Dear all, A two days FOSS workshop was conducted by Dept. of Computer Technology, MIT campus on August 24 & 25th. Participants from various colleges and universities attended the workshop.
The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. Nike Hine (1), University of Dundee, Scotland (UK) and presented his inspirational speech on 'Ethical Engineering'. MIT Dean Dr. S.Thamarai Selvi insisted on the importance of using FOSS for academic/research purposes which would help improving the quality of engineering education. Dr.C.N.Krishnan / Co-ordinator - NRC-FOSS spoke about the FOSS activities of NRC-FOSS and team members Mr. Mohamed Imran, Mr. Sanjeev Saini, Mr. Senthil Anand demonstrated Koha Library Management System, FLS, M.Sc. FOSS courses. Technical sessions with complete hands-on were given for the participants. * Network interface configuration * Package management setup / configuration using RPM (creating repodata and serving it to clients) * Installing / Configuring Samba, CUPS * Kernel configuration, compilation and installation * Virtualization using QEMU * Setting up Version control system using SVN (SVNEdge) * Compiling the source code by fetching from the Subversion server * using build tools like autoconf, automake etc. * GUI programming using Qt * Filesystem implementation using FUSE At the valedictory function, Dean Dr.S.Thamarai Selvi issued certificates to the participants and requested the participant colleges to make use of Free software in their institutions. Finally, I would like to thank the following members for organizing/co-ordinating the workshop. Dr.S.Thamarai Selvi - Dean / MIT Dr.P.Jayashree - Prof. & Head - Dept. of Comp. Technology Ms.P.Pabitha / AP-CSE Ms.K.Suganthi / AP-CSE Mr.Murugavadivel / System Administrator With regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems (1). http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ac_staff/staffdetails.asp?30 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
