Location: 105, 1st Art Building, Fuzhou University.
Topic: Cloud Computing Introduction
Supported by Gao Ang, Campus Ambassador of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), we held a tech-talk about Grid Computing and Cloud Computing. Some postgraduate students and teachers, who researched this topic, attended this tech-talk.
Speaker: Mr Fu, a teacher from Fuzhou Top Federal Software Service Co.,Ltd
20:00 - 20:30 Introduce Sun Certification and SAI Resource
Speaker: Tang Chenxing, Sun CA.
20:30 - 20:50 Introduce IT Job Prospect.
Speaker: Wang Xiaoyun, the president of Fuzhou Top Federal Software Service Co.,Ltd 20:50 - 21:10 Q & A.
Supported by Mathematics Department of Minjiang College, we successfully held a tech-talk about Java Base and Job Prospect, Sun Certification and SAI Resources.
Today is my last day in Sun Microsystems and I would like to thank all that were following this blog. But, mainly Eduardo Lima, who was a great boss to me and to the others Campus Ambassadors.
It really feels nice that I am the leader of the LARGEST OSUM CLUB IN THE WORLD.
But to reach to this position I and my Team have worked relentlessly. I am really thankful to my Professor Chandra Bhushan Kumar and my team Avinash,Dinesh,Prabin,Rajkant,Raushan and others who have given in their best efforts to make JITM OSUM the largest.
I remember how we had to walk under the scorching sun from block to block and reach out to every single class room for campaigning. I still can remember one universal question : "WHY SHOULD I JOIN OSUM". Answering to this question and other queries was really amazing. My Team was ready to bring every student under "SUN"
Ever had to add up the columns in a table with mixed KB, MB and GB quantities like this:
In
Out
Total
0.10KB
0.34KB
0.45KB
0.33MB
0.40MB
0.73MB
0.33KB
0.41KB
0.74KB
0.69GB
0.12GB
0.82GB
Using OpenOffice 2.4 or later you can use regular expressions and backreferences to convert the data in a table like this to a common unit and add them up. Click on "Find and Replace" and enter the following into the Search for field:
([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+).?MB.*
And in the Replace with field:
=SUM($1$2$30*1.024)
This will match a field like 1.32 MB and replace it with a KB value: 1351.68 You can do the same with GB values by replacing "MB" in the Search string with GB and also changing 1.024 to 1024. To get rid of the KB strings you can simply search for KB and replace it with an empty string. Now your table will consist only of numbers which you can conveniently add.
I remember just a few days back I was asked to design a program to remove duplicates from a file. Well the problem seems quite straight forward and simple to approach, but the real hidden question here lies in, how effective can anyone come up with an algorithm to solve this problem. Initially thinking on the tracks of using hashtables, maps, sets etc. I finally landed up designing a custom 'tree' implementation for getting almost the optimal solution which would remove duplicates from a file in a single iteration! (or in O(n) time, for my geek friends! )
Well while surfing internet, I later found that the tree concept I used to solve this problem is pretty much similar to a standard implementation called 'Suffix tree'. Here I am not going to explain you about suffix trees, you can find plenty of matter on this once you google it, rather, I would be explaining how my solution to this problem worked. Well, I don't claim it to be the most optimal implementation, I am sure, someone out there may come up with a solution better than mine. But this one solves the purpose just fine.
The logic here is to keep building the custom tree (which now we know is similar to suffix tree) as we go through the text. Here is the basic algorithm:
Iterate through the text and do the following steps
As the beginning of a new word is encountered, start matching it starting from the root node to its children, successively. along with buffering the current word as we proceed.
if a match is found, try to match the next character in the word with its children
If a match is not found, add another node representing the current character as a child to the current node.
When the word ends, and the last character is matched, check its 'final' tag.
if its true, it means the current word is the repeated one, so don't output the current buffer word
if its false, it means the current word is encountered for the first time, so output the current buffer and flush the buffer.
Eg. let the text be "CAT CAN BAT". The tree for this sentence will be -
Today I was attending the Open Dag with a stand to inform our students about OSUM and SAI. I distributed OpenSolaris CDs, data sheets, pens and a lot more.
