REPORT 17/08/2013

“GLUG PESCE ANIVERSERY CELEBERATION”

Wish You Happy Birthday GLUG-PESCE, for the first and most memorable day. Finally the day had came when we had completed one year stepping into most existing GLUG which has now taken its shape, its responsibility to take it forward. Thank you everyone who helped us in making the event successful. The nature of free software has given enormous innovative potential for students to increase their technical capabilities. Today, world wide a large number of students and programmers contribute to GNU/Linux.

• The sessions was started exactly at 2:30 pm in the afternoon accompanied with parallel sessions on “FREEDOM HARDWARE MOVEMENT” and “HANDS ON WORKSHOP ON LIBRE OFFICE FOR SCHOOL STUENTS”

FREEDOM HARDWARE MOVEMENT:

The dynamic speaker of this session was Harshitha from FSMK who works in IISC Bangalore and was a student and member of GLUG BMSIT Bangalore.

“The session was about how the freedom hardware movement had started by Massimo Banzi and the session was attended by around 100 students and was held in ECL 305 E&C department.

And how it had got spread,when the schematic design of the electronic board is kept under open source,by this way many people are able to learn how the hardware stuff works and what power it is giving like learning hardware easily and sharing it with rest of the world and how the movement is creating a platform for innovations. Some of the videos on the innovation were shown to the students”.

“In the next part of the session speaker had demonstrated how to program on aurdino uno board like blinking LEDs and interfacing oscillometer on the board fundamental commands of aurdino and its structure were explained”.

HANDS ON WORKSHOP ON LIBRE OFFICE & TUX TURTLE FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS:

“The speakers of the session were Karthik bhat and Jeeva from FSMK,and the session was attended by 35 students from ST JOHNS SCHOOL MANDYA which was held in CSLAB.The session was about how to use the various tools in libreoffice”.

• “The students from melkote polytechnic college ,PES degree collage and G. Mahadev Gowda institute of technology attended the function and a sessions was taken by Rakesh from FSMK to how to start glug in their colleges.”
• “Finally a cake was cut by Rakesh along with all GLUG-PESCE core members and was distributed to everyone”.
• “At the end their was GLUG-PESCE core member meet led by Rakesh from FSMK to how to carry on the glug-pesce activities was held”.