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Software Freedom Day 2008 @NITK- Day 1

We had planned loads of events for the Software Freedom day and the preparation for the same had been done earnestly. The celebration has been spread over to 4 days i.e from September 21st 2008 to September 25, 2008.

Mr Mahesha Nanjundaiah and Director of NITK

The events on September 21st 2008 were:

Inauguration and Inaugural Talk by Director or our college, Dr. Sandeep Sancheti. Our Director spoke about the importance of Open Source in the future and it impact in the present. He also appreciated the initiative of organizing Software Freedom Day.

Director Addressing the Gathering

Presentation by Naabo Solutions: Naabo Solutions is a venture of few students from NITK. They have been using Open Source technologies for developing their applications. One of the company employees who happens to be a final year student at NITK presented a talk on Open Source Opportunities.

Talk by Naabo Solutions

Guest Lecture by Mr. Mahesha Nanjundaiah, General Manager Compiler and Tools R&D,HP India. He spoke on various technical aspects related to opportunities available to students in field of Open Source.One of his main points was India, having highest growth rate in the IT sector, contributes very less to R&D in core aspects of computing.India lags way behind other countires like even China and Russia when it comes to core R&D in computer science and encouraged the students to take up research in Computer Science.

Demo of Open Moko: Open Moko is an Open Source alternative to iPhone, which functions as good as iPhone and costs half its price and is very popular among the student developer community.

Demo of 3D effects in Linux using Compiz as compared to in Microsoft Windows and demo of Open Source games

Complete Photographs of the Day-1 Can be viewed here.

Posted at 12:00AM Sep 22, 2008 by Mohammed Sanaulla in CA  |  Comments[0]