Dgplug

Mukti 2014 is the annual national level technical symposium on Free and Open Source Software of the GNU/Linux Users’ Group NIT Durgapur held from 31st January - 2nd February 2014. I’ve been attending Mukti for last four years. Unlike, the previous years when i usually attended Mukti as a student participant, this year I attended Mukti as a guest speaker. Day 0 (30th January 2014) After a hectic travel from Bangalore to Durgapur via Kolkata. TMC called of the largest Brigade Rally in Kolkata on the very day. The bus i was travelling from Kolkata Airport to Howrah station dropped me at an unknown location. I somehow dragged myself and my luggage to station. The condition at the station was worse, packed compartments including the reserved ones and people fighting for their seats. After a big quarrel, I somehow got my seat. ...

The time has come again this year for the dgplug summer training. The summer training is conducted each year during the month of June. Though, we cannot call June as the summer season but end of June is a suitable time for most of the Indian students. During this summer training, a number of upstream developers give talk on various open-source technologies. This guides the student on how to contribute back to open source. At the end of the summer training the student get a project which gives a strong base of the language as well as programming skills. ...