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We, SJIT GLUG members hereby say with pride that we were part of the great occasion – The General Council Meeting and National camp. It took place in Yuvakshetra Institute of Management Studies, Palakkad organized by DAKF under guidance of Free Software Movement of India (FSMI). We were grateful to have invited by Free Software Foundation TamilNadu(FSFTN). It was an amazing experience.

The three day camp was organised well with conferences, workshops, discussions, fun-activities as well as delicious Food.

The first day had two sessions. Mr. Prabir Purkayastha, Founder Editor of Newsclick.com started the day with his wisdomic style of speech about unfair rise of tech-giants like Facebook and Google. He clearly stated how the rise of tech-companies differ from giant financial and material industries. The next session was about Shared Economy and Platform monopolies by Mr.Kiran. It further explained the effect of Monopolies in the Economy and the purpose to combat them through Platform cooperatives. The day ended with fantastic classical dances such as Bharathanatyam, Kuchipudi, Mogini Attam, etc.

For the first session of second day, Mr.Prashanth delivered a motivating speech explaining the aim and objective of the Freedom Movement in India and the structure of the organisation and its member state-organisation. Mr.Sidharth from Swecha gave a lecture about The Political Education in the Organisation. It was a brief step-by-step to motivate volunteers to work for the auspicious goal. The day ended with the event ‘Campfire’ and many fun games.

Final day also had two sessions. The first session was about the “Impact of Social Media in Elections” by Mr.Bhuvan. Further session by Mr.Praveen explained what as a free software movement we can do to protect democracy. We decided to post about Fake news and collected Data using an app called Kobo Collect. At the end of the session, We decided to focus on the awareness campaign to inform the people about the unfair use of technology which would destroy democracy in the coming days.

All in actuality, the entire camp was very informative and also motivating us to take a step-up in responsibility to work against serious issues happening in the technology. Overall, the camp came out much better than we expected.

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GLUG Inauguration for the Academic year 2018 - 19

Today, the SJIT GNU/Linux User’s Group was officially inaugurated for the Batch 2017.

The students and the guests were welcomed. Both guests were amazing in their attitude of delivering the message.Students were excited and enthusiastic. They were a lot patient in the inauguration ceremony. They were also interactive which made the session lively. 

“Learning gives knowledge and sharing gives experience”

Guests are Mr.Anand Moorthy and Ms.Raji. 

Ms.Raji spoke about the community and the organisation. She is an active volunteer of FSFTN from 2015 till now. She has designed a website for the chennai book fair on behalf of FSFTN in 2016.

Mr.Anand Moorthy is an active member in Pondicherry Glug committee since 2013. Out of interest, he inaugurated Glug in many colleges around villupuram in 2014. He became the core member of FSFTN due to his volunteerism in 2016. He supported the Net Neutrality Movement. He spoke about Linux, FSFTN and a lot about FOSS. 

Both the guests answered to our doubts. They were enlightening about FSFTN and encouraged all of us to participate in workshop and contribute to the betterment of the society using open source software.

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Native language programming and open source software (24-07-2018)

Today's session had about a 100 students. The event took place from 10 30 am to 12 noon. Poorajith from 3rd year IT spoke about native language programming where he explained how different languages can be used for coding. He explained about a programming language called ezhil. It was a really interesting talk. Next , Roshni from 3rd year CSE spoke about open source software. It was really interesting. She spoke on the advantages of open source software.  The session ended with giving a gist of both the topics. An information about the fsftn camp was given. The camp is to be held between Aug 10 to 20 for 4 days. Suggestions from the glug members were taken on how the syllabus for the 4 days camp has to be framed.   The session ended with a good feedback from the glug members.

Timing: 10 30am to 12 noon Venue : CSE lab 2 Speakers : Poorajith and Roshni

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Ethical Cracking (5-1-2017) Glug Meet

About 100 students turned up for the event.The event took place during college hours so we had to filter out regular glub members.

The session was about teaching how a web application is exploited.Main topics stressed in the event was 1.Brute force web app using python 2.Sql Injection 3.Xss.To demonstrate these things a open source web application from github was forked and used.The web app is even deployed in heroku for everyone to crack it.

https://sjit-hacker.herokuapp.com/

We had good feedback this session.

