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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 - 24/03/2007==
| | 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.
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| 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 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
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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 Narayan
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| #Madhusudan C S
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| #Mallikarjun
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| #Sharada
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| #Netravathi B
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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 == | | == BMSLUG Members == |
| #[[User:Akshay.narayan|Akshay]] | | #[[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]] |
| [[Category:Campus Communities]] | | [[Category:Campus Communities]] |