Sun & Me: Campus Ambassador Activities at TCE Madurai.

Hello,

The tech talks that i was talking about in previous post went on well!!There were changes in the agenda as Bala couldn make it up.Second year students are also a part of this activity now, and they talked on various topics.The audience also comprised of second years so we could not make it much technical.Here are the details,

Karthik and Sundaram talked on  OpenSolaris for everyone.This had to postponed to saturday  as per the college management's instructions.Not many people could come.(may be because their exams were nearing).

Anugraha talked on Project Indiana , and also showed a demo.She talked on the steps of installation of the slim install as well.Parkavi joined her.Deepika is also one among them.These friends from second year are going to be the  coordinators of the sun club here after.they did a really good job.

Shridhar showed a demo of the computational grid formed at TCE using SGE, (on MAC OS, RedHat Linux and Solaris machines)He gave an elaborate talk on grid computing as the second year students were new to that topic.He gave demo on running batch job through the grid.he is working on running parallel programs.

 Geethu talked on SunSPOT and showed a demo of forming wireless network and deploying projects to a remote sunSpot from the base station.

I talked on Sun Studio's features(dbx,Dlight,performance analysis)  its compilers , OpenMP support etc.I also showed them a demo.On the whole things went on fine and good !!!I didnt take much pictures, few are here.

Hello all,

 A tech day to focus on OpenSolaris has been planned at TCE on February 21st.We have planned to divide it into two sessions,

The first session includes,

* Introduction to OpenSolaris (Solaris Nevada)
* Solaris day to day
* Some eye candy and cool features of Solaris (Compiz,Looking Glass) - demo

The second session includes,

* SunStudio and HPC
* MDB - Features and demo
*Sun SPOT - demo 

 The speakers are ,

 Krithika S (me),
Balachandran S
GeethaPriya R
Anugraha,
Deepika,
KaarthikShankar,
Parkavi,
Sundaram.
 

Welcome  for this tech talk!! 

 

TecUthsav '08 turned out to be a great success!!Sun sponsored the event Lord of the Rings. It is a five stage programming event ,

1) Maze -A virtual maze created using graphics has to be passed through by answering questions on Java Programming

2)Obfuscated Code - A piece of code will be given , the output of the code will be simple (say a division of two numbers) but the code wil be so complicated to understand and finding the flow of code will be really difficult.The participant has to face this challenge.

 3)Google Wars - The result of a particular search from google will be given the participant has to figure what exactly is the search string used to obtain that result.

 4)Coding in a new language - We will provide the manuals for the language and the contest will be conducted on that language.It basically tests the programmers ability to code in a new language using his logistics .

 5)code completion - An incomplete Java code will be given and parts of it have to be completed for a desired output.

I gave a talk on the following topics,

* Introduction to Open Solaris

* Project Indiana

* Solaris for everyone

As many participants were not much introduced to solaris , I restrained myself from talking advance features of Solaris, and just gave an introduction. They also asked questions comparing features of Solaris with other OSes.It was really a different experience to talk to the delegates about opensource and Solaris as they are from different colleges most of which are not aware of Open Solaris.

 Here are the pictures that i managed to take,

 

Me and my friends here organised a workshop here on Sun technoloies at TCE on 26th September.We started at nine thirty in the morning People were so interested  and our sessions prolonged to seven o clock in the evening We had the following sessions ,

1)Sun Grid Engine - Shridhar who currently uses Sun Grid Engine for  a grid computing project talked on Grid Computing in general and gave an insight into Sun Grid Engine and its performance.

2)Dtrace Demo - Nachiappan and Balachandran  presented the Dtrace demo .Nachiappan started from basics of Dtrace as some second year students were also there and they went on telling about dlanguage and dscripts and they ran some scripts .

3)Java EE + Netbeans - Narayanan , Subramanian Pradeep handled the session This was a hands on session We had booked a lab earlier and we installed Netbeans , Glassfish in all the machines.Students worked on them while narayanan and pradeep parellely explaining.Narayanan gave an elaborate talk on Beans.Subramanian talked on glassfish and showed a demo of  creating and deploying application (war , ear etc) in SJSAS
 

 4)Apache Derby - Agalya tought basics of Apache Derby and database connectivity . but she dint have much time to elaborate as we were already running short of time

5)Java ME - Subramanian showed a demo of creating mobile applications using Netbeans and people really enjoyed it

6)Solaris Zones- I talked on Solaris containers and  showed a  demo of creating , configuring and installing zones. Lot of questions were thrown to me indeed.

My friend geetha priya was also there helping us throught out the workshop.Students were really finding these technologies interesing and they had loads of questions that all sessions prolonged. We were so happy that we were able to do some effective knowledge transfer.

we gave the participants pens just as a souvenir I managed to take only  a few pictures , Here are they.