Time:9am to 10.30am

Venue : CSE Lab

Speaker : Garry Kevin

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GLUG Inauguration for the Academic year 2017 - 18

Today's the SJIT GNU / Linux User's group was officially inaugurated for the Batch of 2016. The gathering was welcomed and heartfelt gratitute was conveyed to the Management, Staff and Students who had made such a venture possible We had among us Mr. Prasanth, Vice-President of FSFTN who intrigued the crowd by exporing the current trends of technology and how things work in today's digital world. He revealed to us the responsibilities that all of us have as Software Engineers in this century of rapid technology advancement. Learning by being taught is good. But Learning by doing is even better. And what better way to learn than learning in a community. This concept of learning in a community was introduced and the world's largest software community for learning and contributing i.e. the free software community was introduced to the students. Mr. Prashanth showed us the opportunites avalilable to us in this community and left all of us in awe. Our very own Amul baby, Survesh Jones followed up with how we can involve ourselves in this community and he shared his experiences as a part of the SJIT GLUG back in his student days. Syed Moinudeen 'periya thala' of the SJIT GLUG right from it's early days shared with us the history of the GLUG and how such a community came into the college. He also shared how the experiences in the club helped him grow as a member of the FOSS Community.Giving back to the community was stressed on and we were very happy that we has our seniors and founding fathers of the GLUG, Syed and Survesh with us today. The plans and course of action of the GLUG was discussed and we wound up on a happy note hoping to meet everyone again soon :)

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SJIT GLUG MEET(02-03-2017)

It was a great experience at today’s Glug meet!!! We spread awareness about what centralized social networks do and how it invades our privacy. We introduced decentralized networks such as Matrix and Diaspora to the students and showed them how they followed the principle, "Power to the people"

As a part of this session we introduced the migration of all communications to the Matrix network. We introduced the Riot client application and requested everyone to migrate.

The address to the room is sjitglug:matrix.org See ya there

By HARSHAPRIYA IT(3rd yr)

The next session was on the design track :D One of our highly skilled graphic designers, Abishek took up the session with the help of Bala. The session was so interesting that the python developers themselves got engrossed in the designing process. Stress was made on how SVG images could be designed from scratch and thus image resolution will never be a problem again.

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SJIT GLUG IN 4Ccon

The SJIT GLUG members hereby say with pride that we were a part of this great occasion, The National conference of Free Software Movement India. It was conducted in BS Abdur Rahman University from the 26th - 28th of January. Our GLUG members played important roles as volunteers at the event that involved participants and delegates from all over the country. Speakers like Ms. Franseca Bria - CTO of Barcelona city council, Mr. Neville Roy Singham - CEO of Thoughtworks and Evegny Morozov - Author of The Net Delusion:The Dark Side of Internet Freedom really moved the crowd with their inspiring speeches.

The themes for the conference included:

Software: Coding Freedom

Governance: The Digital Turn

Networks: Ending Discrimination

Commons: Opening up Knowledge

Contribution: Thinking Beyond Code

Gender: Diversity & Inclusion

Community: Secrets of Success

On the first day, there were 27 workshops which were very fruitful to those who attended them.

The second and third days had several speakers who expressed their views on topics such as Demonetisation and Digitalisation.

All in all, the main aim of every speaker was to let the audience know that we are always being tracked and our information is being used without our consent. This comes down to the reason why we opt for FOSS alternatives.

Not to forget the gala hour to start the second day off by EVAM troupe.

It was a great experience for our GLUG members as they met people from various backgrounds and had a chance to enhance their knowledge as well.

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4Ccon

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Inspirational experiences with SWIFT!

It was such an amazing experience where we had a time to meet some inspiring people. SWIFT Women in Free Software Technology, the crew who helped us move forward with positive vibes. It was not just a workshop, it was like an interesting corporate training held in Anna University, CEG campus between January 6 - 8.

SWIFT CODING CAMP..!!

Day 1 : A motivational and supportive introduction about GNU/Linux by Miss.Thamarai. She shared many useful things about GNU/Linux and it’s users as well. There was an interesting thing where we had installed a GNU/Linux OS by ourselves which was undertaken by Miss. Raji who is a part of FSFTN and many volunteers helped all around.

Day 2: We have so much interest towards web designing and frameworks and Miss. Harthi and Miss. Karthiga initiated the mission of our dream with source of HTML, CSS and JavaScript and gave a lot of useful information regarding paper presentation and websites as well.

Day 3 : Unlike a class with staffs and students, they taught as though we were their friends, in a informal manner with clear explanation about one of the programming languages, Python. This session was undertaken by Miss.Thejal and Miss.Shreya, students of AU.

Many volunteers Delfina, Ashwini and others helped us learn something new and interesting. It was glad that People from many districts are being  part of SWIFT and FSFTN. Miss. Srravya, one of the main initiatives of this SWIFT camp made to feel awesome with her inspiring speech about their works.The team made everyone to think in a different manner where everything was done in a creative manner especially the site and stickers too.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.It takes great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies but even more to stand up to your friends.”

