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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 - BMS Libre Software Users Group) page! |
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| We participated the [[SFD/Bangalore/06 |Software Freedom Day 06]] celebrations of [[Bangalore|Bangalore FOSS Community]] and hosted [[Debian/Conf/06/Conclave| Debian Conclave 06]].
| | * [http://groups.google.com/group/bms-lug Mailing list in Google groups] |
| | * [http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=20821940 Orkut Community]. |
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| ==A Report Of the BASIC INSTALLATION SESSION==
| | 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]]. |
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| Date:24/03/2007
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| Venue:I.S.E Lab, BMSCE
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| The event started as scheduled at 2 P.M on 24th March. Around 50
| | ==Tutorials and References== |
| students mainly from 2nd and 3rd year Computer Science and Information
| | ** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/KDE41_Install|How to Install KDE 4.1 on Hardy Heron]] - This tutorial helps you to install KDE 4.1 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04), the version that was installed in the hackfest. |
| Science and a couple of 1st year students from Mechanical Engineering
| | ** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/Synaptic_HowTo|Synaptic Package Manager]] - This tutorial helps you to install packages using Synaptic Package Manager and apt-get. |
| had assembled for the session. It was a pretty good number and was
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| beyond our expectations.
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| Then we had a brief discussion of the philosophy of free software.
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| People asked very good questions which were mainly answered by
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| Praveen, Aanjhan and Sujith and even, we the members of BMSLUG
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| answered few questions. The following topics were discussed briefly:
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| Differences between Free Software and Open Source Software.
| | ==Events== |
| Why should we use, support and promote free Software?
| | * [[:Category:BMSLUG Events|Events organised by BMSLUG]] |
| Why Free Software is important for the Free Software Community?
| | ** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/Install_Fest|Install fest]] - The minutes of the install fest and all that you need to know about installation and some basic usage tips. |
| Why Free Software is necessary for a Professional?
| | ** [[Say_No_To_Software_Patents#Bengaluru Meetup|Say No To Software Patents]] - Planning session ahead of the Bengaluru session planned by patents office on 16th August 2008 |
| Why is it important for End-Users?
| | ** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/Workshop_embedded_system | Workshop on Embedded Systems and VLSI tools]] on 17th November 2007 |
| Free Software does not mean Free of Cost but it means Freedom.
| | ** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/HackFest| Hack Fest]] |
| The four levels of Freedom(Summary of GNU's General Public License). | | ** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/Understanding_GPL_version_3| A discussion to understand GPL Version 3]] on 10am, 20th May 2007 |
| Why proprietary Softwares are dangerous not only in the public
| | ** [[Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_Karnataka/Etv_coverage| BMSCE on Etv]]: [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1892949130354331450 Video clip of the news story] |
| software domain but also in Custom Software Industry(In the sense,
| | ** [[/Swatantra_Tech_Fest|Swatantra tech fest]] - Free Software, Free Society on 21st April 2007 |
| what happens if the company which developed a software for us closes
| | ** [[/Basic_Installation_Workshop|Basic Installation Workshop]] - Installation of GNU/Linux on 24th March 2007 |
| or what if they start asking huge amount of money for further
| | ** [[Debian/Conf/06/Conclave|Debian Conclave 06]] - A planning session for the Debian Developers Conference on 29th October 2006 |
| development)?
| | ** [[/Software_Freedom_Day_06|Software Freedom Day 06]] - Celebrating Software Freedom on 16th September 2006 |
| Why there are so many GNU/Linux Distributions?
| | ** [[/FOSS_Day_05| FOSS Day 05]] - A day with FOSS on 24th September 2005 |
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| All the questions were answered and we felt that the students who had
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| come were satisfied and convinced.
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| Later we started with the installation session. We had planned to
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| install Ubuntu Dapper Drake and Debian Etch mainly. We divided the
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| entire crowd into several groups and each group was handled by one of
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| the members of BMSLUG and also Praveen, Aanjhan and Sujith. All the
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| points that should be noted during installation like creating
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| partitions and selecting them, uses of creating swap partitions were
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| clearly explained. After the installation procedure was complete we
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| configured AIGLX-Beryl on few systems. Aanjhan and Praveen
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| demonstrated few of the 100s of features of Beryl. Aanjhan
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| demonstrated many of the themes and plugins which he had installed on
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| his laptop. Few of them were surprised but most of them were really
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| shocked to see those features, that too working smoothly on pretty old
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| systems with 256MB RAM. Most of them told us that they were only
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| partially convinced to use GNU/Linux till then and after seeing Beryl
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| they were totally convinced and they wanted to use GNU/Linux on that
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| day itself.
