Hi all
Here is my blog entry for the WorkShop conducted by
Sun during our annual techno-cutural fest
Icknighted08. (http://www.icknighted08.com)
The workshop was conducted to create an awareness about CFF and
Sun/Open Source Technologies amongst the college students. The workshop
was conducted on 24th Oct. Gautami Kondapaneni from Sun was the
engineer who held the workshop.
The workshop started at 4:30 PM(30 mins late than scheduled) and went
on for 2hrs 15 mins till 6:45PM. The guest engineer was amazed by the
participation and the enthusiasm that was at dispay. There were 115
students from various colleges that had attended the workshop. The
entry was free for all and so we had more participation than expected.
The session highlighted the role of Sun in Open Source World and also
the revolution being brought about by student communities by
participating in the Open Source Community. The session also
evangelized about the Sun student competition-"Code For Freedom 2008".
The students were delighted to know about this and I had already
received few queries about the way in which they can take part in it. I
am also happy to let you all know that we have 3 teams already ready to
submit their initial designs as entries for this contest and they shall
be doing it soon after documenting their ideas.
The satisfactory aspect of this session was that there were many
students from different colleges who had a first look at Sun Academic
Initiative. All the students have gone back and given a thought about
this program. I have received queries regarding how they can get this
program into their institutes.
The speaker also highlighted the various technologies and how the
students can take advantage of these technologies being open sourced.
The queries raised by the students had taken the speaker by surprise as
she got many interesting ones. We had lots of goodies that were given
away at the end of the session based on the speakers rating of the
questions being asked. We also lucky draw for which we gave away
T-shirts, caps, pens, key chains. One lucky participant from the 1st
year had won a Pen Drive in the lucky draw. We also made sure that
every participant of the workshop had received cds of Solaris and
NetBeans.
We had also publicized OSUM to a great extent during this fest and we
now have a large database of students to whom we are reaching out for
their participation in OSUM. We shall soon see a lot of them in the
community.
I would like to thank Rajesh, our coordinator for the support he had
extended in getting this event organized. I,on behalf of IcfaiTech,
would also like to specially thank Gautami for delivering an excellent
workshop session by which students have got great insight into SAI.
I would like to give a word of thanks to Kriti,Diplesh,Nitesh Nigam of
my college who had worked hard to ensure that the workshop was held
successfully.
Students working hard to make sure there are no last minute hick-ups.
Gautami speaking about CFF and ways to participate in it
Presenting to students the technologies that can be used for participation in CFF