RajasFOSS || Jyot Se Jyot Jalate Chalo || Oct. 8 – 11, 2010

To comprehend & enlighten others with a candle of knowledge in this digitally fossified scenario.

The clock ticked off & zipped forth a four days privy; Largest FOSS event of Rajasthan traditionally followed from FOSS GN 09 all set the real hacking & coding spirit all over the open source enthusiasts from the FOSS community.

Conducted by LUGB (Linux User Group Bikaner). It ran parallel to Sakshama, annual techno management fest of Engineering College Bikaner. The event welcomed 200 plus delegates.

Our vision: express code talk hack virtue wave explore source foss love opensource technology

Pre-plottings

A month before the event, SFD(Software Freedom Day) organized to prepare a ground for newbies. Inviting speakers & sponsorship in form of tshirts from Mahiti(Bangalore based open source organization); DVD's & stickers from fedora, ubuntu; pendrives, diaries, stickers from Google; domain & hosting provided for event website by Sakshay web technology.

Configuring labs; linuxified systems with fedora & ubuntu a week before. 3D tux, drupal, wordpress, python GNU logos brought a makeover to labs.

Creativity & artwork by our design Team.

Managing and updating the event website www.rajasfoss.lugb.in . Scheduling talks to fit in various domains to cater the audience needs & well suit better alignment.

Day-1 :

Culmination of our efforts into a rich unconference . Registration desk pumped cool designed rajasFOSS barcoded ID cards to enthusiastic participants & the number crossed 200 at the day-end. A planned itinerary of speakers & sessions on the desk. The audience interested and engaged in a way not often seen at other events, rajasFOSS; a fun place to be.

Day-2 [10:00 A.M to 5:30 P.M]:

Insidevivek with GNU logo Gimp designed posters by Kavita Panwar & Manu Dixit gave a real fossy feel.

Show me the Code

Contribute as early & as often as possible. Inaugral by Prof. M.P. Poonia and Prof. R.C. Gaur with our eminent

speakers by lighting the candle & passing on the flame as rajasFOSS motto conveyed “Jyot Se Jyot Jalate Chalo”.

A glimpse into the year long happenings of LUGB (Linux User Group Bikaner) & keynote on open source by Computer Science HOD Mr. Sanjay Ranga. It attracted around 250 attendees along with on spot registrations.

Ankur Saxena, a drupal developer from JIIT-LUG delievered a talk on “How to make a drupal module in 2 hrs”.

Parallel the newbies were taught to play around with Linux commands. And further to keep the adrenaline going, a rapid questionnaire at regular intervals to distribute goodies by the coordinators @RajasFOSS.

Narendra Sisodiya free & open source activist; community manager LUG@IITD stepped in to elaborate FOSS & refreshed us all. He demoed on schoolOS project powered on ubuntu for school going kids.

Midnight [10:00 P.M. to 2:00 A.M.]:

All alike in LUGB T's reassembled for the midnight hackfest. Ankur continued with his day session on drupal ensuring all configurations set on systems.

A coffee break to revive & wake up the slept spirits inside us along with a quickfire by vivek & vinay with google diaries & pendrives in their hands as teaser.

Next Narendra, a techy by blood carried out a session on remixing & remastering with a linux distro. Customization would be as feasible through UCK; came to the forefront.Good night folks.

Day-3 [10:00 A.M to 5:00 P.M]:

Nandeep Mali a technical enterpreneur & software consultant & Ankur Sethi python & systems programmer from New Delhi formed an amazing & interactive session on Pylons-Pythons Web Framework. Linux users typed as instructed in their terminal.

In the other lab we had Shishir Sharma from slideshare delievering a talk on How to code; How to start & how to finish. It was a wonderful enlightening talk for the beginners.

A lunch break & a head start with Jai Pandya a frontend developer at slideshare & a web evengelist with wordpress hacks & Himanshu Anand delievered a fun-filled talk on NMAP: scanning the internet .

Next we had an ultimate hardware hack awaiting to be processed & popped out of stack & booming feminism to come in play. Priya Kuber an electronic engineer, & open source hardware tinker undertook a workshop on arduino boards. It was fun to view girls & boys playing around with multiple led's, bread boards & arduino.

A girly geeky conference of chix from all over Rajasthan with Priya Kuber envied a plethora of men. The attempts of Linux installation fests conducted in girls hostel was shared to rose the geeky feminism. Priya talked about Anita borg's organization: Systers for women in computing.

The day winded up with an unconference with lugb team & speakers for the feedbacks. Shishir & Jai distributed slideshare stickers.The entire crew was captured in camera. Say Cheese.

Day-4 [10:00 A.M to 5:00 P.M.]:

An ECBian Jaideep Khandelwaal, student kicked up an aura obligating the crowd & surprisingly ratio of girls overpowered boys. Folks listened to him zealously. He shared his Gsoc experience & the project Mailman network device he worked upon for systers; women in computing. It was a real pleasure to grab: How to get through google summer of code? He patiently guarded the queries & distributed google goodies he achieved on successful completion of project.

A thought provoking session came to an end with a promise from juniors to carry the legacy of open source & passing on the lamp of knowledge to the next generation keeping alive the magic of FOSS. We pledge to retain the flame of success.

Srishti Sethi touched up her internship expierence from Mahiti.

Let us all look forward to continued discussion, innovation, and sharing… until we meet again next year!

Thanks to Google Open Source Office, Ubuntu, Mahiti and everyone involved :-)Thanks to Google Open Source Office, Ubuntu, Mahiti and everyone involved :-)

RajasFOSS“Jyot Se Jyot Jalate Chalo”

Rajas= Rajasthan, FOSS= Free and Open Source Software

http://www.rajasfoss.lugb.in/Venue: Engineering College Bikaner LabsDate: Oct. 8-11, 2010

Speakers: Narendra Sisodia, Jai Pandaya, Nandeep Mali, Shishir Sharma, Ankur Saxsena, Priya Kuber, Ankur Sethi, Jaideep, Himanshu Anand

Team: Nitin, Srishti, Pratik, Vivek, Kunal, Vinay, Amishra, SharadArt: Neha, Jyoshita, Himani, Ashish, Priyanka, AjayLab Setup: Pushpendra, Avinish, Alok, Nitesh, Ashutosh, Ravi, AnkitPhotography: Aditya Sharma

Thanks to skbohra, touchaddict, pkuhad, abhinav, mdixit, kpanwar, jaideep, coolkartik

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Content: Srishti SethiEdit & Design: Vivek Anand

Software/Tools used: OpenOffice.org 3.2, GIMP