Fontys Venlo OSUM group stand in the IT faculty at Open Dag 7th November 2009
More than 50 people visited the stand and the Fontys Venlo OSUM group got 19% more members and we only need 7 people more to break the 100-member-wall.
"Register here for OSUM" - The registration computer at the OSUM stand, which has been used by 17 students to get registered at the OSUM portal.
The highlight of this event was a drawing, which has been attended by more than 50 people. The prizes were two 16GB Kingston USB storage drives and a 15 Euro iTunes card for buying apps and music. The winners are:
1. Tim Verhaegh (USB storage drive) 2. Ferd van Odenhoven (USB storage drive) 3. Michael Klingen (iTunes card)
The winner of the drawing: (from left) Michael Klingen, Fern van Odenhove - Tim Verhaegh is not shown on the photo
Congratulationsto the winner.
In my eyes this event was a great success and I really hope that some more people I invited at the Open Dag event will accept the invitation to OSUM to get 100 members in Fontys Venlo OSUM group.
Here is a strange problem encountered by me while experimenting with Java. Have a look at the following code sample:
interface test {
void fun();
}
public class Test implements test {
public void fun() {
System.out.println("Test.fun() called");
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Test().fun();
}
}
Can you find any problem with the above code sample? Well there really
isn't any problem with the above code. Still when you try to run this
on Windows systems the execution fails for Test class ( i.e. >java
Test) throwing exceptions like:-
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test (wrong name: Test)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:276)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:276)
Exception in thread "main"
Exception in thread "main" Java Result: 1
And adding to the surprise, this program runs
absolutely fine on Linux and other Unix based systems!
Ok so lets try to dissect the program and figure out what the problem
is with this. Here is the possible explaination which I came up with.
Observing it a little carefully you can observe that the name of the
interface is 'test' and class is 'Test' this makes them differ only in
case. But what difference does it make to us? java is of course case
sensitive, so we are free to chose names like that!
Well the answer is that, although java is case sensitive the underlying
OS ( Windows) is not. Therefore the compiler (even though it wanted)
couldn't create two separate .class files (one for interface, and other
for the implementing class), because the other class file over-writes
the previous one. In short, this problem arises because after compiling
the above code, two class files: test.class and Test.class map only to
a single file on windows, not two unlike the unix systems.
So be careful while getting trapped in such of hard-to-find bugs!
As a part of our Mobile Computing curriculum, we had case
studies on several mobile Operating Systems like the Symbian Operating System,
Windows CE and the Palm Operating System.
Our faculty encouraged us to explore these topics and present
them to our other class-mates so that we get a lot more exposure to the
subject.
Thrilled by the fact that the Symbian Operating System is an
open-source mobile Operating System, I decided to take up the topic. I put a
little effort into understanding the Symbian Operating System. It was exciting
to find out my phone (Nokia N73) had the Symbian Operating system and I took an
opportunity to tweak around with it.
I also planned a few live demos emphasizing application
development on the Symbian Operating System with the help of programming
languages like Java and Symbian C++.
With the support from the faculty of my college, a session
covering the Symbian Operating System, along with J2ME development on it was
presented on 27th October.
The presentation covered the following topics –
Introduction to Symbian Operating System
A Brief History of Symbian Operating System
Symbian Foundation
Features of Symbian Operating System
Operating System Architecture
Memory Management
Threading and Security
Application Development
In Symbian OS
The presentation was followed by two live demos covering –
Symbian C++
Java 2 Micro Edition
The session concluded with a quick comparison of Symbian C++
and Java ME and how an application can leverage the benefits of the languages
when developing an application.
As the target audience for the presentation was primarily the
final year students, we had around 40 students participating in the presentation.
At the end we provided a link to the NetBeans website to
encourage them to download the latest version of NetBeans along with the
mobility pack so that they can go deeper into developing J2ME mobile
applications.
