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Hi all

ICoSUG of The ICFAI Institute of Science & Technology celebrated its first ever “Software Freedom Day” on September 20, 2008, with the hope that by concentrating such efforts on a single day each year we can achieve a worldwide awareness that remains elusive when our efforts are chronologically dispersed.

The three hour program commenced at 2 pm by lighting the Lamp, to inaugurate the celebration, by the esteemed guests Dr. M. Raja., the Director, Mrs. K. Aruna, Y. Avanish Raju and  Gawtham Narisipalli who apparently are working for Google

Also, Faculty Members like Mr. Ajeet Jain, Dr. C.R.K.Prasad, Sudeepto Bhattacharya,G. Suresh Kr, D.V.Nair, Lakshmi Narayana and Prabhakar Rao and many others participated in the seminar.
Computer lab administrators also took the benefit by being present in the program.

Director, Dr. M. Raja instigated the program with his presentation sharing the Power of Open Source.
Dr. K. Aruna also shared her views on the ongoing technology development in the fields of computers and how open source is emerging the THEME For the CURRENT GENERATION.

Seminar Hall was packed with the students, when Guest Speakers Gawtham gave his talk on “Web Technologies & Trends” and Avanish on “Web Apps.” They were outstanding in terms of knowledge and their presentations. Students took the benefit by asking numerous questions at the end.

We the students of IcfaiTech are not far away when things go techie..!!!There were a total of seven presentations on various open source languages from the students.

Khirad Dhabhar presented on the topic “Linux”, Rahul Bose, a 3^rd yr student gave his talk on “Open Source & GNU”. Vidhaat Raman expounded the topic “Python”, B.M. Adithya discussed about “OpenGL”. The topic “PHP” was presented by Avirrop Sircar and Sandeep Kumar Mittal told about emerging MySQL. The presentation on  “Net Beans” was by a junior student Sushil Kumar.

Towards the end a Quiz was conducted based on various presentations for interested students. The winners and runners up were rewarded momentos for their acheievement

We reached to about 130 students of our college including 1st, 2nd, 3th and final year students

I would like to thank Khirad and the rest of the team for making this happen.

I would like to thank the guest speakers and the faculties who shared their knowledge with the students.