REPORT: Open Source Technologies Club (OSTC): A workshop on LATEX organized at OM Institute of Engineering & Technology, Junagadh with the help of IIT Mumbai ;Om Engg College may plan more workshops for PHP, MySQL, Java and NetBeans, Scilab and Linux; All Colleges are required to establish an OSTC so that the students can participate actively in the Open Source movement

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Open Source Technologies Club (OSTC)
Spoken Tutorial Workshop Report on
Organized under
GTU Open Source Technologies Club (GTU OSTC)
On
15th October, 2013, Tuesday (03:00 TO 5:00 PM)
at
OM Institute of Engineering & Technology, Junagadh
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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Open Source Technologies Club (OSTC)
OM Engineering College has set up a milestone and established Open Source Technologies Club
(OSTC) for providing as well as utilizing benefits of latest free open source technologies under
guideline of Gujarat Technological University. OM Engineering College, Junagadh, Gujarat has
organized an interactive awareness Workshop on “Free and Open Source Software” for utilizing
the “LATEX”. The workshop was conducted with the help of IIT Bombay Spoken Tutorial Team.
More than 50 faculty members participated in this workshop enthusiastically.
Some key points were discussed in the awareness event on “Free and Open Source Software”
Executive committee of OSTC club at OM Engineering College:
OSTC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
DESIGNATION
PATRON
CO-ORDINATOR
MEMBERS
(FACULTY)
NAME
E-MAIL
[email protected]
Dr. H.M.Nimbark
9825281150
Mr.. K.H.Raviya
Mr. M.D.Gundaliya
9428014176
8866036928
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Mr. D.A.Divrania
(Electrical)
9033090803
[email protected]
Mr. S.K.Rathod
(Civil)
8238258259
[email protected]
Mr.A.R.Bhayani
(Mechanical)
9737473818
[email protected]
9714755143
[email protected]
Ms. M.K.Chavda
(computer)
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CONTACT
NO.
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Glance at Guest of honor as well as Chief Guests, Trustee Shree Prashantbhai
Kadivar,Manishbhai Bhoghara and Rajubhai Bediya, Guest of Honor: Dr. H.M.Nimbark, Principal
and Departmental Head of the respective responsibilities.
Prof. K.H. Raviya introduced OSTC club with
reference to types and actual usage of Open
Source Software
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Dr. H.M. Nimbark Explained definition of
open source and it’s proper ways to utilize
it with students as well as faculty members.
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 Prof. Kaushik H. Raviya, Co-ordinator of OSTC Club, OM Engineering College explain
objectives of OSTC club and he added that “if free and open source software is available for each
field than why should we use licensed and paid software”.
 Dr. H.M. Nimbark, Principal of OM Engineering College explains what is actual meaning of
open source and scope of open source in software development industry.
Establishment of Open Source Technological Club
at OM Engineering College under collaboration
with IIT Bombay Spoken Tutorial.
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Ms. Madhukriti Shrivastva from IIT Bombay introduce the
concept of OSTC to participants.
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Open Source Technologies Club (OSTC)
 Faculty members who attended the Awareness Event had participated in
“LATEX” work shop. Our OSTC club members have explained flow and methodology
of workshop.
 Spoken tutorial team member had explained importance of LATEX in typesetting and
taken feedbacks from participants after completion of workshop.
Some Glimpse of the Workshops:
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Glance at practical sessions of Faculty members on LATEX with the help of video tutorials.
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Patron: Prof. H.K. Gajera explained about phases as well
as steps to begin with practical.
Spoken tutorial team member explained in the brief
about Latex through videos.
Valedictory Function:
In the valedictory session, Department of Computer Engineering wished thanked to all Trustees and
whole Om family, Principal, Dr. H.M.Nimbark, HODs’, faculty Members and participants for sparing their
valuable time for the workshop and their positive feedback with keen interest.
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