Greetings!
Deepan Chakravarthy and myself conducted a one-day
workshop for the Bioinformatics department, Karpagam
Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu,
India on Saturday, September 9, 2006. The photos taken
during the workshop can be viewed from here:
http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album37
I introduced them to FLOSS, and then Deepan spoke on
how FLOSS is useful in bioinformatics. He showed a
demo of emboss, and lot of other applications. I think
he can elaborate on that as I am not familiar with the
subject. After lunch, I gave a demo of the GNU/Linux
desktop environment, and also explained basic commands
that they can use in the console environment. Deepan
then continued with his demo of bioinformatics
applications and discussed about FLOSS projects at
bioinformatics.org.
The students/faculty were really enthusiastic, and
wanted follow-up sessions. I emphasized that they
should get started with setting up a FLOSS lab, and a
GNU/Linux user group on-campus. They are ready to
provide facilities, stay, food even if you want to
spend a week there, and give them hands-on training.
There are no distractions until October 5, 2006, after
which they have model exams, followed by holidays and
exams.
I would like to thank Prof. Hemalatha for working with
us for the past couple of weeks in coordinating and
organizing this event. Special thanks to the
department faculty and management for the facilities
and hospitality offered.
Best regards,
SK
--
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
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