Joomla! Contest on 20/09/2008

Evaluation of websites

Round1

The Websites submitted were evaluated on 19thSeptember,2008 & top 17 teams were short listed for the final presentation on 20th September,2008.

Final Round

The short-listed teams presented their websites before the judges from Sun Mycrosystems Mr.Ashok Patil & Mr. Virendra Reddy.

And top 2 teams were announced as the winners of the Joomla! Event.

Summary

The Event played an important role in spreading awareness among the students about the open source technology CMS – Joomla!.

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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, 2008(sharply before 9am)

NON-BVBIANS : 19 September 2008(sharply before 12pm)

Where to submit the website in CD/DVD?

Shankar Setty
Event Coordinator

Dept. of Information Science & Engineering,

B.V.B. College of Engineering & Technology,

Hubli – 580031.

Note: Late submissions will not be evaluated.

Submission Rules

* Strictly follow the installation rules told to you.

* The password used for the website administrator account should be “joomla” and also the database name should be “joomla”.

* Once the site is developed, Zip (using WinZip) the c: /wamp (wamp folder) and write the zipped files to a CD and submit it at the location specified above.

* Create a folder by name ‘Snapshots’ and store all the snapshots of all the webpages for the developed website.

* The developed sites will be evaluated and top 20 teams will be selected for the final round to be held on 20thSeptember, 2008 @ 9:00 am.

* Create a file by name ‘Plug-ins’ and list the plug-ins used, if any.

* The selected 20 teams will be informed by the organizers.

* Top 20 teams will have to give a presentation of their website before the judges on 20th September, 2008 (9:00 Am).

* Top 2 teams will be declared as winners and will win attractive prizes.

* Write the team members names/ College Name / Website Name on top of the CD/DVD.

Joomla! Team

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 15th September,2008 in BVBCET,Hubli. The event was a grand success with the participation of students of all semesters and all the branches of various Engineering colleges such as SDMCET Dharwar, KLESCET Belgaum, REC Hulkoti, KLEIT Hubli, GIT Belgaum, Maratha Mandal College Belgaum, SKSVMACET Laxmeshwar, PC Jabin College Hubli, JT College Gadag, Chetan Science College Hubli, Oxford College Hubli, IMSR Hubli, BEC Bagalkot, Engineering College Haveri and BVBCET Hubli.

The workshop was held in two sessions:

1st Session: 15th September, 2008 (9:00am - 1.00pm)

The workshop was held for the students of other Engineering colleges with the participation of 45 teams where in each team consisted of 2 members resulting in a total of 90 members. The workshop started with a talk on open source by the faculty coordinator Mr.Shankar Setty and followed by the learning of CMS open source tool called Joomla, taught by following resource persons Mr. Vijaykumar, Mr. Praveenkumar, Mr. Shailesh S G (7th Sem ISE Students).

Each team was allotted a system to have a hands-on experience with the tool. The students started with the installation of wamp server followed by the installation of joomla. There after the students were taught the basic terminology, difference between static and dynamic websites, HTML vs CMS etc. Students along with the Resource persons developed a simple website covering the basic functionalities which included adding content to the website, learning about the modules, menus, changing templates, managing the administrator tools etc. It was followed by a learning of additional features such as adding new plug-ins or modules, managing various groups of user accounts etc.

2nd Session: 15th September, 2008 (3:00pm - 7:00 pm)

The workshop was held for the students of BVBCET, Hubli with the participation of 100 teams resulting in a total of 200 members. The teams were divided into to 3 batches with each team being facilitated with the system. The workshop for the 3 batches was held simultaneously in 3 separate labs by resource persons Mr. Vijaykumar, Mr. Praveenkumar, Mr. Shailesh S G (7th Sem ISE Students).

A massive strength of around 300 students attended the workshop with a big hit.

The workshop ended with the problem statement being displayed on the www.bvbsfw.org for submission for the contest.

Summary of the feedback:

Students felt it is important to know about the open source. Usage of CMS has become easy and effective way to develop a website without having to code. Students felt that, without this open source tool joomla! “Designing a website would have never been this easy”. Participants wish to have many more events of this kind in every college.

Scope for improvement:

Students wish to have the workshop on learning joomla!(open source tool) to be held for 2 days which would give them more exposure to the tool.

