The FOSS expo

volunteers setting up the open movie theatre


The FOSS expo in Principia 2009 was a major expo with the support of FSUG-CALICUT and MES-FSUG.

Various linux distros were exhibited.


Curiosity livens up the life.The FOSS expo has definitely made the 1st year students, and the visitors of Principia 2009,curious if nothing more.

The Best Engineer contest had made the contestants come to the expo and get their distros.One of the tasks for the contest was to work with a free and open source software.

The Open Movie Theatre held as a part of the expo had the following on the show:-

• Big Buck Bunny
• Elephant's Dream
• Sita sings the blue
• Revolution OS

and recorded talks on Linux and free and open source by RMS




Posters on free and open source software were on the walls.





Thanks to KSEB and special thanks to Unais ikka for the sponsorship.



MES college of engineering had a great team which aided the FOSS expo.Presentation on open source initiatives such as Drupal and Gnulab (www.gnulabs.org) got great attention from the audience;who were mostly new to the free and open source world.
Thanks to MES-FSUG for their support and enthusiasm.


The FSUG-Calicut had been in constant support for the FOSS expo.Unais ikka Jemshid ikka and Jaisen ettan need special mention.




The FOSS expo team of Principia 2009:-

Harihar
Shameer

Suhail
Prejith
Ajeya

Mahesh T K
Hafnas Babu
Chinthu R S
Abhijth S J
Dipulal K B





Thanks to all who have co-operated and helped the FOSS expo to be a big success.Thanks to people who have fearlessly helped by providing the hardware resources.

Principia 2009

The main building at GECK; Principia 2009 -Day 1

Principia 2009

The Principia 2009.the 3rd edition of the national level technical festival was held on march 20,21/2009.

The techfest is organised by the Department of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering,Government Engineering College Kozhikode.

The main attraction of this year’s version was the Best Engineer Contest.Besides there were

• In Quest of the Enlightened
• FOSS expo
• Technical theatre
• Technical talks
• Network Gaming
• and general fun

The tech fest was inaugurated by E.P Yasodharan

Department of Science Tchnology and Environment,Government of Kerala.

Yasodharan sir lighting the lamp ; inauguration.

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principia

Principia 09 is one of the most anticipated events of the year.

COMING VERY SOON PRINCIPIA '09

Principia 2007

Following the grand successin 2006 Principia was conducted on the subsequent year of 2007.

Principia 2007 had witnessed people from all over Kozhikode (Calicut) coming to the campus in addition to the innumerable students from various schools.
There was an exhibition open to the public,while the techies were held busy by events of their taste.

Here is Principia 2007 briefly:

PRINCIPIA ' 07 - Kozhikode

PRINCIPIA ' 07 a 3 day National Level Technical extravaganza . It was held at Govt.Engg College, West Hill, Calicut

The entry to the exhibition was free.

PRINCIPIA-07 is an annual fest organized by the Dept. of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation of GEC calicut.

Technical Events:

Paper presentation contests

Project Demonstration Contests.

Soft ware design contest

Hard ware design contest (Circuit design)

Technical Quiz.

Novus Genitalis

Mr. Ms principia07 - ‘attitude na’ : Its all about attitude. A program designed to differentiate the best from the better. Hot seats, stress interviews,advertising etc .Prize money Rs 5000.It was the biggest hit of Principia '07

The Big Fight- ‘Fight with words as weapons’ A debate on socio-political hot spots. Prize money- Rs 2000.

Network Gaming Time to fasten your seat belts. Almost all games possible.

Ingenium

Technical Non Technical talks handled by leading professors and lecturers

Linux studio

" A full fledged workshop on Linux(debian) and open source. Live CDs and activity groups. "

COGNITIO – the complete science exhibition

An exhibition, which will bring all the major public enterprises of India under one roof. Stall from KSEB, Indian ARMY, Kerala Police, and Planetarium, BSNL, Philately etc. A number of private firms also putting up their stalls.
The technical Theatre experienced a big rush from public.

The dates are the exhibition were 12,13,14th March 2007

Venue:Govt Engg College Kozhikode, Westhill, Kozhikode

An Introduction

The Principia is a National level technical festival conducted by the Department of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering of Government Engineering College Kozhikode.

The Techfest was first conducted on 2006.
The Principia in hindu online

http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/08/stories/2006030808800300.htm

another link:

http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/12/stories/2006031204340300.htm