1578 India: Google selects Don Bosco student for code sessions
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Google selects Don Bosco Mumbai engineering student

MUMBAI: 9th June 2006 -- Don Bosco Institute of Technology final year undergraduate engineering student, Mr Shreepati Pai, was selected from amongst students the world over to participate in Google's 'Summer of Code 2006'.  The programme, informally known as SoC, was initiated by Google last year to introduce students to the world of FOSS - Free and Open Source Software development.
    Mr Shreepati Pai will be working on a project for Samba, the mentoring organisation, and will receive a stipend from Google for his efforts.  Samba is not a dance - well it is, but it is also a way of dancing with Windows!  Samba is a software that reaches out between any operating system and Microsoft and offers network administrators flexibility and reliability.
    DBIT in Kurla, Mumbai, is an enginerring college set up in 2001.  It strongly advocates open source, and Mr Shreepati Pai was one of the pioneers to set up the Undergraduate Computer Students (DUCS) association, which encourages and promotes open source amongst engineering students.  Besides spreading awareness of open source amongst engineering students, the group has worked to ensure that all servers on campus were running on open source.
    MOODLE, a learning management system very much favoured by tertiary institutes now, was put in place and Dev C++, a development tool for C programming, was also actively used.
   
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