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Workshop on Free and Open Source Software for Organizations

Date: 19-09-2008 Friday

Time: 4:30 to 6:30 pm

Venue: Seminar Hall, Architecture Department, BVBCET, Hubli

Preamble

The workshop was aimed at increasing awareness about Free and Open Source Software amongst government, non-government and small and medium business organizations. The primary objective was to explain what FOSS is and the various available FOSS that could help in their individual organizations. It was also planned to demonstrate a few FOSS.

Who Attended

The workshop was attended by 30 people from 15 organizations. The break up of the organizations was, 1 was government organization, 4 non-government organizations, 1 educational institution and 9 small and medium businesses/industries.

Resource Persons

The workshop was conducted by Dr. Satish Annigeri, Professor, B.V.B. College of Engg. & Tech., Hubli, Mr. Parshwanath Saligrama, Business Manager, IBM India and Mr. Sachin Kinagi, Executive Briefing Consultant, IBM India.

Contents of the Workshop

In the first part of the Workshop, Dr. Satish Annigeri talked about definitions of FOSS, their advantages, relevance to organizations, some successful FOSS projects, example software that are useful to organizations and demonstrated a few FOSS such as TinyERP and SugarCRM. It was announced that student teams from BVBCET would extend assistance to organizations in implementing FOSS based solutions in the form of installation, configuration and training to staff.

Mr. Parshwanath talked about FOSS initiatives from IBM and the IBM philosophy of providing solutions to customers and thw way FOSS and open technologies fit well into meeting that objective.

Mr. Sachin Kinagi talked about virtualization technologies and the emerging trends and related tools and technologies. He also demonstrated the concepts through a live demo.

The workshop was followed by an informal interaction amongst participants and resource persons.

Outcomes of the Workshop

As a follow up to the workshop, there are two proposals under consideration where solutions will be proposed for the requirements defined by an NGO and a hospital. Student teams are being formed and schedules being finalized to start a requirements analysis.

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 regarding open source solutions.

Most of the students knowingly or unknowingly make use of illegal, pirated version of software at schools and at home. So, with this activity we want to create awareness about open source software.

Since school is the base for learning computers and we, the students of Information Science stream are aware of the different softwares available, we decided to carry out a campaign where in we make them aware of the concept called “Open Source”.

We introduced the students to different open source softwares, their benefits and why they should use open source softwares instead of closed softwares.

Our event was called “OPEN DESKTOP FOR SCHOOLS”.

Open Desktop for Schools was an event organized for school students of STD 9th & 10th.

The main purpose of the event was to make the students aware about the open source softwares and educating them to avoid using pirated or duplicate softwares.

Our campaign began with listing out all the best schools in the city. We came up with a list of schools namely Nirmala Thakkar High School, Fathima English Medium School, Sakhare English Medium School J.K.High School and St.Anthony School.

We fixed an appointment with the principals of these schools and approached them personally for permission and to decide the time and date for conducting the event.

We then formed groups of five and formed a schedule of who has to go to which school, the date and the time.

We started collecting the materials such as CDs containing the open softwares, feedback forms, laptops and projectors and then distributed them to the various groups.

We prepared a presentation document consisting of the introduction to various softwares, disadvantages of paid-softwares and pirated version of the same.

This was followed by the introduction to the concept “open source” and its advantages.

Starting from Monday, two team of 5 members each visited two schools per day.

When we reached there, we spoke to their respective staff and then began the session.

Our first session was the introduction, followed by the presentation.

In the presentation we explained what is open source software, what are its advantages, what is piracy and how we can stop piracy in India.

We then began with explaining the students about few open source softwares which were an alternative to their usual paid-softwares.

We explained them in detail about its usage and how it was very similar to the ones they use regularly in their PCs.

We also showed demonstrations of some of the open source softwares, how to install them and how to use them.

This was followed by a session for Question &Answers which was totally interactive.

The students were very enthusiastic and curious to know about these softwares and all our team members were helping them to get more familiar with their usage. Since there were timing constraints, we could not explain about many softwares but still succeeded in covering most of them such as Open Office, Open Office Writer, Mozilla Firefox, VLC Player, Audacity, GIMP, Tux Paint, Google Chrome, Pidgin, etc

The last session was filling up of the feedback forms.

