Report on Past and Present activities of Jaya FOSS Club E-mail
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Friday, 14 August 2009

Report on Past and Proposed Activities of Jaya FOSS Club

                                                            by

                                        M. Kumaran

            Co-ordinator, Jaya FOSS Club & Head, Computer Science & Engineering

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The Jaya FOSS Club was established in the year 2006. The main objective of the club is to adopt and promote the Free and Open Source Software. The club is well supported by the Indian Linux User Group, Chennai and the National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) which is funded by Ministry of IT, Govt. of India.

The Club gets frequent help from C-DAC, Chennai, IBM Academic Initiative and National Informatics Centre (NIC), for their continuous resource sharing with our students.  

The Jaya FOSS Club aims to create awareness on FOSS and to promote its usage among the student community, professionals, government officials and the public. Apart from the advocacy programme, the club also concentrates on consultancy, training and development of Open Source Technology.


From the inception of the club, the members have conducted 28 advocacy programmes in various schools and colleges. The club conducts technical programmes such as workshops, technical talks, seminars, demo and the like, once in a week. These technical programmes are based on Open Source Technology. The Linux User Group, Chennai are of great help to us in conducting such events.

Two of our faculties participated in three different Teacher Training Programmes conducted by NRCFOSS. It is a source of inspiration for our students.

Anna University introduced two electives in the area of Open Source for B.E (Computer Science), B.Tech (IT) and MCA. The electives are

1. Free Open Source Software and

2.Enterprise Application Development using FOSS.  

Jaya Engineering College is one of few colleges offers the elective courses on FOSS. So far, around 850 students have opted for these courses as electives, from our college.

 
The Jaya Foss Club conducted a mega two day Free Software Demo Day and a seminar on Open Source Technology, during August 2006. Around 4500 visitors visited the exhibition. The visitors included students from various schools and colleges, professionals from various organisations and the public.

Prof. M.Kumaran, co-ordinator of Jaya Foss Club was part of NRCFOSS Team as a Resource person and he conducted a Teacher Training Programme for the faculties in Allahabad (UP) and Ahmadabad (Gujarat) during August and September 2007.

The Jaya FOSS Club conducted a one month free training for Judges of Thiruvallur District on basic usage of Linux and various other open source tools during the months of September and October 2007. 24 judges participated in these training programmes and were benefited.   


The Jaya FOSS Club celebrates Software Freedom Day, in third week of September every year, in a grand manner. More than 2000 students participate in the celebrations every year.  

The Jaya FOSS Club has been conducting a National Conference on Open Source and Web Technology (WEBTOPS), for the past five years in the month of March, in association with CSE and IT Depts. More than 50 technical papers have been presented during the conference and many technical talks have been given by the experts.

The College has 3 Foss Labs with around 200 computers. Various Linux Distributions are installed and used in these Labs.  

Most of the Laboratory sessions are conducted in FOSS Labs. We use Open Source Tools for Data Structures Lab (GCC), Object Oriented programming Lab (G++), Networking Lab (Shell Script and GCC), DBMS Lab (PostgreSQL), CASE Tools Lab (Umbrello, Python, MySQL) and Internet Programming Lab (Java, PHP, Python and MySql).

The Students are encouraged to participate in various national and International conferences on FOSS. Our students won the Winner and Runner prizes for the Best Project Award, at the FOSSCONF'08, held at MIT, Chennai. The award was presented by Mr. Brian, Co-founder Apache and Founder of Subversion. Our student was the Winner for the Best Project Award, at FOSSCONF'09, held at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai.


We encourage the students to do their academic projects using Open Source Tools. 60% of our student projects are Open Source Based.

      Some of the projects developed last year that were highly appreciated are
         1. Centralized Tamil Spell Checker for GNU/Linux
         2. SMS Travel Guru for Tourist
         3. Automated Bandwidth Monitoring and Controlling system for Home Users

         4. Automated Ophthalmic Testing System
         5. Linux Thin Clients Monitoring, Controlling and Enhancement of Local Device
         6. PHP Code Builder
         7. Information Integration System for Revenue Departments
         8. Linux Kernel Proxy Firewall
         9. Web Based SQL Tutor
         10. Web Based E-Book Reader in Tamil

      Some of the ongoing projects are


         1. iText for Python
         2. Structural indexing for SOLR
         3. Python Categorizer

         4. Enhancement of Drupal Installation Profile for E-Learning

         5. SQL Manager for LINUX






List of Events organised and participated in the Academic Year 2008-09

 

1. The Jaya FOSS Club activities for the academic year 2008-09 was inaugurated on 21st August 2008, by Mr.

   Karthi Swaminathan, Technical Director, Collabnet and Mr. A.Bhuvaneshwaran, Software Engineer, Collabnet, 

   Chennai. On the eve of the Inauguration, we conducted an On-Line Quiz for the members of the Jaya Foss Club.

