Hacking Hands On - The Story
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Madhusudan C.S
Nov 8, 2008, 12:04:22 PM11/8/08
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Hi all,
First of all really sorry for the long delay in posting the minutes
of the Hacking Session, BMSLUG had organized. A Million Thanks to all those
who really took interest in writing your feedback here before we posted the
summary report. I would like to see many more feedbacks.
First of all before starting to talk about anything else, A Big Thanks to all
those who made this session possible. You all deserve a special mention for
contributing in various ways, like setting up all the 50 odd computers (which
was no less than any pain), and other organization stuff.
1. Bharath Ram (Takes a special Mention in coming to lab each day and
setting up things required for the session.)
2. Adithya Udupa (Ditto and for organizing stuff)
3. Anil
4. Balajee
4. Sandeep
The session started 15 minutes late since we were not fully ready with the
Network Setup and also since Internet was down for a while. The turn out was
decent enough (I must say it was as much as I expected). There were around 50-
60 people. Good thing was that this time the news had reached people well. We
could see many students from RVCE (MCA Department), along with Renuka Prasad
Sir and another Madam. Thanks to Renuka Prasad Sir for making this news to
reach students at RVCE. There were students from CMRIT and other colleges too.
Me(madrazr), Subramaniam (shasthri9999) and Puneeth started the hands-on in
one of the labs and Vattam(dr__house), Krishna (Krisys) and Kavoor (oorjha) took
care of another lab. We had prepared before to cover exactly the same content in
either lab, so that people in one lab be sure of not losing anything from the
other lab ;-) We asked all of them to join #bmslug channel to get the instructi-
ons quickly and easily and were delighted to see more than 40 people for the
first time on the channel ;-)
We then spoke about why people in general and students in particular should
contribute to Free Software and what are its values and advantages. Then we
gave a brief overview of what we had planned for the day. Later we took each of
those topics in detail and covered it in sufficient depth I feel. We described
about concepts of Revision Control System, Bug Trackers, other development
tools. We then started doing hands on. We showed them how to search for Free
Software projects and then how to check out its source code using SVN. We had
selected a bug in a tool called GNUSim8085. We showed them how to build the
source and explained the importance of building it before trying out anything.
People were intentionally given chance to see how build process fails because
of development packages not being installed.
Later we took one bug from the bug tracker of GNUSim8085 in sourceforge and
then went about fixing it. We introduced, how to use tools like compilers, make,
gdb etc. And then helped them fix that bug. Later we also spoke about svn diffs
and how to create and submit patches, svn commit. After this we went on demonst-
rating some of the alternatives to all the tools used in hands on like, GNOME
Bugzilla for Bug Tracking, Git for Revision Control etc. With this we closed the
session.
All in all, I think we did covered almost all we had planned. There are few
feedbacks that said we had to cover GDB and RCS stuffs in detail. Really thanks
a lot for the open feedback. We are really sorry we had just 2 hours of time to
cover all these things. We can do more of these things in the forthcoming sess-
ions. We were delighted to see the enthusiasm to learn shown by the students who
had come for the session. We ourselves have learnt a lot in the course of organ-
izing this session. We are really looking forward to do more of such sessions.
Thanks for all the enthusiasm and support you have shown people. And finally,
thanks to our team itself (I have already used Big and Million above, I now
don't know what thanks I should say now :). Thanks to dr__house, Krisys,
shasthri9999, oorjha and puneeth. Thanks for all the work and support.
--
Thanks and regards,
Madhusudan.C.S
Blogs at: www.madhusudancs.info
Official Email ID: madhu...@madhusudancs.info
First of all really sorry for the long delay in posting the minutes
of the Hacking Session, BMSLUG had organized. A Million Thanks to all those
who really took interest in writing your feedback here before we posted the
summary report. I would like to see many more feedbacks.
First of all before starting to talk about anything else, A Big Thanks to all
those who made this session possible. You all deserve a special mention for
contributing in various ways, like setting up all the 50 odd computers (which
was no less than any pain), and other organization stuff.
1. Bharath Ram (Takes a special Mention in coming to lab each day and
setting up things required for the session.)
2. Adithya Udupa (Ditto and for organizing stuff)
3. Anil
4. Balajee
4. Sandeep
The session started 15 minutes late since we were not fully ready with the
Network Setup and also since Internet was down for a while. The turn out was
decent enough (I must say it was as much as I expected). There were around 50-
60 people. Good thing was that this time the news had reached people well. We
could see many students from RVCE (MCA Department), along with Renuka Prasad
Sir and another Madam. Thanks to Renuka Prasad Sir for making this news to
reach students at RVCE. There were students from CMRIT and other colleges too.
