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
The prize distribution ceremony at the end of day 1 was a gala event. Watch this space for the names of winners. But you can enjoy the photos for now :-)
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.
Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
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