Software Freedom Day Talks and Lightning Talks Contest

[George Sebastian]

Hey,

We will be having InstallFest from Wednesday till Friday in D111, Main Building. If you want to install Ubuntu/Linux or OSS for Windows come with your laptop (If you have a desktop, please post here and we'll come to your room). In the same room, we'll have talks by final years and third years. The talks proposed are-

1. Python talk by Harsha on saturday
2. Talk on Git by Archana,Iffat and Architha
3. Talk on OSS licenses by George
4. OpenCL talk by Madhuri and Anantha Tejas
5. A talk on PointCloud by Anurag
6. Talk on Google maps API by Ambuj
7. Talk on Android apps development by Ajay Thomas

If you can give a talk, or would like to have a talk, reply to this thread with your suggestions. On 1st October, Saturday, we'll end the Software Freedom Month celebrations with a Lightning Talks Contest, organized along with Web Club.

The topic for the talk is "Open Source Software Projects". Your talk can touch on...

1. What the project is about
2. How to get started using the product
3. How to get started contributing to the project

You can start by looking at any of the Open Source Software Hosting services like GitHub, SourceForge  or Google Code ( or look at this). Or you could just search for your favorite software and give a talk on it.

You are also welcome to talk on other Open Source topics. Do let us know in advance what you would like to talk on, if it's on a different topic.

The winner is chosen by voting by the audience.

The time for a speaker is 5 min with 2 min grace. If you use grace time, you'll be penalized in case of a tie.

Reply to this thread to give your topic and to give feedback and suggestions. Only one talk is allowed on a project.

-George Sebastian

[Aditya Bheemarao]

Good work. Keep going.

Cheers!
Aditya