   Around 700 students participated and top 10 scorers won attractive prizes and certificates.

 

2. Software Freedom Day was celebrated on 20th September 2008 and the following events were held:

a. Online Events – Quiz and Web Puzzle

b. Evolution of FOSS – Video

c. Talk – FOSS in India, Why should I migrate to FOSS, How to migrate from Proprietary to

Open Source.

d. Seven Wonders of FOSS – Demo Stalls

e. Terminal Hack

f. Multimedia and gaming in FOSS

g. BOF session

h. Grab the Gadgets.

   Mr. Kiran Chandra, Director, Free Software Foundation of India and many other guests were present at the  

   celebration. The Book titled “Kattatra menporul” in Tamil, written by Mr. Ramadoss, an active member of the

   Linux User Group- Chennai, was released on that day.

 

3.  Forty of our students participated in Seminar on “FOSS Employment Opportunities” which was organized by

     NRCFOSS, in association with ILUGC, on 29th November 2008, held at MIT, Chennai.

 

4.  A one day workshop on “Open Source RDBMS Tools” was organised for the faculties on 18th December 2008.

    Around 34 faculties from various colleges participated and were benefited. Mr. P. Raman, senior ILUGC,

    member was the resource person for the workshop.

 

 

5. A one day workshop on “ NS2” was organised for the faculties on 22nd January 2009. Around 42 faculties from

    various institutions participated in the workshop.

 

6. Sixty of our students participated in Carte Blanche '09, an open source symposium organised by MIT, 

   Chrompet. Our students actively participated in the Demo stalls and Project demos. Our students won First

   place for the Best Demo stall, titled “Compilers and Debuggers”. Mr J.G.Sivaji of our college, won the Best

   Project Award for his the Project titled “ SMS Travel Guide “. Mr. K. Ashwin Kumar of our college, won the

   Second place for Technical Writing on the topic “ Open Source Licensing” .

 

7. Forty of our students participated in FOSSCONF '09, a National Level Open Source Conference held at

    Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai from 27th February to 1st March 2009. Our students participated

   in four demo stalls and displayed twelve Open Source projects. The Project titled “Centralized Tamil Spell

   Checker for GNU/Linux” by Mr. S. Selvam and Mr. S. Sathyabalan was awarded the Best Project Award.

   Our Student Mr. R.K. Rajesh Kumar was the speaker for the topic “Magento for E- Commerce”

    in FOSSCONF '09.

 

8.  A workshop on “LAMP” was conducted for beginners on 19th March 2009.

 

9.  A Seminar on "Economic Recession and Employment Opportunity - The Power of Open Source" was given by 

     Shri. C. Umashankar IAS  on 2nd April 2009, on the occasion of WEBTOPS'09, a National Level Conference on

     Web Technology and Open Source.

 

10. An Online Quiz on Free and Open Source was launched on 18th April 2009 for First Year B.E/B.Tech/B.Sc/BCA

     /MCA/M.Sc/MBA students of the Jaya Group of Colleges. 1024 students from various institutions of the Jaya

     Group of Colleges participated in this quiz.. The top 10 scorers won attractive prizes and certificates.

 

11.  Our Student Mr. J.G. Sivaji, participated and accepted a project in the Google Summer of Code 2009

      (GsoC'09). His Mentoring Organization is Drupal and his project is titled “Enhancing the Drupal Quiz

       module”. He released the Alpha version of his project recently.

 

12. Four of our students and a faculty, are working in association with Essentia software solutions, on a project

      titled “SOLR Search Engine”.

 

13.  Eight advocacy programmes have been conducted in different schools and colleges.



 

 

Proposed Plan of Activites of the Jaya FOSS Club for the Academic Year 2009-10



1. Plan to host a National Level FOSS Conference (FOSSCONF'10) during first week of Feb ,2010. We plan to conduct Free Software Demos(40 stalls), Technical Talks(30 talks), Open Source Project Exhibition, Online Contests, and other On-stage and Off-stage events.


2. Plan to start an Open Source Research Centre.


3. Plan to have collaborative work with various organizations.


5. Plan to conduct more FOSS Advocacy Programmes for the students of various schools and colleges.

6. Plan to conduct more value added training programmes in the area of Open Source.


7. Plan to conduct training programmes for government officials and the public.

8. Plan to recommend to the Anna University to make the FOSS Elective, mandatory for students of all discipline.


9. Plan to recommend to the Anna University to introduce more elective courses for CSE/IT/MCA students.
10. Plan to conduct three Faculty Development Programmes on Open Source Elective courses during winter and summer vacations.


11. Plan to start more Working Groups & Learning groups on specific technologies to carry out various projects, consultancy works and training.

 

 

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