using only Free and Open Source software. Your business should stand on Free Software.
Now, you get the idea behind the name ? Oh well, yeah agreed that none of us are Free (Read about मुक्ति or Moksha)
but atleast we can use Free softwares to build world changing business
models. Making a Business plan is one thing and making a profitable
business plan is another. That is the challenge.
Why does Free Software make sense?
The answer is in the question itself. Essentially, almost as a rule, large sums of money can be saved by using legally
Free (as in cost) software to start off a business- a product, a dot
com or a teaching academy. At the beginning, all such ventures have more time than money. This time can be utilized to tinker around with the tools to fit the specific purpose.
More..
Please read The Business of Free Software
Friday Mar 13, 2009
..well almost
The next Christmas is still sometime away and the last one passed few months back.
Nevertheless, its celebration time in Sun Microsystems, India Engineering Center (IEC). We are celebrating Open Source during the 24th and 25th of March, 2009 in our IEC Open Source Mela:
The momentum is gradually building, and we are all getting set for the event. The entries are coming in gradually and the posters have been put up all around in the offices.
All getting set!
If you work in IEC, you are in for some fun. If you do not, you are missing something.
Doesn't the poster look delicious? Thanks to Anjana for some great work with the posters.
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