Thanks and Hats off to all my friends who made it possible!!!

 

 

FStival ‘07 is the Free Software Festival conducted by GLUGOT - GNU/Linux User group of Tce and GLUG-Madurai to celebrate Software freedom Day
which is an international effort to educate people about the importance
of software freedom.It was conducted this year on September 15th in our college this year.

Here is more information about it.

Sun has announced the Code for Freedom contest , on the eve of India's 60 th year of Independence.This is an open source  project contest for students (Graduate/UG) all over India.

Here is an article in Hindu about it. 

The contest was launched this month and will last till 06' Febraury 08 .This basically aims at contributing for five major projects,

Open Solaris,

Contribution can be done by solving bugs. search for bugs and try fixing them.

NetBeans.

 Project GlassFish

Contribute in terms of code, or documentation or bug fixes.

Open Portal

Portlets, Bugs, RFEs, Documentation

Apache Derby

 Contribute in terms of code.

Here are the rules.
Register for it here  

Here is a forum which you can join and contribute. For queries contact codeforfreedom@sun.com

There are a lotta prizes like (Laptops, USB sticks,iPods , Tshirts etc).

Participate and win laurels!!!

 

Yesterday was one of the most memorable days , we had an awesome tech talk , one of the best we have ever had on the campus by Angelo Rajadurai Sun Tech Office , Santa Clara USA, an Alumnus of TCE who passed out of the college in 1990(CSE department). 

He came to our college and participated in the alumni meet on 29th July(Sunday).The next day we had the following sessions.

Talk to CSE(Computer science and Engineering) , IT (Information technology)students in KS auditorium from 9:15 to 11:00 am

He gave an introduction to Solaris, Open Solaris.

He spoke a little about Niagara.

He mainly concentrated on ZFS and
Dtrace. He explained  concepts of ZFS- so wonderfully that many people understood and had many questions for him. He talked on the capacity of ZFS , copy on write, sharing, data integrity and transactional operation,
snapshot, self healing.

He did a demo and showed how to
create an user in zpool , list the users in zpool, how to allocate
space for the users in the zpool, how to restrict the access of an user
in the zpool and how to take snapshots.

He gave a brief introduction to Dtrace and a short demo.we ended up that session there and we had tea break.

We continued the session from 11:20 and lot of people stayed to listen to the special session on Dtrace.That was simply brilliant and he was brilliantly answering people's questions.

While ending
up the session he spoke on Web 2.0. He gave the scope for projects that
can be done as a contribution to the Open Solaris community and also sponsored to mentor few students.

He inaugurated the IT association ,presided over the function and spoke on bridging the gap between students and Industry. 

we took him to PPlab and showed him TCENet , GLUGOT and the projects we do. He was so glad about the work and TCENet getting PCQuest award. We met the principal and spoke on what next to be done in TCE.

It was so good having him here and we felt so motivated after his brilliant tech talk.Thank you sir!!

I had been to IEC ,a couple of weeks back.

Here is a report on what I did there,

I reached Banglore on June 7 th morning.

June 7th : (Thursday)
I went to office to meet Poornima and make arrangements for my Loner's card.I also got to know where i got to sit for work and how to reach office etc.

June 8th: (Friday)
I started my regular work. Pradeep came to the office and we had a discussion on the project requirements in a conference room. He also showed me what he had done .
we had many doubts which we clarified with Ganesh through mail.

June 11 (Monday)
I started reading Apache Derby .
I dowloaded Derby and Installed it in Sun Ray in my home directory and started doing some database work to get to know that more.
I also met Ananth during Lunch.

June 12(Tuesday ):
I took my laptop to the office as I had to configure and Install Apache for which I needed a root access and i couldn get that in a Sun Ray.
I met Mr Prem (an Engineer from Sun who works in Java team).
He helped me in configuring the laptop to connect to the network by reconfiguring it, and how to install apache etc.

June 13(Wednesday):
Ganesh came from US. We(Me Pradeep and Ganesh)had a talk about the project.We finalised the project requirements.we also had lunch with him.
We spoke to Abishek about the project and we discussed the template design

June 14(Thursday):
I spoke to Renjith Aryaveedu about hosting the portal in SunWeb. We also had a conference call with Abishek about this .Pradeep couldn come as he had exams then. I started working on the database design.

June 15(Friday):
I finalised the database design and I sent it across to all ambassadors for their ideas.I also spoke to Abishek about that.I read JSP and started doing some scripts just to brush up.
We could not work on Satuday and Sunday as the network was down.

June 18(Monday):
we had problems in hosting the site . So Ganesh and me had a conference call with Chinese web masters of the site "opentech.ac.in" regarding hosting the tool in that chinese site.We decided to work using PHP &  MySQL which was then changed to use Java DB and JSP.