Technology, the women power of 21st century!

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SJIT GLUG MEET 2k17

Date:11/01/17 Topic:THE ART OF PROGRAMMING Time:3-4 Speaker : N.Arun The basic idea on how to approach a problem was well demonstrated and Students were given hands-on experience too. Emphasis was laid on practicing programming on a regular basis as well . All in all , the GLUG members would now probably have a good if not a very clear idea on how to solve a problem .

Topic: FUN WITH THE CLI Time:4-4:30 Speaker: S.Sriram

A number of shell commands that were fun to play around were shared and everyone was taught how to install softwares in the various ways possible. Live demos on all common distros showed everyone one of the most important things to know when using GNU / Linux. Software Installation :)

Topic: THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY

Speaker: Joezer Ivan

Today was the 4th death anniversary of Aaron Swartz. His work for the general public is something everyone should know. His strong principles on how education should be free to all are values to live by. His life story touched many of us personally and even left a few in tears. The Internet’s own boy is a must watch documentary about his life story

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Software Freedom Day 2016

Hey guys!! On the 24th of September, we celebrated our very own Independence day! You're curious right? It's called Software Freedom day! SFD is celebrated all over the world during the month of September every year to spread awareness about FREE SOFTWARE (Free as in freedom, of course). After the cycle test scheduled for the day we found our way to Anna University, where the event was being organized courtesy of CEGLUG!

We reached there by 10.30 and headed towards the auditorium. Heads turned as the SJIT GLUG army marched in with our 32 soldiers! We filled the seats and the event was ready to begin! The event started off with a bang as Mr. Krupa Sivakumaran blew our minds with the "UNIX" way of programming! It was so cool. He was followed by Mr. Sibi Kanagaraj, Secretary of FSFTN with his talk on Knowledge Commons! Time to set up our Stalls! Each team had chosen a particular FOSS and set up a stall on it! They demonstrated their software to the students, teachers and tech geeks who attended the event! The participants also went around and had a look at what the other students had done! The most important thing was that all of us learnt a lot of things while we surfed around for differnet kinds of FOSS and everyone gave their 100%! Mission Accomplished! Lunch Time!!! The CEG canteen was a delight and it kept the participants occupied for quite a while before the event resumed! After a hearty meal we headed back to the Ada Lovelace Auditorium for a few more enlightning talks on Internet Privacy, Openstack, FOSSonomics and Rust! Finally, Mr. Yogesh made sure that we all switched to FOSS by telling us how Free Software gives us the Freedom we deserve! He was like the leader of the army giving his pre battle talk! All is well that ends well! The event ended with the prize distribution and we congratulate Irshed and Shawn Sanjog for their prize-winning stall on Blender! We clicked a group picture and headed home! Until next year then!

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SJIT GLUG WORKSHOP 2K16

Free Software Foundation of Tamil Nadu and SJIT GLUG conducted a 2-day workshop at St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology on August 30th and 31th 2016. Nearly 120 students from St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology, 2 staffs from the college and 12 volunteers from the SJIT GLUG.

The students of CSE and IT participated in workshop.

The workshop was held at two venues in SJIT

1. CSE Students attended the workshop on CSE lab-2

2. IT Students attended the workshop Session on IT lab-2

THE SESSIONS WERE ON:

1.Free Software Philosophy

2.Shell Scripting

3.Basics of GIT

4.Basics of HTML & CSS

5.Basics of Python

6.Demo of the Django web framework

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Date: 30/08/2016

Venues: CSE lab-2, IT lab-2

SESSION 1: FREE SOFTWARE PHILOSOPHY:

An Inauguration of workshop by SJIT GLUG members and philosophy of free software was explained.

SPEAKERS: Vijay Chander, Jeremy Jackson

TIME: 9AM

SESSION 2: SHELL SCRIPTING

A SHELL SCRIPTING session was conducted for the participants to perform basic scripting on GNU/Linux and a hands-on session was also conducted.

SPEAKERS: Vijay Chander , Jeremy Jackson

TIME:10AM

SESSION 3:BASICS OF GIT

A session on the basics of GIT was conducted for the students and a hands-on session also conducted

SPEAKERS: Joezer Ivan, Syed Moinudeen

TIME:12PM

SESSION 4: BASICS OF HTML & CSS

A session on the basics of<h1> HTML & CSS </h1>was conducted, and the participants designed the <style> “Google Home Page” .</style>

SPEAKERS: Praveen, Survesh

TIME : 2PM

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DATE:31/08/2016

VENUE: CSE lab-2, IT lab-2

SESSION 1: BASICS OF PYTHON

A session on the basics of Python was conducted. Many practice tasks were given to the participants and it was a task-orientated session.

