Thursday September 11, 2008 A Day with Students
I had the privilege to visit NIT Durgapur campus last week to talk about Sun technologies to the students. The seminar went quite well. There were 2 sessions. The first session in the morning was attended by students from various colleges near Durgapur. There were around 200-250 students. I talked about OpenSolaris, VirtualBox, Java, JavaFX, Solaris Containers, and other such cool stuff. Lot of questions were asked on Zone administration. I talked about zones and showed them basic zone administration and introduced them to Branded Zones. All of them registered for SDN.The second session was more of a compact crowd comprising only NIT students. I was excited to know that they are already working on projects like crossbow. They were interested in knowing more about VirtualBox. So most part of the session, I showed them VirtualBox VM creation, VDisk management, and showed how WindowsXP can be started and used inside Solaris. They were amazed. I took that a chance to introduce them to different flavors of Solaris and told what is best for them.
I also talked about SDN, Curriki, Sun Certification, and the growing skills gap among students. More than the students, it was a great learning experience for me as I had a chance to interact with some of the young and brilliant minds. Thanks to NIIT guys for organizing this event.
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