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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]

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I have never been quite lucky with domain registrations. First with techstream and now when we wanted to book rectians.com too ,another problem came up .

Our Alumni  was generous enough to donate rectians.com and so he was looking for places to book it ,he first landed at network solutions to find a cheaper one .

And then we headed on to book it at 1and1.com ,the problem came when we recieved a mail which says the domain is not available now !

How did that happen ?

a simple whois rectians.com revealed that the network-solutions guys have already booked it and now they are virtually forcing us to buy it from them at a higher cost .

This is one of the reasons why internet sucks and that there are suckers like this company .Even if i do go and register with them ,i wont be surprised if they hike their fees to 100$ for booking !

Really at lack of words ,we needed to book it to keep NITTians.com identity intact and that our college is as much RECT as it is NITT .Wish internet didnt have losers like this company .

No ,iam not going to book it from them ,iam going to wait until they dont lose it ,may be i will wait for 10 days when the advance parking will cease .

Whatay bad day :p stole it straight from sidin .

PS: Sidin will be on campus for Pragyan ,so if you are around then come in and talk ! .

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One of the highlights of passing out is to get the reminiscence form filled out.For those who dont know what it is . Its the form wherein you make your friends write somewords about you :) .good or bad honest words .Unfortunately the form we get has only a few lines and hence few friends to fill it up .Now thanks to google docs ,it lets me create forms,mail them and get to have some more friends write in to these . Alagu last year had a rem form in the form of google notebook but i guess this one is easier to maintain :) a form in to a spreadhsheet .Thanks google :-) And yeah i have sent the invite to most of my friends incase i missed you then please mail me ! i want as many people ( who know me ) to fill it up ! and yeah its anonymous ! 

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Ever crashed your laptop because you wanted to install GNU/Linux ?

Missing out on real tools simply because you think you cant get the installation right ?

We GLUG-T are organizing a Pengufest (Installation fest and workshop ) .

• Bring in your laptop and we will install GNU/Linux for free and also give you a free dvd :-)
• Customize the softwares you want on yout linux distro and we will install those for you .
• Get in to workshop to see whats latest with the linux distros .
• We help you get started with using linux ,be it as a developer,an artist ( yeah GIMP is great ) or just a end user who likes to be perfectly legal .
• Ever felt the lack of internet not letting you install softwares on your fedora or ubuntu ? we sell you full repo DVD’s .

so,what are you waiting for ?

Jump in here http://pragyan.org/08/home/workshops/pengufest/

or register here http://pragyan.org/08/home/workshops/pengufest/register 

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My first experience asking questions :)

http://nittians.com/2008/02/04/coffee-with-vivek-and-arvind/

BTW coffee talks wont appear on my blog i thought i should keep it NITTIans.com exclusive :-)

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