31st January 09, Pantnagar

31st January 2009 in Pantnagar witnessed students and campers primarily from technology domain participating at the maiden OSScamp Pantnagar. These camps are unconferences without the rigidity of conferences. OSScamp are community driven fun-tech-events that focuses on FOSS implementation and development in India.

(OSScamp Pantnagar witnessed students and campers primarily from technology domain participating on 31st Jan 2009.)

Pantnagar camp was initiated as a result of endeavor of students who visited the OSScamp Delhi September 2008 and got addicted with the idea behind these camps to propagate open source. Eventually the camp took place on 31st January and 1st February 2009 and saw convergence of geeks, uninitiated’s and enthusiasts from varied domains.

Action on day 1 at the camp

The first day at camp started with discussion on open source- codes and licensing issues by Kinshuk Sunil from OSSCube after campers got themselves registered. Manu Goel from Sapient talked and interacted on JavaScript, DOM and AJAX that followed a talk on OpenSolaris- features and technologies by Ajay Ahuja from SUN Microsystems. Students from college of technology, Toshendra Sharma explored prospects in 3D animation in Open Source with blender and Kanika Singhal explained PHP coding and PHP advantage over JavaScript, ASP etc. The day concluded with another talk on CSS by Manu Goel.

Interactive discussion tracks at OSScamp Pantnagar

TCP/IP, Tunneling, Proxy, IP address and the loopholes in network security was interactively discussed by Rony Felix from OSSCube at the start of the first day. Another talks at the day included discussing advanced PHP by Saurabh Saxena and Open Graphics Library by Kartik Asooja, Saurabh Shekar Verma and Abhinav Pundeer. An open discussion on JavaScript, AJAX was initiated by Manu Goel and an introduction talk on e-governance by Nilesh from YouthV.com concluded the OSScamp Pantnagar chapter-1.