Me(madrazr), Subramaniam (shasthri9999) and Puneeth started the hands-on in
one of the labs and Vattam(dr__house), Krishna (Krisys) and Kavoor (oorjha) took
care of another lab. We had prepared before to cover exactly the same content in
either lab, so that people in one lab be sure of not losing anything from the
other lab ;-) We asked all of them to join #bmslug channel to get the instructi-
ons quickly and easily and were delighted to see more than 40 people for the
first time on the channel ;-)
We then spoke about why people in general and students in particular should
contribute to Free Software and what are its values and advantages. Then we
gave a brief overview of what we had planned for the day. Later we took each of
those topics in detail and covered it in sufficient depth I feel. We described
about concepts of Revision Control System, Bug Trackers, other development
tools. We then started doing hands on. We showed them how to search for Free
Software projects and then how to check out its source code using SVN. We had
selected a bug in a tool called GNUSim8085. We showed them how to build the
source and explained the importance of building it before trying out anything.
People were intentionally given chance to see how build process fails because
of development packages not being installed.
Later we took one bug from the bug tracker of GNUSim8085 in sourceforge and
then went about fixing it. We introduced, how to use tools like compilers, make,
gdb etc. And then helped them fix that bug. Later we also spoke about svn diffs
and how to create and submit patches, svn commit. After this we went on demonst-
rating some of the alternatives to all the tools used in hands on like, GNOME
Bugzilla for Bug Tracking, Git for Revision Control etc. With this we closed the
session.
All in all, I think we did covered almost all we had planned. There are few
feedbacks that said we had to cover GDB and RCS stuffs in detail. Really thanks
a lot for the open feedback. We are really sorry we had just 2 hours of time to
cover all these things. We can do more of these things in the forthcoming sess-
ions. We were delighted to see the enthusiasm to learn shown by the students who
had come for the session. We ourselves have learnt a lot in the course of organ-
izing this session. We are really looking forward to do more of such sessions.
Thanks for all the enthusiasm and support you have shown people. And finally,
thanks to our team itself (I have already used Big and Million above, I now
don't know what thanks I should say now :). Thanks to dr__house, Krisys,
shasthri9999, oorjha and puneeth. Thanks for all the work and support.
--
Thanks and regards,
Madhusudan.C.S
Blogs at: www.madhusudancs.info
Official Email ID: madhu...@madhusudancs.info
Santosh vattam
Nov 8, 2008, 12:38:33 PM11/8/08
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Thanks to dr__house, Krisys,
shasthri9999, oorjha and puneeth. Thanks for all the work and support.
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Regards
Santosh G Vattam
Aditya Kavoor
Nov 8, 2008, 12:46:27 PM11/8/08
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Agreed. I have decided to boycott bmslug if thanked again. So, Madhu, last warning 
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Adithya Udupa
Nov 8, 2008, 1:01:54 PM11/8/08
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Hey all,
First i would like to thank "my seniors"(i am proud to say that:-)) and above all my friends, for organising the hands-on session!
i have collected the feed back from various participants. Unanimously they feel the session was really helpful!! BIG thanks to Madhu, Vattam, Subbu, Krishna, Puneeth and everyone involved!! We are looking forward to more such sessions!
along with the topics madhu mentioned we also lookforward to handson on Python, Basic Kernel related stuff like probably compiling from source code, structure of kernel or compiling different desktop environments like GNOME KDE, that can give us an insight on how to contribute to these popular projects.
i must say next few weeks to come will be really exciting for us enthusiasts. There are a slew of events lined up like Foss.in , Richard Stallman visit to bangalore and many more "festivities" :-) So look forward for more information on these events on BMS-LUG posts!!
Last but not the least an open request to madhu!! Madhu thanks all of us ("juniors";-)) for helping in organising stuff!! Is it really required?? Atleast we "juniors" DON'T think so!! We all are here for a particular cause ie contrbuting to Free Libre Open Source Movement! so we dont really consider we are doing a favour by helping in organising stuff and therefore you dont need to thank us!! :-)
CHEERS,
Adithya C Udupa
First i would like to thank "my seniors"(i am proud to say that:-)) and above all my friends, for organising the hands-on session!
i have collected the feed back from various participants. Unanimously they feel the session was really helpful!! BIG thanks to Madhu, Vattam, Subbu, Krishna, Puneeth and everyone involved!! We are looking forward to more such sessions!
along with the topics madhu mentioned we also lookforward to handson on Python, Basic Kernel related stuff like probably compiling from source code, structure of kernel or compiling different desktop environments like GNOME KDE, that can give us an insight on how to contribute to these popular projects.
i must say next few weeks to come will be really exciting for us enthusiasts. There are a slew of events lined up like Foss.in , Richard Stallman visit to bangalore and many more "festivities" :-) So look forward for more information on these events on BMS-LUG posts!!
