The JIITU-IEEE WAP ’08 Workshop on LINUX for beginners

As winds of change flow all across the globe, JIITU, as well for the first time, witnessed a full fledged series of academic programs organise by the JIITU IEEE STUDENT SOCIETY. A Winter Academic Programme (W.A.P.) was organised from 1st December to 15th December 2008, held various programs, one of which was LINUX WORKSHOP, co-ordinated by PRAKHAR AGARWAL(4th yr.), ANKUR SAXENA and PUNEET SINGH (3rd yr.).

Right at the beginning, while the install fest was organised, various laptops and PC’s crashed as they encountered some or the other compatibility issue with the Linux OS, but despite of hardships, the high spirit of students helped the workshop sail along pretty well. The emphasis on use of FOSS, and free distribution of CD’s and DVD’s were indicative of the working of open source community. The most exquisite feature of the workshop was the exposure it offered, starting from the introduction to the world of open source to use of IRC (Internet Relay Chat), information on KDE and Gnome, sessions with professionals like SUPREET SETHI (took python session) and SATYAKAAM GOSWAMI or students working projects with OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), all sparked the desire in students to participate in this Linux world.

Besides information on various exams and competitions like RHCE, GSoC, Google Code Jam, IPSC etc., was given where the students could make use of the skills they learn, while working with Linux. Overall the workshop was a big success and poked yet another hole in the WINDOW(s).

TEJAS PALAN
(Email : tejaskumar007@gmail.com)