GNUnify (Open Source Tech Festival)..

The Annual Open Source Festival of Symbiosis Institute of Computers Studies (www.symbiosiscomputers.com) called GNUnufy (www.gnunify.in) was held on the 8th and 9th. Among the Prominent Guests were David Axmark , Co Founder of Mysql and Brian Behlendorf, CoFounder of Apache. This year, We were lucky to have Firefox Take Part in the Event. They sent Anant Narayanan to conduct a Mozilla Hackfest and he also give a lecture on Mozilla Prism.

The Mozilla Hackfest was such a popular event that instead of having the estimated 90 participants in the Lab for the workshop we had to accommodate over 225 people in the room. Hence we had about 4-5 people sitting behind a pc during the workshop. And we had to turn so many more people away because the room was just to crowded :-(.

All the Participants of the Mozilla Hackfest were given Firefox badges. courtesy of Mary Colvig. Also during the Mozilla Prism talk, we had a packed room with no room for the people to sit! It was really amazing. People are really interested in Firefox. After The seminar quite a number of participants/delegates expressed their interest in Writing addons for Firefox and Thunderbird.

Some of the other events which took place are, Install Fest, Where the participants are taught how to install the various flavors of Linux. A detail description of the various events can bee viewed at http://gnunify.in/event_details.php

Also the Pictures of The event are available at http://picasaweb.google.com/afotey/GNUnify08 and on flickr just search for gnunify 08.

Thanks, Firefox for adding flavor and Colour to the Event!!