Recently the faculty of my college along with the support of
the students organized a Linux workshop. The workshop focused on the basics of
the Linux operating system. The workshop was held for two consecutive days in
which the students learnt a lot about the fundamentals of Linux.
The workshop was organized on 23rd and 24th
October.
The workshop was conducted by Mr. Ahmad Jabas, a PhD scholar
of our college. He emphasized various concepts of Linux with the help of the
Debian Operating System.
Virtualization was also covered as a part of the workshop
with the help of VirtualBox. There was a live demonstration where the Debian
Operating System was installed on VirtualBox.
Here is a quick overview of the various activities that were
covered in the two days –
Day 1
Topics covered –
Introduction to Linux
Origin of the Linux Operating System
History of the Linux Operating System
The GNU Project and Source Code Freedom
Linux Philosophy
Linux Installation
A comparison of the Linux Operating System and the
Windows Operating System
UNIX/Linux commands
Day 2
Topics covered –
Virtualization
Virtual Machines
System Virtual Machines
Process Virtual Machines
Full Virtualization
Applications of VMs
VirtualBox
Linux Installation on VirtualBox
Shell Scripting
Various demonstrations were given
which included several concepts like –
Stand-alone installation of Debian
VirtualBox installation of Debian
Linux commands
Shell Scripting
The workshop was very inspirational and several attendees
installed the Linux Operating System on their computers and started working
with it.
There were about 65 students who attended the workshop both
the days.
I recently gave a presentation on “Oracle Forms” – a feature
of the Oracle developer suite which helps GUI designers to quickly design
screens to facilitate easy insertion, deletion, update and query of tables in a
database.
The third years were asked to learn about Oracle forms for
their final examination. I decided to take this opportunity to talk about it.
Oracle Forms runs on Java containers and the GUI is presented
in the form of Java applets to the user. The Java container is known as “Oracle
Container for Java (OC4J)” in the Oracle Forms architecture.
The presentation was given on 21st October which
was followed by a live demo which emphasized how an Oracle form is created and
how is it run with the help of Java containers.
The presentation covered the following topics –
Introduction to Oracle Forms
Oracle Forms Architecture
Single Block Forms
Master Detail Forms
List Of Values
Non-base table fields
Triggers
Troubleshooting
The presentation was followed by live demos covering –
Single Block Forms
Master Detail Forms
List Of Values
The session concluded with emphasize on technologies like
JSPs, Servlets, JDBC, etc. which are swiftly replacing Oracle Forms because of
their customizability.
As the target audience for the presentation was primarily the
third year students, we had around 40 students participating in the presentation.
Location: Third-Region Square,Fuzhou University Student Apartment.
Topic: FZUOSUM Recuitment
Agenda 09:00 -16:30 Introduce FZUOSUM and Sun's technology, break from 12:30-14:00. Tang Chenxing, Sun CA. Huang Zhiliang, Leader of FZU Computer Science Association. Zhong Sisi, FZUOSUM leader. Other Open Source enthusiasts.
Supported by Computer Science Association of Fuzhou University, we held the event about recruiting freshmen and consultation, and the promotion of our OSUM Community and Sun's technology of Java, OpenSolaris, Netbeans, SunSpot, etc..
Today I got my CA Recognition for Q1. This means that I'm the Campus Ambassador of the quarter one in the FY2010 for the whole continent of Europe.
The official statement from my Manager was:
I would like to recognize Clemens Schulz for his outstanding results
promoting OSUM at Netherlands's Universities. He successfully
recruited and supports OSUM leader at the Technical University of
Delft - the biggest tech university in the country. In addtion to
this, he is working with 3 other universities. His enthusiasm and
self-confidence in performing his CA role (and specially demonstrated
on meetings with professors) will definitely bring us great success.
I also want to think everybody, who made this possible! I really hope to get this nice award in the next quarter again and I will try to do my best!
Some great news: Sun Tech Days 2009-2010 in Brazil is coming! It's going to be held in Sao Paulo from December 8th to December 9th. Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and/or NetBeans developers cannot miss this.
There is going to be talks on Java, JavaFX, Glassfish, OpenSolaris (DTrace) and a lot others!
