Sun Club

Congratulations all sun club members. We now have 100+ registered members.

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STRUCTURE OF SUN CLUB

Position	Name	Details
Club Mentor	Prof. Vineet Richhariya	HOD, CSE, LNCT, Bhopal
Chief Advisor	Mr. Uday Pratap Singh	CSE department, LNCT Bhopal
OSUM Leader	Avinash Tiwari	CSE, LNCT, Bhopal

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Steps to join:

I.               Join Sun Club:

     Free Online Registration to sun club is closed now. You will have to appear in the next sun club meeting with Rs. 50 for registration. Keep in touch with other sun club members of your class to get info about next meeting. You can still follow steps 2 - 4 to complete other steps of joining.

II.         Sign Up For Open Source University Meetup!

1)      Direct your browser to: http://osum.sun.com

2)      Click on ''Sign Up‘

3)      Enter your e-mail address, a password and your birthday date and code

4)      Click once again on ''Sign Up'‘

5)      Enter your name, language, country, university(Lakshmi Narain College of Technology, Bhopal), role(Student)

6)      Click on Join.

7)      Login in with your e-mail address and password (at: http://osum.sun.com).

III.    Join LNCT Osum Group!

Now that you are a member of OSUM, JOIN Your University's OSUM GROUP:

Open the link: http://osum.sun.com/group/LNCTbhopal

Select JOIN THE GROUP

Congratulations! You are now part of Your University's OSUM

IV.   Like facebook page (if you have a facebook account):

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BENEFITS OF JOINING

1)     Exposure to new technology.

2)   Collaboration with a global community of students via forum, campus events, webinars, etc.

3)    Presentation opportunity which enhance public speaking and confidence.

4)  Opportunity to attend experts lectures.

5)   Free access to lectures on different topics.

6)  Free software CDs.

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To know about what sun club is and what we do you must know about OSUM, i.e. open source university meet up, and to know about this open source university meet up you must know about open source. So I m going to start with:

·         What is open source?

Open source refers to all those programs whose source code is open i.e. free to all. Anyone can see it, modify it and even submit it for approval. Open source is not just a term it’s a philosophy, it’s a culture and it is an ideology which says that “Knowledge belongs to world”. Knowledge is not a monopoly of anyone. It should be shared to grow up.

For example, VLC media player, Google chrome, open office, Virtual Box, MySQL, Apache Tomcat server, Eclipse, FreeBSD(operating system derived from Unix),Mozilla Fire fox, Thunderbird, 7-zip etc. even OS like Linux and Unix, Ubuntu Solarisis are open source.

·         What are OSUM and Sun Club?

The Open Source University Meet-Up is a student developer organization sponsored by Sun Microsystems that educates its members about open-source technologies through technical demonstrations, access to web courses, and discounts on Sun Certification.

The Open Source University Meet-Up is a place for Sun to connect student developers to Sun’s wide array of open source software platforms, following Sun’s initiatives to open-source all of its software technologies. As a whole it also helps give software developers, students, and other interested people an opportunity to learn more about open source software.

Some years back OSUM started a program for universities and colleges in which it selected some people from colleges to act as a campus ambassador for them. These campus ambassadors were meant to spread the new technology in their respected institutions and clubs like sun club were the result of that program.

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HISTORY OF SUN CLUB

2008-09:

 First Campus Ambassador: Ms. Geetika Vasudeo

ACHIEVEMENTS

1)    Qualified the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics in class 12th. (This was when her programming spree begins so she believe this one is important)

2) Presented lots of technical papers at various IITs and other National Symposiums. Won a couple of prizes at techfests for the same.

3) Selected as the Sun Campus Ambassador and led the Sun Club

4) Took SCJP in 2009  and scored 95%.

5) Completed her masters in computer science from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA


6) Now working in Goldman Sachs.

Core Committee:

Mohit Goenka:

ACHIEVEMENTS

Ø Invitee to Chief Minister’s House (MP, India) for Lunch with Former President and renowned Scientist Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam in recognition of Research Abilities

Ø ISC Gold Medal for Excellence in Computer Science in 2003-04

Ø First Prize in UP-Bihar (Indian States) Mathematics Olympiad, 2003-04

Ø Vice President (Public Relations) of Association of Indian Students, AIS at University of Southern California

Ø President: Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers Students’ Forum, ISF at LNCT, India

Ø President: Red Ribbon Club under Madhya Pradesh State Aids Control Society, MPSACS at LNCT, India

Ø Chief Coordinator of Innovative Designers of Entrepreeurial Activities, IDEA associated with NEN (National Entrepreneurship Network)

Ø Madhya Pradesh Super Eleven Cricket Association, India » Chief Coordinator of State (MP) Cricket Tournament 2008

Ø Did MS from University of Southern California


Ø  Currently working as developer in Yahoo!!

Kant Adlak:

·    Did M.Tech from MANIT, Bhopal


    Currently working as IT Officer in Allahabad Bank

2009-10: Sumit Singh Chhabra(Second Osum Leader)

·     Currently working in Infosys

2010-11: Avinash Tiwari (Third Osum Leader)

ACHIEVEMENTS

·         Oracle Certified Java Programmer (OCJP Certified) with 95% marks.
·         Selected in Persistent Systems Ltd. (as Software Engineer) and Infosys (as System Engineer)
·         Campus Ambassador of Shaansoft Technologies(A company started by previous employees of Sun Microsystems)

·         Awarded S (Outstanding) grade in J2SE course at Vedisoft Software Consultancy.

·         Winner in many technical events like Debugging etc.

·         Participated in Aspiration 2020 organized by Infosys and reached intercollegiate level.

Initiatives done by Avinash Tiwari for Sun Club:

1) Introduced formal registration process for Sun Club with SunClubID and proper database maintenance.

2) Developed a fully functional website (http://sunclub.co.nr) for 24-7 working of Sun Club with some very imp sections like "Sun Club Feedback Form" and "Downloads".

3) Made a proper organisational structure for Sun Club by having a core committee(i.e. Kushal Nagrani and Ankur Jain) and a Coordinators committee (viz. Ashish Tiwari, Hemendr Verma, Kulbhashan Saxena, Palak Kushwani, Swela Gupta, Pankaj Rawat, Deepak Jain and Prateek Agrawal ).

4) Started a facebook page for Sun Club: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Sun-Club-Techies/101374413255110

5) Started Certificates for Sun Club members and coordinators.


6)Initiated trend of giving seminars by talented Sun Club members also.


7) Created a logo for Sun Club.

Core Committee:  Ankur Jain(left), Avinash Tiwari (OSUM Leader, middle), Kushal Nagrani (right)






Coordinators(left to right): Ashish Tiwari, Deepak Jain, Kulbhushan Saxena, Hemendra Verma, Avinash Tiwari, Palak Kushwani, Prateeksha Goyanka, Swela Gupta, Neetu Yadav