Final Report Lugb

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LINUX USER GROUP BIKANER


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A four days privy event was scheduled from 28 Oct. to 31 Oct.

2009, for the undergrad students across the country at Engineering

College Bikaner spread the magic & fire of open source at an alarming

rate. Talks were delivered during the day time over lighting open

source software like Fedora, Drupal, Sahana, NUI(multitouch) through

the midnight hackfest, talk sessions and installfest. The prominent eye

catching moment was two days talks by Mr. Niyam Bhushan, well

known technology editor and columnist. All a four days triumphed the

flavor of relishment and fervor for open source between the students

originated across India , which number added upto 200 students.

Detailed report: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22469857/FOSS-GN09-Report

At the last day dusk arrived the geeks and the learners got on the

stage to candle the blooming spark for nascence of LUGB under

guidance of Mr. Niyam Bhushan with an aim to polarize the waves of

Open source in Rajasthan concluding a high note with declaration of

annual FOSS event to be hosted by Team LUGB as RAJASFOSS. This is

the way of transferring the torch from one hand to other and

enlightening with the Free and Open Source Movement.
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LUGB's mailing list was set up. Open source lovers & other Linux

User Groups across the country became its part. It really proved

amazing to post & share ideas individually & plan for theimplementation of same. Truly cool to keep LUG updated.

Prior to all it was the need of the hour to awake girls in the whole

scenario & ask them to participate and contribute to the open sourcecommunity reason being.

Driving away women means driving away contributors.

Both women and men:

We conducted a midnight install fest in the girls hostel compound

knocking from door to door & expounding them the importance of FOSS(Free open source software). We linuxified approx 45 systems with

different flavours Fedora 11 (Leonidasl), Fedora 12(Constantine),

Fedora 13 (Goddard) UBUNTU 8.10 & 9.10 along with their installation

steps in detail. We taught them to use terminal window and mostly

used linux commands on it. We installed certain packages using YUM

(Update Manager). Internet Connection was established too.

This way we managed to give away windows & spread the fire of open

source & set up a benchmark to the geek feminism.


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From 1st Dec to 5th Dec at FOSS.IN, one of the best & the

biggest free & open source conference we opportune to attend (40 in

number from college). A real community feel. Talks, workouts,workshops, techtalks and bofs all in one. The concept of contribution,

distribution, modification, hacking coding & freedom brought to the

forefront. A real experience of interaction with geeks. Mozilla weave,

Jetpack, KDE desktop environment, Fedora, Sahana, CreativeCommons,

Maemo geared us all. We had a special meetup with Pradeepto from


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KDE who motivated us to deeper extents & shared his experiences &

troubles he faced initially; encouraging contribute to KDE. Last day

Raghu Dixit's band refreshed our spirits.

As the timed excel we adhere LugB with social responsibilities,

NSS, A body under the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government

of India, responsible for social services towards society and nature.

LUGB conjuncted with NSS with the efforts of Mr. Shyam Sundar Jyani,

for the digital documentation of the data for plantation in the villages

under scheme VRAKSHAROPARN. As for smoothly functioning of any

organization, its prior requirement that the data should be bundled indigital format. Since then we have added the entries upto 11274 at the

LUGB site. LUGB availed NSS for imparting its social activities and

initiatives to be properly documented. For more detail u can visit

www.lugb.in
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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a scheme where NGOS and

government across the world joining hands to distribute free

educational laptops to the underprivileged students. In India it first

happened at Kikarwaali, Rajasthan, where 40 laptops were distributed,

laptops work on Open OS Fedora Sugar.

A team of 9 students from LUGB contributed for a week training

Session to the students at Kikarwaali School in the beginning of May

2010, where the students were taught the basic practical use of

computers like paint, write, Wikipedia, camera etc.


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A visit of honorable Chief Minister of Rajasthan Mr. ASHOKGEHLOT was scheduled to kikarwaali village, where the OLPC gallery

was introduced to the CM. On account of which the CM tested the

students capability of working on the laptops and there by visioning

further distribution of such OLPC tablets in Rajasthan Government

School.

For the second round training a team of 3 members from LUGB visited

the place to revise the training to the students, which they had to

project to the CM, the mission melted to be successful.


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Meanwhile LUGB sustained the kaleidoscopic revolution across

college campus and encouraging the new batches to follow open

source movement, for this we organized a LUGB weektelecasting the

importance and use of Open Software.

Likewise LUGB has been assisting several projects and brainy

contributing to promote the spirit of open Source. Now we are in a

stage of hosting an Annual event for promoting FOSS nominated asRAJAS FOSS.

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its

multitudinous Charlatans every thing in short but the

Enchantress of Numbers.

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