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2009 LINUX USER GROUP BIKANER

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“'Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To
understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in
'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.”
-Richard M.Stallman

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On their way to build their enjoyment with scratch to scale heights
of Open Source.

It’s a matter of rejoice and exhilaration to inform you that LUG Bikaner
is prominently exercising the objective and design; we had laid for
dispersing the Open Source movement!

We are the geeky ingenious students of engineering college Bikaner

society. LUGB was established last year after successful completion of
FOSS GN’09 meet, and since then LUGB waving its flag for spreading
the kindle of Open source and comparting social aspects from time to
time. As the brisk was ignited for open source, we started laying our
plans, and a year crossed and we have been bringing home the bacon,
to a great extent!

LUGB had witnessed a year developing its goals into reality, and all
through the year LUGB had been guided with its senior batch, who
marched its initial requisite. It all started from mission of our seniors to
initialize the spark of Open source at the Golden sandy Campus of
college, which first stepped with carving of FOSS GN’09.

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 A four days privy event was scheduled from 28 Oct. to 31 Oct.
2009, for the undergrad students across the country at Engineering
College Bikaner spread the magic & fire of open source at an alarming
rate. Talks were delivered during the day time over lighting open
source software like Fedora, Drupal, Sahana, NUI(multitouch) through
the midnight hackfest, talk sessions and installfest. The prominent eye
catching moment was two days talks by Mr. Niyam Bhushan, well

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known technology editor and columnist. All a four days triumphed the
flavor of relishment and fervor for open source between the students
originated across India , which number added upto 200 students.

Detailed report: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22469857/FOSS-GN09-Report

At the last day dusk arrived the geeks and the learners got on the
stage to candle the blooming spark for nascence of LUGB under
guidance of Mr. Niyam Bhushan with an aim to polarize the waves of
Open source in Rajasthan concluding a high note with declaration of
annual FOSS event to be hosted by Team LUGB as RAJASFOSS. This is
the way of transferring the torch from one hand to other and
enlightening with the Free and Open Source Movement.

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The exhilaration was waving and sooner we embarked the initial
requisite like:

 We started a Google Groups for the group, an IRC channel (#lugb

on freenode)

 We organized successful install fest of fedora, ubuntu at various

hostels, covering around 250 PCs.

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 Setup a LUGB registration form using Google forms.

 We got hosting for our website www.lugb.in, from sakshay web

technologies.

 An educational trip to FOSS.IN (venue: Bengaluru ) was archived

with 40 students participating.

 LUGB - week to integrate more & more students to the group.

Members took various small sessions in college campus. As the
Website got into action we started stimulating our projects
through discussion and online meet at irc (#lugb).

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 LUGB website is drupal based, where a registered user can share
their projects with the whole world, we can have active discussion

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through forum and a user can create issues and blogs.

Idea/knowledge sharing is the key point. The website was made to

provide a common platform where anyone can come together share
ideas, views and work on some projects keeping inside the college
boundaries, now through some connections we are getting other traffic
from outside the college too, some alumnus and other outsiders have
also joined and they discuss things.

We also have some competitions like currently the logo making

competition where students can also show their talents and promote
FOSS which is out prime consideration.

Contribute as early and often as possible. The sooner you

establish yourself as one of the 0.05%, the easier (and more fun!) time
you’ll have.

With this concept in mind we drove towards populating IRC channel.

Folks added on to heap & LUGBians helping out the newbie’s to getting
started with open source. IRC's traffic kept on increasing with each
passing day .

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 LUGB's mailing list was set up. Open source lovers & other Linux
User Groups across the country became its part. It really proved
amazing to post & share ideas individually & plan for the
implementation of same. Truly cool to keep LUG updated.

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Prior to all it was the need of the hour to awake girls in the whole
scenario & ask them to participate and contribute to the open source
community reason being.

Driving away women means driving away contributors.

Both women and men:
We conducted a midnight install fest in the girls hostel compound
knocking from door to door & expounding them the importance of FOSS
(Free open source software). We linuxified approx 45 systems with
different flavours Fedora 11 (Leonidasl), Fedora 12(Constantine),
Fedora 13 (Goddard) UBUNTU 8.10 & 9.10 along with their installation
steps in detail. We taught them to use terminal window and mostly
used linux commands on it. We installed certain packages using YUM
(Update Manager). Internet Connection was established too.

This way we managed to give away windows & spread the fire of open
source & set up a benchmark to the geek feminism.

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From 1st Dec to 5th Dec at FOSS.IN, one of the best & the
biggest free & open source conference we opportune to attend (40 in
number from college). A real community feel. Talks, workouts,
workshops, techtalks and bofs all in one. The concept of contribution,
distribution, modification, hacking coding & freedom brought to the
forefront. A real experience of interaction with geeks. Mozilla weave,
Jetpack, KDE desktop environment, Fedora, Sahana, CreativeCommons,
Maemo geared us all. We had a special meetup with Pradeepto from

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KDE who motivated us to deeper extents & shared his experiences &
troubles he faced initially; encouraging contribute to KDE. Last day
Raghu Dixit's band refreshed our spirits.

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As the timed excel we adhere LugB with social responsibilities,

NSS, A body under the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government
of India, responsible for social services towards society and nature.
LUGB conjuncted with NSS with the efforts of Mr. Shyam Sundar Jyani,
for the digital documentation of the data for plantation in the villages
under scheme “VRAKSHAROPARN”. As for smoothly functioning of any
organization, its prior requirement that the data should be bundled in
digital format. Since then we have added the entries upto 11274 at the
LUGB site. LUGB availed NSS for imparting its social activities and
initiatives to be properly documented. For more detail u can visit
www.lugb.in

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 Linux User Group Bikaner
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a scheme where NGOS and
government across the world joining hands to distribute free
educational laptops to the underprivileged students. In India it first
happened at Kikarwaali, Rajasthan, where 40 laptops were distributed,
laptops work on Open OS Fedora Sugar.

A team of 9 students from LUGB contributed for a week training

Session to the students at Kikarwaali School in the beginning of May
2010, where the students were taught the basic practical use of

computers like paint, write, Wikipedia, camera etc.

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 Linux User Group Bikaner
A visit of honorable Chief Minister of Rajasthan Mr. ASHOK
GEHLOT was scheduled to kikarwaali village, where the OLPC gallery
was introduced to the CM. On account of which the CM tested the
students capability of working on the laptops and there by visioning
further distribution of such OLPC tablets in Rajasthan Government
School.

For the second round training a team of 3 members from LUGB visited
the place to revise the training to the students, which they had to
project to the CM, the mission melted to be successful.

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 Meanwhile LUGB sustained the kaleidoscopic revolution across
college campus and encouraging the new batches to follow open
source movement, for this we organized a LUGB week telecasting the
importance and use of Open Software.

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Likewise LUGB has been assisting several projects and brainy
contributing to promote the spirit of open Source. Now we are in a
stage of hosting an Annual event for promoting FOSS nominated as
RAJAS FOSS.

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its
multitudinous Charlatans — every thing in short but the
Enchantress of Numbers.

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