Today was a day geared towards developers. After having finished our section on FOSS for the masses over the last few days, we decided to introduce Linux to the Developer.
The session began with an introduction to Subversion ( svn ) by Thejasvi. Thejasvi was a successful candidate at the Google Summer of Code and worked on server-side validation. He explained how to check-out ( co ) code from a subversion repository and moved to explaining how svn differs from CVS.
Then Pavithran S., who works at the National Resource Center for Free and Open Source Software and contributes extensively to KDE-Telugu explained what he did and how he translated. Tools like gettext were introduced to the public and a live exhibit of gettext saving the unicode strings of a po file were displayed. Pavithan was on a mission to recruit translators for KDE-Telugu as the project doesn’t have enough people in it. Support KDE-Telugu folks !
Mr. Thyagarajan (we call him thyagu on IRC ), the Ruby on Rails expert, delved a bit into the MVC concept. The star attraction of his presentation was that he put unicode strings in the templates and produced a working application in Telugu. Ruby’s CRUD interface and the ease with which applications could be made were shown. As usual, Mr. Thyagu’s excellent delivery earned him a superb round of applause.
Then came the give-aways. We had lots of stickers to give away and by the end of the event they were all finished !
Thus ended version 1 of mukt.in. We are going to conduct this event once again. For all those who made it to the event and made it a success, the mukt.in team extends its thanks and wishes that the event did contribute to people’s knowledge. Goodbye till next time !