Some of the feedbacks were as follows:

1. I was quite interested in your seminar. Hearing that I gained a lot of knowledge about open source softwares, its benefits. It was useful for all.

“Best of luck for your future .you are doing a great job for the society…You helped us a lot…Thank you.”

2. The presentation was very useful and motivating. Hence forth I will use open source software…

3. 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…

4.We were not aware of this open source software…I will start working on open source …Thanks for coming to our school ..We are really happy with OPEN DESKTOP activity.

5. Thanks for this open source awareness program…We were not aware of this softwares…Presentation was very useful. Thanks for showing demos of open source software…

6. Open source are better than closed softwares…It has no piracy problem, it is free and open to all…Thanks for the OPEN DESKTOP programme. I will start using open source from today.

7. Presentation was very interesting….We gained a lot of knowledge about open source software and its benefits…Thanks for showing the demos of open source softwares…please do visit again to teach some more open source software.

8. We will definitely download this open source softwares and start working on them…We will make a good use of this. Thank you for coming to our school and giving the Knowledge about this…We will support this activity.

9. I felt that the presentation and demo of open source was very good, where we learned a lot about open source softwares. We find that open source software is the best alternative for closed softwares, thanks a lot.

10. Open source concept provide freedom for users to use, modify software…We will definitely use these software and promote the use of open source Softwares. I want my school to use open source.

11. Thanks for creating an awareness about the open source software…Presentation was very good…BVB college students are really doing a great job.

12. It is a good way of fighting software piracy. I am very happy with this programme and I will contribute to it.

The following days until Friday followed the same pattern and went on smoothly.

Not only the school students, but also we, students of B.V.Bhoomaraddi College Of Engineering considered ourselves fortunate to be a part of this event.

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 not aware of these softwares…Presentation was very useful..Thanks for showing demos of open source software…

3.I was quite interested in your seminar. Hearing that i gained a lot of knowledge about open source softwares,its benefits. It was useful for all.

“Best of luck for your future .you are doing a great job for the society…You helped us a lot…Thank you.

2.Nirmala Thakkar High School (V.S.Pillay School)

Two sessions were conducted .

first session:

DATE:15-09-2008

TIME:3.25pm to 4.40pm

NUMBER OF STUDENTS:40

VOLUNTEERS:Satyendrakumar Acharya,Pallavi Mane,Abhilash,Rekha

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Students Feedback:

1..Thanks for creating an awareness about the open source software…Presentation was very good…BVB college students are really doing a great job..

2.We will definitely download this open source softwares and start working on them…We will make a good use of this..Thank you for coming to our school and giving the Knowledge about this…We will support this activity…

Second session:

DATE:18-09-2008

TIME:3.25pm to 4.40pm

NUMBER OF STUDENTS:40

VOLUNTEERS:Sanjay Bellubbi,Pallavi Mane,Abhilash

Students Feedback:

1.We were not aware of this open source software…I will start working on open source …Thanks for coming to our school ..We are really happy with OPEN DESKTOP activity..

2..I was quite interested in your seminar. Hearing that i gained a lot of knowledge about open source softwares,its benefits. It was useful for all.

3.Sakhare English Medium School

DATE:16-09-2008

TIME:2pm to 3.30pm

NUMBER OF STUDENTS:50

VOLUNTEERS:Santosh Shetty,Harish Savashe,Satyendrakumar Acharya,Vinay,Geetha

Students Feedback:

1.presentation was very useful and motivating. Hence forth i will use open source software…

2..Open source concept provide freedom for users to use,modify software…We will definitely use these software and promote the use of open source softwares…I want my school to use open source..

4.J.K.High School

DATE:17-09-2008

TIME:2.30pm to 3.45pm

NUMBER OF STUDENTS:50

VOLUNTEERS:Varsha Kampli,Sanjay Bellubbi,Darshin,Sachin,Shushanth

Students Feedback:

1.I felt that the presentation and demo of open source was very motivating and interesting,where we learned a lot about open source softwares…We find that open source software are the best alternative for closed softwares …thanks a lot…

2.Presentation was very interesting and motivating….We gained a lot of knowledge about open source software and its benefits…Thanks for showing the demos of open source softwares…please do visit again to teach some more open source software.

