Hello Friends,
The LDTP Workshop is one of those events I will certainly cherish for life. First, I would like mention (and thank) Saranavan Prabu, Thejesh and Vikram who started from far flung places like Domlur, Electronics City and Koramangala to be at Kempagowda Bus Station before 6 AM. Hat's Off guys.
The Journey ----------- Our journey was quite uneventful except for the irate passenger shouting at the driver, our friends having neck ache's at every bump and a driver who's was either drunk or was surely high on something. I strongly suspect that the Rajhamsa bus was bullock-powered not by regular inter-combustion engine. ;o) When we stopped just outside Mandya for breakfast, I was so relieved to find my feet finally back on ground that I hung around the canteen so long that we almost missed the bus. But, how could the bus leave without GNU(Head)'s I say ;o)
On Campus --------- On reaching SJCE campus I decided to chuck the idea of a workshop and go placing cricket but the saner members of our groups suggested that the pitch may sustain potholes and deep bumps if I lugged my tonnage around. Darn!.
We met the students from Linux Computer Club-SJCE,. Sandesh, Osho and they gave us tour of the various departments labs. We found a printout stating 'No Closed Source' in big letters taped to the Electronics Department Computer lab. ;oD I never saw a college that had TFT monitors and latest computers in almost all of its labs. SJCE seems to be a very progressive college I ever seen.
(The photo's of the events will be posted shortly)
The Students ------------
The students of Linux Computer Club-SJCE had been working for days to convince their faculties to keep the labs open on sunday and allow them to install gnu/Linux on the computers so that we could have a hands-on workshop. Its an event which wouldn't have been organized without the adamant efforts of these guys. Thanks Guy, You Rock !!!!!!!!!!!
The Event ----------
We had to start the event quite late around 11:30 and then we had few students who had come for the event. The turnout was not great as it was a weekend. Thejesh started the workshop with his talk on 'FOSS and student projects', in absence of a good public address system(the only problem we had) we had rely on the reach of our vocal chords most of the time. The good side of this was it was more fun filled classroom talk sort-of-event rather unlike the regular events.
Saravana Prabhu took off the Linux Destop Testing Project(LDTP) workshop with talks on introducing Software Testing and later a more technical talk on the architecture of the project. I didn't have much change to listen to the talk as I was constantly running to the M-tech lab, trying to understand how SuSe worked and how to debug the problems with LDTP setup. After a few hic-up's the LCC-SJCE guys figured out what the problem and fixed the problem only to find that the labs had closed before we can move the workshop to the lab for a hands-on session. Darn!
Rama Krishna appeared out of nowhere to deliver us from insanity and gave us a very entertaining talk on Free Software projects, localization and opportunities for students in the industry (and other topics I fail to remember). His informal one-to-one kind of entertaining talk with great slides (it had Bollywood heros/heroines dressed like in the Hollywood movie 'The Matrix') and even a pop quiz's that won few guy's a Mozilla Project T-Shirts. It left us the organizers the perpetual back-benchers shouting for t-shirts too.
(Thejesh and me were cursing ourselves why didn't we have Rama Krishna start the event with his talk. [He was delivering another talk that day in NIE])
The day ended with LCC-SJCE guys planning how they could work to build they club and few suggests were discussed like having a website,having regular talks, calling for volunteers and finally working on projects. The day ended quite late at 3pm and everyone was excited but no body seems to be either hungry or ready to left the venue even after the auditorium was locked. ;o)
So, we all called it day and LCC-SJCE took us all (except Rama Krishna who had another appointment) to cool place for lunch and we had few more fun-filled hour with myself playing the jester and easy target for jokes. We left Mysore and sweet joy of breathing pure oxygen filled air at 4pm.
Guy's let do it once more some other time, shall we ?
Cheers
--arky
On 03/27/06 14:45, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
So, we all called it day and LCC-SJCE took us ...
Guy's let do it once more some other time, shall we ?
Oh yeah! And make it a Saturday next time. I was keeping myself updated through Sandesh over phone, and everytime he would say "If only it was not a Sunday., we would have more people");
2006/3/27, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati rakesh_ambati@yahoo.com:
Guy's let do it once more some other time, shall we ?
Cheers
--arky
Just back from home today morning.
Kudos to all who made it big, even in my absence ;-)
Anytime we will do.
We have to meet BMS CS HOD next week as our next event.
Regrads Praveen
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--- " पà¥*रवà¥*णà¥* à¤* (Praveen A)" pravi.a@gmail.com wrote:
Kudos to all who made it big, even in my absence ;-)
Anytime we will do.
We have to meet BMS CS HOD next week as our next event.
On next FSUG event,
It would great if we can go meet Computer Society Of India-Bangalore chapter people as well. Praveen, let get in touch with Nirmal first and fix the timing/date with them.
Guys, how about meeting up to watch a documentary movie at Center for Film and Drama, Sona towers, on April 1 first 'All Fools Day' evening. It cost's 30-50Rs for non-members to attend this event.
Would the guys like to do a GNU(s) Gazing on a weekend in the first week of April?
On LCC-SJCE,
Laxmi, found out that they get more students if we do a event on a weekday. They are asking for a newbie introduction to free software event in there college as a next event from us.
Apart from that, these guys need more help from us. If someone can guide a group of students to do projects etc..
I have taken up the job of mentoring there Linux Campus Club by imparting advice community building activities. Any help on this level is most welcome.
Cheers
--arky
Hi Arky, From your nice write up I hope things went on well !!! I would like to hear more about LDTP session ;)
Thanks Nagappan
Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
Hello Friends,
The LDTP Workshop is one of those events I will certainly cherish for life. First, I would like mention (and thank) Saranavan Prabu, Thejesh and Vikram who started from far flung places like Domlur, Electronics City and Koramangala to be at Kempagowda Bus Station before 6 AM. Hat's Off guys.
The Journey
Our journey was quite uneventful except for the irate passenger shouting at the driver, our friends having neck ache's at every bump and a driver who's was either drunk or was surely high on something. I strongly suspect that the Rajhamsa bus was bullock-powered not by regular inter-combustion engine. ;o) When we stopped just outside Mandya for breakfast, I was so relieved to find my feet finally back on ground that I hung around the canteen so long that we almost missed the bus. But, how could the bus leave without GNU(Head)'s I say ;o)
On Campus
On reaching SJCE campus I decided to chuck the idea of a workshop and go placing cricket but the saner members of our groups suggested that the pitch may sustain potholes and deep bumps if I lugged my tonnage around. Darn!.
We met the students from Linux Computer Club-SJCE,. Sandesh, Osho and they gave us tour of the various departments labs. We found a printout stating 'No Closed Source' in big letters taped to the Electronics Department Computer lab. ;oD I never saw a college that had TFT monitors and latest computers in almost all of its labs. SJCE seems to be a very progressive college I ever seen.
(The photo's of the events will be posted shortly)
The Students
The students of Linux Computer Club-SJCE had been working for days to convince their faculties to keep the labs open on sunday and allow them to install gnu/Linux on the computers so that we could have a hands-on workshop. Its an event which wouldn't have been organized without the adamant efforts of these guys. Thanks Guy, You Rock !!!!!!!!!!!
The Event
We had to start the event quite late around 11:30 and then we had few students who had come for the event. The turnout was not great as it was a weekend. Thejesh started the workshop with his talk on 'FOSS and student projects', in absence of a good public address system(the only problem we had) we had rely on the reach of our vocal chords most of the time. The good side of this was it was more fun filled classroom talk sort-of-event rather unlike the regular events.
Saravana Prabhu took off the Linux Destop Testing Project(LDTP) workshop with talks on introducing Software Testing and later a more technical talk on the architecture of the project. I didn't have much change to listen to the talk as I was constantly running to the M-tech lab, trying to understand how SuSe worked and how to debug the problems with LDTP setup. After a few hic-up's the LCC-SJCE guys figured out what the problem and fixed the problem only to find that the labs had closed before we can move the workshop to the lab for a hands-on session. Darn!
Rama Krishna appeared out of nowhere to deliver us from insanity and gave us a very entertaining talk on Free Software projects, localization and opportunities for students in the industry (and other topics I fail to remember). His informal one-to-one kind of entertaining talk with great slides (it had Bollywood heros/heroines dressed like in the Hollywood movie 'The Matrix') and even a pop quiz's that won few guy's a Mozilla Project T-Shirts. It left us the organizers the perpetual back-benchers shouting for t-shirts too.
(Thejesh and me were cursing ourselves why didn't we have Rama Krishna start the event with his talk. [He was delivering another talk that day in NIE])
The day ended with LCC-SJCE guys planning how they could work to build they club and few suggests were discussed like having a website,having regular talks, calling for volunteers and finally working on projects. The day ended quite late at 3pm and everyone was excited but no body seems to be either hungry or ready to left the venue even after the auditorium was locked. ;o)
So, we all called it day and LCC-SJCE took us all (except Rama Krishna who had another appointment) to cool place for lunch and we had few more fun-filled hour with myself playing the jester and easy target for jokes. We left Mysore and sweet joy of breathing pure oxygen filled air at 4pm.
Guy's let do it once more some other time, shall we ?
