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Day 2

We were still having the stall for University Relations and based on yesterdays response we had arranged for an extra stall also. So now we were more people getting registrations done on behalf of the attendees for OSUM. It was really interesting to get the feedback from the people who were willing to join and also from those who had joined yesterday.

We had announced prizes for the groups that would get more than 25 or 50 registrations within a day and to our surprise there were more than one group that had achieved it.

Later in the day after luch, I had taken our co-ordinator Ganesh Sir to my campus at Kompally so that he could address the students of my college and also have an interaction with the facluty at my institute. It went on pretty well. There were few positives that were discussed during the course of the meeting and I hope all that we discussed would get implemented.

We returned back to HICC at around 5:00 in the evening by when few other CA's had delievered their lightening talks. The crowd coming in to the stall for registrations even after 5:30. But we had closed it down at around 6:00 as we were already too tired to keep going on.

All the CA's then had taken out little time to relax in any possible manner. Few had gone to  attend the evening's entertainment program while I along with few others had just sat down and had chat with each other.

We then moved out again for dinner to a restaurant near the Cyber Towers where we all enjoyed some delicious food again.

Over all, the two days at the stall was quite wonderful with the response that we had for participaption into OSUM.

A sigh of relief thinking that there would no stall on Day 3. 

Hi all

Sun Tech Days 2008-09 was held at HICC Hyderabad between 18th and 20th of Feb. This is the second time I have attended Tech Days, first being the one conducted last year. A lot of anxiety and curiosity to meet the people driving Open Source Community. This time the event was more special owing to the presence of the man whom we all know as "Father of Java", James Gosling.

On the first day, the excitement to see James was uncontrollable. He is the one who has changed the world of technology on its head by gifting the most used powerful and  programming language today, Java.

It was 08:40 in the morning on 18th when I reached there. The registration stalls were filled with people for spot registrations while the pre-registered were busy collecting their welcome goodies. The Tech Days started off at around 09:00 with welcome notes by Anil Valluri followed by Key Notes from James Gosling , in which he laid emphasis on telling the large gathering the power of Open Source Technology and also highlighted the latest developments in the technological fields, like JavaFX, Project Kenai and few more. Every one present in the auditorium paid attention to every single word spoken by James. I must frankly say that any of them had eveb been there only to see this Geeky Guy who during his talk took the blame on himself, not for Java but for the editor emacs that he developed as part of his project. The remianing of the key notes were very helpful in showing the world the way ahead in the Open Source Technology.

Then started the various tracks evangalilzing the attendees of various rich features of technologies including JavaFX, OpenSolaris,MySQL,NetBeans,GlassFish and so on. Unfortunately I did not have the oppurtunity to attend many of these seeions as I was volunteering the Sun University Relations Booth at the Thech Days. Being a Sun CA, I felt very proud in letting the attendees, especially the college going community, know about OSUM , the only community of its kind bringing together the like minded developers around the worls to a common place. 

I along with Rajesh, our Coordinator and few other  CA's continued with registering the students into the OSUM for the rest of the day. Infact, Ganesh Sir, who is the Coordinator for Sun CA Program in APAC was astouned by the response that we were getting from the students attending Tech Days.

The first day was marked with great success, not only in spreading the technical knowledge through various track sessions, but also in regards with the participation we could generate into OSUM.

In the evening there was Entertainment programme, a Fashion Show which drove the attendees crazy. A lot of fashion and cool music was at offer to enjoy.

Thanks to Ganesh Sir that we all CA's along with few other students who were present there for presenting their projects, had gone out for a Dinner at Paradise, the landmark hotel in Hydereabad.  

A real good 1st day at Sun Tech Days 2008-09