<div class="gmail_quote">The series of Linux workshops highlighting Fedora11 ended on 16 evening. These workshops were organized by <b>BIT Linux User Group</b> with the help of the two Fedora Ambassadors (Me and Debjit Saha). <br>
<br><b>Workshop 1</b> : Date 10 Aug 2009.<br>
This
workshop was organized for newbies and especially for the fresher batch
of our college. We started off by showing some cool compiz effects on
fedora11 gnome. Even after attending the classes from 8:00 to 5:00,
more than 60 people turned up, some out of enthusiasm others out of
curiosity. We had some slides prepared by our volunteers. We showed
them the alternatives of windows applications available for linux, like
for media player we have rhythmbox. We also had some "Tux v/s Windows"
fight videos. We told them about benefits of installing fedora (A
distro which comprises every latest stuff and yet it is highly stable).
All this made up an environment for the install fest which was
scheduled the next day. We also invited feedbacks in the nd. Most of
them were positive though some were a bit disappointed that we didn't
bashed windows to a greater extent.<br>Photographs : <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lug.bitmesra/10August2009">http://picasaweb.google.com/lug.bitmesra/10August2009</a><br><br><b>Workshop 2 : </b>Date 11 August 2009<br>
It
was a holiday and yet one of the busiest day for us. We had permission
to use the college lab. As we reached there, we found a couple of
enthusiast already waiting for installation eagerly. We had a total of
7 volunteers and slightly above 80 installations. Fedora11 DVDs were
also distributed for free. Since we have a local repository in our
campus we thought it to be wise if we write a script for the
installation of some common softwares and to add the local
repositories. For desktops Debjit had arranged for network boot. The
fest was a huge success as till date we have people who are approaching
us after seeing the laptops on which we installed fedora on install
fest.<br>Photographs : <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lug.bitmesra/11August2009">http://picasaweb.google.com/lug.bitmesra/11August2009</a><br><br><b>Workshop 3</b> : Date 16 August 2009<br>This workshop
was organized for more advanced users. We expected about 80-100
participants but we were astonished to see the rush. We had about 200
participants! So we decided to take the same workshop twice. We started
off by telling basics of shell scripting and then made our way towards
"Virtualization on Fedora". We had a little Question-Answer session
after that. We also invited users to share their experiences with
fedora. At the end we had a small slide show about "How to Contribute
to Fedora Project". We had the sides made with the help of "join
Fedora" page on wiki.<br>Photographs : <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lug.bitmesra/16August2009">http://picasaweb.google.com/lug.bitmesra/16August2009</a><br><br>-- <br>Aditya Patawari<br><a href="http://blog.adityapatawari.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.adityapatawari.com/</a><br>
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Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra<br>India<br clear="all"></div>