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| Akshay spoke about why it is important to work on projects rather than
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| being text book oriented. He also told us that doing things
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| practically will definitely help us during placements. He also spoke
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| about Google Summer of Code 2007, and he along with Aanjhan and
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| Praveen convinced us to participate in Summer of Code.
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| Finally Aanjhan spoke about Ubuntu-India and he also proposed to have
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| an Ubuntu-Conference in B.M.S.C.E to which most of us agreed. Later
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| Praveen spoke about Debian-India and the session concluded at about 5 P.M
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| Thanks to following people for making this event a huge success:
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| Entire Information Science and Engineering Laboratory Staff and Shri
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| Guruprasad, H.O.D Information Science and Engineering for provinding
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| the necessary support for organizing this event and for providing the
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| I.S.E Lab and
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| Praveen.A
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| Aanjhan.R
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| Sujith Haridasan
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| Nithin.R
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| Akshay.R
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| Mallikarjun
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| Sharada
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| Nethravathi
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| Nishanth.M.S
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| Prashant
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| Harsha
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| Puneeth Bhat
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| Pulkith Bhuwalka
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| Naveen Kumar.B
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| Krishna Bharadhwaj
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| Ishesh Murarka
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| Santosh G Vattam
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| Subramaniam.S
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| ==Debian Conclave 06==
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| On 29th Sunday of October.
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| See [[Debian/Conf/06/Conclave|Debian Concalve page]] for more details and registration.
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| == Software Freedom Day 06 ==
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| The event was on 16th September 2006. We started at 9.30am.
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| ====Blogs====
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| # [http://netravathib.blogspot.com/2006/09/16th-september-2006-software-freedom.html 16th September 2006 , Software Freedom Day @BMSCE] by Netravathi B
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| # [http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/?p=12 Tuxmaniac @ BMS, Bangalore on SFD] by Aanjhan R
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| # [http://www.pravi.co.nr/2006/09/16/software-freedom-day/ Software Freedom Day 06] by [[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
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| # [http://aceraks.blogspot.com/ Akshay]
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| ====Sessions====
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| * Revolution OS (video)
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| * Free Software Philosophy -- by Aanjhan R, Praveen A
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| * Discussion/FAQ on FOSS (motivation, benefits, challenges, student contributors) -- Praveen A, Aanjhan, Srikanth, Dinesh, Dilip V | |
| * Demo of AIGLX and [http://ipodlinux.org/ GNU/Linux on ipod] -- Aanjhan R
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| * 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
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| ====Co-Ordinators====
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| # Praveen A - pravi -dot- a -at- gmail -dot- com
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| # Aanjhan R - aanjhan -at- gmail -dot- com
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| # Anish Jacob - anishblogs -at- gmail -dot- com
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| # Akshay Narayan - akshay-dot-jrao-at-yahoo-dot-co-dot-in
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| # Sharadha M - sharadha -dot- bmsce at- gmail -dot- com
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| # Netravathi B - netra -dot- b86 -at- gmail -dot- com
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| ==FOSS Day 05==
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| On 24th September 2005 the FOSS Community Bangalore conducted a seminar on FOSS. The speakers were
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| [http://www.dilpu.net Dilip V], [[User:Pravs| Praveen A]], [http://www.techmag.biz Thejesh GN], [http://www.livejournal.com/users/prady/ Pradyumna Sampath] | |
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| 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.
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| Read on the blogs on the seminar
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| *[http://www.pravi.co.nr/2005/10/03/foss-day-at-bmsce/ FOSS Day at BMSCE] by Praveen A | |
| *[http://www.techmag.biz/FOSS_and_college_projects FOSS and College Projects] by Thejesh GN
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| *[http://www.dilpu.net/archives/2005/09/26/a-day-with-a-difference/ A Day with a difference] by Dilip V
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| | == BMSLUG Members == |
| | #[[User:Akshay.narayan|Akshay]] |
| | #[[User:netravathib|Netravathi B]] |
| | #[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]] |
| | #[[User:Vincentvikram|Vikram Vincent]] |
| | #[[user:shashank|Shashank Bharadwaj]] |
| | #[[user:Madhusudan|Madhusudan.C.S]] |
| | #[[user:Puneeth|Puneeth Bhat]] |
| | #[[user:Krishna|Krishna Bharadwaj]] |
| | #[[user:Vattam|Santosh.G.Vattam]] |
| | #[[user:Subramanyam|Subramanyam Shastri]] |
| | #[[user:Adithya|Adithya c Udupa]] |
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