[Ambassadors] Event Report: TechTrix '08

Dipanjan Chakraborty chakrabortydipanjan at fedoraproject.org
Sun Aug 31 18:30:01 UTC 2008


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:12 PM, susmit shannigrahi <
thinklinux.ssh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As I said on 29th, I had a talking event at a local engineering college.
>
> As the day progressed, excitement grew.
>
> It was morning when the organisers called us up and asked if they
> could shift our talk to open stage. They were having space problem :)
> No, we said. we are no bollywood stars..are we?
>
>
> Around 10:30, we assembled. It was around 11:10 when we reached the
> college.
>
> Upon entering the room we found that there was around ~100 students,
> mostly from first and second year. Unfortunately, there was a power
> cut as soon as we entered the room and though they had backup and
> generators, they were unable to fix it.
>
> Time was running and audience was getting bored, so we decided to
> start without the microphone and projector.
>
> First was the talk by Indranil Das Gupta, upon enquiring the audience
> let us know, that they have heard of Linux in general, they have no
> detailed idea but now that they have an opportunity want to know
> specifically what Fedora and Linux was all about.
>
> And there was the HOD of the Computer Sc. who wanted to know more
> about Fedora as they were migrating a whole lab to Fedora.
>
> Interestingly, a few students honestly confessed that they were here
> because the tech fest was on and they had to come to it anyway. ;)
>
> In the middle of talk, power came back and everything was back to normal.
>
>
> After that there was my talk[1]. The audience was listening to it
> carefully, they asked a few questions, and after the talk a few came
> up to me and asked that they have already installed Fedora and they
> were having such and such problems. As I didn't have much time, I told
> them to follow it up with mail.
>
> The scenario there is not much encouraging, as people never heard of
> sourceforge and kernel et. al., but that give us a lot of opportunity
> to teach them new things.
>
> What I found, they have a LUG, had an install fest and then they had
> no idea how to proceed.
> So, I talked to them and asked them to make it a in a workshop format.
> Probably, I shall go back there soon. :)
>
>
> Next, Sayamindu from OLPC spoke, and demoed the sugar desktop, people
> was entertained. Unfortunately, time ran out and he had to cut his
> speech short. (He did a 2 hour presentation in ~20 minutes :D.)
>
> So that was all about the event.
>
> On our return leg, there was rain, so we had to walk a bit, cross a
> bamboo bridge with toll tax....("bamboo bridge with a toll tax") and
> went into the china town to have some nice...but that's a different
> story. :)
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Final1.pdf
>
>
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> Susmit.
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Very well described Susmit da. Just a little correction: Prof. Raichowdhury
is the HOD of the IT Department. We shall surely follow this up with a
workshop.
-- 
Yours sincerely,
Dipanjan Chakraborty
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