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GNU/Linux User Group of TCE (GLUGOT), Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai-625015,India
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Special Lectures

Thu, 08/07/2008 - 22:51 — administrator

2005

Title of the talk : Introduction to GNU/Linux and Qt Programming

Date : 06-08-2005

Time : 10:00.A.M to 05:00.P.M

Venue : K.S. Auditorium, TCE

Chief Guest : Mr.Bharathi Subramanian

Highlights of the talk :

  • Bharthi Subramanian presented an introduction to GNU/Linux
  • He elucidated the various open Source softwares available and how people can start using them.
  • In the afternoon session he concentrated on Qt programming.
  • He presented the session with a simple example to start with and later developed it into a bigger one.

Title of the talk : Opportunities available in FOSS

Date : 20-08-2005

Time : 10:00.A.M to 05:00.P.M

Venue : K.S. Auditorium, TCE

Chief Guest : Mr.Shakthi Kannan of Hexaware Technologies

Highlights of the talk :

  • Mr.Shakthi Kannan presented the opportunities available for a Free and Open source guy in Industries.
  • Later he cleared some doubts regarding Installation of Debian flavor of GNU/Linux.

 

2007

Title of the talk : Projects in FOSS

Date : 03-08-2007

Time : 10:00.A.M to 05:00.P.M

Venue : K.M. Auditorium, TCE

Chief Guest : Mr.Amalan Joe Steeve, Terminus Graphics Studios, Chennai and Mr. S. SenthilKumaran, Spike Source Inc, Bangalore.

Highlights of the talk :

  • Mr. Joe Steeve and Mr. Senthil Kumaran presented the Introduction to Free Open Source Software projects and Career Opportunities in Free Open Source Software.

2009

Title of the talk : Open Source JOB Opportunities

Date : 17-12-2009

Time : 02:00.P.M to 04:00.P.M

Venue : Z0 Hall, CSE, TCE

Chief Guests :

Mr.Murugan Pal, Co-Founder & President of CK-12 Foundation
Mr. Shenbagaraj, Manager of Zappys (CK-12 Foundation's Offshore center)
Mr. Deepak Babu, Software Developer (Zappys/CK-12 Foundation)

Highlights of the talk :

  • Mr. Murugan Pal had an interactive session with students of TCE
  • He has talked about the importance of Open Source in Job Market
  • He has briefed about iPhone, Mobile phone programming and Model View Controller
  • The importance of E - Learning and application development for E-books has been discussed
  • Cloud Computing has been eloborated in detail
  • iPhone, iPod and Android Platform has been explained
  • He has give an overview of CK12 - Content development for Kindergarden to 12th
  • iPhone Application Interface developed at his campus has been discussed at the end
  • Finally he has appriciated the Students questions and also clarified them in detail