> > > Shyam, The idea is too good and we can move forward with it. We can plan > for a meeting on Monday itself. > > I have one suggestion. The seminars/workshops/discussions, whatever it is, > should be done for the entire class in each department > yeah we can expand the whole process gradually as per student interests and especially when the new batch of first years comes in .. > . We can decide the topics in regular meetings. In IT department we have > already planned for a series of seminars/workshops on "Free Software tools" > for the fourth semester students. Please find the topics below and please > give your inputs on this. Please add more topics here in this mail thread > itself. > > If students are familiarized with the tools available for them it won't be > difficult for them to directly jump into real world projects. > Yes thats what we are looking for.. anyone can start become a developer by tweaking small things..and there bye progressing to bigger things..This can become a platform where they can see the vast range of things they can play with... What about starting the whole thing with a show of the short film bigbuckbunny or/and elephant's dream and a short intro to blender? ;-) I was discussing with some of my friends who work at graphic designing to start a similar more simple 3d movie project in malayalam...any students with 3d animation/designing in their dreams can start chasing. blender is an excellent software see devashilpi.blogspot.com to see some blogs about that in malayalam.. blender.org even provides video tutorials > *Topics* > > *1. Operating System* > > 1. > > GNU/Linux Installation (Debian) > 2. > > Installaing packages in Debian (Synaptic Package Manager) > 3. > > Linux booting process in Detail > > *2. Tools* > > 1. > > GNU Make > 2. > > gdb > 3. > > ddd > > *3. Networking* > > 1. > > Setting up a Webserver (Apache) > 2. > > Networking Tools – ftp, ssh, scp, telnet, etc > 3. > > NIS > > *4. Introduction to Python* > > *5. Linux Kernel* > > * * > > 1. > > Kernel Compilation > 2. > > Booting with a newly compiled kernel > > *6. Advanced Shell programming* > > (a) awk > > (b) grep > > (c) sed* > * > > *7. Subversioning System(SVN)* > > *8. Re8. Real Time Linux (RTAI)* > > * 9. De 9. Device Driver Development in GNU/Linux* > > * 10. L 10. Localisation* > *11.GNU Emacs -Why its called an OS.. 12.IRC-HOW to 13.Embedded GNU 14.Phoenix box 15.GNU Octave *..... * *and in the middle we can make it light with topics like 1)DRM, -Why its defective by design 2)Different Free software licenses. 3)GSOC how to 4)Necessity of Free Standards We could effectively group these topics together to make it more interesting.. We could try to make a teacher-student collective by inviting teachers too to the discussions.. As a next step we could assign who all takes which session. Happy Hacking Shyam.k