seminar on open source

Team obscura had organized a seminar for freshers of this year mainly to educate them on the field of open source. I being a core member of obscura ;) had to attend it.It was scheduled to start at 2:30 pm.Although we had a bitter experience before the beginning , not able manage the crowd. Frankly, we never expected such a huge number. It started of with an introduction to open source from chinmayi.Then followed by Kailash's (our sun campus ambassador) talk on different sun products and why sun is into open source.It was really informative and kailash has to be credited for such a job as he had been preparing for it since weeks.Preetam's talk on advantages of using linux operating system was long but enlightened juniours about the OS.The GUI and few softwares really amazed the crowd.Raghu gave an introduction to game programming using netbeans IDE.
And the program ended,with virtually no one getting out of the hall lamely.All the juniours were interested(atleast seemed to be ;) ) . I hope to see a lot of participation from them in the community.At the end of the day its a pleasure to be involved in such a thing.

thats it for now ! ;)


I believe the creation, protection and evolution of intellectual property can accelerate everyone's ability to participate in an open network...And that, surely, should be everyone's common goal with free and open source software. It's not about bringing the competition down, it's about driving global participation up.
— Jonathan I. Schwartz