So the dates are fast approaching for the next LDD (yes, its called GNU/Linux Demo Day) Its on August 19,20th 2006 at Jaya Engineering College, Chennai. After a damn successful Demo Day at Arunai Engineering College, Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu early this year with over 4000 (Oooooo Isnt that figure beating a lot of bigwig events ) visitors in and around interior parts of Tamil Nadu, we are expecting around 2K visitors from various schools, college (Arts/Science/Medical and paramedical/Engg). The model is simple and neat. People who would like to do something similar in your locality here it is an Free and Open Model

1. 2 to 3 weekends prior to the Demo Day the Chennai LUG volunteers go and train the student volunteers of the respective host college on various topics ranging from Installation to Networking to Programming tools available to Educational software to …. (list goes on)

2. The Linux Demo Day is generally a two day event with the first day being general intro lecture sessions and some hands on. The second day will be a “Full Student show” with the trained student volunteers handling queries from the visitors. Ofcourse if they are unable to clarify or are not clear we “The LUG Volunteers” are always around to help them out. In this way we make learning interesting for those volunteers and also inspires the non-volunteers to be a part of the FOSS world.

Here are some(infact very few) photos from the previous LDDs conducted at MIT, Chennai and Arunai.

But this time its gonna be two days of Demos by, for and of the students of JEC, Chennai. All the very best to make this a grand event and add one more feather in the cap of Indian Linux Users Group- Chennai and ofcourse (more specifically) “YOU” guys.