Talks on SFD 2013:

These are the topics that we will cover in SFD13

Day 1:

1. What is SFD?    [ 15 min ]

   1. What is the meaning of  Free Software?

   2. Why it matters?

2. Introduction to Open Source software and Linux Distributions  [ 15 min ]

   1. Various Distributions like Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Backtrack and their origins

3. OS Installation Guide (Linux-Mint) [ 1hr ]

   1. What is a live USB and ways to make it? (unetbootin, LiLi and others)

   2. How to boot and configure installation options?

   3. Demo Installation using VirtualBox

   4. Warnings - Common mistakes that usually ruins the installation ! ! !

4. How to navigate the Linux desktop, using applications and installation. [ 1 hr ]

   1. Virtual desktops, workspace, activities

   2. Demo of different desktop environments like unity, gnome, kde, xfce, lxde.

   3. apt-get usage

   4. How to install desktop environments

5. General office and internet applications [ 15 min ]

   1. Libreoffice

   2. Chromium

   3. Vim, Emacs (gedit, kate, notepad++)

   4. Games

6. How to get help and support and communicate. [ ½ hr ]

   1. Mailing Lists

   2. PULUG

   3. IRC

7. Introduction to Command Line Interface [ 1+ hr ]

   1. Different commands

   2. Why CLI is awesome?

   3. Shell Scripting, permissions etc.

8. Programming with Linux [ 1+ hr ]

   1. How to program using various languages in linux?

   2. Hello World of C,C++,Java, Python

   3. Programming Contests

   4. Problems faced with online judges of these contests

Day 2:

1. Introduction to Developing under Linux [ 15 min ]

   1. What is linux?

   2. How linux was developed?

2. Contributing to Open Source projects [ 1 hr ]

   1. KDE

   2. Gnome

   3. Mozilla

   4. linux-kernel

3. Introduction to git [ 15 min ]

   1. What is git?

   2. git pull, push, clone

   3. git diff

4. Using make [ ½ hr ]

   1. What’s make?

   2. What’s inside Makefile?

   3. Build a project during the session

5. Introduction to development with Qt  [ ½ hr ]

   1. QtCreator Interface

   2. cmake & qmake projects

   3. Build and Run one software in the session

6. Getting a job in Open Source Development    [ ½ hr ]

   1. How to find a task, junior jobs etc. in a project.

   2. Show them the buglists.

7. Google Summer of Code and other open source development competitions [ 2 hr ]

   1. Student Talks

   2. Experience and How it happened?

   3. KP Sir: Everything I have learned so far!

   4. Shailja Kumari: freelance editor-translator, Open Technology Institute (OTI), GNOME Outreach Program for Women (OPW) intern

   5. More

8. Python - A Beginner's Guide

9. Introduction to Android Development

10. HTML5 Development Basics

Dates are not final, but they will be after Aavishkaar and Sessionals.

28 and 29th (Sat. & Sun.) maybe!

Date    :     28th Saturday & 29th Sunday

Expected Venue    :    Golden Jubilee Hall (Limited seats ~150)