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Carteblanche-08- MIT(Anna university)
Posted Date: 25 Feb 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: General
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Posted By: Ramkumar Member Level: Diamond
Rating:  Points: 5
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Free/Open Source Fiesta:
A PEEK INTO CARTE BLANCHE 08:
As part of its pioneering intellectually developmental activities,we the Computer Society of Mit are proud to present “CARTEBLANCHE 08” the college’s mega event promoting the cause of open software.This event which was started in 2005 saw huge responses and instantly was a hit with the open source community in India.It has been providing a platform for the budding software engineers from across the country to display the prowess in the various fields of computing with a special importance towards open source.
The event is supported by the Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai( ILUGC),National Resource Centre for FOSS, Computer Society of India (CSI), AU-KBC Research Centre and IEEE Computer Society. Formerly titled 'Linux Demo Day', it evoked tremendous response both from the public and the student community. In the past three years, Carte Blanche has grown into a one-of-a-kind technical symposium with special events like Linux demos, workshops, lectures, free software distribution, as well as conventional Paper presentations, Programming contests, Debugging and hacking contests, Online contests, Debates. Whatever be the event, our theme is the same!! Open source!!
Spot Lights:
GNU/Linux Demos - Open to all!!
The event is all about knowledge sharing and Demos are the best way to do that.These Demos are aimed at introducing the users to the open source movement and philosophy and promoting the various open source software and technologies. The Demos are free and open to all. Its open source after all!
Developer's Talks:
The day is filled with several lectures, talks and presentations from developers of the open source community.These lectures include developers from Cognizant,RedHat, Deeproot Linux and so on..No other open source festival can bring these delegates under the same roof.
Online Events:
Online Programming Contest Feb 27 th 17.00 hrs to 21.00 hrs
Online Debugging Feb 28 th 18.00 hrs to 19.30 hrs
ZoneX Feb 21 st to Feb 29 th
March 1st
Debugging (Prelims) 10.00 hrs to 10.45 hrs
Aricent - Speech 10.45 hrs to 11.30 hrs
Onsite Programming Contest(Prelims) 11.45 hrs to 12.30 hrs
Electro Wiz (Prelims) 11.45 hrs to 12.30 hrs
Mechwiz (Prelims) 11.45 hrs to 12.30 hrs
Linux Quiz (Prelims) 13.00 hrs to 13.15 hrs
Technical Treasure Hunt (Prelims) 13.30 hrs to 14.15 hrs
Speech 14.15 hrs to 15.00 hrs
Linux Quiz Finals 15.00 hrs to 16.00 hrs
Configure IT 16.00 hrs to 16.30 hrs
Hanging Quiz (parallel event)
Open Arena (parallel event)
March 2 nd
Linux Demo's (Parallel event)
Debugging (finals) 10:00 hrs to 10:45 hrs
Configure IT (finals) 11:00 hrs to 11:45 hrs
Technical Treasure Hunt (finals) 12:00 hrs to 12:45 hrs
Onsite Programming Contest(Finals) 1:30 hrs to 3:00 hrs
Electrowiz (Finals) 1:30 hrs to 3:00 hrs
Mechwiz (Finals) 1:30 hrs to 3:00 hrs
GNU/Linux Demo Topics
This year we are planning to mentor government school students to conduct special demos on the basic topics of GNU/Linux like Installation, Administration, OpenOffice, Multimedia etc.
1. FOSS
Introduction Free Vs Open Source Software –GNU – GPL – copyleft
2. Installation , Administration of GNU/Linux
Types of installation – Debian, RedHat pkgs Oriented – Basic installation– A Linux Kernel, Shell linux filesystems – Network installation – Remote Desktop – Webmin – linuxconf – debconf – Yast Yum
3. Office Suites - OpenOffice.org,koffice, GNU Plot
Creating text documents – Spread sheet – Presentation – Drawings – HTML doc – Master doc –3d fonts
4. Graphics – GIMP, Blender, Image magick
draw, paint, edit images, the functionality and plugins of other famous image editing and processing programs.– Blender a integrated 3d suite for modeling – animation rendering postproduction, interactive creation and playback (games) – Python binding
5. Multimedia – mplayer,XMMS,alsaplayer, vlc, Real, amarok
Playing audio, video and editing – video compressing – aRts control audocity – mencoder – alsamixer – audio/video CD Writing – mencoder
6. Gaming – openGL library.
Game development – engines – libraries
7. Networking
NFS Network file sharing – samba – sendmail – Netbooting-LTSP
8. Security
Firewall – cryptography – iptables openSS
9. Basic Programming Tools – vim, emacs, joe, anjuta, kdevelop
WYSIWYG features encoding – plugins – writing plugins
10. Advanced Programming Tools
gcc java – jikes kaffe – Gconf – gprof – DDD Makefile – automake – autoconf
11. Perl,python
Simple introduction– Object Oriented approach – network programming – web programming – simple applications
12. Visual Programming - Gtk+, Qt, PyQt, PyGTK
Database drivers – project management with qmake and automake – developing GUI application multi platform GUI applications – working with GLADE & Qt designer
13. Web Servers – Apache, squid, Apache Tomcat
installing – configuring – architecture – working model – threading – request, response filtering
14. Web clients
hacking firefox – firefox addons – mozilla suite – text browsing (w3m, lynx) offline browsers – torrent clients – messenger (Gaim, kopete) – mail clients (thunderbird, evolution)
15. Web Designing & Development
CSS editors & HTML editors (bluefish, quanta, amaya, august, amrita, Nvu, Mozilla composer) – PHP – open source content management system ( joomla, mambo server)
16. Linux Databases – Mysql, Postgresql, SQLite
Sql queries – query browsers – PHPMyadmin – PHPPGadmin – JDBC – ODBC – triggers – multimedia databases
17. High Availability Linux – Heartbeat – memory sharing
18. Engineering Softwares and tools – Scilab, QCAD, geda
QCAD
constructing and changing drawings with ISOtexts an interfacing with many CAD systems such as AutoCADR
GRAPHVIZ
graph drawing Automatic generation of graph drawings database design, software engineering, VLSI and network design and visual interfaces in other domains.
VARKON
parametric modelling drafting, modeling and visualization parametric modeling development. interactive parametric modeling in 2D or 3D
19. Kernel and embedded
Kernel compilation – configuration – kernel logging – kernel debugging – installing & removing modules
20. Localization.
21. FreeBSD Unix
BSD Basis - installation - Administration and features of FreeBSD.
22. Collabrative development
SVN - wiki pages
23. Open Solaris
Queries:
Sivabalan
Ph:+91-9994381286
queries@cs-mit.org
Hospitality
Kumaresan
Ph:+91-9941759202
hospitality@cs-mit.org
Public Relations
RamGopal
Ph:+91-9486919444
pro@cs-mit.org
Regards,
Ram...
For more details, visit http://www.annauniv.edu
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