Day2

Google CTO Visits Software Freedom Week 2008

On Sept 15th Google India CTO visited our college. We were delighted to have Dr. Prasad Bharath Ram as a resource person to speak on open source. He started off by conveying the significance of open and free source software in multinationals like Google and Yahoo. He spoke about the work culture in Google, [...]

Joomla! Problem Statement Declared on 15/09/2008

Problem Statement:
Participants are invited to develop original websites with innovative and creative features based on the software provided during the workshop.
“Design & Develop a Website for any National Level Technical Fest.”
Important: The password used for the website administrator account should be “joomla” and also the database name should be “joomla”.
Last Date for Submission
BVBIANS : 19thSeptember, [...]

Joomla Workshop on 15/09/2008

(a workshop cum website development contest)
Joomla is an award winning CMS (Content Management System) used to develop a website and more importantly an open source tool that helps in easy and efficient way of building a website.
The event included a workshop on joomla followed by a contest on website development. The workshop was held on [...]

OPEN DESKTOP

(Promotion of Open Source Software at schools)

“Freedom of Software is important for everyone, not just software developers…”
Open source software is any computer program with accessible source code. Anyone can change or share any open source program for free (legally and technically).It is often available at no cost.
The Objective of Open Desktop: to teach the children [...]

open desktop schedule & schools visited

Schools visited:
1.St. Antony’s Public School
2.Nirmala Thakkar High School
3.Fathima English Medium School
4.Sakhare English Medium School
5.J.K.High School

St.Antony’s Public School:
DATE:15-09-2008
TIME:2.30pm to 4.00pm
NUMBER OF STUDENTS:110
VOLUNTEERS:Sanjay Bellubbi,Varsha Kampli,Harish Savashe,Santosh Shetty,Rekha Inamati

Students Feedback:
1.Thanks for this wonderful,informative presentation….It is useful for all…We will use open source from today. We will support you for this activity…
2.Thanks for this open source awareness program…We were [...]