From FootPrints09

The Maharaja Sayajirao Univeristy’s three day tech fiesta ended today, we participated as “Workshop Sponsors” did a marathon 5 hour workshop and a lecture.

Estimated 5000 students from engineering colleges from all over India participated with tons of activities such as RC car racing, Acrobot cars doing stunts, treasure hunt where one of the tasks was to find “Go openSUSE” stickers, and many lectures, workshops and presentations.

Students who participated in the workshop were Linux users for over a year so it was fun working with them. The lecture on Sunday morning saw sparce attendence of about 20 students, no surprise as there was a concert on Saturday night by pop band Euphoria. The students for the lecture had never used Linux and the persentation I had,  openSUSE setup you’ll love  was exactly targeted towards them.

All the FootPrints presentations are available here.

Goodies to give out at the stall we had were openSUSE 11.1 PromoDVDs, stuffed Geekos, Geeko keychains. We also ran an install-fest throughout the three days installing 11.1 on many student’s laptops.

BTW, our participation was all thanks to Harshal Pandya,  Kshitij Shah and the Team FP.

Starting tomorrow I will be at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda’s national level tech-fest: Foot Prints 2009.

Over 5000 students from engineering colleges from all over India are expected. There are many workshops, quizzes, exhibition, talks and also a grand performance by popular music band Euphoria scheduled.

The home page of the event is here: http://msu-footprints.org/

Details of the workshop I will be leading at the event here:
http://msu-footprints.org/kaleidoscope.html

We will be distributing openSUSE 11.1 PromoDVDs from the stall we have at the venue for three days.

If any of you are coming to Baroda in next three days do drop in at the MSU “Techo” faculty to say hello.

Few days back I posted about getting openSUSE 11.1 Promo DVD from Martin Lasarsch, one of the readers of that blog post Ankit, searched for Martin and found his interview on People of openSUSE. On the interview he read about “Time-machine” and looked it up on openSUSE 11.1, surprisingly there is a “secret” yast module for Time-machine(yast2 stroj-casu). You have to be in distant future to use it though

Fast forwarding time to today, I learnt that Martin and many other developers we have been working with will no longer be working with SUSE

I echo Andrew’s sentiments and wish you all the very best of luck.

The 5 days of VCCI exhibition is now over, here are some pictures from the event.

Thanks again Novell for sponsoring the stall, and sending us tons of stuff to give away to the visitors.

Next in the queue is MS Universities Footprints techfest, I would be leading a workshop and we have a stall there for three days too.

We had a lot of fun

I’d be having fun at the Vibrant Vadodara Chamber of Commerce and Industries(VCCI) exhibition here. Novell India office, thanks to Sandeep Menon and Uday Samant, have sent a ton of goodies and a special edition openSUSE Promo DVDs from Martin Lasarsch, openSUSE Germany, to give away at the exhibition

We’ve also printed thousands of “Go openSUSE” stickers that can be pasted on desktop/laptops or anywhere that fancies geekos.

Here is the geeko infestation on my desk, Hopefully it will get cleaned up soon

We would be taking part in this year’s VCCI mega exhibition 12-16 Feb 2009, our stall no is E Dome, D-19. We would of course be distributing openSUSE 11.1 DVDs that Martin Lasarsch has kindly sent for the event. Our participation at VCCI is sponsored by Novell

I would also be conducting a workshop at MSU Footprints Tech Fest: http://msu-footprints.org/ . The details of the worksop and other activities is here: http://msu-footprints.org/kaleidoscope.html

It is a marathon 5 hour track covering the following:

• Introduction to Open Source world & GNU/Linux.
• Compiz Fusion - Transforming your desktop with amazing effects.
• Virtualization - Running Multiple Operating Systems Simultaneously.
• KIWI-LTSP - Using your Old PC at the speed of your new Hardware.
• Creating “Your Own” Operating system using KIWI - A step-by-step process to assemble your own operating system, with softwares of your choice, that you can take home.

We also have a stall running openSUSE “InstallFest”, promoting Linux and FOSS at the Tech Fest venue.

With this post I invite all of you to visit us at both the events if you happen to be in this part of the world.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.