GnuNify 2013s

Day I:-

It was really an awaiting moment to all techies of Open-Source World to be at GnuNify 2013.It was held at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR). After an Inauguration Ceremony of GnuNify at day 1, six sessions were scheduled parallel with respect to domains such as Jump Start, FOSS General, Web-Technologies, Programming, Wikipedia, Mozilla Meetup, Cloud Computing, Sys Admin, Mobile-Tech and Localization. I attended the Jump Start Session by Oyunbileg Baatar on “Screencasting Demos and HowTos”. It was practical Hands On Session on How to create a video tutorials and upload it on web by using open-source tools like recordmydesktop and pitivi. Parallely, Prof. Tushar Kute attended the session of Cloud Computing on “Introduction to Open Stack Project” By Atul Jha. Further he also attended the session of “Storage as a Service and Cinder” by Sajid Akhtar and “Introduction to Open Stack Quantum” by Vivek Raghuvanshi. All the three sessions elaborated an Idea of Open Stack to him. Whereas Prof. Amol Kute attended his first session of Sys admin on “Open SSL Architecture Interface and Internals” by Saifi Khan. After my first session I attended the Programming Session on “TC to GCC Transfer Certificate” by Shakthi Kannan. It was a Practical session which covered a various topics of gcc compiler.                                        

 In afternoon session me and Prof. Tushar Kute had attended the session on “Translations for Wikimedia made easy” by Siberland Mazeland and Niklas Laxstrom. While Prof. Amol Kute had attended a Practical Hands on session on “PHP-MySQL Connectivity” by Gaurav Pant. The last Session of Day 1, we all had attended a practical session by Aditya Godbole on “Introduction to Ruby”.

 Thus Day 1 Conference was really informative with great Talks.

Day 2:-

On the day 2 of the Conference, I attended the first session of Soumya Deb (debloper) on “Introduction to Git Hub”. Then second session of the day, me and Prof. Tushar Kute attended a practical session on “Introduction to Python” by Ramkrishna Yekulla (Ramki). While Prof. Amol Kute attended “Gen Open Youth in Open Source” by Sayak Sarkar and “Introduction to Mozilla community involvement Programs” by Vineel Reddy Pindi. Then me and Prof. Tushar attended the “Getting Started with Mozilla development Projrcts ” by Soumya Deb (Debloper). Then we all attended the session of Dipen Chaudhary on “How to start on Drupal and Drupal Ladder “. Then we attended as a representative of Marathi Wikimedia in Wikimedia Meetup in presence of all other language representatives from India and Foreign countries.

So Day 2 of the Conference was too really amazing with the talks of Speaker

Day 3:-

Day 3 was a meet-up day, two meet-ups one of Mozilla India Community and other of Wikipedia was scheduled, we participated in Mozilla Meet-up and met the many Mozillians across the world. We also introduced SnashLUG in that meetup and we got a great response and guidelines from the Mozillians.

Overall GnuNify Open Source Conference was the hub of Tech Talks. We were able to know various technologies and Technocrats.

Thanks a lot GnuNify and PLUG for organizing such a wonderful event.

जिज्ञासा

A Practical workshop on Fedora…

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which was a practical workshop on Fedora. This event was conducted by Shakthi Kannan who is the ambassador of Fedora, also he is Senior Software Engineer, Fedora and also he is the moderator of Linux forum. The purpose of this event was to get knowledge about the basic things to start a project.

The contents of this workshop are as follows:-

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           I want to do project, tell me what to do?

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           Git

           Openstack

 On 2^nd Feb, he gave a seminar on the topic “I want to do project, tell me what to do”. In that seminar, he gave us the basic knowledge about how to start a project and plan little things so that we can extend our project in a more flexible way. He told about how to make small targets and plan for those targets to achieve it. He also gave some ideas about how to deal with the corporate world and how to manage and plan things.

      

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Then he took a workshop on “git” and “gcc” on the same day. git is distributed version control system (dvcs) which is written in C language. A version control system allows the creation of a history for a collection of files and includes the functionality to revert the collection of files to another state which may be a different collection of files or contents in the files. A distributed version control system has no central server which stores the data. Every local copy contains the full history of the source code. He gave us detail information about the git how it actually works. Then he told about the gcc which is the “GNU” C Compiler that Linux used to run the C programs. He taught us about how the compiler exactly compiled the codes. Also he taught us about how to make our own library functions so that we can use it later on. 

Then on 3^rd Feb, he took a workshop on OpenStack. Openstack is a Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing project that is free open source software released under the terms of the Apache License. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that control large pools of processing, storage and networking resources throughout the datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their user to provision resources through a web interface. He gave us the great knowledge about the OpenStack. 

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-->He also told us about the various links about the conferences and projects based so that we can search and can learn about the various topics. This event was very successful and again got a great response from all. We enjoyed a lot attending his workshop and got a great knowledge.