Asia Source 2 - post II
Posted by Sayamindu 1 year, 7 months ago
The day started off with the introductory morning session by Gunner (apparenly he also did the wake up song, but I couldn’t hear it - I went to sleep too late at night yesterday). The Indonesian minister of Science and Technology also paid us a visit and we had a small question answer session with him. It was really great to see his pro-FLOSS position - very few ministers actually have that outlook (and Sunil told us that he also administers his departmental mail server.. wow!!). We had spectograms on quite a few topics (It’s OK to copy, It’s never right to use proprietary software, etc), and after a fabulous lunch and a leisurly afternoon, we had our introductory migration track with us breaking up into groups and dicussing the challenges and needs of migration to FLOSS. We also had a case study from the people working on Nepalinux, and Simos did a demo of Ubuntu install using Gayatri’s “guinea pig” laptop. After the session was over, we had dinner (with a great chicken soup to start off with - I also took some pictures - will upload those later) and we got a chance to hear some traditional Javanese music and some traditional Javanese music which ended with almost all of us trying to dance (and Simos sneaking away stealthily.. ;-)).
…anyway - my laptop battery is dying right now, and I don’t see a plug adapter around - so more from me tomorrow…
Sir,
i was jus googlin thru free softwares where i learnt u are quite interested open source .I am a Engineering student from Anna university, chennai. we are conducting a open source technical fete in our coll on march 3rd called carte blanche to spread open source awareness.It is the largest fete for open source in Tamil Nadu at college level.We are releasing our custom built linux distribution for engineers that day.
You can just visit our website @ http://www.cs-mit.org/cb07
i just wish to know can u contribute something to our function. Even if not personally, can some monetary assiatance be provided in terms of sponsorship thru your company.if u are interested, i’ll mail u more on the event.
Regards
Rangarajan T.C
Gotcha!!
Hu Sayamindu, keep in touch…