i turn one more year but thats not why iam writing this post early in the morning ! its because iam already having the best birthday of my life :-) . will write in more soon !
I have just released my latest facebook app ,testimonials .
One of the best features in orkut to me was writing testimonials to your friends and facebook somehow missed it and thats the reason why i decided to make it up .
Share it :)
I have created a new channel on irc.freenode.net for all nittians to hang out ,chit-chat or just chaat. :)
details :
Channel : #nittians
Server:irc.freenode.net
If you havent used IRC before ,just make sure you have any client,pidgin/Trillians/Xchat or just use the web based client .
Come on, we will have fun ! :)
As a part of SUN roadshow events,my college SUN campus ambassador megha had suggested we reach out to college near trichy and help them get started with sun technologies .
Thanks to Harishyam ,we landed up first at JJCET ,its about an an hour and half from NITT campus and yes they did have an impressive admin building and vast areas of free grounds to play .
We first went in to meet HOD of CSE dept Prof. A Saravanan and he was a nice man,we talked about how sun reaches out in our college ,how JJCET can benefit from SUN workshops and what they can do to get more of their students in to opensource technologies .
After talking with him we left to meet the students in the Supernova Labs ( Name of a conference hall with computers ) .The attendence was good 60+ for a single session .
First megha kickstarted by playing some SUN videos ,about sun as a company ,opensolaris and then she started out with SUN campus ambassador programs .
People were interested and iam sure they would want one from their college too ,hope sun is listening :) .
The she spoke about about Netbeans ,Java and some introduction to opensolaris .
After her talks ,i took over i started with opensolaris,not many knew about linux ,so i started with the licenses on opensource,CCDL,free software and then jumped to opensolaris os.
Made a few slides with features that differentiate GNU/Linux with opensolaris like DTrace,ZFS,Zones,SMF and also talked about how Zones is diferent from virtual machines .
Some had doubts and we were more than happy to get them set .
And finaly we let them know our email address and also our mailing list so that people can reach us when they need too .
I think after the response we saw ,the need to reach out to more colleges deeper into country is very important for sun .The NIT’s the IIT’s are always going to have that edge interms of resources to compete with the world and it is the responsibilty of poeple commited to free and opensource philosophy to take this to another level and hel people who dont have the resources to compete with the world and arm them with enough ammunitions to get going .Sure it will take time but the future mist be bright ! .
I hope SUN is listening and i would love to help them setup a campus club at JJCET .Harishyam is a good candidate for the ambassador .
The slides are on their way out so incase you want to have the slides from us either mail us or just keep looking in this space here ! we will put it up .
And yes we clicked some pics too :)
http://theyagar.com/photos/?level=album&id=5 [tags]opensolaris,foss,jjcet,nitt[/tags]
our bot for twitter got listed :) on twitter help page ! but infortunately we are unable to run the bot ! any one ready to accomodate us ? or can help me get along with mediatemple servers ?
