KLUG-FOSS Stalls in BIOS-09,SCSVMV University

Location : SCSVMV (Sankara University),Kanchipuram

BIOS event in SCSVMV

Kanchilug members were went to participate the BIOS event (symposium) and we put 10 stalls about opensource software .

Stalls are

1. Desktop animations (Compizconfig-settings manager)

– Rajkumar

2. FOSS Speech

-Logeshprabu, Dhasthagheer

3. OpenOffice  (Writer,Calc,Impress)

– Kumaran, Venkatesan

4. GIMP  &  Inkscape

– Praveen

5. Python  &  Glade

– Rajeshwari

6. Tamil Font Creation

– Malathi

7. Various Distribution Installation (Ubuntu9.04, LinuxMint7.0, Fedora10&11)

– Balakrishnan, Yasaar

8. How to get support?

– Suji

9. Various Distribution’s  OS CD’s & DVD’s Sales

*Ubuntu 8.04 -6 package DVD’s

*Ubunt 9.04 CD

*Linux Mint 7.0 Gloria  CD

*Fedora 10  &  11  DVD

– Mahalakshmi

we  had only 4 laptops so they provided us 6 more systems.

And then student coordinator asked us to take seminar about  FOSS speech in stage.

so Lokeshprabu  gave seminar on “Why Linux”.

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Date : 09  / 10 / 09 People : 11

Guest : Mr. Ramdhas

Stalls are

1. Desktop animations (Compizconfig-settings manager)

– Praveen

2. FOSS Speech

-Arulalan

3. OpenOffice  (Writer,Calc,Impress)

– Kumaran , Elango

4. GIMP  &  Inkscape

– Priya, Udaya

5. Python  &  Glade

– Rajeshwari

6. MySql  and 3D Games

– Suji

7. Various Distribution Installation (Ubuntu9.04, LinuxMint7.0, Fedora10&11)

– Balakrishnan

8. How to get support?

– Malathi

9. Various Distribution’s  OS CD’s & DVD’s Sales

– Yasaar

Mr. Ramdhas  gave the Lecture about FOSS and also he was the judge the Debate (Proparitary Vs Opensource).

from Kanchilug , we four people (Arulalan, Suji, Malathi, Praveen) argued for the  Opensource.

Final judgement is Opensource and we got the prize also

In these two days Kanchilug people spoke in fully English.

and Balakrishnan explained about installation also in Telugu.

Mr.Ramdhas gave the empty CD’s and DVD’s to us.

that CD’s we write OS and sold .

We planned to give the  amount to “Tamil – Ubuntu -Team”

By this way, we enjoyed in these two days

Thanks to BIOS 09 team.

and very thanks to BIOS 09 coordinator Mr.Ullas and Mr. Siva to gave this wonderful opportunity to  us.

thanks to all who supports…….

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K. Priya