Last but not the least an open request to madhu!! Madhu thanks all of us ("juniors";-)) for helping in organising stuff!! Is it really required?? Atleast we "juniors" DON'T think so!! We all are here for a particular cause ie contrbuting to Free Libre Open Source Movement! so we dont really consider we are doing a favour by helping in organising stuff and therefore you dont need to thank us!! :-)
CHEERS,
Adithya C Udupa
renuka prasad
Nov 8, 2008, 1:32:51 PM11/8/08
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On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Adithya Udupa <udupa....@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all,
First i would like to thank "my seniors"(i am proud to say that:-)) and above all my friends, for organising the hands-on session!
i have collected the feed back from various participants. Unanimously they feel the session was really helpful!! BIG thanks to Madhu, Vattam, Subbu, Krishna, Puneeth and everyone involved!! We are looking forward to more such sessions!
along with the topics madhu mentioned we also lookforward to handson on Python, Basic Kernel related stuff like probably compiling from source code, structure of kernel or compiling different desktop environments like GNOME KDE, that can give us an insight on how to contribute to these popular projects.
i must say next few weeks to come will be really exciting for us enthusiasts. There are a slew of events lined up like Foss.in , Richard Stallman visit to bangalore and many more "festivities" :-) So look forward for more information on these events on BMS-LUG posts!!
Last but not the least an open request to madhu!! Madhu thanks all of us ("juniors";-)) for helping in organising stuff!! Is it really required?? Atleast we "juniors" DON'T think so!! We all are here for a particular cause ie contrbuting to Free Libre Open Source Movement! so we dont really consider we are doing a favour by helping in organising stuff and therefore you dont need to thank us!! :-)
Regarding thanks -- the usual culture in free software is usually since it is considered as a family or peer to peer then there is no requirement to thank
another point is anyone who supports / uses free software we should welcome and definitely deserves a Thanks when anyone starts contributing, so whoever contributes in whatever form deserves thanks
and lets not respect anyone and at the same time dont forget not to disrespect anyone while not respecting them
This are some of the observations and opinions among community-- hope it would make sense amongst you too..
Praveen A
Nov 8, 2008, 4:22:53 PM11/8/08
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2008/11/8 Santosh vattam <vattam....@gmail.com>:
>> Thanks to dr__house, Krisys,
>> shasthri9999, oorjha and puneeth. Thanks for all the work and support.
>
>
> This is really bad!!! You are not supposed to thank us, since we all
> organized it together. We feel offended when you thank us.
>> Thanks to dr__house, Krisys,
>> shasthri9999, oorjha and puneeth. Thanks for all the work and support.
>
>
> This is really bad!!! You are not supposed to thank us, since we all
> organized it together. We feel offended when you thank us.
It wouldn't hurt anyone, I guess. How many Thank Yous we get everyday?
Don't be kannjus with good words.
I'm with Madhu here. Thanks for the amazing work you folks are
doing. Keep up the good work.
Happy Hacking
Praveen
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Aanjhan R
Nov 8, 2008, 5:47:04 PM11/8/08
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On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Praveen A <pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is really bad!!! You are not supposed to thank us, since we all
>> organized it together. We feel offended when you thank us.
>
> It wouldn't hurt anyone, I guess. How many Thank Yous we get everyday?
> Don't be kannjus with good words.
>> This is really bad!!! You are not supposed to thank us, since we all
>> organized it together. We feel offended when you thank us.
>
> It wouldn't hurt anyone, I guess. How many Thank Yous we get everyday?
> Don't be kannjus with good words.
Being liberal with Thanks, here's my share. ;-)
Thanks a lot for choosing GNUSim8085 as an example. Being one of its
devel we are really looking forward for more contributors always and
hope this would motivate a few students to come back to our
devel-mailing list and suggest amazing ideas.
Have fun!
Aanjhan
Praveen A
Nov 8, 2008, 11:32:15 PM11/8/08
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2008/11/8 Madhusudan C.S <madhus...@gmail.com>:
It is on FSDaily frontpage !
http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Hacking_Hands_On_The_Story
It is on FSDaily frontpage !
http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Hacking_Hands_On_The_Story
Aditya Kavoor
Nov 8, 2008, 11:59:26 PM11/8/08
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Santosh,
See the support Madhu has. better we keep quiet :)
See the support Madhu has. better we keep quiet :)
Shantanu Jha
Nov 10, 2008, 12:05:40 AM11/10/08
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Well, i'm little late to reply this time.But anyway, it was just
great, it really made me believe that hacking is not very difficult. I
tried some minor menu caption changes to the gnusim8085, it was fun.
And, it was nice that i was also able to help a little and learned
what all was needed to complete a hacking setup.
On a whole, hats off to the guys who made it possible. Looking forward
for sessions on python etc.
great, it really made me believe that hacking is not very difficult. I
tried some minor menu caption changes to the gnusim8085, it was fun.
And, it was nice that i was also able to help a little and learned
what all was needed to complete a hacking setup.
On a whole, hats off to the guys who made it possible. Looking forward
for sessions on python etc.
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anil kumar
Nov 10, 2008, 4:33:27 AM11/10/08
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The session was great...i've started to believe that i can have more fun building and debugging packages on Linux rather than playing games on Windows as i usually do :),i've learnt a lot from what we did.Looking forward to similar sessions on Python.
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