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