Today I got the permission to organize a new OSUM event at 'Open Dag' on 7th November at Fontys Venlo campus.
The last Open Dag was a great success and this time I will enter the event with even more specials like a drawing, a lot of nice information materials and give aways!
You will find more details on the Open Dag 2009/11 after the 7th November here.
For everybody who wants to join me: Come visit the OSUM stand in front of room W1 1.87 at Fontys Venlo campus. From 10:00 to 14:30.
Since 22th October one of my OSUM blog entries is linked to the homepage of Sun Developer Network (http://developers.sun.com).
This is a test, which should show how good your open source software knowledge is. If you know the answer of the question, please reply directly at the OSUM group portal.
The entries on SDN will change every week, so I made a screenshot of it, if it isn't still available to you. Check this out:
Thanks to everybody who made this possible and I really hope to get another nice entry in the list of SDN experts!
NetBeans é uma IDE gratuita, Open Source, que permite aos
desenvolvedores criar aplicações desktop, web, enterprise e mobile de
uma maneira rápida e fácil usando a plataforma Java, assim como JavaFX,
PHP, JavaScript e Ajax, Ruby e Ruby on Rails, Groovy on Grails, C/C++.
Este webinar será conduzido por João Sávio Ceregatti Longo, Campus
Ambassador da Universidade Estadual Paulista, campus Rio Claro, Brasil
Não se esqueçam de entrar 15 minutos antes para testar o som e a conectividade à rede.
Avinash Joshi, a final-year B Tech student of Information Technology at the Amritapuri Campus, was chosen as the only student from India to attend the JavaOne 2009 Developer Conference in San Francisco, completely sponsored by Sun Microsystems.
School OS is specially designed for school children by Shyam and Avinash (final year IT student), while interning with SUN, in collaboration with NCERT and IIT Delhi. The School OS is determined to spearhead the rise of open-source in the primary & secondary education system of India. The project was based at Sun Microsystems, Delhi office. They also went to the schools to install and test the operating system.
Three students from 2nd year Computer Science, Rahul, Shilpa and Seshagiri, participated in the Android Developer Challenge 2(ADC2). They had made a game of "Tic Tac Toe" that runs on the Android platform. This is now an OpenSource project hosted at google code. See the blog entry here.
Application porting to Open Solaris
Varun Rao and Adithya, 3rd year Computer Science Engg. students, made contributions to Open Solaris by porting applications. They worked on porting applications like "Parcellite", which is a clip board manager for Open Solaris. See his blog entry on this.
Archana N, a final year student of Computer Science Engg., made contributions to the Java EE/GlassFish documentation on how to secure the existing EJB converter example from the Java EE tutorial using mutual authentication. It will be included in an upcoming release of the Java EE tutorial.
Our students won the IBM Great minds challenge (TGMC '07)using open source tools like eclipse and java. Abhilash, Sandeep, Deepthi and Vidya were part of the team that came 5th in TGMC '07.
I gave a demo on creating a simple Desktop Application using NetBeans on Tuesday,October 21st,2008.
Unfortunately on Tuesday morning , we had heavy rain and holiday was declared all of a sudden. So students thought that the session might have been cancelled. So I made calls to my friends and I let them know that it was not . Many of them couldn't make it. But still some showed up. And the demo was completed inspite of the rain.
The best part here is those who dint attend felt very bad that they couldn't attend it. And those who atteneded were very happy abt it. Since we presented a simple demo they found it easy to follow and they told they are looking forward to attend many such sessions. Thus our first demonstration of Netbeans application was a success inspite of rain.
Sun announced the benchmarks for its new flash array system.
Key thing is, it out performed mechanical hard drives with all the benifits that come with using solid state drives such as low power consumption, mechanical shocks tollerance and ease of deployment. You can find all the technical details explained way better than I can explain it in this video.
Today was refreshing day when we had an interesting conversation with fellow CAs from all over India and our coordinators. We talked about various things and one thing was to take OSUM beyond boundaries that existed. I was so inspired by that and am planning to give my best to this effort by visiting lots of schools and colleges and enlightening, empowering them by letting them know about OSUM and how it can change our world. Looking ahead eagerly to a hectic OSUM-filled time!
