10. A more impressive story.
9. No family to take care of, mortgage to pay etc.
8. Aren't oppressed by the system i.e. can still think 'outside the box'.
7. No fat paycheck to walk away from.
6. Ignorance is bliss.
5. Can't lose what you don't have.
4. Free resources at your fingertips.
3. Ability to live like a hobo
2. Plenty of time to do it again if you fail.
1. You're at uni now.
Showing posts with label APIIT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label APIIT. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Whatt a Day....
Sometimes its shocking how life treats you. After all what matters is true friends who will march the jourey along with you. Yesterday was my friends Wedding and Home Coming. It was nice and hes the first person to get into married life from my college batch mates. Yohan and Asanthika, I wish you both Happiness and Posperity in the coming wedded years ahead.
Monday, January 21, 2008
RMS Sri Lanka Visit BLOGS & PICS
http://budlite.blogspot.com/
http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/
http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2008/01/19/rms-in-sri-lanka/
Friday, February 09, 2007
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Friday 15th September (BIG Picture)
Didn’t sleep at all, was pasting the CD covers and preparing my Vote of thanks. Around 6.45AM have to rush to the TLC to pick a Slackware PC and head back to APIIT.
My colleague Lohita started the Workshop officially with his Welcome speech.
Key note Speech by Dr. Shahani Weerawarana is all about Imagine. It was great. The presentation really touched the entire audience and most of the Business students and Lecturers were inspired by the four letter word FOSS.
Anuradha Ratnaweera was briefing the audience about the freedom to use software and freedom laws. He also briefed on the license used in Free and Open Source Projects.
Bud gave his usual Gadgematic Presentation which inspired many students and able to take away the Negative image of GNU/Linux capabilities.
Rajkumar from Lanka Software Foundation came prepared for the Orange Open Movie Project – Elephants Dream. The short film was projected with surrounding sound system which attracted the most number of Participants.
After having a little break we continued with our speakers from Senid and Red Hat.
Learnt a lot from Red Hat Sanjeewa. It was the most fruitful Q&A Session we had.
I delivered the vote of thanks and Workshop ended around 3.00 pm and it was a great job done by the 2nd year computing guys, organized within a short period of 9 days and leaving out all the project work to be submitted.
Well-done guys, Job Well-done!
Monday, September 11, 2006
APIIT SFD 2006 Handout
Went to apiit in the morning, and distributed the handouts to the staff..Went ok with the computing lecturers and had problems with Business lecturers. For some reason they expect more Public Relation stuff from us which really freaked me out. Apart from this a particular lecturer who has waken from the wrong side of the bed start criticizing the Free Software and its freedom to use. Is he mad I don't know...But majority thinks as it is.. I just wonder what people would have tell to Richard Stallmen and Linus Trovalds when they first came with their talents and ideas.
Went to classrooms in the afternnon to distribute the handouts and we had a good feedback from them, specially there was this BA Lecturer who was overwhelmed with Linux and explains to his class the importance of FOSS and and true contribution towards it. This really helped us to survive in a Business class while explaining all the Computing stuff.
Ilham designed the posters and it was really nice!!
Spoke to the CEO and he was happy with the way things going on..And all this is because APIIT sponsor several students to attend the ApacheCon ASIA 2006 :)
Burnt the first 50 Linux Distributions.. yipeee and another 150 more to go :)
Went to classrooms in the afternnon to distribute the handouts and we had a good feedback from them, specially there was this BA Lecturer who was overwhelmed with Linux and explains to his class the importance of FOSS and and true contribution towards it. This really helped us to survive in a Business class while explaining all the Computing stuff.
Ilham designed the posters and it was really nice!!
Spoke to the CEO and he was happy with the way things going on..And all this is because APIIT sponsor several students to attend the ApacheCon ASIA 2006 :)
Burnt the first 50 Linux Distributions.. yipeee and another 150 more to go :)
Sunday, September 10, 2006
APIIT SFD 2006 WIKI
Now you can access the APIIT SFD 2006 wiki page from;
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/SriLanka
htthttp://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/SriLanka/APIITLanka
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/SriLanka
htthttp://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/SriLanka/APIITLanka
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Free CDs to be given out during APIIT SFD 2006
Here's the list of CD's which gonna be distributed free...
Kubuntu
Xubuntu
Kubuntu
Xubuntu
ELIVE
Dyne:bolic
PHLAK
FOSS Goodies (Documents/ED & RMS Videos)
Suse 10.1 DVD
Fedora Core 5 (5CDs)
SimplyMEPIS
MusixGNU-Linux
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Software Freedom Day 2006 @ APIIT
For the First time in APIIT history we are going to celebrate the Software Freedom Day as a FOSS community. This event will be held on 15th Friday where Global SFD will be celebrated in many countries on 16th Saturday. And majority of us will be busy working for the FOSS-SL/LK-LUG SFD2006 at Majestic City, Crescat Boulevard and Excel World.
