Hi, I conducted a one-day Free (/Open Source) Software workshop for Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad in association with IEEE Student Chapter, Hyderabad, on Saturday, October 27, 2007.
Photos are available here: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album37 Students were mostly from the Masters' programme. Thanks to Dr. Vineet, Prof. Anupama, Dr. Madhav Negi (IEEE), Dr. Atul Negi for their help, coordination in planning this workshop, for almost a month. Forenoon included technical discussions/presentations: system, embedded, device driver concepts; Linux device drivers; introduction to OpenMoko: build, development for OpenMoko; demo of Neo1973. Afternoon included non-technical discussions: i-want-2-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do , mailing list guidelines, Free Software communication guidelines, and brainstorming sessions. All presentations are available from: http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html Regarding UoH: More than half of the faculty have had their MS/PhDs abroad. The university and the faculty have the freedom to implement whatever they like, which is cool. Students, the usual so-called "engineering students". They were quite upbeat after the workshop. Only time can tell. The labs use Fedora/RedHat/SuSE versions. They run their own mail+web servers, and use NFS. There are few professors who give assignments with Makefiles, gdb, Linux kernel compilation, but, they are just starting, and experimenting with these. It was announced that INR 20,000 will be alloted each year for Free/Open Source events. Feedback/criticisms/suggestions on the presentations welcome, as always. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
