Day 2 workshop of DGPLUG

Today, the second day of the workshop started by 10:30 a.m with all the students waiting beforehand for the workshop to begin. kushal started-off the discussion with vim-editor. The students were really excited on learning the new commands in vim because it just seemed magic to them and they were really impressed with it. As the second session began kushal gave a talk on more advanced topics on python on How to download files, display files in current directory,etc. In the end, we showed up the Fudcon Tempe and Pune video to give the students a boost up.

Day 1 workshop of DGPLUG

Today, we the members of DGPLUG (Gaurav, Chandan, Biraj and I) organized a Python Workshop in our college. The workshop was taken by kushal. The workshop started at 11:00, with a talk on ‘Introduction to Linux, Free Software Movement and Fedora”. This interaction made the students aware about the topic on how they can start off contributing to Linux.
Then, we moved to the Labs, the students got a hands-on with Python. kushal covered the most of Python. He also discussed how to edit a program using vi editor. The students were encouraged by distributing fedora-keychains for those who gave good responses. At the end of the session, kushal distributed off fedora-stickers. We four also got our our first fedora Tee-Shirt :) . We also discussed to start on a weekly dgplug physical meeting to come-up with more contributors.The session ended by 5:30.

dgplug Summer Training Day 1

It has been quite a while since I last blogged. From 4th July, dgplug started its summer training 2011.This training sessions are for wannabes to Free/Libre/Open Source Software at #dgplug on irc.freenode. net. The first day passed as a mere introduction of the students, and kushal gave a list of rules to be followed during the IRC summer training.
The main training started from 5th July at about 6:45 p.m, devmodem took the charge of the class and taught us with the basic shell commands ls, mkdir, cd, cal, date, uptime, echo, and free. The second session started around 10 p.m by mbuf who discussed the communication guidelines and mailing list guidelines, He briefly described three presentations
1.Communication-guidelines
2.mailing-list-etiquette
3.i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat-2-do-fedora