Ubuntu Demo in Science exhibition at Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chennai

Vivekanandha vidayalya arranged for a science exhibition on 7-8,Nov-2009 and invited Ubuntu Tamil Team through Mr.Ravichandran, swadeshi Iyakkam for giving a demo at the science exhibition.

The event was intimated before 3 days. So, Not able to arrange volunteers. Even though got 4 volunteers including me(Thangamani Arun), Raji, Basker and Amachu.


we showed demo for following education s/w on Ubuntu-9.04 Desktop Linux.

1. Gcc
2. Gcompris
3. Stellarium
4. kalzium
5. Kstars
6. Drgeo
7. Tamil Typing demo using ibus
 
Vivekanandha vidayalya has two schools in places perambur as well as in vyasarpadi.We have to give demo in two schools for two days. First day Raji and Basker gave demo in perambur school and I took responsibility of giving demo at Vyasarpadi school.

First Day Exhibition was started very late at 10:30 due to rain in Chennai and the school principal inaugurated the exhibition also he visited our demo stall. I explained briefly about FOSS and its importance.

School provides one PC, I had one laptop. I had a external USB HDD with pre installed Ubuntu Linux on it. I just hooked my USB cable and able to boot Ubuntu for demo. 

Only few students were known Linux not much. They played with Ubuntu and educational softwares. students are exited while showing Stellarium and kalzium

One the +2 student asked me "C" programming in Linux. I written a "HelloWorld" program and i explained how to compile and run the programs.

Many of them excited seeing Ubuntu Linux and the applications. and they asked for the Ubuntu CDs and i had Ubuntu-9.10 iso's already, burned and gave them. Few of the students and parents asked for the installation demo. i did installation demo too.


2nd Day: Me taken care at vyasarpadi school and Amachu @ perambur school. Sunday is holiday for every one. So  most of parents were came along with the students for the exhibition. Around 800+ students were participated and heard about FOSS and Ubuntu Linux.This event was really went well.

Thanks a lot to and Ravichandran from Swadeshi Iyakkam, Raji, Basker,Thangamani Arun, and Amachu for success of this event on behalf of ILUGC and Ubuntu Tamil Team


For event pictures click here