Hi, I just want to share what happened in mepco this weekend, The Computer Society of India of Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi organized a two-day workshop, "Innovate 09", on Free/Open Source Softwares on February 21 (Saturday) and February 22 (Sunday), 2009 in the college premises. Mr. S.Baskar, CEO of LinuXpert Systems, Chennai and Mr. Ravi Jaya, free-lance trainer conducted this training programme. This event recorded a total of 382 participants comprising of students from various colleges in the vicinity of Mepco schlenk Engineering college.
Name of the College Total No. of Participants 1) Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi 168 2) Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College, Sivakasi 110 3) Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil 90 4) Sethu Institute of Technology, Kariapatti 7 5) Karunya University, Coimbatore 3 6) SCAD Engineering College, Tirunelveli 2 7) PSNA Engineering College, Dindigul 1 8) Dr. Sivandhi Adithanar Engineering College, Tiruchendur 1 Total 382 students Before the commencement of workshop, we had installed Fedora-10 distribution in four labs comprising of nearly 140 machines using the FOSS-Lab Server provided by LinuXpert Systems. On day one, around 345 students attended the session which dealt with the introduction and basics to the Linux Operating System like Linux installation, Introduction to FOSS, Basic Linux commands, Introduction to LAMP/MySQL, Web Development with PHP and Apache HTTPD Web Server in Linux. On day two, around 275 students participated in the session which included Shell Scripting, PERL Programming, Python scripting, Virtualization and MySQL Administration using PHPMyAdmin. The workshop accomplished the aim of providing a spark of knowledge about FOSS into the minds of the students... -- A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows. <-Fighting 4 Freedom-> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