Here is My GNOME(OpenSolaris 2009.06)
Desktop's screenshot, to prove that theres nothing now which cannot be
achieved in the world of Open-source. It now is no more limited to the
community of computer geeks, but its increasingly becoming extremely
user friendly proving it much suitable for the beginners as well. The
time is gone when one needed to type long and cryptic commands in order
to do anything they want on Linux & Unix systems. Though the
command line alternatives are always there, leaving an entire world for
the user to explore and learn! Everything is now offered in much more
interactive and highly customizable GUI.
Thats the beauty of open-source- it can give you exactly what you want.
Open-source products including Linux and OpenSolaris opens itself to
change by anyone who uses it thereby giving the freedom and power to
users. There are multiple Window Managers available for using with it.
The most commonly used are -GNOME and KDE which generally comes integrated with most of the linux distributions as well.
Lets
begin with our familiarisation with GNOME, OpenSolaris 2009.06 Desktop
( but this might help you in other linux distros as well) It
displays a menu bar at the top containing menus for Application, Places
and System on the left side of the bar along with the tray icons of the
processes and a calendar, sound control and the Username being on the
right side of the bar. And a status bar at the bottom of the screen
with the icon to Show the empty desktop minimizing all the currently
opened windows, tabs of all the currently opened windows, a Desktop
Switcher showing the available desktops and finally a Trash (where the
deleted files reside giving option to restore back the accidently
deleted files, until manually cleaned).
Application Menu:
It contains Set of the applications installed and currently configured
to be displayed in the menu format in different categories. It comes
packed with a range of open-source applications preinstalled, like
firefox for web browsing, Mozilla Thunderbird as the email client,
Pidgin as the chatting messenger, Totem and Rythmbox for audio/video
playing, many Image editing and viewing tools and a set of GNOME games!
Places Menu: It presents links to some of the predefined locations so as to reach there quickly.
System Menu: It presents the system specific tasks and configurations
Application and System menu can be manually altered by right clicking-> Edit Menu option.
Any
system related information about the running processes or the present
system memory and network usage etc. can be found anytime in Applications->System Tools->Performance Monitor.
Opensolaris
presents with an exhaustive list of open-source software for anyone to
download from anywhere in the world from its central repository using
IPS (Image Packaging System) . This can be done in either of the
following ways:
System->Administration->Package Manager
using command line utilities like apt-get :
pfexec pkg install <package_to_install>
Some of the other Free utilities in which you would be interested to install are:
Opera (a web browser)
Netbeans IDE ( for programming in JavaSE, JavaME, JavaEE, C, C++, Javascript etc )
openssh ( for enabling remote login into the machine)
Evolution Mail ( another email client like Evolution)
Avant Window Navigator ( enables a cool looking, highly customizable docking feature much like MAC )
GVIM text editor ( a GUI based vim text editor, for the people who are addicted to the cool and simple, our beloved VIM ! )
GIMP the Image Manipulation Program
More to cover in subsequent posts. Happy Open-Source!
After a long, grueling and painstakingly configurations with my Windows XP Guest on VMWare, I’ve decided to use BootCamp instead. This is very untimely for me as I only have less than a day to configure my laptop and I have a thesis presentation in 2 days.
Yes, I am very much aware that I am cramming but if I don’t reformat now, I might be able to say goodbye to my thesis for real.
I have to take this risk. For thesis’s sake. *gulps*
This year, as a part of the Software Freedom celebrations, we
hosted a few competitions and gave a few informative presentations. Here is a
quick overview of them –
Essay Writing Competition
The competition was primarily to encourage participants to
explore various Open Source topics – technical and non-technical, and come up
with innovative articles. We had a huge response for this and had a tough time
selecting the best entries. We had various topics covering different perspectives
of the Open Source world. Below are a few of the articles which were really
good –
Open Source – The
article covered the basic philosophy of Open Source and gave an insight about
the economic perspective of OSS. It also emphasized the innovation which drives
Open Source products.
