Hi everybody,
25th august(2009), was another festive day for GLOSS, the open source community at SASTRA. Posters were put up with the title "Open Source For Students", a talk by Sun's marketing engineer. The session was unusually planned at 11.30 and I was a bit shocked. Because nowadays in SASTRA you could find only 15 heads turning out for a session at evening 5. But to my surprise the Tifac-Auditorium was full. I realised the power of GLOSS then. It was Kumar Abhishek, 2009 passed out of SASTRA university. Its always good to hear something from our brother, rather than hearing it from uncles and grandpas. We were all really happy to see such a dynamic person coming again live on stage, because I was in my first year, when Kumar Abhishek was here and I don't have personal contacts with him. He is also one of the founding members of GLOSS and it was really a great experience with him on stage.
The way he handled the session was really interesting and pretty different. He was so active on stage, so that the crowd never got bored, inspite of the hot audi, without A/C. He spoke about the past, present and the future trends in IT. And he mainly concentrated on the future trends and also, made us realise that we are developers but not users. It was pretty interesting, when he told us about the stuff on net like youtube and all other stuff regarding OS. It had quenched my thirst for a really great session, after a long gap. The energy level was high and was maintained constantly through out the session. And all the other arrangements made by GLOSS was also cool. Dwarakanath hosted the show in his unique style and Open Solaris DVD's where distributed to all and the blogging contest was announced. But that is not the reason why I am writing this blog for, but I couldnt stop blogging about this great event. Thanks to GLOSS for bringing in such highly dynamic personalities and making us ready to swim in the corporate ocean. Meet you in my next blog...
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