tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65914368669708021402024-03-14T01:03:11.260-07:00GNUnify '09GNUnify '08http://www.blogger.com/profile/15744803754546064768noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591436866970802140.post-27456174420797093232009-02-03T10:47:00.000-08:002009-02-05T20:25:29.868-08:00Mozilla sponsors GNUnify'09The GNUnify'09 team is delighted to announce that Mozilla the creators of the Mozilla suite(now called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey" target="_blank">Seamonkey</a>) and subsequently <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox" target="_blank">Mozilla Firefox</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird" target="_blank">Mozilla Thunderbird</a>.<br /><br />Also the Downloads section has now been updated with stickers/badges and the official posters.<br />The HTML codes to be used for the stickers/badges are here:<br /><a href="http://gnunify.in/09/content/downloads" target="_blank"><br />http://gnunify.in/09/content/downloads</a>GNUnify09http://www.blogger.com/profile/07664937672256568046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591436866970802140.post-16640963819136657682009-01-24T07:13:00.000-08:002009-01-24T07:15:51.383-08:00Speaker registration is now closed but...Speaker registration for GNUnify'09 is now closed.<br /><br />But the Delegate Registration is on full swing.<br />So hurry and register !!!GNUnify09http://www.blogger.com/profile/07664937672256568046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591436866970802140.post-58667924867931197522009-01-19T10:09:00.000-08:002009-01-19T10:18:29.769-08:00Hurry ! Speaker Registration Closing in 2 daysThe registration of speakers for GNUnify '09 will close on 22nd January2009.<br /><br />CFP will also close on 22nd January 2009.<br /><br />All those interested in registering and submitting Synopsis/CFP, please hurry !GNUnify09http://www.blogger.com/profile/07664937672256568046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591436866970802140.post-81987488069788347202009-01-19T09:24:00.000-08:002009-01-19T10:08:25.078-08:00GNUnify'09 is here<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzdOhQrcKyW5dQJYO4n4k-tX6Zqz0W2zn8tVGa4nYrsgQm9RTReBT7rHRcoc6UV6nL0nN0ze8F9XZbcK9t4wftKZGZ36TMVIYnrHbYbD-MVY8vPoSQShIecPR2UH8kq39pPRzXt5OD9Ec/s1600-h/logo.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 97px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzdOhQrcKyW5dQJYO4n4k-tX6Zqz0W2zn8tVGa4nYrsgQm9RTReBT7rHRcoc6UV6nL0nN0ze8F9XZbcK9t4wftKZGZ36TMVIYnrHbYbD-MVY8vPoSQShIecPR2UH8kq39pPRzXt5OD9Ec/s320/logo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293066830390907506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />But many of you may ask : What is "GNUnify" in the first place.<br />Well, here is your answer.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gnunify.in" target="_blank">GNUnify</a> is an annual technical extravaganza organised by the students of <a href="http://www.symbiosiscomputers.com/" target="_blank">Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR)</a> in association with the <a href="http://www.plug.org.in/" target="_blank">Pune GNU/Linux Users Group (PLUG)</a>.<br /><br />It provides a platform for students, IT professionals and Academia to exchange ideas and discuss the philosophies behind the Free & Open Source Software(FOSS) movement.<br />It helps strenghtening the FOSS movement and spreads the knowledge of FOSS among people who may not be aware of it.<br />GNUnify kicked off in 2003 and has since then grown to become on of the leading FOSS events in the calendar year. It brings together some of the world's leading speakers to share their knowledge and experience, with students and developers.<br />It provides a common forum to unite open minds.<br /><br /><span lang="EN-US">GNUnify consists of the following exciting events -</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Techie-Talk</span><br />These sessions bring the who's who in FOSS technologies face to face with the FOSS community. We get to hear the gurus of the industry speak in the series of lectures conducted on different topics running in parallel tracks.<br /><br /><b>Workshops</b><br />Its an interactive session in which individual demonstrations are carried out to help the newbie to have a closer look at the functionality and working of the FOSS world by a hands on approach.<br /><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span> install fest, workshops, Q&A panel, programming contest etc. </span><br /><br /><b>Installfest</b><br />It provides hands on experience in the installation of several flavors of GNU/Linux. One can get to know about the various technicalities of installation and configuration. Several IT facilitators are always at hand to help in case of doubts.<br /><br /><b>BOF</b><br />Being the most exciting of the events, brings down all the experts to the same stage where they start from nothing and meander their way through everything. It is an informal meet up without any pre planned agenda.