RajasFOSS || Jyot Se Jyot Jalate Chalo || Oct.

8 – 11, 2010
To comprehend & enlighten others with a candle of
knowledge in this digitally fossified scenario.

The clock ticked off & zipped forth a four days privy; Largest FOSS event of
Rajasthan traditionally followed from FOSS GN 09 all set the real hacking &
coding spirit all over the open source enthusiasts from the FOSS community.

Conducted by LUGB (Linux User Group Bikaner). It ran parallel to Sakshama,

annual techno management fest of Engineering College Bikaner. The event welcomed
200 plus delegates.

Our vision: express code talk hack virtue wave explore source foss love opensource
technology

Pre-plottings

A month before the event, SFD(Software Freedom Day) organized to prepare

a ground for newbies. Inviting speakers & sponsorship in form of tshirts from
Mahiti(Bangalore based open source organization); DVD's & stickers from fedora,
ubuntu; pendrives, diaries, stickers from Google; domain & hosting provided for
event website by Sakshay web technology.
 Configuring labs; linuxified systems with fedora & ubuntu a week before. 3D
tux, drupal, wordpress, python GNU logos brought a makeover to labs.

Creativity & artwork by our design Team.

 Managing and updating the event website www.rajasfoss.lugb.in . Scheduling
talks to fit in various domains to cater the audience needs & well suit better
alignment.

Day-1 :

Culmination of our efforts into a rich unconference . Registration desk

pumped cool designed rajasFOSS barcoded ID cards to enthusiastic participants &
the number crossed 200 at the day-end. A planned itinerary of speakers & sessions on
the desk. The audience interested and engaged in a way not often seen at other events,
rajasFOSS; a fun place to be.

Insidevivek with GNU logo Gimp designed posters by Kavita Panwar & Manu Dixit gave a real fossy
feel.

Day-2 [10:00 A.M to 5:30 P.M]:

Show me the Code

Contribute as early & as often as possible.
Inaugral by Prof. M.P. Poonia and Prof. R.C. Gaur with our eminent
speakers by lighting the candle & passing on the flame as rajasFOSS motto conveyed
“Jyot Se Jyot Jalate Chalo”.

A glimpse into the year long happenings of LUGB (Linux User Group Bikaner)
& keynote on open source by Computer Science HOD Mr. Sanjay Ranga. It
attracted around 250 attendees along with on spot registrations.

Ankur Saxena, a drupal developer from JIIT-LUG delievered a talk on “How

to make a drupal module in 2 hrs”.
Parallel the newbies were taught to play around with Linux commands. And further
to keep the adrenaline going, a rapid questionnaire at regular intervals to distribute
goodies by the coordinators @RajasFOSS.

Narendra Sisodiya
free & open source activist;
community manager
LUG@IITD stepped in to
elaborate FOSS & refreshed
us all. He demoed on schoolOS
project powered on ubuntu for
school going kids.
Midnight [10:00 P.M. to 2:00 A.M.]:

All alike in LUGB T's

reassembled for the
midnight hackfest.
Ankur continued with his
day session on drupal
ensuring all configurations
set on systems.

A coffee break to revive & wake up the slept spirits inside us along with a
quickfire by vivek & vinay with google diaries & pendrives in their hands as teaser.
Next Narendra, a techy by blood carried out a session on remixing &
remastering with a linux distro. Customization would be as feasible through UCK;
came to the forefront.Good night folks.
Day-3 [10:00 A.M to 5:00 P.M]:

Nandeep Mali a technical enterpreneur & software consultant & Ankur Sethi
python & systems programmer from New Delhi formed an amazing & interactive
session on Pylons-Pythons Web Framework. Linux users typed as instructed in their
terminal.

In the other lab we had Shishir Sharma from slideshare delievering a talk on
How to code; How to start & how to finish. It was a wonderful enlightening talk for
the beginners.

A lunch break & a head start with

Jai Pandya a frontend developer
at slideshare & a web evengelist
with wordpress hacks &
Himanshu Anand delievered a
fun-filled talk on NMAP:
scanning the internet .
 Next we had an ultimate hardware hack awaiting to be processed & popped out
of stack & booming feminism to come in play. Priya Kuber an electronic engineer,
& open source hardware tinker undertook a workshop on arduino boards. It was fun
to view girls & boys playing around with multiple led's, bread boards & arduino.

A girly geeky conference of chix from all over Rajasthan with Priya Kuber
envied a plethora of men. The attempts of Linux installation fests conducted in girls
hostel was shared to rose the geeky feminism. Priya talked about Anita borg's
organization: Systers for women in computing.
The day winded up with an
unconference with lugb team &
speakers for the feedbacks. Shishir &
Jai distributed slideshare stickers.The
entire crew was captured in camera.
Say Cheese.
Day-4 [10:00 A.M to 5:00 P.M.]:

An ECBian Jaideep Khandelwaal, student kicked up an aura obligating the

crowd & surprisingly ratio of girls overpowered boys. Folks listened to him
zealously. He shared his Gsoc experience & the project Mailman network device he
worked upon for systers; women in computing. It was a real pleasure to grab: How to
get through google summer of code?
He patiently guarded the queries & distributed google goodies he achieved on
successful completion of project.

Srishti Sethi touched up her

internship expierence from Mahiti.

A thought provoking session came to an end with a promise from juniors to

carry the legacy of open source & passing on the lamp of knowledge to the next
generation keeping alive the magic of FOSS. We pledge to retain the flame of
success.
Let us all look forward to continued discussion, innovation, and sharing
… until we meet again next year!
 RajasFOSS
“Jyot Se Jyot Jalate Chalo”

Rajas= Rajasthan, FOSS= Free and Open Source Software

http://www.rajasfoss.lugb.in/
Venue: Engineering College Bikaner Labs
Date: Oct. 8-11, 2010

Speakers: Narendra Sisodia, Jai Pandaya, Nandeep Mali, Shishir Sharma, Ankur
Saxsena, Priya Kuber, Ankur Sethi, Jaideep, Himanshu Anand

Team:
Nitin, Srishti, Pratik, Vivek, Kunal, Vinay, Amishra, Sharad
Art: Neha, Jyoshita, Himani, Ashish, Priyanka, Ajay
Lab Setup: Pushpendra, Avinish, Alok, Nitesh, Ashutosh, Ravi, Ankit
Photography: Aditya Sharma

Thanks to skbohra, touchaddict, pkuhad, abhinav, mdixit, kpanwar, jaideep, coolkartik

Report:

Content: Srishti Sethi

Edit & Design: Vivek Anand
Software/Tools used: OpenOffice.org 3.2, GIMP

Thanks to Google Open Source Office, Ubuntu, Mahiti and everyone involved :-)