[fsug-bangalore] 'LDTP Workshop' Diary (March 26)

[Nagappan]

Hi Arky,
    From your nice write up I hope things went on well !!! I would like
to hear more about LDTP session ;)

Thanks
Nagappan

Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
> Hello Friends,
>
> The LDTP Workshop is one of those events I will
> certainly cherish for life. First, I would like
> mention (and thank) Saranavan Prabu, Thejesh and
> Vikram who started from far flung places like Domlur,
> Electronics City and Koramangala to be at Kempagowda
> Bus Station before 6 AM. Hat's Off guys.
>
> The Journey
> -----------
> Our journey was quite uneventful except for the irate
> passenger shouting at the driver, our friends having
> neck ache's at every bump and a driver who's was
> either drunk or was surely high on something. I
> strongly suspect that the Rajhamsa bus was
> bullock-powered not by regular inter-combustion
> engine. ;o) When we stopped just outside Mandya for
> breakfast, I was so relieved to find my feet finally
> back on ground that I hung around the canteen so long
> that we almost missed the bus. But, how could the bus
> leave without GNU(Head)'s I say ;o) 
>
>
> On Campus
> ---------
> On reaching SJCE campus I decided to chuck the idea of
> a workshop and go placing cricket but the saner
> members of our groups suggested that the pitch may
> sustain potholes and deep bumps if I lugged my tonnage
> around. Darn!.
>
> We met the students from Linux Computer Club-SJCE,.
> Sandesh, Osho and they gave us tour of the various
> departments labs. We found a printout stating 'No
> Closed Source' in big letters taped to the Electronics
> Department Computer lab. ;oD I never saw a college
> that had TFT monitors and latest computers in almost
> all of its labs. SJCE seems to be a very progressive
> college I ever seen.
>
> (The photo's of the events will be posted shortly)
>
> The Students
> ------------
>
> The students of Linux Computer Club-SJCE had been
> working for days to convince their faculties to keep
> the labs open on sunday and allow them to install
> gnu/Linux on the computers so that we could have a
> hands-on workshop. Its an event which wouldn't have
> been organized without the adamant efforts of these
> guys. Thanks Guy, You Rock !!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> The Event
> ----------
>
> We had to start the event quite late around 11:30 and
> then we had few students who had come for the event.
> The turnout was not great as it was a weekend. Thejesh
> started the workshop with his talk on 'FOSS and
> student projects', in absence of a good public address
> system(the only problem we had) we had rely on the
> reach of our vocal chords most of the time.  The good
> side of this was it was more fun filled classroom talk
> sort-of-event rather unlike the regular events.
>
> Saravana Prabhu took off the Linux Destop Testing
> Project(LDTP) workshop with talks on introducing
> Software Testing and later a more technical talk on
> the architecture of the project. I didn't have much
> change to listen to the talk as I was constantly
> running to the M-tech lab, trying to understand how
> SuSe worked and how to debug the problems with LDTP
> setup. After a few hic-up's the LCC-SJCE guys figured
> out what the problem and fixed the problem only to
> find that the labs had closed before we can move the
> workshop to the lab for a hands-on session. Darn! 
>
> Rama Krishna appeared out of nowhere to deliver us
> from insanity and gave us a very entertaining talk on
> Free Software projects, localization and opportunities
> for students in the industry (and other topics I fail
> to remember). His informal one-to-one kind of
> entertaining talk with great slides (it had Bollywood
> heros/heroines dressed like in the Hollywood movie
> 'The Matrix') and even a  pop quiz's that won few
> guy's a Mozilla Project T-Shirts. It left us the
> organizers the perpetual back-benchers shouting for
> t-shirts too.
>
> (Thejesh and me were cursing ourselves why didn't we
> have Rama Krishna start the event with his talk. [He
> was delivering another talk that day in NIE])
>
> The day ended with LCC-SJCE guys planning how they
> could work to build they club and few suggests were
> discussed like having a website,having regular talks,
> calling for volunteers and finally working on
> projects. The day ended quite late at 3pm and everyone
> was excited but no body seems to be either hungry or
> ready to left the venue even after the auditorium was
> locked. ;o) 
>
> So, we all called it day and LCC-SJCE took us all
> (except Rama Krishna who had another appointment) to
> cool place for lunch and we had few more fun-filled
> hour with myself playing the jester and easy target
> for jokes. We left Mysore and sweet joy of breathing
> pure oxygen filled air at 4pm.
>
> Guy's let do it once more some other time, shall we ?
>
> Cheers
>
> --arky 
>
>
>
>
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