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Saturday 3 August 2013

2nd day Report of G-WEEK(03-08-2013)



Whatever we possess becomes of double value when we have the opportunity of sharing with others”.

The second day of our G-week was started with same enthusiasm. Previous day experience was too good, with more excitement we the GLUG-PESCE students started our day .It was previously decided to visit Bharati Educational Trust Polytechnic college and GMIT.

We started with a team of eleven members leaded by Rakesh. We reached the college by 11:30 and the session was started by 12:00 and went on for 2hours.
We had around 100 students who are studying diploma and engineering in various branches.
Rakesh started with the ideology part of free software terminology, with a well known simple example which made students to understand the free software terminology easily. Then the session was continued with freedom aspects, user friendly nature of free software. Benefits of free software, how they help us to work in a convenient environment was said. The students were impressed by the inspirational talk about the people who contributed to the free software. The talk went on with Introduction to GNU/Linux Operating System.

The students were very interested in knowing about free software. They were impressed by watching our GLUG-PESCE video which was made using free software.
Apoorva explained about GLUG, its function and the activities of the GLUG.

The college authority was co-operative. The principal Krishna of Polytechnic College and Nandish(HOD of computer science department)and Harsha sir of GMIT helped us a lot.
By the end of the session nearly 40+ students were interested in forming GLUG. There interest towards the movement was impressive. The ideas were given to them regarding
GLUG formation.

Our Moto of creating awareness about Free Software, sharing knowledge was achieved to some extent.

We visited a nearby temple after the session .The further activities of GLUG-PESCE was discussed.

 Thanks and regards,
     GLUG,PESCE


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