5.Fathima English Medium School

DATE:18-09-2008

TIME:3.30pm to 4.45pm

NUMBER OF STUDENTS:70

VOLUNTEERS:Harish Savashe,Satyendrakumar Acharya,Santosh Shetty

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Students Feedback:

1.open source are really very good…thanks for coming to our school and creating awareness of free open source software…

2.You guys are really doing a wonderful job…presentation and demo of open source software was good and informative…will use only open source..

3.It is a good way of fighting software piracy..I am very happy with this programme and i will contribute to it..

Inauguration of Software Freedom week 2008

Chief Guest: Mr. Rajesh Umashankar, SUN Microsystems.
Guest Of Honour: Dr. B S Anami, Principal, KLEIT – HUBLI.
Dignitaries:Dr Ashok Shetter, Principal, BVBCET.
Prof B L Desai, Vice – Principal, BVBCET.
Dr R M Banakar, Branch Counsellor, BVBIEEE.
Shankar Setty, Faculty, ISE DEPT, BVBCET.
Karthik Kulkarni, Chair, BVBIEEE.

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Reach out: Vijayanand Road Lines limited (VRL)

Software Freedom Week 2008 , Reach out Team visited about 5 organizations in and around Hubli Dharwad and created FOSS awareness. They took FOSS beyond the SFW Venue.

5. Vijayanand Road Lines limited (VRL)

DATE: 20/09/08

DURATION: 9-10:45AM

ATTENDEES: EMPLOYEES OF I.T. SECTION OF VRL, MAIN BRANCH.VARUR.

GLIMPSE:

INTRODUCTION-

A WORKSHOP WAS CONDUCTED FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF VRL LOGISTICS, VARUR REGARDING THE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN FOR Foss (FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES) BY THE REACH OUT TEAM FOR SOFTWARE FREEDOM WEEK ’08 UNDERTAKEN BY B.V.B COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, HUBLI.

THE WORKSHOP STARTED WITH A BRIEF INTRODUCTION FROM PRAVITA.T ABOUT WHAT OUR EVENT MOTTO AND SOME FACTS TO ILLUSTRATE OUR VISION OF PROMOTING THE SAME. THE ILLUSTRATIONS WERE IMPRESSIVE AND HELD THE ATTENSION OF ATTENDEES.

THE INTRODUCTION WAS FOLLOWED BY THE TECHNICAL SESSION.

TECHNICAL-

THE TECHNICAL SESSION WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS:

FIRST, WE TRIED TELLING WHAT OPEN SOURCE IS ALL ABOUT ABD HOW IT WORKS. THE COMMUNITY BEHIND IT AND ITS WORKING, THE ADVANTAGES OF Foss AND ITS FEATURES WHICH MAKES IT A MUST FOR ALL.

SECOND, WE ILLUSTRATED A PERFECT REPLACEMENT FOR WHAT IS THE MOST WIDELY USED SOFTWARE, MICROSOFT OFFICE WITH OPEN OFFICE. WE DEMONSTRATED THE SPECIAL FEATURES OF OPEN OFFICE AND HOW IT HAS AN EDGE OVER MICROSOFT OFFICE.

LATER A DEMO OF OTHER USEFUL SOFTWARES UNDER FOSS WAS GIVEN.

THE TECHNICAL SESSION WAS HANDLED BY VIKAS.K AND SAMUEL DEREK SIMON.

CONCLUSION-

THE CONCLUSIVE THANKSGIVING SPEECH WAS GIVEN BY NIKHIL GOUDAR WHO EMPHASISED ON USE OF FOSS.

WE ALSO HAD A HALF TALK WITH MR.L.R.BHAT, THE CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER OF VRL LOGITICS.

HE ENCOURAGED US ON OUR MOTIVE OF SPREADING THE USE OF FREE AND OPEN SOPURCE SOFTWARE AND ALSO GAVE SOME MORE TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE.

P.S.:

CD’S AND BROCHURES WERE DISTRIBUTED AS AN INITIATIVE FOR USING FOSS.

WE ALSO PROVIDE THEM WITH LATEST VERSION OF LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM.