Hope every one accomplished the DBMS mission. And there is a good new to you all. Yesterday I have
got a mail from our alumni with subject Open Source At NITW.
It goes like this :
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Hi,
My name is Siddharth Vijayakrishnan. The two are cc'ed in this mail are
Carthik Anand Sharma and Palaka Sasidhar. All of us are RECW alumni
('97-'01) and are currently either studying or working. Since we left
college, all of us have been active in the open source software world
with Carthik having been part of a very popular blog software
[wordpress] development team. We are now interested in being involved in
setting up a Linux User Group (LUG) in the college.
During our days in college, we were hampered by a few factors
- Lack of fast access to internet [This made getting software and
documentation difficult]
- Not enough information on how to start
These are the two problems that we want to address. We are willing to
contribute time and a limited amount of resources if students are
interested. I guess we can mobilize some more alumni to get involved.
Please get in touch with any of us, in case you are
interested. We'd also like you to pass this on to anyone who might be
interested (Putting this mail up on the mess notice boards/CS dept
notice board might be a great idea)
Regards,
Siddharth
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In Reply to this,
we wrote:
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Hi Siddharth Vijayakrishnan,
this group (compilers_nitw@yahoogrops.com) is related to current 3rd year BTECG CSE. We are very
grateful to have a mail from U.
As U told...........
"During our days in college, we were hampered by a few factors
- Lack of fast access to internet [This made getting software and
documentation difficult]
- Not enough information on how to start"..................
the same is the case with us now..............
this idea struck to our mind but we are unable to implement.
may be now with your cooperation we can give a start to our ideaz...
our problems with infrastructure goes like this .......
no net provider ...with consistent speeds ....!!!!
even the college have no IDEA of providing net !!!
the lab nets are scarse ....!!! (god knows where they are ..)
even the department is deficit for staff .....
--- 9 members managing 500 students of CSE .......
(so, we may be expecting a very good guidance from ur side ...)
definetely there is a good scope for all of us to be a member of this group and contribute to open
source...
as the first tribute of our enthu .....
just 2day we have pasted ur maill in all the messes and departments....
K Gangadhar
3/4 BTech CSE
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The response to our reply is:
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Kenguva Gangadhar(gangadhar_kenguva@yahoo.com)@2005.11.18 08:46:43 -0800:
> Hi Siddharth Vijayakrishnan,
Call me siddharth :)
>
> this group (compilers_nitw@yahoogrops.com) is related to current 3rd year BTECG CSE. We are
very grateful to have a mail from U.
>
> As U told...........
>
> "During our days in college, we were hampered by a few factors
> - Lack of fast access to internet [This made getting software and
> documentation difficult]
There are ways we can get around this problem. Since most of you
probably have access to a pc in your hostel rooms, we could set up a
network of sorts within the hostel. If that doesn't work out, we could
set up a repository with the latest software dumped on it and students
could burn cds and use what they want. We can ensure that you get the
software you want. As a start, we can provide
installation images of a few linux/bsd installations plus regularly and
other regularly used software.
> - Not enough information on how to start"..................
>
> the same is the case with us now..............
Right - and this is what we want to remedy. For a start, I think it'd
be a great idea if you could get together a group of interested students
on a weekend - Two or three of us could come over and hold a sort of an
informal session for about an hour or two.
A few things that can be done
- Demos of installation of various versions of linux/*bsd
- An overview of various development tools like gcc,gdb etc
- An overview of the various ongoing projects in the open source world
and where contributions can be made
- A Q&A session with students.
The infrastructure requirement for this kind of a session will be
limited to a hall (NSH/NCH would do nicely, a classroom would do as
well). If some kind of internet access can be arranged, then it would
sweeten things a great deal - you could talk to someone at the CC (is
Prof.Anjaneyulu still in charge ?) and see if something can be arranged.
A good way to do this would be to have the CS association or the IEEE
arrange for an event, so that it gets a bit of publicity. Let us know if
something like this can be done and then we can work out the dates.
> this idea struck to our mind but we are unable to implement.
> may be now with your cooperation we can give a start to our ideaz...
>
> our problems with infrastructure goes like this .......
> no net provider ...with consistent speeds ....!!!!
> even the college have no IDEA of providing net !!!
some things never change. :)
> just 2day we have pasted ur maill in all the messes and departments....
Thank you!
>
> K Gangadhar
> 3/4 BTech CSE
When you are replying, you need to do a 'reply all' so that both
Carthik and Sasidhar get your response. If you are using a web client
like yahoo mail, copy the email addresses from the Cc list of this mail
and paste them in the 'To:' field of the reply
Regards,
Siddharth
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So I would like the CSEA members to throw light on this aspect by organizing necessary
events.
Finally, Wish you all the best for End Sem
Bye
Gangadhar
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