Fedora Talk at SCIT

Hello, I went to SCIT(www.scit.edu) to judge the event the called 'OS-MAZE' on 02/08/08, which was the part of their tech fest called "Techie-Kaun-08". http://techiekaun08.scit.edu/ For 'OS-MAZE' there were two rounds:- a. Written b. Hands-On. They conducted 'Written' round in the morning (9:45-10:45) and the 'Hands-On' round was from 2:30 to 4:30 PM. Students from different colleges attended the event.Around 30-35 were selected for 'Hands-On' round.Out of these 5 students were for the Linux platform and rest of them were for Windows platform. I reached there at 2:30 and presented the session on Fedora.I got 15 minutes time slot for the presentation.I used following presentation:- http://mspevack.fedorapeople.org/talks/fedora.pdf The presentation was attended by the students who were selected for the 'Hands-On' round.Some of the faculty members of SCIT also attended the presentation. 90% of the attendees heard about Fedora/FOSS and showed good interest in the presentation. I started my presentation by giving some history about Fedora and went over the slides.They were amazed by looking at slide #8 which mentions "320,000 Fedora boxes checked in for updates last week" and have a map.They also appreciated the slide #12, which describes the Fedora logo. I then followed rest of the slides.We then had a small discussion in which we talked about the various means by which we can contribute to the Fedora project. Then I distributed the stickers and batches. Also while judging the 'Hands-On' round students requested me to suggest them some projects.I requested them to look at Fedora site.Specially at :- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList Three out of four winners was from SICSR.I requested them to contact me later. http://symbiosiscomputers.com/v5/home/index.php Here are some pics of the event:- http://picasaweb.google.com/neependra.khare/TechieKaun08 Regards, Neependra http://techieneeps.blogspot.com/