VirtualBox – The
article covered the salient features of the VirtualBox OSE. It gave a
bird’s-eye view of VirtualBox, with a focus on the technical strongholds of the
virtualization package. It also briefly described the advancements planned in
the development of VirtualBox.
Open Source
in the Cloud – This article merged the philosophy of Open Source
with the innovative paradigm of Cloud Computing. It gave an overview of what
Cloud Computing is and highlighted the contribution of Sun Microsystems Inc. to
the cloud.
Google
Chrome – The article was primarily about the Open Source web browser
from Google, Chrome. It focused on the prominent features of the browser and
gave a description of features like speed, stability, security, etc.
Top Ten
Linux Distributions – The article was mainly a mash-up of the Operating
Systems built on the Linux kernel. The author reviewed various Linux in the
article. Several flavors like Debian, Slackware, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE,
Ubuntu, Gentoo, LinuxMint, PCLinuxOS and the CentOS were covered in this.
Open Source Quiz
This was one of the most exciting events of Software Freedom
Day this year. We wanted more participation of the audience this year, so as to
achieve this and bring up the spirit of Open Source in the audience; we planned
an Open Source Quiz.
To accommodate the entire audience, the quiz was conducted in
two stages – there was a preliminary round which had a questionnaire of around
20 questions. Almost everybody in the audience was interested in the quiz and came
forward for the prelims. After the prelims, the top 6 teams were invited for
the final round. The round had an oral questionnaire and consisted of around 6
sub-rounds.
Finally at the end of the final sub-round the highest and
second-highest scorers were declared the winners. There was a neck-to-neck
competition between the teams till the end and had the pulse of the crowd running.
Overall, the quiz was the show-stopper of the day. Hats off
to the quiz-masters! – Miss. Devika and Mr. Roopak Bhartee.
Software Freedom Day and Open Source
In order to convey the philosophy of Open Source and the
importance of Software Freedom Day to the audience, Mr. Vishwak gave a
presentation titled “Software Freedom Day and Open Source”.
The presentation emphasized on various concepts like –
What is Open Source?
Free Software
Why the move to Open Source?
Perception and participation
Software Freedom Day
Contribution of Sun
Microsystems Inc. to the Open Source world
Sun’s Open Source strategy
Overview of the Open Source technologies of Sun
The session was very informative and the audience had a
through insight about the OSS world.
Sun Academic Initiative
To help the audience realize the importance of certifications
and inform them of the wonderful discounts available on various Sun
certifications, Mr. Laxman took up a presentation on “Sun Academic Initiative”.
The presentation focused on various topics like –
Introduction to SAI
Benefits of certifications
The Java certification
hierarchy
The Solaris certification
hierarchy
The MySQL certification
hierarchy
Various certifications
available as a part of SAI
Registration process at SAI
A step-by-step explanation of how to purchase a voucher and
avail the huge discounts.
The session was inspiring and there were several students who
were keen on taking up a certification exam. The various tutorials and the
learning programs of SAI were highlighted which created a confidence in the
interested students to pursue the certification.
On a whole, Software Freedom Day 2009 was a huge success wherein
the participants and the organizers enjoyed and learnt a lot.
It is finally September and Software Freedom Day is here.
This is one day when every Open Source enthusiast feels proud of being one. If
you haven’t heard about Software Freedom Day, here is what SFD is all about –
“Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide
celebration of Free and Open Source Software. It is a public education effort
to celebrate the virtues of FOSS and to encourage its use. It is celebrated on
the third Saturday of every September.”
Open Source has spread its wings all over the world and Sun
Microsystems Inc. being one of the biggest supporters of the Open Source
community encouraged many OSUM leaders and Sun Campus Ambassadors to celebrate
Software Freedom Day in a grand way.
Osmania University, being a huge supporter of FOSS, wasn’t
behind in the grandeur of SFD. We decided on celebrate Software Freedom Day on
the third Saturday itself, which was on September 19th.
