the fest was a huge hit he is a peek a boo into the events of  libre 08

The events  kicked started with a talk on introduction to open source by

Mr.Shashi shekar one of the core members of the MyLUG (the group which got open source into mysore) . The talk gave the audience all that they wanted to know about the movement and answered their questions on why this movement is given so much importance.

 

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The first day consisted of talks from Sun Microsystems.The first talk was on project cross bow delivered by Mr. Venu gopal iyer, a senior engineer at Sun Microsystems, US.The talk consisted on how to contribute to open solaris and about the virtualisation i.e about zones and containers in solaris and the networking problem taken care by crossbow team.

 

The talk was followed by a session on sun studio compiler delivered by Anand b a CA of RVCE.This talk attracted a great amount of audience it spoke about the best compilers in the industry.The beauty of compilers and insights of how a process synchronization works.

The talks had around 90 attendees.

A workshop on creating web servers using xampp followed the the sun studio compilers it was conducted by Nakul Ganesh.S of obscura .the workshop was a tutorial on how to create web servers from scratch using the xampp tools the workshop ended with around 90 eager participants asking for xampp software to try it out at their homes.

The day ended with a data base session by Anand .It attracted all the data base enthusiasts . It was session on java db on how java can be used to manage databases instead of SQL it also provided information about thethe various databases systems around the world. Attracting around 80 participants.

 

Day 2 began with a workshop on mobile games creation conducted by Raghunandan .C.P and Kailash bysani of team Obscura .The workshop explained all the features of J2ME ,the mid lets and sprites and tildes followed by a demo using game builder. All the steps taken to build a game were displayed in the demo. The demo drew around 90 participants.

It was followed by three sessions in parallel a session that gave hands on Linux fundamentals and Linux debugging conducted by the SJCE LUG it gave the participants a feel of what a Linux distro looks like and how to do basic operations on linux and how to manage systems and how to debug in Linux.This session was conducted in the lab and had the lab overflown with participants we ran short of systems and live cds.

The other session in parallel was endorse it was a event to get the participants to fight against each other for endorsing a open source vs non-open source product.

The first and second day also had a desk event called plan and play conducted by Jayesh and ajay bharadwaj of obscura.The whole event was the brain child of jayesh they created a simple game in C and asked the participants to modify it to make it more better. The event had around 42 teams taking part one single most successful competition which proved that students will participate if there is quality in work.

The afternoon sessions of second day was exclusively reserved to foss speakers ( foss is the largest  organization in India and abroad which works and evangelizes open source).

The turn out for a Saturday afternoon was a great surprising.We had three sessions

The first session was all about KDE taken up by Mr. Kushal das a fedora ambassador and a active contributer to KDE .It spoke about how easy it was to contribute to KDE and what all can be done.

The next session was also taken by Mr.Kushal himself it was on a language that has been a back bone of many open source projects .He gave us a amazing introduction to python. The language simply attracted a whole lot of students into the hall or even outside to pester the speaker. The hall was completely filled for both the talks.

The third session was taken by Mr. Johnny jacob of novel and a gnome contributer.He spoke about how to make a career with open source obviously it had a great impact with he himself having made a career out of open source he was into novel because of his contribution.He spoke all about how to contribute, how to choose projects, where to land up for help and what all opportunities open source offers. It was inspirational for a lot of people to go out and start checking out all that he said.

At the end of the day that is the kind of satisfaction that makes us feel a success in terms of Libre.

 

Day 3 was one of the most awaited days of the fest we had two crowd pullers the talk on sunspots and the talk on google android along with these were exciting competitions like cryptix,open source treasure hunt and Linux quiz.

The day began with sun spots talks that was delivered by Chinmayi.s.k of obscura. It gave insights of how sunspots can be used what all can be done.How it is programmed using Java and all the interfaces involved.

There were two demos as a part of this session.It was a brief introduction to Robotics programming.

It was followed by Cryptix and open source treasure hunt getting all the participants to literally sweat out and exhaust their brains.Cryptix was all about deciphering clues that were related to open source .

Next was the much anticipated Google Android Workshop,which was conducted by Arvind Saraf from Google.With over 300 people attending the workshop.It was the highlight of the complete fest.A complete introduction to programming in the Eclipse IDE and the Android SDK was given.

 

 

 

Libre was a huge success with around 1200 people attending the events of this fest.

 

is a 1st of its kind treasure hunt where a team consisting of 3 members have to find physical clues and decode virtual clues.Two of them in a team have to search and find a total of 8 physical clues.After two physical clues are found they will be given a virtual clue which has to be solved in front of a computer.All the physical clues are hidden in Golden Jubilee Block and virtual clues are to be solved in Software lab.During the hunt only two members are allowed to search for physical clues.The 1st 6 teams to get all 8 physical clues and solve all virtual clues will move onto to the final round.Usage of vehicles to travel b/w new and old building and use of mobiles in software lab is prohibited.

Endorse - as it is rightly called .In the final round of the event the participant are supposed to endorse a open source product and produce a comparison study with a equivalent non foss technology.
The preliminary round  consists of a IQ test .The winner will be presented a technology for which they will have to conduct a demo . the demo may be madad or a simple presentation.

the prilimnary round is on day 1 at 5:30
 

CRYPTIX OUR VIEW OUTSIDE.....INTO THE OPEN. Equip yourself with the terms associated with the open source and a brain which thinks logically and you are in for it. You dont need to answer the questions you just need to look through...we give you the answer look through it and there it lies a word related to the open source field in simple coded form...give us the words and you win it. Decode the answer given to you and present it in a more presentable form and you have the game on your side...

well a game that is sure to rake ur brains and teach you more.well this wonderful idea was presented by a obscura member vishwas sharma and by his friend shishir . this event will be held on the 3rd day . make sure u try it out . 

