Sen’s Blog

It became one of the unforgettable moments in my life, my visit to
Sethu Institute of Technology [SIT]. The reason behind this is simple,
I was honoured as one of the delegates in SIT. I got a call from Joe
Steeve the previous day ie., on Sunday night asking me to join with
the team which comes to SIT the following day to give a talk on
GNU/Linux.

On Monday [08-08-2005], I went to hotel Supreme, Madurai to meet Joe
and the team. I could see four people there, discussing something
seriously about GNU/Linux in Madurai. I went inside and joined the
discussion. Sometime later we were taken in a car to SIT campus. I
couldn beleive that I was made a delegate in the talk that
followed. We were four people who were about to give the talk.

1) Mr. Hari Ram Athreya [Scientist, AUKBC]
2) Mr. Chandrasekar.T.V [Project Engineer, AUKBC]
3) Mr. Amalan Joe Steeve [Software Engineer, TGS]
4) Myself

They came as a part of NRCF, from Anna University KB Chandrasekar
[AUKBC] research center. These guyz are responsible for framing the
syllabus for the elective on FOSS to the sixth semester students of
Anna University. I represented as the Moderator of GNU/Linux User
Groups of Madurai [glug-madurai], and spoke about the activities which
are going on in this user group.

It was an experience for me to talk in front of the students and
staffs of around eleven engineering colleges [in and around
madurai]. I feel that this was a great opportunity for me. Hope this
may continue

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We went for a paper presentation at Velammal, conducted as a part of
the symposium of Department of Computer Science and Engineering. They
have named it as “Pegasus’05″ (what a nice name). The very attractive
thing in this name is not just this, the logo which they have designed
for it, they say it as a “Unicorn Horse” (the second logo which I
admired the most in my life). This college is situated some where near
Redhills road, near Ambattur in Chennai.

We were allowed to use their college bus. Sri Ranjani and myself went
for participating in the paper presentation. We also had plans in
participating in Spiders (a web designing contest) but due to my
laziness to sit and code and lack of time we couldn go for that. The
hospitality which they gave was nice. To add to this we had another
familiar person to us there, he none other than our Ex-HOD
Dr.N.Ramraj. He welcomed us and spoke with us recognising that we came
from his previous work place. He held the post of Vice Principal
there.

Hmmm, we were given the eighth slot to present our paper in “Papyrus”
(this was the name they gave to Paper Presentation). We had our
presentation in PDF. We were slightly different from others who
presented it. We were’nt worried to have less number of slides in our
presentation.

There were four judges. The HOD/CSE of MIT (Anna University),
Asst. Professor of CSE from Sri Venkateswara Engineering College, and
two other persons were from Tata Consultancy Services. There was not
any quetions from the judges and even from the audience as soon as we
finished our presentation, except for one which we managed to answer.

Then we were given the “First Prize”, which took us to the heights of
achieving something, since this was our attempt to present a paper. We
also didnt had much experience in presenting papers since we were
concentrating much on our projects After getting such a victory we
have decided to put more papers and we have started working on
Autonomic computing, OS, Networks and such related areas

Oh!!! I forgot the prize money was 2000 bugs…