The organizing is done by a bunch of 2nd year APIIT Students (FOSS enthusiasts and Linux Users) and I will be the General chair to host this event. We were attending so many FOSS events happening around Sri Lanka including FOSS2004, FOSS-ed, FOSS2005, ApacheCon2006 and we never got a chance to organize such an event at our University premises.
Now that we have enough knowledge, skills and contacts we are sure that the event gonna be a success. I was supported by both Lohita and Gunith through thick and thin. Ilham, Asanga, Hasantha, Randika also in the supporting crew.
The Agenda was seemed to be good and we were given the approval from the Head of Computing. The budget was passed by the SAC (Student Activity Club) and we just had our official meeting at the TLC (The Linux Center). Both Ven. Mettavihari and Suchetha helped us and gave marvelous ideas while directing us in the correct path by showing us our mistakes.
Suchetha was overwhelmed and eager to help us. He managed to ring few speakers who were in our Agenda and get them ready for the event immediately.
Ven. Mettavihari handed over some Banners to decorate the place and GNU T-shirts and / TUX soft toys to trade during the event.
We decided to give away 200 free Linux CDs to delegates and we couldn’t come to a conclusion which distributions to be given.
Some suggest we give away Ubuntu and Kubuntu so that delegated can understand the significance in Gnome and KDE. Some suggest not to give neither of them coz they are freely available in the Web. Randika wants to give some Networking/Security/Firewall stuff but it’s not gonna work with majority of BIT and BABA students.
Finally we came with Kubuntu, e-Live, PHLAK and Knoppix or Documentation/Apps. Each distro will have 50 copies and these will give away randomly to delegates. The bottom line is we want them exchange each CD to build friendship and exchange their expertise knowledge on Installation and Trouble Shooting of the Linux Distribution they received.
That’s enough for today and will add more. This is only the start down a long road..I will blog more about this effort as we move along.
The organizing is done by a bunch of 2nd year APIIT Students (FOSS enthusiasts and Linux Users) and I will be the General chair to host this event. We were attending so many FOSS events happening around Sri Lanka including FOSS2004, FOSS-ed, FOSS2005, ApacheCon2006 and we never got a chance to organize such an event at our University premises.
Now that we have enough knowledge, skills and contacts we are sure that the event gonna be a success. I was supported by both Lohita and Gunith through thick and thin. Ilham, Asanga, Hasantha, Randika also in the supporting crew.
The Agenda was seemed to be good and we were given the approval from the Head of Computing. The budget was passed by the SAC (Student Activity Club) and we just had our official meeting at the TLC (The Linux Center). Both Ven. Mettavihari and Suchetha helped us and gave marvelous ideas while directing us in the correct path by showing us our mistakes.
Suchetha was overwhelmed and eager to help us. He managed to ring few speakers who were in our Agenda and get them ready for the event immediately.
Ven. Mettavihari handed over some Banners to decorate the place and GNU T-shirts and / TUX soft toys to trade during the event.
We decided to give away 200 free Linux CDs to delegates and we couldn’t come to a conclusion which distributions to be given.
Some suggest we give away Ubuntu and Kubuntu so that delegated can understand the significance in Gnome and KDE. Some suggest not to give neither of them coz they are freely available in the Web. Randika wants to give some Networking/Security/Firewall stuff but it’s not gonna work with majority of BIT and BABA students.
Finally we came with Kubuntu, e-Live, PHLAK and Knoppix or Documentation/Apps. Each distro will have 50 copies and these will give away randomly to delegates. The bottom line is we want them exchange each CD to build friendship and exchange their expertise knowledge on Installation and Trouble Shooting of the Linux Distribution they received.
That’s enough for today and will add more. This is only the start down a long road..I will blog more about this effort as we move along.
Monday, August 21, 2006
ApacheCon 2006 Day 2
To day is the 2nd day of the ApacheCon 2006. Didn't interested me much on the topics but few talks were able to get my attention. Since me and my friend didn't like the talks we decided to stay in the Kings Courts messing around with the wifi. Able to talk with some foreign delegates and speakers.
To my amazement I found the youngest speaker. He's still 19 years old and gave up university to work as a project manager in a huge IT company. After having supper went back to the conference hall and enjoyed the proceedings.
panel discussion was their as the last event and Cocktails party proceed with some Sri Lankan Cultural show. A show that is absolutely marvelous and significant.
Awards and prizes were handed over to the speakers and winners of the FOSSCode 2006 competition.
I was lucky enough to pose for a photograph with the Keynote Speaker, Ken Coar.. A hero in my dreams..
Stayed the night at my friends place installing and experimenting the Linux Distro given during the FOSSUni and XGL didn't work...Gave enormous troubles and result in installing the OS from the scratch.
To my amazement I found the youngest speaker. He's still 19 years old and gave up university to work as a project manager in a huge IT company. After having supper went back to the conference hall and enjoyed the proceedings.
panel discussion was their as the last event and Cocktails party proceed with some Sri Lankan Cultural show. A show that is absolutely marvelous and significant.