Due to the recent unforeseen holidays which were declared in
our city, there were speculations that 19th might be a working day
as a compensation for them. Because of this, our preparations came to a
stand-still and we had to wait for a formal announcement. We didn’t get any
reliable information till Friday and because of this we had only a day for the
publicity in our college. As a lateral consequence of this speculation, we
didn’t even get an opportunity to invite other colleges to the event. :(
Well as people say “Things must go on!” and things did go on.
Despite these bottlenecks, we had a reasonable crowd of 55 to 60 open source
enthusiasts for the event. It was really soothing to see such participation
amidst the tailback. The crowd comprised of students from the 2nd, 3rd
and 4th years. We weren’t given permission to invite the 1st
year students due to security concerns from the college.
I was sure that the students of my college were bored of hearing
my presentations by this time, so for a change, I requested a few of my friends to
take up the co-ordination of the competitions and presentations. They
immediately agreed and showed a lot of interest.
The celebrations of SFD began with a motivating speech by our
HOD, Prof. Lakshmi Rajamani. She spoke on Open Source Software and emphasized
the support being provided by our college to the OSS world. She gave a brief
introduction on SFD and how Osmania University was a part of it over the years.
There were many activities that were held at our campus as a
part of SFD. Several competitions were held to motivate the students towards
SFD. We had an “Essay writing competition” where the participants were asked to
explore various Open Source topics – technical and non-technical and come up
with an innovative article. There was an “Open Source Quiz” organized by Mr.
Roopak Bhartee and Miss. Devika. A presentation emphasizing the merits and
benefits of FOSS was given by Mr. Vishwak. There was a presentation on the “Sun
Academic Initiative” by Mr. Laxman. To know more about these events, check out
the “SFD 2009 – Competitions & Presentations” blog-post.
The event was concluded by a “Vote of thanks” by me. The entire
event was well anchored by Miss. Pravallika.
On a whole, the event was a huge success and there was a lot
of enthusiastic response from the participants. The entire S.O.U.R.C.E group
was delighted and enthused by the participation of the crowd for the event.
Time: 2009.09.27 15:00-17:15 Place: Report Room, 7th Building, Computer Science College, Fuzhou University. Agenda 15:00 – 16:00, Introduce J2EE and Sun Certification, Li Jian (Sun Java Principal Lecturer of Greater China) 16:00 - 16:30, Introduce SAI and its benefit, Tang Chenxing (Sun CA) 16:30 – 16:45, Professional Career Planning, Yan Zhiwei, (Sun General Agent of Fujian Prov.) 16:45 - 17:15 Q/A
Yesterday I celebrated the Software Freedom Day at Fontys Hogeschool Venlo. I opened a stand in front of room 1.87 in building W1. More than 50 people (57) entered the drawing and even more informed their self about free and open source software. The main focus was on OpenSolaris. Many OpenSolaris DVDs and SoftwarePacks has been distributed!
Here are also the winner of the drawing:
SCJP Book Nico Themanns 2GB USB-Dongle Pieter van den Hombergh 2GB USB-Dongle Georg Fleischer OpenSolaris T-Shirt Patrick Stevens Sun Microsystems Cap Abdullah Simsek OpenSolaris Bag Michael Klingen OpenSolaris Bag Christian Knutz OpenSolaris Bag Simon Woker OpenSolaris Bag Pascal Ursprung OpenSolaris Bag Stephan Melzer OpenSolaris Bag Yuriy Solovyov OpenSolaris Bag Markus Krause OpenSolaris Bag Stefan Arians OpenSolaris Bag Simon Engbers OpenSolaris Bag Christian König
At the stand I also arranged a computer, where students could register their self at the OSUM portal. With this computer I also got 16 new students for my OSUM group. Especially first and seventh semester students.
I also used this event to promote other planned events at Fontys Venlo. Many students are interested in the planned certification event. I also talked to the university staff about this to push the planning forward.
Many students also talked to me about more social events I should plan. So in the next weeks I will try to plan some more social events.
I really thank everybody for helping me at this event and thanks to all the students, who attended this event! It was a really great time!