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!!!

Plan your Calendar for Mozilla Free Cultural Roadshow @ Chennai

I am eagerly looking for the Free Cultural Roadshow @ Chennai, through which I am planning to associate with my fellow Mozilla Campus Representatives and I believe this is an excellent platform for us to discuss on Open Web and its future. Talk your way in the Festival and Win a trip to Mozilla Drumbeat Festival,Amsterdam on June 2010. Catch me @ Mozilla free Cultural Roadshow,Anna University this Tuesday (8-12-2009) :)

Mozz Rockz!!!!

Mozilla Free Cultural RoadShow - Catch the Excitement @ CEG and IIT

We love the web, and you do too. It creates huge opportunities along with new tensions.

What will the web look like in 5, 10, or 25 years? Will it still be a platform for creativity, self-expression, and open commerce? Or will it be enclosed by private interests and enveloped by surveillance and censorship?

Mozilla is traveling from city to city to celebrate the open web and remix culture. Join some illuminating talks, to speak your mind, and to meet new friends. Prepare a 5minutes of Talk which adds to your fame @ Mozilla Drumbeat!!!

Next dates

• December 8, 2009
  Anna University, Chennai
• December 9, 2009
  IIT, Madras
• December 14, 2009
  Mount Carmel College, Bangalore
• December 16, 2009
  CIS Office, Bangalore
• December 18, 2009
  CEPT, Ahmedabad
• December 20, 2009
  India International Centre (co-hosted by Magic Lantern), Delhi
• December 22, 2009
  Jadavpur University, Kolkata

 The Roadshow events are 100% free and open to everyone.

Joomla User Group- Welcome Chennai, Fabulous Start-Up Meet

Today 3rd December, 2009, I prepared Slides for my JUG presentation @ 3:00 PM and headed straight to Mary Brown @ Anna Nagar. It was 4:30 PM when Gokoul and JayaPrakash from P.M.R.I.T , Bro Rajesh, Swamy from Jaya Engineering College and his friend accompanied me at the venue for the meet. We were 6 , started with  FOSS talk , CMS , then I presented my ideas on JUG and its purpose and activities to be conducted. Everyone shared their ideas which helped us to better plan JUG Activities.

 It was a wonderful day, where the meet had everything from Joomla to Nuggets and Burgers. Soon a new web-portal for Joomla User Group, chennai will be hosted (http://jug-chennai.co.cc will be our temporary webspace) We shared many issues on Joomla and our user group activities @ the meet. I hope JUG always stays active and contribute for Joomla in all possible ways it can, becoz Open Source Matters...

 

From Left: Gokoul (P.M.R.I.T), JayaPrakash(P.M.R.I.T), Santhosh.V (Arunai Engg), Mr.Rajesh(E-ndicusInfo Tech), Swamy(Jaya Engg), Swamy Friend(Jaya Engg),

ChennaiPy Session - I @ AUKBC-MIT

This is really a good start for chennaipy as it conducted its 1st session @ AUKBC- MIT Campus. This time, I reached the campus early and had my seat prior to the session start-up. 14 Members were in the session as it went and the session was filled with novice python group. Ms.Rajeshwari took the web-scrapping session and Mr.Jaganadh took Bio-Medical Text processing with python.

To my surprise, the talks were over very soon and I was given a chance to share my experience in python programming. I was not prepared to face the audience, but still,  I managed to brief out my D-Bus Project and we had good discussions from all the attendees.

I am happy that from now ChennaiPy will regularly conduct session and I shall be a part in bringing out the sessions @ MIT which complements to better understanding of the language.

This was a draft posted by Mr.Jaganadh, Professor @ MIT on the session:

"This months chennaipy meet started at 3.10 p.m 28-11-09 at AU-KBC Research Centre MIT Campus of Anna University Chennai. Total 14 people attended the meeting. The first talk was given by Rajeswari S on WebScraping with Python, Santhosh give a talk on D-Bus programming with Python and Bio-medical text processing with python by Jaganadh G. There was discussion on IDE for Python, python web programming etc... The meeting ended by 04.50 p.m"

I thank Mr.Jaganadh, Mr.Surendar, MIT and NRCFOSS without them this session would have not been successful platform for us learn. I wish we must continue these session in future and bring out the best Python programmers in Chennai Region.