Philippine Borland User Group (PhilBUG) made a big leap as it conducted the first of the series of training-seminars starting off with a four-hour discussion on Linux last Saturday, October 20 at the E-Commsite office on the 30th floor of IBM Plaza in Eastwood, Quezon City. The event was organized to pave the way for the next batch of seminars on Borland products that run on Linux, namely Kylix and the upcoming C++ Builder for Linux.
Two of the PhilBUG Core members, namely Meric Mara and Elline Roquel, spearheaded the event as they discussed the Red Had Linux installation and Linux File Systems. Elline started the seminar by giving an interactive demonstration of the Red Hat Linux installation. Although detailed, since you don't normally get to set up firewalls and partitions, the demo only lasted for an hour. You could imagine her racing with Lydia de Vega and winning by a mile. This young and vibrant lady in a technical clothes, orange shirt and denims, captured the attention of everybody. Proof? She was only bombarded with questions of which she proved her expertise by brief and direct answers. A 15-minute break followed after Elline finished her part. Since no one wants to have their seats be taken, the entire room was already filled with people before the break ends. Well, this just causes Gorge and I to take the Standing Room area while eating our breakfast-lunch only because our seats were taken! You couldn't imagine now how many people were there. They were overflowing. Shortly, Meric took charge of the floor as he discussed Linux file system, shells and commands. Now this guy was just fabulous with his all-black attire seemingly looks like a geek or something. This entire room that filled with people were quietly listening to the full voice of this witty speaker resonating throughout the room. He talked about file permissions as if the future of earth depended on it. He could give Noli de Castro a run for his money. Question and Answer portion followed where the participants were given the time to throw whatever it was that bugging their minds and most of them were on installing of drivers, using of commands, etc. Here the people got the chance to get the answers straight from the experts. Of course, before we end the seminar, we gave way for some speech to the PhilBUG president who also made it possible for this event to come to reality, that is, Rocky baby! If not for the E-commsite's kindness, we will not be able to hold this kind of training. Thank you for the facilities and the place! Bravo! As we release all those participants, we gave a Trial Versions of Borland Kylix to the first 15 people who attended the seminar in appreciation for the overwhelming attendance. Kylix is the Delphi for Linux programming tool. Of more than 30 participants, not a bad number though, 25 of those are non-PhilBUGgers. This large number of people was a big surprise to the organization considering the announcement for the event was quite sudden. All 25 slots were not only taken but also not sufficient to accommodate all attendees. Nevertheless it has given the group a new source of inspiration as they plan the next batch of seminars. Guaranteed a must see as they will showcase the leading tools from Borland, like C++ Builder, Delphi, J Builder, JSP and more. Plans to cover Java as also considered. Meric is a Brainbench certified and currently connected with Union Bank of the Philippines as IT Manager I handling the Linux systems. He administers on Linux for more than four years now and has a widely exposed on both software and hardware technologies. Elline is an IT Professional for over 4 years and is highly exposed to a wide range of software technologies, capable of handling tasks that require administrative knowledge in a Unix platform environment. She is now the System Administrator for iDSFinance, a financial portal company in Makati. For the record, the seminar started and ended on time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [ph-linux-newbie] FREE Linux Seminar !!!! > How did the training go? > Did you get good attendance from the ph-linux-newbie crowd? > > I'm looking forward to participating... let's organize more... :) > > _______________________________________________ > ph-linux-newbie mailing list > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > plug website http://plug.linux.org.ph > to unsubscribe, send 'unsubscribe' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
