[Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[Shrinivasan T]

Friends.

We are discussing for preparing the LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus.

Shall we start working on this?

MIT Chrompet is accepted for providing a 40 seat lab for the community
to gather and
work on preparing the lab syllabus.

The Lab is facilitated with linux machines and internet connection.

Shall we meet there on coming saturday March 4 at MIT?

The Lab Syllabus is here.
http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/open-source-lab-syllabus-in-anna-university/

We can choose any topic, create documentations on introduction, create
exercises and verify them.

Please update here, if you wish to contribute for the LAB Manual.

Thanks.


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Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[Magesh S]

> We are discussing for preparing the LAB Manual for Anna University
> Syllabus.
>
> Shall we start working on this?
>
> >>
>
   >>

> Shall we meet there on coming saturday March 4 at MIT?
>
>
@Shrini: i'm game, lets meet and discuss


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Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[Shrinivasan T]

> @Shrini: i'm game, lets meet and discuss

Thanks Magesh,

Please pick any topic from the syllabus and mention here.
That will be easier for all of us to plan.




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Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[Magesh S]

>
>
>
> Please pick any topic from the syllabus and mention here.
> That will be easier for all of us to plan.
>
>
>
Shrini i don't get you, what are we supposed to do on that day?
Are we planning for a seminar or discussion? explain!

(btw, iam asking these questions in the list to let others know about this
as well)

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Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[Vignesh Nandha Kumar]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote:

> Friends.
>
> Shall we meet there on coming saturday March 4 at MIT?
>

A small correction - It's March 5 (saturday).

Thanks.

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Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[Baskar Selvaraj]

> The Lab is facilitated with linux machines and internet connection.
>

The Linux distribution is Fedora-14 with 6400+ packages installed in each
machine (i better suggest creating video screencast for some of the topics
in the syllabus)

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Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[Vignesh Nandha Kumar]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Baskar Selvaraj  wrote:

> > The Lab is facilitated with linux machines and internet connection.
> >
>
> The Linux distribution is Fedora-14 with 6400+ packages installed in each
> machine (i better suggest creating video screencast for some of the topics
> in the syllabus)
>

The lab that you are talking about is the FOSS lab you set up the department
of Computer Technology.

We have planned to have this manual preparation work at Computer Center,
which is a central facility of the college, common to students of all
departments. This lab has 40 systems with CentOS-5 and only a few extra
packages installed. Internet connection will be available, however.


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Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[Vijay Kumar B .]

Shrinivasan T  writes:
> We can choose any topic, create documentations on introduction, create
> exercises and verify them.
> 
> Please update here, if you wish to contribute for the LAB Manual.

I would like contribute to this. I can provide help in the areas of
Python and GUI Programming.

I have been doing GNU/Linux training for quite sometime and I think I
can provide some useful inputs when it comes to doing a GNU/Linux
lab. The syllabus also seems to have some issues, but I think it can been
fixed up with a little bit or re-ordering and trimming. A few suggestions
for the lab manual:

  * There seems to be too many languages: Python, Perl, PHP, Gambas
... I would suggest that one language be used through-out the lab
exercises, and the others be just touched upon.

  * One of the problems with labs involving installation of kernel and
software packages, is that the students have to be given root
access. And there will be lot of maintenance overhead for restoring
the system back to a sane state. This can be avoided by installing
the packages within a VM. Within the VMs the students get complete
root access, and even if things screw up, the VM's harddisk image
can be restored from backup.

  * The better order would probably be: (I have choosen Python as
the primary language, here. But other combinations are also
imaginable.)

- Running Python 
- GUI Programming (using Python)
- Version control systems ...
- Virtualisation
- Setting up the complete network ...
  (using a virtual network formed by multiple VMs)
- Installing various software pacakges (within VM)
- Compiling from source (within VM)
- Introduction to package management (within VM)
- Writing user space drivers (using Python)
- Kernel configuration, compilation and installation (within VM)
- Running PHP
- Running Perl

Regards,
Vijay

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Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[satyaakam goswami]

>
>
> http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/open-source-lab-syllabus-in-anna-university/
>
> We can choose any topic, create documentations on introduction, create
> exercises and verify them.
>
> Please update here, if you wish to contribute for the LAB Manual.
>
The Lab Syllabus is here.

i wish and hope  all the contributors are getting  compensated for there
time and effort , if not can this activity aligned with with spoken tutorial
folks,  also who will take a final call on quality NCRFOSS?

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Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[Shrinivasan T]

>    - Running Python
>    - GUI Programming (using Python)
>    - Version control systems ...
>    - Virtualisation
>    - Setting up the complete network ...
>      (using a virtual network formed by multiple VMs)
>    - Installing various software pacakges (within VM)
>    - Compiling from source (within VM)
>    - Introduction to package management (within VM)
>    - Writing user space drivers (using Python)
>    - Kernel configuration, compilation and installation (within VM)
>    - Running PHP
>    - Running Perl
>

Nice plan.
Thanks vijay.

Let us follow the same for preparing the manual.

We can change the plan, if required.






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Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[Shrinivasan T]

>
> i wish and hope  all the contributors are getting  compensated for there
> time and effort , if not can this activity aligned with with spoken tutorial
> folks,  also who will take a final call on quality NCRFOSS?
>


Thanks for the suggestions.


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Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

[Shrinivasan T]

Thanks all for the interest in creating the LAB Manual for our students.

The Lab is available at Computer Center, MIT campus, Chromepet, Chennai - 44.
You can bring your laptops also if required.

We can have the session from 9.00 AM to 4.00 PM.

Please bring your friends too.

We need resources for Virtualisation, kernel compiling, fuse driver writing etc.

Thanks.

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