Dear friends,
I am a student from Kongu Engineering College (KEC).
KEC is active in the Linux arena.
1. Me and my team of students have been involved in motivating the
students here to use linux.
2. We have been influencing the staff and lab incharges about the
advantages of Linux from their perspective.
Each person has their own need, its not just open source that
matters to everybody.
3. We have encouraged students to form various interest groups. And
those groups inturn are engaged in helping the masses here.
4. Currently I have been successful in getting Linux installed and
functional in one of the departments (other than my own), and my
department still has a few Microsoft systems for unavoidable
reasons.
5. We are very active in our LUG meetings where 35+ (50 last meet)
students meet every alternative Tuesdays and discuss various
bleeding edge topics.
6. We are currently planning a national level conference based on the
same (Linux) sometime around the end of this year. Details about
which will surely be announced to the list.
7. Some students from our college are already working in the industry,
making and selling projects and products in the field of embedded
Linux among others.
8. Not to forget, there is a special interest group among staff where
they talk about how KEC can benefit from Linux and its derivatives
and how to completely replace the Microsoft alternatives in all the
departments.
9. The students conduct competitions regularly and encourage the use
of Linux and similar software.
10. All our computer centres have Linux systems together with
Microsoft operating systems.
11. Almost all our servers are based on Linux, other than when
indispensable (one NT and one NetWare).
12. We invite people from the industry to give guest lectures and give
general guidance. So all the students and staff know the trend in
the industry, among which is the fact that Linux is important.
The reasons for the success in Kongu Engineering College is the
presence of lecturers and professors who are well informed of the
latest trends in the engineering arena (not just the IT industry).
Students are very eager to learn and are not reluctant to spend
sometime learning new things. So they are not 'worried' about missing
Microsoft operating systems.
The systems team (non teaching staff) are very friendly and fully
co-operative when we want to install something. Rarely do we face
trouble, and even if we do, after explanation of our intentions we get
to install the software nevertheless.
Im proud to be in Kongu.
Arvind Kalyan
Final CSE
Linux Advocate and a Systems Programmer
Sriram Kalyanasundaram <ksriram29@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
i heard you are using solaris at ceg from one of my freinds.
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From: "Tom Jose Tharayil" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <sridharinfinity@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] About Linux advocacy in colleges (failed in CEG)
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 01:46:33 -0500 (CDT)
Hope you know that I'm a guy from CEG, Anna University.
My friend and I were planning to migrate some of the systems from
Windows-NT to Linux. And we have terribly failed[1] in that process.
Some of the reaons are ..
1. Stupid lab incharge persons.
as usual
2. Lack of linux knowledge - Administrators
as usual
3. Still thinking what OSS is! - HoD
educate him
Does anyone have ideas on making this possible?
[1] http://cs.annauniv.edu/~rsridhar/blog
PS: I wonder what the MIT lab systems are running?
When Praveen and I were there....we managed to install debian on the
server for the students to work on
After that I am not sure what happened
Anyhow we had a DC and a BDC on NT
--
Best Regards
Tom Jose Tharayil
tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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