Vasudha Amrit, a Sun Campus Ambassador at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India, recently wrote about the Institute's first technical talk of the year, which Vasudha reported "was an out and out success."
Vasudha noted that the publicity and preparation for the event was intense with posters put up information desks set up around the school, along with e-mails, SMS messages, and announcements that were made in all the classes. All that work certainly paid off since 240 students from all four years of engineering attended -- even more than expected!
The topic of the Tech Talk was OpenSolaris, and Vasudha reported that Abhishek conducted the lecture, and talked about the ins and outs of OpenSolaris. Vasudha noted that the talk went into great detail about "newly added features like time slider, device drivers, package manager, etc." now available in the 2009.06 release.
Vasudha reported that although the talk was almost three hours and highly technical, the attendees were very engaged, and even refused to break during the talk! Because of the overwhelming interest in OpenSolaris, Vasudha announced an OpenSolaris "install fest soon by public demand!"
The event sounds like it was a great success and a fantastic way to start out the new academic year! Congratulations to Vasudha for organizing the event and thank you for sharing your experience -- click here to read her complete blog on the event. Hopefully the turnout will continue to beat expectations at the Manipal Institute of Technology, if so, I think that means it's time to find a bigger room!
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