Dear All, Myself have conducted half day workshop on "IT Infrastructure Management using Linux/FOSS" in AVIT (Vinayaka Mission's University) on Monday (21-12-09). Totally 35 Non-Teaching staffs / Technical Assistants from all departments have attended the workshop.
I have demonstrated the use of Ubuntu 9.10 using Live DVD and introduced various tools/softwares for day-to-day use. openoffice firefox empathy software development tools user management tools etc. and also installed the same on to HDD later on. The response from the participants was really good and I would like to specially thank Mr. Shiv Shankar (HOD-CSE) and principal Dr. Mrs. N.R.Alamelu for the intiative and opportunity. Tuesday (22-12-09) I also did a one day workshop on Fedora-12 at Periyar Centenary Polytechnic College (Autonomous), Vallam, Thanjavur for the Third year IT students. (I am also a Program Advisory Comittee (PAC) member for Computer Engineering / IT Department) I have done a kickstart based installation on a Desktop PC through network (totally 3190 packages installed) and demonstrated various foss tools which can be used for lab experiments. Later on, around 2.30 we had the committe meeting, and it was decided that from 3rd semester to 6th semester, all practicals and Lab experiments for Computer Engineering and IT Department need to be taught using Linux/FOSS tools from the next academic year. The support from Principal, HODs, staff members, Technical Admins really impressed me and hope PCPC would be successfully implementing Linux/FOSS from the next academic year. S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