;) does the name remind you of something...

well this is a platform where solaris and linux will compete over each other showcasing all possible features they have an edge over the other or over windows(  :(  ) together ...

the usability ,the file systems , the features the results of this fight are much awaited ;) ...

at the end of the session a questionaire will be provided to the audience this is used to filter out  delegates for solaris workshop the next day and  scholarships for the linux workshop next day it will great fun to watch..

what ever maybe the case atleast this one is sure to happen

 

the big fight is scheduled on 4th april in the sir M.V hall of NIE at 2 pm .

Description:

* The SUN JAVA CHALLENGE is organized and sponsored by SUN MICROSYSTEM through its Campus Ambassador, SAUMIL MEHTA. It’s pure Java event since today’s competitive world needs programmers which are expert in Java.it will be conducted in NIE by pavan of obscura on 3rd of april 2007

 

the application can be done online  here

Event Details:

* Participation: Maximum 3 participants in a Team.

* Registration Fees : Rs. 30 per Team.

 

 

Sun Java Challenge is divided into two phases:-

Elimination Phase :

* This phase will take place on 1st day of Technoaspire ’08.

* In this phase, programming skills of Java will be tested through 50 simple questions.

* Question will be asked from Core Java. For details of syllabus and sample papers click. Also you can look for tutorials from “Learn Java with Passion”

* Each question will be of different marks depending on type of question.

* Each team will be given 60 minutes to complete this paper.

* Only 20 teams will be selected for the Sun Java Challenge’s Final round.

* Selection will depend on their Score in the elimination round.

 

 

Coding Phase: Teams which are selected will get a DVD of NetBeans and a tutorial of simple java programming using NetBeans.

* This tutorial will helpful to you for the next day of your coding phase.

* You will be given a Java problem statement, which you have to complete in

45 minutes as follows:

* Time Slots Time Discussion time Coding time Merging Time 5 minutes 30 minutes 10 minutes

* Net Beans IDE will be provided for ease in your programming.

 

* If you want to use any other IDE, then bring the source of it and give it before the event starts. (You can use any editor).

* The coding time of 30 minutes will be divided into equal time depending on the number of participants in the team.

* In the merging time all members can sit together to finalize their code in order to submit their problem. Judging Criteria:

* Your program will be judged according to your clarity of concepts in programming, your logic, and group co-ordination.

* Although preference will be given to the program which successfully runs giving desired output , in case the program is not successfully compiled the program will be judged according to above criteria.

Prizes:

* Top 20 teams will get special prize from Sun Microsystems.

* Top 10 teams will get a Software kit that contains 6 latest softwares from Sun along with their source code from Sun Microsystems.

* Top 5 teams will get a certificate (As sponsored and organized by Sun Microsystems) along with their rank. * A team which gets 2nd rank will win cash prize of 1500 INR.

* A team who win this SUN JAVA CHALLENGE Event will get a winner Certificate and 2500 INR cash prize.

Ever wondered what it takes to build mobile games????? Not much!!!! Just a couple of tools , some brains and a 40 minute workshop on creating mobile games  using J2ME and NETBEANS 6.0 using the latest game builder plug-in in  NETBEANS 6.0 , a new sun creation .

Workshop being conducted by Raghunandan.C.P.  and   Kailash.R.Bysani of Obscura on day 2 at 11 A.M. the venue is Sir M.V. Hall in the Golden Jubilee Campus.
come and have fun!!!!  

SPOTS ( Small programmable object technologies)  is one of the most innovative technologies of sun. It is versatile in functionality.through this workshops we will explore a few functionalities of the SPOTS.there will be a demo on how to use the spots as a mouse control .

the workshop will be conducted by chinmayi.s.k  of obscura it will be held on 6th april in the morning session

the attendees of all workshops will get certificates
 

Everybody needs an online presence,and what better way to say it with your own website.In this workshop you will be guided how to transform your Ordinary Desktop into a WEB SERVER!.And will be introduced to JOOMLA!, an award winning Open Source Content Management System(CMS) and all the essentials that you would need to maintain a successful website.
 the workshops will be conducted by Nakul.S of Obscura. The workshop on WAMP will be held on day 1 between  3-4 in Sir.M.V hall at NIE. At the end of this workshop a questionaire will be provided. The results of the test will be used to pick the delegates of the jhoomla session

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libre means freedom. freedom to create , use and modify with out any body restricting. freedom is never granted but awareness is absolutely necessary if one has to use it. open source is to software what democracy is to a country or world. this movement has gained a huge momentum worldwide but unfortunately in lot of parts of the world there is no trace of its existence. we are a group called obscura based in mysore which is around 2hrs drive from Bangalore.we work on open solaris.we are also evangelists of the open source movement.during our interaction with our peers we observed a lack of awareness of open source or even if they knew lack of confidence to participate kept them away from this movement.We were thinking of a way to reach a large portion of this peer group through a smart effort that when we came up with the idea of conducting a fest where we hand picked certain technologies and give them enough knowledge and confidence to get them to contribute to these technologies there by giving birth to libre.

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