Archive for April 2010

OLPC Site visit

April 24, 2010 community, Contribute, contributions, FOSS, Netbook, OLPC, Sugar, XO No comments

I was invited for a site visit of OLPC in Chennai India , Arani is town around 150 Kms from Chennai here is a route map Route Map , and pictures below

OLPC in Chennai

, overall the visit has been fruitful saw sugar @ work kids discovering and learning new things on there own , there were some 10 Xo’s which attracted around 200 kids from in and around the village.

The weather was too hot and dry i did not feel the humidity like Chennai so suggested them to install water cooler . The most popular activities were Paint , Wikipedia , lack to Internet is something which needs to be looked into to get these kids talk out to the world.

on 20th the next day i visited one more school which is a govt school which is under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme of govt of India , here i learned about the ABL ( activity based learning ) which is similar to activity based in Sugar but it was more structured in the sense of the kid goes from one class to other after he has completed a set of activities in on subject or class. In this school the four XO’s are provided the programme is schedule to begin after summer holidays.

things to be done in coming days , XO’s need Sugar upgrade. Teachers need training , identify kids who can teach other kids , get Internet connection so that they can connect to the larger OLPC community .

Events Application of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) In Science Teaching and Research

April 20, 2010 contributions, FOSS, workshop One comment

The day started with my car tyre goin flat , tried taking friends his car won’t start , some how i reached the event by chaging two autos from my place.

By the time i was there the event was in full swing , Saini introducing foss concepts and Ubuntu desktop , there were around 60 + participants from colleges across Delhi. Overall a diverse group of teachers from Chemistry , Biology, Physics and Matematics.

the Event venue as announced earlier was Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) and the theme was
Application of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) In Science Teaching and Research.

Day 1

Inaguration with lighting of the lamp , people present on the dias , Prof Krishnan , Mrs Latha , official from DIT
after the brief speech from Prof Krishnan and …. the Saini took over and explained the desktop , then i explained the installation to the audience. Prof Tabish Explained about Scilab , then all the group from the mail auditorium dispersed to the individual labs . The Chemistry sessions were taken by Arun Luz which covered tools like Bkchem, xdrawchem,pymol,chemtool the Physics and mathematics sessions were taken by Tabish , Lekha, Asad and Myself , we covered topics like Latex, Gnuplot, Gamgi Phoenix kit, Sage, scilab and R-Commander.

The bilogy session were taken by G Ramesh covering Pymol, perl premier, melting temp, chemtool in computer science sanjeev saini covered lamp

The most popular of them was Biology and Chemistry to our surprise , the least was the mathematics and computer science track.

all the labs were assisted by Lab in charge Godfrey, Prabhakaran, Choudhary, Gopalsivam .

Day two ended with vote of thanks by Subash from Andc and Dr Savitri Singh spoke about her pet project , the event concluded with distribution of certificates.

Here are some pictures from the event enjoy

Adempiere listed in the top 10 open source business applications

April 18, 2010 Adempiere, Contribute, contributions, FOSS No comments

Adempiere listed in top 10 Business applications in this article here

Free/Open Source Software (FOSS): Awareness and Possibilities

April 3, 2010 Event, FOSS, workshop No comments

Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi)
in association with NRCFOSS*, Anna University Chennai organises a Seminar
on
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS): Awareness and Possibilities

Date: 16th April 2010 Venue: University of Delhi South Campus
Time: 9: 30 a.m to 4: 30 p.m Benito Juarez Marg, New Delhi ­ 110 021

The seminar envisages to introduce participants to myriad possibilities of FOSS in everyday
computing and academia. Besides introductory awareness of FOSS, hands­on sessions to include
software installation and applications Participation is encouraged from all disciplines with or without knowledge of FOSS Registration is free and on a first­come first­serve basis For registration contact Mr. Jatin Lamba at 26294542 or email us at workshop.andc@ gmail.com Last date of registration: 12th April 2010
Coordinators: Savithri Singh (ANDC), Sanjeev Singh (IIC, UDSC), C. N. Krishnan (NRCFOSS)

