Dear luggies,
The fossconf-09 at TCE,Madurai, was successfully conducted.
Highlights
a.Visitors: about 1300 excluding tce students (which may about 500)
b.All talks were well received good attendance(good by our standards >10)
c. Demo stalls this time have upstaged all the previous demo's we have
conducted. About 10 topics including gcc, shell scripting and commands
were done by school students i.e 9th and 11th standard. Two schools
were involved TVS matriculation school and Srividhyalam Matriculation
school, Madurai.
These students performed exceedingly well.
We slightly changed the prizes that we planned. Here is what we awarded
a.Best project: Tamil spell checker by Selva & team from Jaya Engg College.
Rs.2000/-
b.Best student speaker: Mr.Anirudh of VIT for talk on virtualisation
Rs.2000/-
c.Best demo stall to TVS and Srividhyalam Schools. Since TVS school had
more stalls we awarded
TVS Matriculation School : Rs.2000
Srividhyalam School : Rs.1000
d.An appreciation award (a.k.a party fund) to the TCE organising team
Rs.2000
Bharathi will post the contributors to the prize money.
On the whole it was statisfactory, much better organised than last year.
On behalf of ILUGC I thank the management, principal,staff and students of tce
for the excellent work they have done. A special thanks to Prof.Shalinie, HOD
of CSE TCE.
I thank Jaya Engg College - Prof.Kumaran and Students- for major participation
- in projects and demo.
I extend thanks to fellow ILUGC members and NRCFOSS team for the success.
Raman.P
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