30 Sep 2013|Noida | Amity University Campus, Sector-125 Noida
Amity School of Engineering & Technology organises Spoken Tutorials on Linux
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ALiAS club (of CSE Department of ASET, Amity University, Noida) organized Spoken Tutorials on Linux in E2 Computer Laboratory. It was an official Spoken Tutorial event where the knowledgeable guides from IIT - Bombay collaborated with the students and faculty and gathered together via video call on Skype to talk about the basics of Linux and projects of Linux as well as the contributions in the Open Source Software that are already done. The Spoken Tutorial is an initiative of National Mission on Education through ICT, Government of India, to promote IT literacy through Open Source Software. The goal of the event was to encourage students to learn Linux and contribute to Open Source Software .The event witnessed 373 registrations with about 187 attendees, mostly on first come first serve basis, consisting mostly of computer science and engineering branch students.
The use of Spoken Tutorials to popularize software development and its use will be coordinated through this website.The Spoken Tutorial project is being developed by IIT Bombay for MHRD, GOI. It was started by Prof. Kannan M Moudgalya Member, Standing Committee, National Mission on Education through ICT Professor, IIT Bombay.
Mam Kusum Lata Verma, Spoken Tutorial Team, IIT - Bombay, the faculty coordinator from IIT - Bombay and Mam Meenaxi, Spoken Tutorial Team, IIT - Bombay, the Skype co-ordinator from IIT - Bombay joined us and supported us throughout the event.
The event started off with 'The Introduction to Spoken Tutorial on Linux‘' by Mam Meenaxi through Skype. The students were asked about “What is open source? How does it work? The community and contribution to it.”. The discussion was then taken over by the video tutorials by Spoken Tutorials on Linux. The students were attended for any doubt by the volunteers.
The event was divided into many sessions in order to give knowledge about Linux to as many students as possible. We ensured that each student gives individual attention by ensuring that each student got individual system.