SAN Adventures

The event was also supported by Web Club. All the ground work had been done. The publicity, which is the key, was done to perfection leaving no stone unturned. There were three different set of posters printed, block announcements, class announcements were done. I sent out SMSes giving out the details of the day's events.

We got the student Datasheets an a phamplet on Open Source printed and were distributed to all participants. For the MySQL and PHP workshop, which was yesterday, we distributed the MySQL and GlassFish datasheets. The turn out for the event was really good, with the seminar hall almost filled. Some 80+ people attended the talk and it was actually almost 100% of the number of registrations. I started off with a talk on NITK Sun OSUM and the OSUM Global Community. I listed out the activities of NITK Sun OSUM @ Campus and also highlighted the advantages and importance of joining the OSUM global community. This was followed by a talk on MySQL and PHP, the most awaited talk. The talk was delivered by Shreyas and Vageesh, both in their 3rd year of BTech and have been involved in numerous college projects and are currently working as freelance developers.

Shreyas spoke about using MySQL and basics of SQL and using phpMyAdmin for the same. He also introduced the audience the concept of Web Applications. Vageesh highlighted the basics of PHP and using PHP with MySQL. After the talk was the most interesting time- Questions and Answer Session. The speakers fired at the audience few questions on their talk and people who answered them got Sun Goodies. The session went on for about 2 Hours.

Link for the Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/sanaulla123/MySQLAndPHPWorkshop#