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തൃശ്ശൂര്‍ പബ്ലിക് ലൈബ്രറി, ടൌണ്‍ഹാള്‍ അങ്കണത്തില്‍ ഒരുക്കിയിരിക്കുന്ന പുസ്തകപ്രദര്‍ശനമേളയിലെ കൈരളി പുസ്തകശാല സ്റ്റോളില്‍ നിന്നും ഞാന്‍ വാങ്ങിയ പുതിയ പുസ്തകങ്ങള്‍

My first Free Software event of the year was “Insignia 3.0 – Hackerdom” held at Govt. Engineering Collage, Thrissur. It was a pretty good experience with fistful of nice hacking sessions.

DAY 1

The keynote speech was given by Krishnakant Mane (Friends call him KK), who is a physically challenged hacker. He is blind by birth but he use computer as a normal person and contributes to various free software projects with the help of screen reading software “Orca”.

Keynote Speech by Krishnakant Mane

Sujith Haridasan came up with another hacking workshop with CHDK ( Canon Hacking Development Kit). Which is a firmware run in Canon cameras to extend the functionality. He showed sone tricks like printing “hello world” on camera screen and blinking the LEDs etc…

Sujith Hands on CHDK

After that Arun from SPACE and KK moderated a Open Discussion on Insight – The project which helps blind people to use computer. He also demonstrated how he uses computer for hacking with the help orca.

Arun and KK – Open Discussion on Insight

DAY 2

On Day 2 I was a little late due to some reasons, and when I reached the venue, Juan’s session was half on the way.

Another interesting personality was Juan Carlos Gentile who took a fabulous session on “Free Music”. He has been using Free Software for many years for video and audio processing

Juan on “Free Music”

I have attended a workshop session on “Blender” the Free 3D modeling tool using which “Elephant’s Dream and “Big Buck Bunny” was created. The session was taken by Sadik

Sadeek – The Blender Geek

DAY 3

The Sessions I could attend on the last day were “Entrepreneurship and Freedom” by Anoop John and “Hacker Culture” by Anivar Aravind

AJ on the way

In general the event was a good one, Informative and most important factor I noticed was that, Media is now understanding the word “Hacker” correctly which is extremely a happy news because it became a routine of media to use the word hacker in place of cracker.

Congratulations to the Hackerdom Team and Happy Hacking

PS:- All the photos posted here are taken in Sujith’s CHDK camera by either Sujith or Me . More photos are available here

I wish a happy and prosperous “GNew Year” to all of my friends

happy hacking