Story of CONF@JMILUG

Dreams which is one of the most common thing in everyones life because we always use to watch it at night . But having CONF@JMILUG in our college e.g. Linux Conference parallel with CSIJMI Annual Fest is as difficult as like watching dream in day time . Many peoples are not in favor of this according to them " Who the hell is interested in listening these talks" . lolz any way loyalty is the best policy . Then i started in searching some sponsor and also some speakers who can help us . Finally we got  SPOKEN-TUTORIAL.ORG with the reference of Atul Jha . But as we all know getting sponsorship is not a Joke same happened here also . But thanks to Mr. Kannan Sir, Head of SPOKEN TUTORIAL project who supported our event with great joy and happiness. We also thankful to Linux For You who supported us as media parter for this event.

What we are planning : we will trying to target those audience who is not aware of Linux and Open Source and this idea of attracting peoples was appreciated by our team members and the fellow.

There are lots of work still remaining booking tickets , Designing and Printing of posters , calling all the speakers , Sending and receiving of mail of confirmation by speakers , making schedule , etc. My god it was a hectic schedule but some how we managed. We started with the parallel methods working simultaneously on the deciding talks/session as well as the infrastructure part also and soon released our tentative schdule of the event. A seperate website released with the name of the conf.jmilug.org for this event on which we started getting registrations also. As the time was less and work too much but we finally completed all the arrangements in time.

It was the starting of Day-1 I started my day in my own car and gone directly to pick-up speakers from the locations and dropped at college. In college my other team members working with the arrangements of rooms and power supply. We also had one stall by Spoken-Tutoria in main lawn where people get to know about the different projects on FOSS. On day-1 there was a small incident happened which I must say an unfortunate one we having a good amout of Fedora disks and Fedora badges. The scene happened was that suddenly a big mob of students came over the table and just grabbed and snathched all the disks from the table in whithin 5 minutes everything chnaged. Now this was an unexpected behaviour by crowd although those disks are just to distribute among studnets but not in this way. Anyway from next we will take care of such things also. Rest all gone well.

Talks started with the talk of Atul Jha he shared his experiences in open source field which was amazing and intractive session. Followed by talk of Priya Kuber she is Head of Arduino program in India. She delivered talk on “Women in technology” which was itself an interesting topic. After that talk Prof. Arjun Ghosh shared the experiences as a Linux User from non technical background. He is one of a English Professor at IIT-Delhi, New Delhi. The last talk of day1 on Moodle CMS by Prof. Gaurav Prashar, Dean (IT) of Inmantec College, Gaziabad. His command in Moodle is super cool. He funtionaly using Moodle in his college as assignments and courses which is a great initiative by Gaurav sir.

Then after the ending of day-1 we left for enjoying the night life of delhi with our speakers who were from outside Delhi. We enjoyed lunch in Delhi's traditional way at the oldest place of delhi e.g. Gali Paranthe Wali.

Now starting with the day–2 like everywhere here also day was little bit lazy as we were little bit tiered with the day one. But we having very special talks on this day also which blown up power in me and mobilized me to do double work. In comparision to day-1 we having less crowd on day-2. Starting with the “How to contribute in FOSS” by Satya Komaragiri. Followed by the talk of Arulalan's talk on Python programming. Arulalan T. is one of the Project Associate at IIT-Delhi.

Talk by our JMI's Alumni “RabbitMQ: Messaging which works”, Mohd. Asif also nice one but I failed to attend that session due to some other works. Last talks was updates of Fossevents.in which is an idea of Satyakam Goswami and he is working on that from last 2 years. He also shared the details of project FOSSYatra which is also a similar kind of project by G.T.Rao.

My day ended at Airport where I dropped the team of Spoken-Tutorial for Mumbai. It was a nice experience with all the members of Spoken-Tutorial.