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The much awaited Inauguration Ceremony of Software Freedom Week’09 began sharply at 10am amidst honourable dignitories & a fairly large crowd.

After a formal welcome of the dignitories,Prof B.L.Desai- Vice Principal,BVBCETdeclared the week a grand ‘Open’.

Reshma Desai,IEEE chairperson gave an overview of SFW’09 .

Prof.R M Bankar ,branch counsellor,IEEEspoke lovingly & bracingly of all the people involved in SFW. She conveyed two special messages of Dr.Ashok Shettar & Dr.Satish Annigeri.

Mr.Poorna Prajna Udupi, the chief guest who is a researcher at Sun Labs California was in all praise for the BVB initiative to celebrate Software Freedom Day as Software Freedom Week.

He said contributing towards Open-source software is a passion,a deed towards helping the public .
He concluded by appreciating the motto of SFW “Intellect is not one man’s property “.

Lastly the video presentation of SFW’09 received lot of applauds from the guests & the crowd as well. Thanks to BVB Media team for such an exciting video.
The function also provided a platform for Pavan Rao & his team for the launch of BVB Helps, a social initiative to help the needy.

Special Messages :

“I humbly & whole-heartedly wish Software Freedom Week’09 a grand success. Kudos to the SFW crew.” — Dr Ashok.Shettar,Principal,BVBCET

“My best wishes for the success of SFW’09. Let there not be crowd only for the ROCK SHOW.” — Dr.Satish Annigeri.

“BVB students are really lucky to have such enthusiastic atmosphere. My students deserve it” — Mr. Poornaprajnya Udupi,Researcher,Sun Labs

JAVA-FX WORKSHOP

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Well, for those who wondered why this workshop gained so much attention & applaud, there was an answer for them in the workshop. With former MindTree professional, presently the JAVAFX king in BVBCET Mr.Vishwanath.Patil kickstarting the workshop, fiery concepts like Scripts, RIAs, objects, sequences, bindings, ‘Try-Throw-Catch’es, Triggers were covered with great ease. Its application domain is lot more exciting & interesting. Just to quote an example- ‘A MediaPlayer application can be written in just 9 lines of code’ speaks about the power of JAVAFX. There was something or the other for everyone in the workshop & it was evident from the participant’s faces. The JAVAFX competition for participants has begun & participants need to submit their applications within 21st Sept. All in all, it was a well organized, well executed & well concluded workshop.

Kudos to Hardick & his team for the wonderful workshop.