<br /><br />In the end the aim of GNUnify each year is to share the vast amount of knowledge of FREE/Open Source Software with everybody and not with a previleged few<br /><br /><b>As GNUnify enters its 7th year it continues to strive to fulfill its vision of spreading the awareness about the FOSS movement. All in all GNUnify is an experience by itself. You have to be a part of it to feel it!! It's your presence and our pleasure.<br /><br /></b><table><tbody><tr><td><b>When</b></td> <td><big>13th - 14th Feb 2009</big></td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="http://gnunify.in/09/images/howtoreach.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://gnunify.in/09/images/howtoreachthumb.png" /></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><b>Where<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></b></td> <td> Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research<br /> Atur Centre,<br /> Gokhale Cross Road,<br /> Model Colony,<br /> Pune-411016,<br /> Maharashtra,<br /> INDIA.<br /> Tel : (+91) 020 - 2567 5601 / 02</td> </tr> <tr> <td>How To Reach: </td> <td><a href="http://gnunify.in/09/images/howtoreach.png" target="_blank">Map</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />You can contact us at webteam@gnunify.inGNUnify09http://www.blogger.com/profile/07664937672256568046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591436866970802140.post-7978376875548301232008-02-07T14:45:00.000-08:002008-02-10T20:10:26.381-08:00Behind the machines...Did you enjoy our workshops ? We too enjoyed configuring our labs for it with Internet downtime, Pacific re-routing, power cuts and PXE.<br /><br />It all began with Abhishek & Harish from Tech Team trying to configure Ruby on Rails in 207 in morning 2 AM. After a series of <span style="font-style: italic;">sudo apt-get </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">server/script webrick </span>we woke up to the fact that nobody had ever boarded this Railgaadi. Robert Adkins came to the rescue around noon and gave us the tickets along with free snacks of insight in Synergy(http://synergy2.sourceforge.net) and his sexy MacBook Pro and iPhone.<span style="font-size:-1;"><span class="a"></span></span><br /><br />But the Gods of Power, literally graced us, with the first power cut of day. And down went the Rail configuration. So it was again building up from Ground Zero. Leaving us with instructions, <span style="font-style: italic;">Babuji</span>(as Robert Adkins is popularly called) left for the Speakers' Meet. When the power came up, the Tech Team followed all the instructions to configure it but didn't know how the heck to test it. Vinay from MBA-IT came to the rescue. The Tech Team had to just open the browser at Platform No. 3000. At last it was all done and they didn't know it was done.<br /><br />What followed now, was the replication excerise. How can you replicate 49 machines ? The new machines in the lab had SATA hard disks which aren't supported by the PXE imaging software used. So we had to enable the legacy mode which disables the SATA magic and speed. Now that gave us 10MBps speed of replication which would take us the whole night. But practically the speed decreased with each new replication client.<br /><br />Deliberations, suggestions, crazy ideas on how to replicate and tea flowed in. It was finally decided that we try different methods on different machines which included replicating a dd'ed clone from external USB, installing from Internet and installing manually using external cdrom drive.<br /><br />Finally we had the lab replicating till 8 in the morning with Abhishek, Harish, Gaurav, Bodhi, Kaushik, Samar, Dinesh and Hemant around.<br /><br />You can read more between the lines at our <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/gnunify08/BehindTheMachines">Picasa Web Album</a>GNUnify '08http://www.blogger.com/profile/15744803754546064768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591436866970802140.post-62643818770454232952008-02-06T00:40:00.001-08:002008-02-06T00:40:46.149-08:00Event Schedule & Speaker Profile Uploaded<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> The<a href='http://gnunify.in/event_schedule.php'> Schedule</a> for GNUnify has been released and is now available on the website. The Schedule has been grouped into Four Main Categories. These are General, Software Development, Mobile Development and System Administration. You can visit the website to ascertain the time and room where the talk or workshop will be held. <i>The Schedule is subject to change without prior notice. <br/></i><br/> Also The<a href='http://gnunify.in/speaker_list.php'> Speakers</a> Page has been updated. You can read about the various speakers who will be taking part in the event and a brief description of their topic. <br/><br/><br/><p class='poweredbyperformancing'>Powered by <a href='http://scribefire.com/'>ScribeFire</a>.</p></div>GNUnify '08http://www.blogger.com/profile/15744803754546064768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591436866970802140.post-28356779215900191662008-01-31T07:17:00.001-08:002008-01-31T07:17:11.494-08:00Speaker Registration Closed<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> The Speaker Registration has been closed. Currently we have over 30 Speakers who will be presenting workshops and seminars during the event. The list of Speakers and their topics will be uploaded on the website Soon. <br/><br/><br/><p class='poweredbyperformancing'>Powered by <a href='http://scribefire.com/'>ScribeFire</a>.