Greetings!
I would like to thank Hariram Aatreya for the
opportunity given to me to accompany Murali,
Chandrasekhar, and Venkatesh from the AU-KBC center,
Madras Institute of Technology for the FLOSS road show
to Bannari Amman Institute of Technology,
Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu, India on August 6, 2005.
The faculty, management and students were very much
interested in GNU/Linux, and are planning to start a
GLUG and increase their activities with GNU/Linux.
Representatives from 7 different colleges in and
around Sathyamangalam had also come for the workshop.
On the way back we checked out the FLOSS lab at Kongu
Engineering College, Erode and the projects they had
been working on. I must thank them for staying back
till 8 in the night as we finished late in the evening
at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology.
Kongu Engineering College LUG started with 6 members
in 2003, and it has now grown to 170 members from all
the departments. They meet every week. A former
student (just graduated), Arvind Kalyan, was
responsible for taking the initiative in 2003.
Professors (like Prof. Jayapathi, HOD, CSE department)
and the management provided the support for the FOSS
activities, and continue to do so. The juniors are now
continuing the tradition :). They have also agreed to
collaborate with Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
for FOSS projects. Hopefully, KEC's mailing list will
be up and running soon.
You can view the photos of the trip and the workshop
from here:
http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album14
I request those people who are conducting workshops to
kindly update the details here:
http://www.chennailug.org/wiki/Events
Best regards,
SK
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Shakthi Kannan, MS
Software Engineer, Specsoft (Hexaware Technologies)
[E]: cyborg4k@xxxxxxxxx [M]: (91) 98407-87007
[W]: http://www.shakthimaan.com [L]: Chennai, India
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