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1578Google selects Don
Bosco Mumbai engineering studentMUMBAI:
9th June 2006 -- Don Bosco Institute of Technology final year undergraduate
engineering student, Mr Shreepati Pai, was selected from amongst students the
world over to participate in Google's 'Summer of Code 2006'. The
programme, informally known as SoC, was initiated by Google last year to
introduce students to the world of FOSS - Free and Open Source Software
development.
Mr Shreepati Pai will be working on a project
for Samba, the mentoring organisation, and will receive a stipend from Google
for his efforts. Samba is not a dance - well it is, but it is also a way
of dancing with Windows! Samba is a software that reaches out between any
operating system and Microsoft and offers network administrators flexibility and
reliability.
DBIT in Kurla, Mumbai, is an enginerring
college set up in 2001. It strongly advocates open source, and Mr
Shreepati Pai was one of the pioneers to set up the Undergraduate Computer
Students (DUCS) association, which encourages and promotes open source amongst
engineering students. Besides spreading awareness of open source amongst
engineering students, the group has worked to ensure that all servers on campus
were running on open source.
MOODLE, a learning management
system very much favoured by tertiary institutes now, was put in place and Dev
C++, a development tool for C programming, was also actively
used.
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