</p></div>GNUnify '08http://www.blogger.com/profile/15744803754546064768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591436866970802140.post-53274724665993329372008-01-14T05:43:00.000-08:002008-01-14T05:46:33.580-08:00Call for participation are open.Speakers are requested to upload their <span style="font-weight: bold;">Call for participation </span>before 27th of January 2008. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>GNUnify '08http://www.blogger.com/profile/15744803754546064768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591436866970802140.post-67695567031469773402008-01-14T05:38:00.000-08:002008-01-14T05:42:55.600-08:00Registration for Speakers and DelegatesThe registration for Delegates and Speakers is open. Speakers are requested to register themselves at least one week before the start of the event.GNUnify '08http://www.blogger.com/profile/15744803754546064768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6591436866970802140.post-36682690923036227132008-01-14T05:23:00.000-08:002008-01-14T05:33:47.572-08:00What am I ?<h1><span lang="EN-US">GNUnify 08</span></h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">GNUnify, an annual technical <span style=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">extravaganza</span> is organized by the students of Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR) </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span><b>GNUnify, </b>the name <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">epitomizes</span> the philosophy behind Free/Open source software, unifying and strengthening the free / open source movement, sharing and spreading knowledge with the help of IT.<b><span style="color: black;"> GNUnify initiated in the year 2003 is</span></b><span style="color: black;"> an international convergence of open minds. <span style=""> </span>It provides </span>a platform for students and IT professionals,<span style="color: black;"> who aspire to unfold their knowledge.</span> Gnunify manifests itself<span style=""> </span>through Techi-talk, install fest, workshops, Q&A panel, programming contest etc. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p><span style=""> </span>Various experts share their knowledge and experiences with the delegates over various technical issues and topics. This is a perfect platform for everyone to learn from various Gurus about the latest technologies, discussion on issues related to free/Open Source software and much more.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US">Install fest aims to provide first hand experience in installation of various flavors of Linux. Various technicalities of installation and configuration are explained in the fest and are always present to solve your problems, eager to help you out.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US">Workshop as the name describes, is a tutorial or the like, that emphasizes exchange of ideas and the demonstration of techniques and skills, Workshops provide live hands on experience on working with various OPEN/FREE softwares. Its an interactive session in which, both the speaker and the delegates<span style=""> </span>together explore this wonderful and liberal world. Delegates will get training ,on working with various free/open tools, languages ,applications etc.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US">Show Your Talent is a pathway<span style=""> </span>towards the world of Open Source, bringing in light, the potential within. This event showcases the talents from the student community through various technical/paper presentations which will be judged<span style=""> </span>by an expert panel. This event aims at exploring the potential candidates and providing them a platform to showcase their talents.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US">Solve Your Quest is a (solution)elucidation for the users to their innumerous queries where a panel of open source intellectuals guides you all through. It is an amalgamation of an open house forum and panel discussions where all the queries of the attendees will be solved by the expert panel.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US">The origin of every innovation are some thoughts scattered along the way, assembled together and shaped. We ,in Programming Contest here, give you the platform to mould your small and different ideas and get in into records as something really big. Programming contest ,the two day competition provides a direction to your ideas and transforms them into an innovation .</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span> This year, GNUnify will enter in its fifth successful year, spreading the light of the knowledge, the light which cannot be the privileged possession of a few but can be shared by everybody.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>GNUnify '08http://www.blogger.com/profile/15744803754546064768noreply@blogger.com3