Report: SJCE, Mysore talk on Freedom Hardware

This post first appeared on PhotoElectricChefs. The trip itself is in Talk at SJCE Mysore.

SJCE Mysore conducted their yearly tech event, Tuxedo, this weekend. A completely open source event where students and industry people present talks and small workshops based on FOSS.

It was quite interesting to see a college so much into FOSS, unlike the colleges I’ve seen in Bangalore. There was a prof who gave a talk on LaTeX, a software for making tech papers. He was using Zenwalk OS. He also kept inspiring his students to work on Linux. To add to that, he has contributed a few clip arts for paper presentations. In parallel, the Linux computing group of SJCE had their event, with various coding competitions and talks.

The college has its own hardware and software groups which conduct workshops and also attend various other events.

Our talk was an introduction to freedom hardware. Though many of them were acquainted with various technologies, the idea of community learning was something new to them.

The session was attended by about 50 students from circuit branches, spread across all semesters. They loved the various demos on Kinect and Pi. A large group showed interest and came back for offline discussions.

Being optimistic and patiently waiting to see the results of the talk :-)