Hi, --- On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Akilan R <akila...@gmail.com> wrote: | Programming contest in which teams have to create a new package to | solve a day to day problem.(The package should be created using free | software tools and its source code GPLed). \--
You could have a timed programming contest where people can use any F/OSS tool to implement a solution, and each team (or individual) can share their solution with others with a short, five minute presentation (lightning talk) on how they have solved the problem. The winners should be everyone, who have learnt how to solve a problem in different ways, and how different people have approached the same problem, and not the prize/gift that is given to a team or individual, IMHO. --- | * Workshops on creating packages, using free software embedded systems | like Beagle Board etc. \-- In the workshops, I would appreciate if you could provide the possibility of people to sit together (with desktops and laptops), and do hands-on work. Visitors have to join in to see, and participate in practical work, to get the real experience. For example: 1. If you organize an introductory emacs hands-on session, say for couple of hours, people can try it on their laptops, or with available desktop computers. You could give them paper hand-outs or short-cuts for reference. 2. If you setup a local Git or Mercurial repository, you could run a two-hour session on how one can use these for source control management, and people should learn to start using them in their day-to-day work. Internet is not required for such activities. These can greatly complement the content delivered in the stalls. The hands-on is a very important exercise, because, if people get stuck they can always seek immediate help from other people at the event, get their doubts clarified, or mistakes rectified, giving them the confidence to work independently. End of the day, people should go back home with the satisfaction that they have learnt something new, try it again at home or at college, use it on a daily basis, and ask us for more information, if required. Our infrastructure is not designed for such kind of work, unfortunately, but, that is one of the challenges that we should work towards, if more people are to use/work with the system. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
