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19th
February, 2003:
Mr. Richard M. Stallman inaugurated Nixal and delivered an inspiring
speech on "Free Software
Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System". Some
pictures taken on that day can be found here.
Approx No. of Students Attending: 300
Venue: Conference Hall, NSEC
24th September, 2003:
An internal seminar was held to inform the new members of Nixal about
the purpose of the group and a demonstration of Installation of
GNU/Linux on a Pentium based PC was held.
Approx No. of Students Attending: 60
Venue: Project Lab, CSE
21st February, 2004:
An internal seminar was held. Prof. A. K. Bhattacharya (HOD Computer
Science and Information Technology, NSEC) presented a seminar on "Distributed
Computing with PVM". A workshop on "Configuring
Apache Web Server" was held by Mr. Soumava Das (Faculty).
Approx No. of Students Attending: 50
Venue: Conference Hall, NSEC
18th September, 2004:
(GNU/Linux ADDA, September
2004)
A workshop on “GNU/Linux Basics”
was held by the members of Nixal. The importance of Freedom of Software
was discussed in the first half. The basic commands were discussed in
the second half. A GNU/Linux - Quiz
on the discussed topics was held and on the basis of the correct
answers 30 free CD's of GNU/Linux were distributed.
Approx number of students attending: 250
Venue: Conference Hall, NSEC
9th October, 2004:
(GNU/Linux ADDA, October 2004)
Mr. Malay Mitra,
System Administrator, TATA Tea Ltd. presented a workshop on “Linux Systems Programming”.
The Principal, NSEC, The Director, NSEC and The HOD CSE & IT, NSEC
were present on the occasion. Various aspects of systems programming
were discussed interactively.
Approx number of students attending: 100
Venue: Conference Hall, NSEC |
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