Inspiron is an annual tech fest conducted by UVCE,Bangalore.It was very
pleasing to see Sun Microsystems logo all around in the banners.The
atmosphere was highly electric,we all felt nostalgia for our own college
days.
Siddesh in his icebreaker session spoke of SUN's open source initiative.He talked about the importance of WIN-WIN paradigm that SUN has adopted by encouraging students to participate with open source products(especially glassfish).He also demoed a live installation process.(Most of them weren't exposed to application server,except few).To put it a nut shell he ran through all the important slides covering simple and practical uses cases of LB,Clustering and HA.We didn't stress too much on the word quality though we mentioned about the success stories of FISHCAT program that was adopted of Glassfish V3 testing .We invited the students to become contributors by asking them to work on glassfish projects and get their names up there on the glassfish site as the project contributors.This session on glassfish lasted for 30 mins.
We also took this opportunity to introduce WebSynergy to the student
community.Webynergy running on Glassfish was an icing on the cake .We
showed few simple ,practical use cases, covering university requirements
where websynergy can be of help.
We introduced portlets and talked about its similarity to
servlets.We also gave a demo on creating portlets,inter portlet communication using Netbeans and PortalPack
plugins.
We threw few questions to the students and gave away goodies for
correct answers.
We were quite pleased and taken aback to see the student
coordinators(Prajwal,Vinith,Ranjitha) distributing CD's containing
glassfish and Netbeans to those who were present.It was a well managed
event.
We shared with students few project ideas for websynergy portal.
We distributed those project summaries along with glassfish projects.
Few students are interested to work on Metro based projects and are in
touch with Sudhir in this regard.We thank Sudhir and Padma for making
this possible.We plan to be in touch with the UVCE students through UVCE OSUM(open source university meetup) club http://osum.sun.com/group/uvceosumclubbangalore