Cheers
--arky
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--- Nagappan anagappan@novell.com wrote:
Hi Arky, From your nice write up I hope things went on well !!! I would like to hear more about LDTP session ;)
Hi Nagappan,
Perhaps for the LDTP developers it may seems like the workshop it not a big leap in propagating the project. But its a significant step and we need to do more such event in Bangalore and elsewhere.
Its great that the students who were present at the event got an idea about software testing and perhaps some may choose to try things out. And that itself is worth its weight in gold. I have seen a chap with do a small example that was presented in the workshop and I say am impressed with the simplicity of python and ldtp lib's.
Irrespective of the benefits of this workshop, what I made sure was that everyone had fun doing it and we did.
What do you say Sandesh, and Saravana.
Cheers
--arky
On 3/27/06, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati rakesh_ambati@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Nagappan anagappan@novell.com wrote:
Hi Arky, From your nice write up I hope things went on well !!! I would like to hear more about LDTP session ;)
Hi Nagappan,
Perhaps for the LDTP developers it may seems like the workshop it not a big leap in propagating the project. But its a significant step and we need to do more such event in Bangalore and elsewhere.
It seems like in a country like India, where buzzwords like Mainframe computing, Retail Management, CRM, ERP..... are given more hype in Students minds , where *testing* and *QA* jobs, and to an extent *sys-ops* look not so exciting for the students. Students mistake TDD, for something boring. Infact testing esp. Open source code, is much more exiciting, when you look at the quality of the code written, its much much higer than its competitors.
There is lot of vaccum in the Linux Testing Industry, Many testing tools but no good documentation :( . Its an opportunity of many students to make their mark in the Linux Testing Industry.
Its great that the students who were present at the event got an idea about software testing and perhaps some may choose to try things out. And that itself is worth its weight in gold. I have seen a chap with do a small example that was presented in the workshop and I say am impressed with the simplicity of python and ldtp lib's.
Irrespective of the benefits of this workshop, what I made sure was that everyone had fun doing it and we did.
What do you say Sandesh, and Saravana.
Cheers
--arky
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Hmmm.... lets see what could be done! i think April 1st is also the BangPypers meet :(
Anush
--- Anush Shetty itsanushshetty@gmail.com wrote:
Hmmm.... lets see what could be done! i think April 1st is also the BangPypers meet :(
What is BangPypers ?
Hi All even Acharya Institute of Technology Students and Mgt would prefer the Event if it were on a weekday. Regards Vincent
BangPypers is Bangalore Python Users Group. www.groups.yahoo.com/group/bangpypers
Anush
hi Arky, Firstly thanks to all (Arky,Thejesh,Saravana Prabhu,Vikram and Ramakrishna) for having made the event possible and have boosted our enthusiasm. The entire thing was a good experience to all the boys here. Let me put down some of the suggestions and opinion from people who came for the talks. Thejesh's and Ramakrishna's talks were good and LDTP was fine. Some said Thejesh went on well but should have cut down a little bit at the end due to which the crowd slimmed down for the next talk. Ramakrishna your talk was pretty motivating but kindly avoid some techie things as newbies may get scared.If i heard you right you talked about lisp while not may know C properly which is in the syllabus. Vikram if anyone mails you(from mysore) kindly do point them to me/our club we do have some stock of Ubuntu CDs and other flavours. Arky thanks for getting the wiki done.We ll get people adding contents at the earliest. Also we are getting the repository of flavours done so that anyone in Mysore can come and get it from us(we have core suse deb and knoppix currently). One incident i would like to mention which showed the enthusiasm of a group of students about ldtp is that despite Arky mentioning the lab was closed they were still waiting outside the auditorium thinking there would be a hands on session(sorry to those guys that we could not make the lab happen) I had to tell them that the lab is set up but they can try some other day. Overall it was a very nice enjoyable day for all. Once again thanks to all of you who made your effort to make it on a Sunday. Its sure we are going to came back to you people for more such fun packed experiences. regards, Sandesh Kamath
On 3/27/06, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati rakesh_ambati@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Nagappan anagappan@novell.com wrote:
Hi Arky, From your nice write up I hope things went on well !!! I would like to hear more about LDTP session ;)
Hi Nagappan,
Perhaps for the LDTP developers it may seems like the workshop it not a big leap in propagating the project. But its a significant step and we need to do more such event in Bangalore and elsewhere.
Its great that the students who were present at the event got an idea about software testing and perhaps some may choose to try things out. And that itself is worth its weight in gold. I have seen a chap with do a small example that was presented in the workshop and I say am impressed with the simplicity of python and ldtp lib's.
Irrespective of the benefits of this workshop, what I made sure was that everyone had fun doing it and we did.
What do you say Sandesh, and Saravana.
Cheers
--arky
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