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Thursday 28 February 2013

2nd Run-up Event

The Rise Of The SWATAHA 13



A wonderful and an extraordinary events was held on 23-02-2013 in our campus where talented members from FSMK came to our college and made an introduction and spread the light on the topics:
  1. Free Software Movement” session which was engaged by Vignesh Prabhu, executive member of FSMK, created a vibrant environment in each of the students who were came to this session. His interactive session took the student to different world called Free world that was pretty new to them.
  2. Free Hardware Movement” session which was engaged by Ashfaq farooqui and Aravind, showed us the way of the power of hardware using the simple technologies in the present world. They explained each and every topic with their ideologies and presented some videos for the clear knowledge.
The total strength in each of the session was more than 100+ from different branches and semesters who were active and enjoyied the session till the end.


Our next session with the FSMK resource members was the meeting and get-together with all the core members of GLUG PESCE. The discussion was about the conference “SWATAHA 13” which is to be scheduled at April of 2013. Around 30 members were together, shared their ideas and their presence in all the activites towards SWATAHA 13. The detail of each and every works,events,members,task,session and workshop is been attached with this file.
All the GLUG members took equivent job and reposibilites of all the activities that would be organised in SWATAHA 13 with great interest.

Sunday 17 February 2013

1st runup event of SWATAHA-13 --Ramnagar visit



AGENDA : Introductory session on free software and GLUG formation at Government college of engineering,Ramnagar on 16/02/2013.

    GLUG,PESCE conducted the 1st run up event of SWATAHA-13 on 16 February in govt college of engineering ,Ramnagar. GLUG members- Rakesh,Vyshak,Pooja,Manu,Rachana took part in the session.There was huge participation of students from various dept of the college.Session started with the inauguration function by the management of the college and was taken up for about 2hours.
    
    As per the agenda,resource person from FSMK, Mr.Sharath gave an brief description and overview on free software and educated students about free software technologies,spoke about FSMK and also discussed 'why free software is important?' ,what are uses of GLUG, how students will be benefited by forming GLUG.


     A demo was provided by Rakesh.P concerned to the features of latest technological GNU/Linux operating system UBUNTU and introduced some of Linux commands which would help them to use Linux efficiently.

     Talk was summarized with the need of free softwares.session was concluded with interaction of GLUG core team with the attendees.Many students of the college came forward to cheer another milestone towards success.It was a good experience for us to be the part of session.

     It was our pleasure to have lunch with the managment and then we moved on to janapada lokha with FSMK volunteer,Mr.Sharath.We guys had a great time over there......