5 day Industrial Training @ SSN by Free Software Foundation

Greetings,
                The 5 day Industrial Training conducted by Free Software Foundation, TamilNadu in association with SSN Engineering College ended today with a great blast! 220+ Students attended the 5 day Training and all sessions were fabulous learning experience. Mr.Ravi Jaya (Python Session), Mr.(Linux) Baskar (Linux Installation, Dir Structure) and all other speakers were great in delivering knowledge to all students.

I need to specially thank Mr.Shanu, Mr.Praveen Chandrahas, Mr.Siddharth, Mr.Welkin, Mr.Shashan, SSN Management and all volunteers in making this event a great success. Mr.Shanu's session on FSF helped everyone to know what Free and Open Source Software is and how they can contribute. Mr.Siddharth handled enlightening session on Software Patents and FSMI. Mr.Praveen's session on Cloud and his complete presence helped all newbies to acquire clarity on many issues. Mr.Welkin's session on Downloading,Compiling and Creating Application was very interesting and informative. I (Santhosh.V) handled a session on "how to do Projects" and shared my experience with FSF, TN.

This Event has motivated and gave a clarity of thought and usage to 220+ Students where you can see many of them already started working on Linux. Projects were assigned to every college participated. Hats-Off to FSF, TamilNadu for their good Work!



-Regards,
Santhosh.V
Regional Manager, Joomla User Community- Asia, 
Student, Arunai Engineering College  

{DAY-2}- FSF, TN Conf @ SSN : Take the Plunge....Breath Free!!!

{Day-2} @ SSN started with Ajax followed by most exciting Linux Distribution Making and Hands-On lab on making Linux distros. After the lunch, we had sessions on Patents and then came the most awaited project session where each team were assigned a project under FSF and brief timelines where given to us on project submission. What's more than these fabulous sessions, we had our refreshments and concluded FSF Conf.

I really enjoyed these two days and I thank all those who were behind this initative. HariShankar (my jnr) and I had a really log drive in his Passion+ and finally he dropped me @ Guindy while other 3 guys had SSN Route Buses to drop them home.

Working Technologies into projects is more important than learing them through Workshops and Conference. In this context, FSF and SSN has helped us to work on technology rather than just learning them. I have no words explaining these days in my life rather than start working on projects told to me on these two days, which I feel is the real way in which I can thank SSN Engg college and FSF Team.

FSF Rockzz!!!

FSF Conference @ SSN {DAY-1} - An Splendid Start

It was 6:15AM, 5th December, 2009 when I started from my home to take the Route Bus to SSN. I reached the college @ 8:15AM and the Greens and aesthetic beauty of the campus greeted me as I entered. I was joined by 4 of my college guys (my jrs) and we made ourself present at Mini-Auditorium for the sessions.

Previewing Big-Bucks Bunny Movie the session began by a fabulous talk from Mr.Siddharth (Core FSF Member, Cognizant Employee). His talk helped us to know better what Free S/w is and what Open Source software is. He explained how important not to patent our innovation, as it prevents development of Science for the next 20 years from our date of patent. His talk made us to visualize the generations of human development from primitive-industrial-modern.

Next we had a talk from Mr.Praveen Chandrahas, IITian aand FSF Promoter, where he briefed out Filesystem and their implementation and steped down Ubuntu Installation process.

We had an Community person from Tamil Computing Team, Ubuntu Mr.Thangamani Arun briefing us on Android Architecture and its SDK's. He showcased a demo on how to work on Android Development Toolkit in Eclipse IDE and to use a Emulator.

Android session was followed by Shell Scripting by Mr.Bharathi Subramanian, FOSS Evangelist, ILUG Team. This session was really gr8 as I explored the basics of SHELL programming. I will surely work on this scripting a lot more than just listening to it.

We were served with refreshments in-between the sessions and {DAY-1} was really excellent. Tomorrow {DAY-2}, I am waiting for even more exciting stuffs @ FSF.

FSF RockZZZ!!!

Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu Workshop @ SSN on Dec 5th and 6th - Book your Seats...

Wow..!!! Its now FSF, TN who will make my holidays more enjoyable. A Cup of Scripting , Linux Customization Salads, Python Feast...whats more to special this December!!!  Here goes the Invite...

Hurry up Students !!! Click here http://fsftn.org/content/workshopssn2 to  register to the workshop. Only 120 Seats available !!!! 

*Automatic enrollment to projects* of Free Software Foundation on  registering to the workshop. In the workshop you would learn : 

   - Business Models in Free Software
   - How to configure Linux for your day-to-day use?
   - Scripting Languages !!
   - Learn all these on-hands at Lab.
   - Learn Ajax.
   - Ever thought of having your own Operating System? Learn it, Build it!!!
   - Start working on Free Software projects with guidance from experts in Software industry. 

*This is the ideal way to use your holidays !!! Fun, Learn, Hack !!!!!!!*