Awards and prizes were handed over to the speakers and winners of the FOSSCode 2006 competition.
I was lucky enough to pose for a photograph with the Keynote Speaker, Ken Coar.. A hero in my dreams..
Stayed the night at my friends place installing and experimenting the Linux Distro given during the FOSSUni and XGL didn't work...Gave enormous troubles and result in installing the OS from the scratch.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
ApacheCon 2006
It was the 1st Apache Conference ever to be hosted in Asia. And luckily me and my friends able to get in to it without prior registration.
ApacheCon Asia is the official Asian conference of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This initial event aims to create a unique platform for the Open Source community in Asia to come together to gain an insight into techniques and methodologies critical to the advancement of Open Source technologies, and gain skills to optimize the power and versatility of Apache software and also to discuss upcoming developments and issues.
Anyhow 14 ppl from APIIT took part in the event. Several speakers were there including the Keynote Speaker Ken Coar (Director, Apache Software Foundation; Director, Open Source Initiative; Web Software Developer, Author, Sanagendamgagwedweinini, Software Engineer in IBM.)
ApacheCon Asia provides an excellent opportunity to experience first-hand what ASF technologies and development communities can do for you and your enterprise. Met the big players, project leaders, inside experts and independent innovators at this gathering of all things Apache.
participated in the Track 2. Its all about AJAX, XML and PHP.
Won several prizes, including T-Shirts, IBM pens, Mugs, Mouse pads and Laptop carrying Bags.
2moro is the 2nd Day of the Main Conference.
ApacheCon Asia is the official Asian conference of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This initial event aims to create a unique platform for the Open Source community in Asia to come together to gain an insight into techniques and methodologies critical to the advancement of Open Source technologies, and gain skills to optimize the power and versatility of Apache software and also to discuss upcoming developments and issues.
Anyhow 14 ppl from APIIT took part in the event. Several speakers were there including the Keynote Speaker Ken Coar (Director, Apache Software Foundation; Director, Open Source Initiative; Web Software Developer, Author, Sanagendamgagwedweinini, Software Engineer in IBM.)
ApacheCon Asia provides an excellent opportunity to experience first-hand what ASF technologies and development communities can do for you and your enterprise. Met the big players, project leaders, inside experts and independent innovators at this gathering of all things Apache.
participated in the Track 2. Its all about AJAX, XML and PHP.
Won several prizes, including T-Shirts, IBM pens, Mugs, Mouse pads and Laptop carrying Bags.
2moro is the 2nd Day of the Main Conference.
Monday, August 14, 2006
FOSS Uni 2006
Had my HCI Presentation on Colors and we were off for the FOSS uni event at Moratuwa University. Luckily the bomb explosion happened just after few seconds we passed that place.
Won several prices from the Q&A sessions but ohhhh.. The shirt is too small.. i can't wear that :)
Met a good old friend from DS and he is a brainy..
Gonna try out the Linux CD's on my laptop 2Nite.
Won several prices from the Q&A sessions but ohhhh.. The shirt is too small.. i can't wear that :)
Met a good old friend from DS and he is a brainy..
Gonna try out the Linux CD's on my laptop 2Nite.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Sahana in Colombo Uni
Chamindra and Ravindra from Sahana Team ask me to join for a Internship at the Lanka Software Foundation Lab at Colombo University. So headed to Colombo Uni in the morning. Met an old friend on the entrance, and found the way to the LSF lab. Fully crowded and extremely hostile environment with the coming FOSS 2006 week. Getting ready for the ApacheCon and GeekOUT.
Talk with Chamindra and Ravindra and ahhhh i'm dissapointed. And the problem is i cant work full time, Lectures from Tue to Fri. Promised to come and work with them all Mondays. Collected the posters and Hand-outs of the ApacheCon 2006 and headed back to APIIT. Oh Damn...WTF? Apiit Time Tables have been reschedulded. Classes on all five days 9.00 to 6.00.
Is the Admin lost their Marbles?? I dont know??
www.sahana.lk
www.foss.lk
www.asia.apachecon.com
Talk with Chamindra and Ravindra and ahhhh i'm dissapointed. And the problem is i cant work full time, Lectures from Tue to Fri. Promised to come and work with them all Mondays. Collected the posters and Hand-outs of the ApacheCon 2006 and headed back to APIIT. Oh Damn...WTF? Apiit Time Tables have been reschedulded. Classes on all five days 9.00 to 6.00.
Is the Admin lost their Marbles?? I dont know??
www.sahana.lk
www.foss.lk
www.asia.apachecon.com
1st Semester Results
2nd year 1st semester results were out. I have performed well..wut else can i say. CNI was tough and majority not happy with their results and not a singel 1st class from both the batches. That is why university life is so interesting and you have to accept both good and bad.
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