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Everybody, Renaissance 2005 - An event which touched every one's soul... The biggest contribution to the society that ever happened in the history of Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur... A presentation from the unbreakable hearts of GEC.... An event which was built up on the Thirst, Struggles, Perseverance, Hunger, Dream, Surprise, Pain, Confidence, Obstacles, Plan, Agony, Joy, Ego, Calamity, Love, Friendship, Tears, Complex, Aim, Thoughts, Sacrifice...... ..... Classes.. Exams.. Teachers... Sponsors... Money... Department... IC Software... me and you.... ... Today ... We can dream the past ... build the future ... we have consideration ... we have relations ... we are confident ... Just look back ... go back to the past year ... Who were we? ... Now ... Where we are? .... We are celebrating the anniversary... the year which was a turning point ... lets join again ... walk again ... let this spirit ... unity ... follow us ... we are on the move to make a better tomorrow. At this ocassion i remember... all of you remember... A reply which ' started ' everything to a mail which ' dreamed ' everything... From: "ND." <datastructures@xxxxxxxxx> To: renaissance2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Renaissance 2005 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:50:22 IST Hi, Good to see that one more FOSS event is happening in the country. FOSS events were started by Linux Bangalore in December 2001. Followed by GNUnify in February 2003 & Then by Linux-Asia again in February 2004 & now Renaissance 2005. Dates of LINUXASIA 2005 were announced on February 13, 2004. It will be held from February 9-11, 2005 in New Delhi. Here are some of my suggestions for Renaissance 2005. Event Contents: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Install Fests for the newbees. Showing newbees how to set up Linux, BSD & HURD on your PCs. This could cover how to setting up dual boot machines, partitioning etc. 2. Techie Talks (1 1/2 hrs.) This could be talk from techies about emerging open-source topics like clustering. For more topics & great sppeakers list you could see # http://linux-bangalore.org/2003/schedules/ # http://linux-bangalore.org/2002/schedules/ # http://linux-bangalore.org/2001/schedules/ Also check http://www.linuxasia2004.com/ 3. Tutorials (4-5 Hours) We in our syllabus have proprietary products like VB, VC++, Oracle etc.. In tutorials complete comparing can be done say between Oracle & PostgresSQL The talk co-ordinator can cover the topic in very much detail and the student whois well versed with Oracle would be able to grasp the Postgres part very fast. You can have pre-requisites for such talks. 4. Movie Screenings # Some from DDJs TechCast Archieve # The Code # RMS Lectures # Revolution OS 5. Paper Presentations # Topics list i will send later 6. Poster Competitions "A picture speaks more than a 1000 words.." You can make posters and put them on your website so that students from other colleges can dowload and use them for their labs. Posters could be like screenshots of OpenOffice.org Writer, Anjuta, Evolution Email etc.. 7. Hands On workshops No this is not as simple as Install fest & If you are able to pull this this would be the fist ever Hands on workshop in India. You can have network of computers and a techie can gives hands on guide on how to set NFS, NIS, QMAIL, SENDMAIL, KERBEROS etc.... You can add Linux From Scratch...in it 8. Cheat Sheets & Quick Reference Cards e.g. http://www.tldp.org/REF/ls_quickref/QuickRefCard.pdf http://www.tldp.org/REF/Joe-Command-Reference/index.html http://www.tldp.org/REF/CVS-BestPractices/CVS-BestPractices.pdf If you create more such cards and distribute them at event or put them for sale at the event the community could benefit from it. Since we have lot of time you can ask for contributions from the community itself. 9. SLIDESHOWS Something like http://www.linuxbeta.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=41&slide=1 With paper-prsentation and poster competition you could have slide shows as well. or if facultys in your own college would give assignents of such type to the students on various topics then like tldp.org you can have your own set of slideshows for the world. 10. Talks which are not techie.....and from High Profile ppl. Like in GNUnify there was a grand slam day in which there were different themes like # Introduction to Free Software # Free-software in Education # Made-In-India # Open-Source - The National Agenda # RMS Talk - The Guru Speaks. 11. Indian opensource and free software projects apart from Localization # Anjuta # ........long list.... You could make directory of it and can make another slide show. .. This slidesow would motivate budding programmers about contributing to freesoftware. Hope you find these 11 points useful. If you need any other help please write back. Best regards -- N.D. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. :: Abraham Lincoln :: --- Renaissance Gectcr <renaissance2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Date: 21 Aug 2004 01:47:59 -0000 > From: "Renaissance Gectcr" > <renaissance2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: renaissance2k5@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Renaissance 2005: You can help us. > > Dear Linux-Enthusiast, > > Let's introduce ourselves; we are a group of > students, continuing our Post Graduation as Master > of Computer Application (MCA) at Govt. Engg. College > (GEC), Thrissur, Kerala, India. > MATTER: > > We are planning to conduct a National Level > 3 day IT Festival in our college campus, where the > concentration of the event will be on Open Source > Software (OSS) especially 'Linux'. Like you, who has > been loving 'TUX' for the past years, we guys also > fell in love with 'TUX' and want others to do the > same. By knowing its power to begin a new and > essential revolution in the software field all over > the world, which we have seen for the past years, we > chose LINUX, a powerful candidate from the Open > Source Software field, as the theme of the fest. And > we have decided to conduct the program by the end of > February 2005. > > We all together are on the move to make this > national level fest an immense success. In order to > accomplish this we are in demand of more ingenious > and innovative ideas. You are requested to share > your ideas and fields that can be included, which > reveals the power of Linux in our event. Who else > could provide us with more inspiring and productive > ideas? We would appreciate you people to reach us > your ideas concerning the programs to be included. > > Secondly, we would like you to help us on > the topics for Paper Presentation available in > Linux. We are also interested in giving > opportunities for eminent personnel to participate > in Paper Presentation Contest. > > We would be indebted to you, if you could > help us succeed in having distinguished and > prominent personalities in our event like RMS, who > has been very successful in popularizing the concept > of OSS all over the world. > > Finally, but worth mentioning can you let us > know means, by which we can have funding assistance, > which in turn very importantly mirrors on the > overall realization of the event. > > However, your entire support, advice and > guidance are expected, which are important to make > our dream a reality. And we are sure that you, the > warriors of open source software field, will never > disappoint us. > > You send your opinions and suggestions at > any of the following addresses as quickly as > possible. > > renaissance2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > renaissance2k5@xxxxxxxxx > ph:(91)-0480 3114884 > > > > [ If you are a moderator of a group, please forward > it to your members ] > > > Yours truly, > > MCA Students, GEC, Thrissur. - Tinku Sampath |
