Greetings!
I would like to thank the team of "Tuxedo 2005", Sri
Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore,
Karnataka for the opportunity and hospitality offered
during the two-day workshop held November 12-13, 2005.
Thanks to Joy, Chairman, IEEE-SJCE Student Branch for
working with me for the past one month (answering all
my queries :), and the student volunteers for taking
good care of us, and doing the needful during the
occasion. Special thanks to Dr. C. R. Venugopal
(IITB), who has taken so much initiative, and
continues to motivate SJCE students into FLOSS. Thanks
to Aanjhan, Ramanraj and Bharathi for their talks and
company. We had a good time :)
The photos taken during Tuxedo 2005 can be viewed
from:
http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album21
SJCE, has Dr. C. R. Venugopal (CRV), Coordinator IIPC,
Staff Advisor, IEEE, who has guided students in the
past and continues to guide them with FLOSS. But,
again, as in any other "engineering" college in India,
the active students are only around 10 in a class of
60. Under his guidance they have done projects on
RTOS, minix and GNU/Linux, but, haven't published it.
CRV has agreed to take marketing very seriously. The
syllabus is no different from any other engineering
college. Same 6 courses, 2 so-called practicals.
Hopefully, when they become autonomous, things will
change.
HP, Bangalore selects students from SJCE to do their
free software projects. This is only for final year
students. As usual, I insisted on doing free software
projects during their course curriculum. CRV also
works closely with Texas Instruments, Bangalore in
getting projects for their students so they can get
hands-on experience.
Bharathi began day one (Saturday) with a session on
"GNU/FSF". In the afternoon, Ramanraj spoke about
"CALPP and AI". The quiz prelims and finals were
conducted the same day.
Aanjhan spoke about "Embedded GNU/Linux" on day two
(Sunday). They had a "virtual treasure hunt" contest
for students on Sunday. I spoke on "Careers with
GNU/Linux and Free Software for Engineers" in the
afternoon. We screened the movie Revolution OS in the
evening.
Guyz, please feel free to narrate your experiences so
others will benefit from the experience too.
We have decided to have more collaboration between
Chennai and Mysore LUGS, and probably conduct lot of
contests for students to make them do *practical*
stuff and get hands-on experience. We can plan install
fests, hack fests, coding contests etc.
We will continue to motivate the so-called
"engineering students" into becoming engineers using
FLOSS.
Thanking you all once again,
SK
--
Shakthi Kannan, MS
Software Engineer, Specsoft (Hexaware Technologies)
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