OPEN QUIZ

open quiz

A quiz competition was organized by the students as a part of the SOFTWARE FREEDOM WEEK-09. It was slightly different from the usual quiz competitions due to the fact that most of questions were from the field of open source technologies. There was a very good response from the student fraternity to this event.

The whole event was totally divided into two parts
The Prelims
The Finals
PRELIMS:
Date: 22/09/2009

It was a team event with two members per team. A total of 32 teams, including teams from other colleges attended this round. Firstly we had a screening round. This round consisted of 25 questions, of which about 50% were based on open source technologies. The top four teams from this round were chosen for the finals. The competition was really cutthroat, with some teams failing to make the cut just by 1 mark.

LINUX WORKSHOP

linux workshop

Linux workshop was conducted on 22nd September, under Software Freedom Week -2009 with the aim of promoting open source software.

A Workshop which saw one of the maximum number of entries was worth of it. There were over 80 participants & yet there were many in the waiting list,trying their luck for registration.The workshop covered a whole lot of areas which included :

1. Introduction to linux OS.

2. Basic commands.

3. How to install the linux operating system.

4. How linux can be an effective replacement to windows.

Summary of the workshop :

Linux is a complete UNIX compatible free software system.

This is the prominent example of free and open source software collaboration.

The most exciting feature that stands it out is support for fastboot.

Today linux distributions are used in numerous domain from embedded systems to super computers and have secured a place in server distributions.

What makes linux different from other contempory operating systems??

Primary is that it is a open source ,free software.

Linux is more a language in which you structure sentences to assemble small function to accomplish the task whereas a windows environment accomplishes tasks by running independent programs.

The workshop was highly interactive & was followed by a contest whose results are awaited.
To put it in a line, another successful, well organized, enthusiastic well concluded workshop…
Hats off to Pranav & his team….