-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Ilugc] [Photos] GNU/Linux workshop, July 16, 2005, Saranathan College of Engineering, Tiruchi Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:16:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Shakthi Kannan cyborg4k@yahoo.com To: ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in CC: fsf-tn@gnu.org.in
Greetings!
I would like to thank the Tiruchirapalli MYSQL group and CSE department faculty, students, and the management of Saranathan College of Engineering, Tiruchirapalli for giving me an opportunity to conduct a one-day GNU/Linux workshop.
Thanks to Ramkumar L, S. Srinivasan, T. Shivakumar, Arul Jeeva, and Lakshminarayanan of Tiruchirapalli MYSQL group, http://www.harshainfotech.com/, and http://www.rajaramsystems.com/.
Special thanks to Ramkumar L who has been working with me in planning this event for the past two weeks. Thanks to Prof. Venkatasubramanian, HOD, CSE Department, Saranathan College of Engineering for coordinating the sessions.
The workshop was announced in the newspapers, The Indian Express and The Hindu. The photos of the workshop (and the trip) can be viewed from here:
http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album12
The MYSQL group is working on using LAMP on GNU/Linux for the Pulivazham village cooperative society milk center farmers. They require to keep track of accounts, volume of milk stored in the facilities, and general book-keeping activities.
Ramkumar L: Regarding the contacts:
1. Sarvannan (Lucas-TVS) - told me during Raman's talk on LTSP that they supply Linux drivers for their printers. So, Pulivazham center printers should work with GNU/Linux.
2. Gaurav - from http://www.gnulinuxclub.org is interested in php, web admin. He should start building a database of companies working/using LAMP in India for career opportunities. You can let him know of harshainfotech.com and your services.
3. Sivasankar Chander - told me at MIT, "Carte Blanche" 2005 about 'Cascade Systems & Solutions', Plaza center near Gemini circle, about HP E-Vectra systems that are about Rs.5000/-. He runs FC on it. So, for low-cost solutions, you might want to check this out.
4. Bharathi S - and other networking gurus, might provide some contacts/tips on line-of-sight solutions for networking all the villages together. Folks, right now they have a dial-up offer from BSNL at Rs.25/- per hour :o.
Good luck to the Tiruchirapalli MYSQL team for this project. Hopefully next time when we visit you guyz, we will see Pulivazham farmers using GNU/Linux for their day-to-day activities.
Thanking you all once again,
SK
-- proudly anti-micro$oft ------------------------------------------------------------ Shakthi Kannan, MS Software Engineer, Specsoft (Hexaware Technologies) [E]: shaks@shakthimaan.com [M]: (91) 98407-87007 [W]: http://www.shakthimaan.com [L]: Chennai, India ------------------------------------------------------------
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