Software Freedom Day 2008 @NITK- Day 3 and Day-4
Day-3, September 24, 2008
Introduction to Open Solaris and ZFS
Speaker: Ashwin Bhat
Venue: ATB Seminar Hall
The
session began exactly at 5:30 PM. We started off by screeing a video on
Software Freedom Day. The video went for about 10 Minutes. The crowd
kept coming one by one. After this we showed them the movie "Big Bucks
Bunny" - The movie from the Open Source Movie project and made using
Blender.
Once the crowd had settled down we started off with
the presentation. Ashwin Bhat was the speaker and he was to speak on
Open Solaris and ZFS. He started off explaining various jargons related
to Operating System concepts. He spoke about Memory management, Process
Management, Scheduling,Device Drivers and File System. He gave a brief
but sufficient amount of information to help the participants in
getting to know the features of Open Solaris.
After the introduction he spoke about Open Solairs
explainging what it is and comparing it with Solaris. He spoke about
the Interesting features of Open Solaris namely DTrace, zones, SMF,
IPS, ZFS. He spoke at length about ZFS explainging how its different
from existing filesystems. Various features of ZFS listed were 128 bit
filesystem, Self Healing data, high reliability, platter speed
performance. He also spoke about the Open Solaris Started kit and how
to go about installing it on virtual box.
Ashwin also spoke about Code For Freedom and how to
go about participating in it, advantages of participating and variuos
technologies available for working. The ongoing MySQL and Glassfish
Review contest was also told to the participants. After this was the
question and answer session wherein as usual the speaker asked
questions to the audience and people who answered correctly got Sun
Goodies 
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Started Kit was distributed to all the participants and also the Open
Solaris datasheet provided by Sun were distributed to all the
participants.
Link for Photos here.
Day-4, September 25, 2008
The event lined up for todays session was:
NetBeans Deep Dive and Java Swing
Speaker: Mohamed Sanaulla
Venue: ATB Seminar Hall
I
started off the session at 5:30 in the evening. Started off with a
video on Sun Microsystems and followed by a "Java Everywhere" video. By
then the crowd had gathered and had settled down. I started off with
giving a brief idea of Netbeans, the technologies it is supporting and
the basic features which make it an complete IDE. Some of the cool
features like Profiling, Swing Builder, Web Pack were demonstrated.
After this i explained them how to run C/C++ Applications using
NetBeans. For that i had reacorded a video showing the installation of
Cygwin along with the gcc, g++ compilers, gdb and make utility. After
showing them the configuration of Cygwin i showed them executing C
programs using NetBeans. The programs demonstrated include one simple
Application and one more which invloved taking command line arguments.
After this i took up explaining basic Swing
components namely JButton, JRadioButton, JPanel, JCheckBox,
JTabbedPane. For every component i showed them how to use them using
NetBeans Swing Builder. After the demo there was a question and answer
round. Participants were aksed varied questions covering the topics of
the talk and whosoever answered them correctly got Sun Goodies
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NetBeans 6.1 DVDs were dsitributed to all the participants and also the
NetBeans datasheets provided by Sun were distributed. Through out the
SFD events we managed to cover 200 odd students at our college.
Link for Photos
here.
Posted at
10:16AM Oct 01, 2008
by Mohammed Sanaulla in CA |
Wednesday Oct 01, 2008
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