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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]].
+==A Report Of the BASIC INSTALLATION SESSION==
+Date:24/03/2007
+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
+Praveen.A
+Aanjhan.R
+Sujith Haridasan
+Nithin.R
+Akshay.R
+Mallikarjun
+Sharada
+Nethravathi
+Nishanth.M.S
+Prashant
+Harsha
+Puneeth Bhat
+Pulkith Bhuwalka
+Naveen Kumar.B
+Krishna Bharadhwaj
+Ishesh Murarka
+Santosh G Vattam
 ==Debian Conclave 06==