*National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source` Software (NRCFOSS) is a multi­institutional Project funded by
the Dept. of Inf. Tech., Ministry of Comm. & Inf. Tech., Government of India ­ http://nrcfoss.org.in/. This workshop
is being organised jointly with NRCFOSS at AU­KBC Research Centre, Anna University Chennai –

http://nrcfoss.au­kbc.org.in/

Application of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) In Science Teaching and Research

April 3, 2010 Contribute, contributions, FOSS, Seminar, Uncategorized, workshop No comments

Acharya Narendra Dev College
(University of Delhi)
in association with
NRCFOSS*, Anna University Chennai
Organises a Workshop on
Application of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) In Science Teaching and Research

Date: 14 – 15 April 2010 Venue: Acharya Narendra Dev College
Time: 9: 30 a.m to 4: 30 p.m Govindpuri, Kalkaji, New Delhi 110019

The workshop aims to acquaint and train the participants in the various generic and discipline specific free/open source software useful in Science teaching and research. Besides an introduction to FOSS, Linux and other Open Source Computing and Internet tools common to all participants, the workshop would have parallel sessions on specific FOSS tools for teaching and research in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.
Registration: Email us at workshop.andc@ gmail.com
Registration fee: Rs 200/­ through DD (non­refundable) favoring Principal ANDC, and payable at
New Delhi, may be sent to the College address given above.
Last date of registration: 10th April 2010
Workshop coordinators: Savithri Singh (ANDC), C. N. Krishnan (NRCFOSS)
Organizing Committee: M. S. Rajeswari, Sarita Kumar, Neeti Misra, Sunita Narang
Harita Ahuja, Subhash Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Pankaj Khanna
Workshop Secretariat: Jatin Lamba; Phone: 26294542
*National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) is a multi­institutional Project funded by the Dept. of
Inf. Tech., Ministry of Comm. & Inf. Tech., Government of India ­ http://nrcfoss.org.in/. This workshop is being organised jointly with NRCFOSS at AU­KBC Research Centre, Anna University Chennai – http://nrcfoss.au­kbc.org.in/

    Programme Schedule

DAY 1: 14/4/10
9.30 – 11.00 Session I
Session Title : Inauguration
Venue Type : Seminar Hall
No. of Participants : Around 100
11.00 – 11.20 Tea
11.30 – 1.00 – Session II (Combined)
Session Title : Use of Linux Desktop & OpenOffice
Venue Type : Computer Lab
Requirements : Lab with 100 seats and systems with CD/DVD drives, Projector & white
board.
No. of Participants : Around 100
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.15 – Session III (Combined)
Session Title : Linux Installation
Venue Type : Computer Lab
Requirements : Lab with 100 seats and systems with CD/DVD drives, Projector &
white board.
No. of Participants : Around 100
3.30 – 5.00 – Session IV (5 parallel sessions [maths,phy,chem,Bio & Comp.Sci)
Session Title : Introduction to domain specific FOSS tools( 4 to 5 nos)
Venue Type : Computer Lab
Requirements :5 Labs with 20 seats and systems with CD/DVD drives, Projector &
white board.
No. of Participants : Around 20 each
DAY 2: 15/4/10
9.30 – 1.00 – Session V (5 parallel sessions [maths,phy,chem,Bio & Comp.Sci)
Session Title : Live demo on domain specific FOSS tools ( 4 to 5)
Venue Type : Computer Lab
Requirements : 5 Labs with 20 seats and systems with CD/DVD drives, Projector &
white board.
No. of Participants : Around 20 each
2.00 – 3.15 – Session VI(Combined)
Session Title : Customisation of FOSS tools
Venue Type : Computer Lab
Requirements : Labs with 100 seats and systems with CD/DVD drives, Projector &
white board.
No. of Participants : Around 100
3.15-3.30 Tea
3.30 – 4.30 Session VII
Session Title : Wrap up/Certificate Distribution
Venue Type : Seminar Hall
No. of Participants : Around 100