We had about 20 Geekos turn up at our office on Saturday evening for the openSUSE 11.0 Launch Party. We had a presentations on new features specific to this release, discussions on promotion of Linux everywhere and of course install fest so now tons(figuratively speaking) of laptops are running openSUSE.

The last laptop is still choking on its chkdsk /f while all the rest have finished with openSUSE installation

Everyone has carried home the DVD with a promise to install it on every computer they have access to.

openSUSE 11.0 is coming, join the party if you are in my town - Vadodara/Baroda, put yourself on this list. We’d be distributing DVDs, doing a small presentation introducing all the cool new stuff and of course have some beverages and snacks

Here is a party locator, if you cannot find the one closest to you, organize your own!!

April 12 and 13, 2008 we organized a Symposium on Open Source Software at the Computer Center, Maharaja Sayajirao University(MSU) of Baroda, Vadodara, India. The event was attended, well over our capacity, by varied group such as students, educators, professionals working in industries around Baroda.

Thanks to Sandeep Menon, Novell India, for sending excellent kits for all the participants. Huge thanks also goes to Dr Dhanesh Patel, the symposium Director, Mr Vinay Pandya, Mr Devendra Jadav, Mr Kishor Gorasia - the symposium co-ordinators, Mr Dhaval Pancholi, Mr Brijesh Bhatt, Mr Ambrish Vadnekar, the technical team of the Computer Center for setting up entire IT infrastructure required, Mr Sandip for handling all our accounting and Punjabhai and all the other staff of the centre for their contributions.

The event inauguration panel consisted of the Chief Guest, Mrs Shobhna Jain, the Director General of the Railway Staff College, presided by the MSU Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor S M Joshi and the guest of honor Mr Ashok Shah, IT head of Modern Petrofils.

The training sessions were conducted by Mr Vinay Pandya and Mr Devendra Jadav on MySQL administration on openSUSE, Mr Nilesh Vaghela on Mailserver and Clustering on Red Hat Linux, Mr Ashish Bhavalkar on Squid proxy server on openSUSE and Oracle 10g implementation on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and sessions on Virtualization and Thin Client Computing using KIWI-LTSP on openSUSE by me. We will be putting up online, the slides and other documentations given to the participants.

Professor Bhuvan Parekh, the Dean, the Faculty of Engineering and Technology presided over the closing ceremony.

I would not be doing the review of the event instead here is the review by Ishan, one of the participating students to give you an idea about how the event went (btw, yaar with any number of ‘a’ means ‘friends’).

Here is the walk-through of the event in pictures.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday tried building Compiz Fusion git packages, compiz-fusion-plugins-git packages, that has new cmake build system, are broken in home:cyberorg repo

Thursday getting everything organised for Symposium on Open Source Software this Saturday and Sunday

Phew!

THE MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY OF BARODA

would like you to take part in

SYMPOSIUM ON OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

(SOSS08)

12-13 April 2008.

IN ASSOCIATION WITH:

VIBRANT GNU/LINUX USER GROUP

Organized by

Computer Center,
The M.S.University of Baroda,
Opp DN Hall, Pratapganj
Vadodara – 390 002.
India

I’d be giving a talks and workshops on KIWI-LTSP, LTSP5 implementation on openSUSE and various Virtualization technologies on GNU/Linux operating systems. Talks and workshops on other advanced topics by eminent trainers and solution providers from the region also scheduled.

Download Programme flyer pdf

Edit: In case you have trouble downloading from above link, use this mirror.