SPEAKERS: Yogesh, Ashwin Murgesh

TIME:9AM

SESSION 2: INTRODUCTION TO THE DJANGO WEB FRAMEWORK

An introduction to Django session was conducted and many examples were shown

SPEAKER: Jeremy Jackson

TIME: 2PM

The workshop was  unforgettable :)!

SJIT GLUG -WORKSHOP 2K16

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GNU/Linux Installation Fest 2016!

This Installation fest was the first GLUG meetup for the batch of 2015(Current 2nd years). It  was held on 19/08/2016 at the premises of St.Joseph's Institute of technology between 3-5 pm IST.

The participants were invited on the basis of only one criterion - interest.

The participants where asked to bring a formatted pendrive.The Pendrives collected from the participants were made bootable with Ubuntu 16.04. The number of participants we expected were 50 but actually around 80 people turned up for the event!

YAY! Ain’t that Cool!?

The session was handled by Vijay Chandar (final year CSE). Volunteers and participants from CSE and IT were present to help the participants.

Initially there were a few problems in booting up the laptops. But we managed to figure it out and help out those who were stuck. On the whole the meet was a success! The second year folks were thrilled to be a part of the event, as it was their first meetup at SJIT GLUG!

The meet concluded by 4:35 p.m. And we proceeded to have the yummy snacks provided by college! :-D

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Python Days - Day 1 (16th February 2016) Topic : Basics of Python Speaker : Aswin Fsftn Volunteer

The first day of the Python Days began with a stage whooping crowd eager to learn hell a lot about Python. The language being easy and fun to use made the Glug Bugs gleam with utmost coding fever. Many were eagerly testing out the commands they were introduced to and tried out many new things that day. The topics covered being less made the participants of the session a bit sad. The session went into Slomo when they hit Lists and the various things that you can do with that. But rather than just showing stuff on the screen with less time, the speaker gave us a fully hands on session as promised smile emoticon . And with that the session ended peacefully with mouthful of puff-pastry.

Everyone are waiting to learn a lot in the next session..(I hope the session wont be too fast because of that and we get hands on goody good coding there!!)

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SJIT GLUG MEET #3

Speaker: Survesh

We’ve come to our 3rd meet where we held a session on the Basics of HTML. It was an interactive session in which the members were provided a hands-on experience on the basics of Web Page Design. Around 35 students turned out for today’s session and took it upon themselves to attend a course in codecademy. The next session will be on Advanced HTML for Web Applications and CSS. Until then...

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SJIT GLUG MEET #0

Speakers: Survesh,Vijay chandar,Jeremy Jackson.

Our first Glug meet. The session was on Ruby and Basics of shell programming. It was an interactive session on basics of ruby and looping concepts.Around 60 members attended the meet and got back an encouraging feedback about the session to do better in the up coming meets.

Date:17/07/15

Time:3:00 - 5:00 p.m

Venue: St.Joseph’s Institute of Technology

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SJIT GLUG Inauguration

The SJIT GLUG was officially inaugurated on the 3rd of July, by the chief guest, Mr. Alagunambi Welkin, President, FSFTN. Several other awesome people from FSFTN were also present. The inauguration was marked by a two day workshop, which was conducted in the college campus, for the students of the departments of CSE and IT.

Time: 8.30 a.m.

Venue: A.V. Hall 1, St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology

DAY 1:

LOGO LAUNCH

The logo of the SJIT GLUG was launched during the inauguration. The logo was designed by Survesh and VIjay Chandar.

Time: 8.45 a.m.

Venue: A.V. Hall 1, St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology

SESSION 1: PHILOSOPHY OF FREE SOFTWARE

A session on the philosophy of free software was held by Mr. Welkin, to all the participants of the workshop.

Time: 9.00 a.m.

Venue: A.V. Hall 1, St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology

SESSION 2: SHELL SCRIPTING

A session on shell scripting was conducted in two separate groups.

Speakers: Srravya, Balaji

Time: 9.40 a.m. to 12.20 p.m.

Venue: CSE Lab -2 & IT Lab -2

SESSION 3: GIT

A session on the basic operations of git was conducted for the participants in two separate groups.

Speakers: Srravya, Balaji

Time: 1.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m.

Venue: CSE Lab -2 & IT Lab -2

DAY 2:

SESSION 4: RUBY

The ruby session was task oriented, and the participants actively completed several tasks given to them.

Speakers: Aravind Gopalakrishnan, Shanta Kumar

Time: 9.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m.

Venue: CSE Lab -2 & IT Lab -2