June 19(Tuesday):
We had a conference call with Vijay Daniel and Prashanth regarding the PSG Faculty training Program. The topics on which to talk about were decided.
We also had a conference call with Sreedhar , Ryetika regarding the project contest(A contest that we are planning to float across Tamil Nadu).

June 20(Wednesday):
I continued working on the project , meanwhile I met so many people.
 * I met KNR , and spoke to him about what next can be done in TCE.
 * He encouraged me so much  and we discussed the following topics,
           1)Curriculum Adoption
           2)Campus Ambassador Program in general
           3)His visit to TCE ( He told us he would drop in any time and talk to the college authorities regarding academic activities at TCE).

I also met Pradhap , Vineet , Moinak  and Veena.

June 21(Thursday):
I met Ananth Shrinivas(an alumnus) at 5:30 pm.
We spoke on a lot of things including,
1)Sun guru Program at TCE
2)Certification Programs and setting up a prometric centre in TCE.
3)Curriculum adoption - He told me he can send some materials for OS lab assignments.

Then on my project that i had planned to do,
1)Porting a GNU/Linux application to Solaris.

June 22(Friday):
             I met Joseph George (our college alumnus)in the morning at 9;00 am and we discussed on what can be done at TCE regarding the Sun academic programs.
He gave me some ideas on what projects can be taken up by  TCE students.

I left Banglore on Saturday.I am really thankful for Sun for giving such a good opportunity to be there and meet great people.

I had been to PSG for  a faculty training program with Prashanth and Ramya

For details about it,
http://krithikasubramanian.wordpress.com/

Ganesh visited TCE yesterday (April 2 nd ) He went to AKCE in the morning and came here at twelve thirty. He met our HOD first and then he addressed the staff members of CSE and IT departments. He spoke on India Universtiy Programme and Sun Guru Programme for teachers. They represented their views and there was a discussion on what has to be done next to take this a step ahead. We had a very quick lunch in the canteen as we were already running short of time. We met the principal and there were some ideas proposed about the Sun Guru programme. I spoke to the principal and there were some proposals . Hoping to execute them soon.

There was a meeting conducted by Accel Frontline ans Sun on March 14th.That took place in GRT Regency , Madurai I got a chance to speak there. I spoke on Sun’s support to academia,its academic developer programmes and how students can really get benefitted out of such activities by learning new technologies and keeping with the pace of technical growth. I cud also interact with many people from academic instituitions , especially professors from various colleges. That was really nice interacting with the sun team (Mr Jayanthi Nagesh , Mr Satish ). who had come there. My friends ashok , geethu and our faculty Mr Balaji accompanied me.

Hello all , i am krithika , campus ambassador of Sun for Thiagarajar college of Engineering , Madurai.
Here is all that i have done so far as a part of campus ambassador programme.
Spoke to staff (January 28 2007 ):
I spoke to the IT and CSE department staff about Sun India University Programs and how do we get benefitted out of it.

The meeting took place in CSE conference hall and nearly 25 teachers attended it.



Students meet ( January 31 2007):

This was the first ever meeting about sun club . I conducted it for the second and
first year students . I booked the KS auditorium of our college and nearly 210 people came to the meeting. I spoke for one hour and fifteen minutes giving people introduction on the following,

1. Sun Microsystems- its excellence as a “technology” company

2. Cool products of Sun

Java - J2SE, J2ME, J2EE

NFS

Open Solaris - its features like ZFS,

dtrace,and

i told them what are zones

We had demo session on dtrace
. Bala did that for many who wanted to see the cool new tool !

2.Netbeans
3.what is SDN
4.Open Source and Free Software
5.how to get benefitted from SAI
6.What is Open Sparc

I had already went to all classes privately and i spoke to people and
canvassed them to attend the meeting and join the sun club and so the response was good.

Sun Club Inauguration:

The Sun Club(Sun forum) of our college has been inaugurated.The function took place at the K.M auditorium of our college.

The registration for the Sun Club was also done immediately at the end of function and almost all those who attended the function registered for the club activities.

Nearly 300 attended and we were amazed.

CSE HOD Dr.Rajaram spoke on the importance of FOSS based tools and softwares. Then there was a talk on computers in the past and present by the HOD of IT Dr. U.Nirai Chandran.We had very good support from our staff-co-ordinators, Ms Subhatra and Mr.Emil Selvan.

Here is the mailing list http://mail.tce.edu/mailman/listinfo/sunclub .

First Sun club meet:

First meeting of sun club took place this month on march 8 th.I
conducted a class on Netbeans -5.5 . That session was for an hour.
I just taught them some basics of IDE s as more first year students were present. That took place in the conference hall of our department. My friends Balachandran , Agalya , geethu were there to help me. There was also demo.