Hi, I had presented an introduction to GNU Make, "Dum Ka Biryani, Make for each other" [1] at "ICE-FOSS 2011" [2], August 26-27, 2011 at Federal Institute of Science and Technology [3], Angamaly, Kerala.
The conference had talks, hands-on workshops, and project demos. There were interesting projects displayed at the stalls by the students varying from Arduino-based hardware projects, to Python mobile application development to games, and applications developed using opencv. Pamphlets were made for each project, and given to the visitors at the stall. I reviewed the projects that were demoed and gave them feedback. The Institute is in the process of migrating their servers, so we should (hopefully) see the sources made available online. I also had a chance to meet Anvar K Sadath, Executive Director at the IT@School [4] project. They have trained nearly 2 lakh teachers on F/OSS over the years. Their new initiative is animation training [5] using free/open source software. The Institute does have a cluster setup called "Dakshina" [6] which is used by students, and the faculty. They also do allow other nearby colleges to use the facility on request. I would like to thank the Management of FISAT, for sponsoring my travel and for the wonderful hospitality. Photos taken during the trip are available at my /gallery [7]. SK [1] Dum Ka Biryani, Make for each other. http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#dum-ka-biryani-make-for-each-other [2] ICE-FOSS, 2011. http://icefoss.fisat.ac.in/ [3] Federal Institute of Science and Technology. http://www.fisat.ac.in/ [4] IT@School. https://www.itschool.gov.in/index.php [5] Animation training. https://www.itschool.gov.in/animation/ [6] "Dakshina" cluster. http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album69/17_dakshina_cluster [7] Photos. http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album69 -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
