Mukti'11

The GNU/Linux Users' Group of NIT Durgapur brings to you once again a three-day FOSStertainment, Mukti'11, from 4th-6th February 2011, with numerous events, where you can participate and enjoy working on Open Source platform.

Mukti, last year was a huge success, and we hope, this year too, we'll be able to fulfill all the expectations you FOSS-lovers have.

The different events we have:-

1. Codecracker, When the coding gets tough, the tough get coding.

2. Brainmesh, Design … Create … Spin the web

3. Konfigure, Crash … Bang … and Voila ... It’s Fixed

4. InCanity, Ready … Get…Set … Code

5. Rush Hour, Game On

6. Hack the code, Ignite the fire of free knowledge

7. Online Treasure Hunt, Start exploring … the unexplored depths of your mind

8. Freemex, Share with shares ...

9. FreePL, Go Play...

WorkShops And Talks :-

• RPM Packaging Workshop:

Speaker: Rahul Sundaram.

• GUI using Python Workshop:

Speaker: Kushal Das.

• Talk on Using QML to create fluid user interfaces:

Speaker: Shantanu Tushar Jha.

• Talk on Ruby on Rails:

Speaker: Shreyank Gupta.

• Talk on System Programming:

Speaker: Kushal Das.

• Talk on Algorithmic approach to Programming:

Speaker: Shilp Gupta.

Any one can take part in any event just login at http://mkti.in and enjoy.

RPM Packaging Workshop

Yesterday we held a workshop for RPM Packaging basic, almost 15 students took part in workshop. I started with how we can install a source without make a package and told the details of configure,make and make install. I selected the most famous GNU package hello for packaging, discuss about tools which we use for make a package and then explained about rpmdev-setuptree and all directories created under rpmbuild directory. Then we started to make the spec file for hello source, explain about build requirement and Requirement, uses of macro, find the suitable group, use of each section(description, prep, build, install, post, clean, files,change log). During compile spec file so many student got error so we checked their spec files and find out the reason (mostly due to typo). This workshop went around 3 hour in IT-Dept Lab. I hope everyone enjoyed the session and cleared all the doubts.

Material :

Fedora Packaging Guide Line http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines

Rpmbuild tutorial http://rpmbuildtut.wordpress.com/

Shakthi Kannan's packaging-red-hot-paneer-butter-masala slides.

Thanks to Navin Agrawal , Pranay Agrawal for volunteering and all the students for their interest.

Here is some shots of workshop