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Welcome to BMS College of Engineering FOSS Community (BMSLUG) page! We have a [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bmslug Mailing list in Yahoo] and a [http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=20821940 community in orkut].   
Welcome to BMS College of Engineering FOSS Community (BMSLUG) page! We have a [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bmslug Mailing list in Yahoo] and a [http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=20821940 community in orkut].   


We participated the [[SFD/Bangalore/06 |Software Freedom Day 06]] celebrations of [[Bangalore|Bangalore FOSS Community]], hosted [[Debian/Conf/06/Conclave| Debian Conclave 06]].  
We participated the [[SFD/Bangalore/06 |Software Freedom Day 06]] celebrations of [[Bangalore|Bangalore FOSS Community]], hosted [[Debian/Conf/06/Conclave| Debian Conclave 06]] and [[/Swatantra_Tech_Fest|Swatantra tech fest]].  


==Swatantra tech fest==
==Swatantra tech fest==


*[[/Swatantra_Tech_Fest|Swatantra tech fest]] - Free Software, Free Society on 21st April 2007
* [[/Swatantra_Tech_Fest|Swatantra tech fest]] - Free Software, Free Society on 21st April 2007


==A Report Of the BASIC INSTALLATION SESSION - 24/03/2007==
== Basic Installation Workshop ==


Date:24/03/2007
* [[/Basic_Installation_Workshop|Basic Installation Workshop]] - 24th March 2007
Venue:I.S.E Lab, BMSCE
 
The event started as scheduled at 2 P.M on 24th March. Around 50
students mainly from 2nd and 3rd year Computer Science and Information
Science and a couple of 1st year students from Mechanical Engineering
had assembled for the session. It was a pretty good number and was
beyond our expectations.
Then we had a brief discussion of the philosophy of free software.
People asked very good questions which were mainly answered by
Praveen, Aanjhan and Sujith and even, we the members of BMSLUG
answered few questions. The following topics were discussed briefly:
 
Differences between Free Software and Open Source Software.
Why should we use, support and promote free Software?
Why Free Software is important for the Free Software Community?
Why Free Software is necessary for a Professional?
Why is it important for End-Users?
Free Software does not mean Free of Cost but it means Freedom.
The four levels of Freedom(Summary of GNU's General Public License).
Why proprietary Softwares are dangerous not only in the public
software domain but also in Custom Software Industry(In the sense,
what happens if the company which developed a software for us closes
or what if they start asking huge amount of money for further
development)?
Why there are so many GNU/Linux Distributions?
 
All the questions were answered and we felt that the students who had
come were satisfied and convinced.
 
Later we started with the installation session. We had planned to
install Ubuntu Dapper Drake and Debian Etch mainly. We divided the
entire crowd into several groups and each group was handled by one of
the members of BMSLUG and also Praveen, Aanjhan and Sujith. All the
points that should be noted during installation like creating
partitions and selecting them, uses of creating swap partitions were
clearly explained. After the installation procedure was complete we
configured AIGLX-Beryl on few systems. Aanjhan and Praveen
demonstrated few of the 100s of features of Beryl. Aanjhan
demonstrated many of the themes and plugins which he had installed on
his laptop. Few of them were surprised but most of them were really
shocked to see those features, that too working smoothly on pretty old
systems with 256MB RAM. Most of them told us that they were only
partially convinced to use GNU/Linux till then and after seeing Beryl
they were totally convinced and they wanted to use GNU/Linux on that
day itself.
 
Akshay spoke about why it is important to work on projects rather than
being text book oriented. He also told us that doing things
practically will definitely help us during placements. He also spoke
about Google Summer of Code 2007, and he along with Aanjhan and
Praveen convinced us to participate in Summer of Code.
 
Finally Aanjhan spoke about Ubuntu-India and he also proposed to have
an Ubuntu-Conference in B.M.S.C.E to which most of us agreed. Later
Praveen spoke about Debian-India and the session concluded at about 5 P.M
 
 
 
Thanks to following people for making this event a huge success:
 
#Entire Information Science and Engineering Laboratory Staff and Shri Guruprasad, H.O.D Information Science and Engineering for provinding the necessary support for organizing this event and for providing the I.S.E Lab and
 
#[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
#Aanjhan.R
#Sujith Haridasan
#Nithin.R
#[[User:akshay.narayan|Akshay Narayan]]
#Madhusudan C S
#Mallikarjun
#Sharada
#[[User:netravathib|Netravathi B]]
#Nishanth.M.S
#Prashant
#Harsha
#Puneeth Bhat
#Pulkith Bhuwalka
#Naveen Kumar.B
#Krishna Bharadhwaj
#Ishesh Murarka
#Santosh G Vattam
#Subramaniam.S


==Debian Conclave 06==
==Debian Conclave 06==

Revision as of 20:46, 22 April 2007

Welcome to BMS College of Engineering FOSS Community (BMSLUG) page! We have a Mailing list in Yahoo and a community in orkut.

We participated the Software Freedom Day 06 celebrations of Bangalore FOSS Community, hosted Debian Conclave 06 and Swatantra tech fest.

Swatantra tech fest

Basic Installation Workshop

Debian Conclave 06

Software Freedom Day 06

The event was on 16th September 2006. We started at 9.30am.

Blogs

  1. 16th September 2006 , Software Freedom Day @BMSCE by Netravathi B
  2. Tuxmaniac @ BMS, Bangalore on SFD by Aanjhan R
  3. Software Freedom Day 06 by Praveen A
  4. Akshay

Sessions

  • Revolution OS (video)
  • Free Software Philosophy -- by Aanjhan R, Praveen A
  • Discussion/FAQ on FOSS (motivation, benefits, challenges, student contributors) -- Praveen A, Aanjhan, Srikanth, Dinesh, Dilip V
  • Demo of AIGLX and GNU/Linux on ipod -- Aanjhan R
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop/Server 10 - Rajababu Gorjala, Technology Sales Specialist - Linux Impact,Novell Inc.
  • Future plans for BMS FOSS Community/Upcoming events/BoFs - Praveen A, Aanjhan, Srikanth, Dinesh, Dilip V

Co-Ordinators

  1. Praveen A - pravi -dot- a -at- gmail -dot- com
  2. Aanjhan R - aanjhan -at- gmail -dot- com
  3. Anish Jacob - anishblogs -at- gmail -dot- com
  4. Akshay Narayan - akshay-dot-jrao-at-yahoo-dot-co-dot-in
  5. Sharadha M - sharadha -dot- bmsce at- gmail -dot- com
  6. Netravathi B - netra -dot- b86 -at- gmail -dot- com
  7. Vikram Vincent vincentvikram -at- gmail -dot- com

FOSS Day 05

On 24th September 2005 the FOSS Community Bangalore conducted a seminar on FOSS. The speakers were Dilip V, Praveen A, Thejesh GN, Pradyumna Sampath

Dilip and Praveen introduced FOSS and the advantages of FOSS. Pradyumna Sampath gave a demo of glade and gtk programming. It was followed by a talk on FOSS Tools and advantages specific to students. The event was organised in association with Protocol, Computer club of BMSCE.

Read on the blogs on the seminar

BMSLUG Members

  1. Akshay
  2. Netravathi B
  3. Praveen A
  4. Vikram Vincent
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