REPORT: Inauguration of the OSTC at Parul Institute of Engineering Technology-MCA, Vadodara and organization of a Workshop on LINUX- UBUNTU

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Open Source Technologies Club (OSTC)
Spoken Tutorial Workshop Report on
Linux - Ubuntu
Organized under
GTU Open Source Technologies Club (GTU OSTC)
On
14th March-2014
At
Parul Institute of Engineering & Technology-MCA
Vadodara
Academic Centre Code: GUJ-00434
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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Open Source Technologies Club (OSTC)
Under the initiative taken by GTU, in collaboration with Spoken Tutorial Project-IIT Bombay,Open Source
Technologies Club (OSTC) has been established at Parul Institute of Engineering &Technology - MCA.
The Inaugural function of Gujarat Technological University-Open Source Technologies Club(GTU-OSTC) initiated
with warm welcome to all Executive committee Members and Students. The function was started with the
Motivational and Informative Audio-video Clip prepared by the Spoken Tutorial Project Team at IIT Bombay. The
audio-video clip provides the information about available Free and open source software and also the importance
about their functionality and market segment or popularity.
Dr. Vilin Parekh, Principal, PIET addressed all the students through the motivational speech and also boost up them
to have more participation in the workshops and make it huge success. He also mentioned the importance of
learning a new technology for getting healthy placement. Then after, Dr. V. N Acharya, Head-MCA has introduced
all the Executive Team Members of GTU-OSTC and the planning of the upcoming workshops. Prof. Bindi Parikh
provided the information about the procedure to participate in a workshop. The Session ended with many
questions and the answers were satisfactory responded by Prof. Prashant Shah and Prof.Akshar Muley. The
Function was ended with vote of thanks by Prof. Shimi Biju.
OSTC Committee Members:
Patron
Convener
OSTC Coordinator
OSTC Members
Member’s Name
Email
Dr. Vilin Parekh
Dr. Varang Acharya
Prof. Prashant Shah
Prof. Akshar Muley
Prof. Shimi Biju
Prof. Bindi Parikh
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
After Inauguration, all the participants installed and carefully watched videos on Linux- Ubuntu which were
received from Spoken Tutorial Project-IIT Bombay. At the end of workshop, verbal feedback was also obtained
from the participants. All the participants had carefully watched videos and also had hands on practice with the
online material provided which were received from Spoken Tutorial Project-IIT Bombay and preinstalled in the
computer systems. The workshop has proved itself a very motivational event to acquire new knowledge. Students
are truly inspired by the workshop and seem to be pursuing many other means of finding further information
about the concepts of Linux and Ubuntu. They are eagerly waiting towards participating in more workshops like
this.
Workshop Details
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FOSS
Date:
Code
Time
Venue:
LINUX UBUNTU
14/03/2014
WC-8309
07:30 am to
9:30 am
PIET MCA
Dept.
Total
Participants
30
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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Open Source Technologies Club (OSTC)
Some Snaps of Linux Ubuntu Workshop:
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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Open Source Technologies Club (OSTC)
Prepared By:
Members of OSTC Club
Parul Institute of Engineering & Technology – MCA [GUJ-00434]
Vadodara. (Gujarat)
Email-ID: [email protected]
Www.parul.ac.in
Contact No.: 7878 23 2929, 02668-260300/307
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Contact: Toral Vandara [[email protected]] or [ [email protected]] | Tel: +91-79-26300699;
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