Its Done!
Finally, Its done and we made it.Meet Linux 2005 was a course, different from all the other courses conducted by Glug-T.
Don’t do that. Let me take the other half. Your voice is too feeble.
Said Parijat. But I wanted to do that by myself. I wanted to have an exposure.Slides were ready,tutorial package was also ready. I took a bottle of water along with a pack of LaTeX reference cards to the User Lab and announced that the lab was reserved for Glug-T. Soon most of them left. 5:00 PM. People arrived, and the lab was getting filled up. Though I had talked before, this time, I’m going to talk for 2:00 Hours. I gulped.
Then things started turning down unexpectedly. People didn’t close their sessions(VNC sessions) last time. People were having problems in logging in. We had to login in our accounts, but that didn’t work. Server was taking more load than what it was expected to. Half of them weren’t logged in. 5:35PM.
Letting the rest of work to my friends, I started. The scheme was that, first the theory session, then the hands-on session. I had a chit which described what I had to do. People were looking at me. Theory went on well. Then came the hands-on session. People had to copy the readymade codes to their own script and they tried executing it again. Whoa! most of them didn’t work! My confidence level and Voice was going down exponentially.I tried my best to make them understand for the next 2:00 hours.
People tried including images in the LaTeX document. Didn’t work! I was sure that this was the worst class ever in this course. Its over. Nothing can be restored. I was sure that I’m doomed. My friends are going to screw me for this rubbish piece of talk.
Finally the first session was over at around 8:00PM. Parijat told he’ll start with the theory while I can have dinner. Me and Abhay went to snacky. I was not happy. People are going to screw me, I thought. After food, I came back to the lab. Parijat was taking the basics. I asked him whether I can replace him,
“Your voice is dead, have rest.” said Parijat.
I urged again, and he told “Ok” . I started, with a bit confidence more than the last session. People were looking at me.Seniors Vikram(Mechanical Topper) & Biswadeep(ECE Topper) were listening to me. When I was having dinner, the server was restarted. So people logged into their accounts.
When the hands-on session started, I was clear this time, my voice properly in phase. People started working in phase, which increased my enthusiasm. I wanted them to tell more. 7:45PM. I was nearing the mathematics part. I showed them the slide of how to write equations in LaTeX. That was section was not in hands-on session. Seeing their enthusiasm, I asked,
“Do you want to try out this eulers equation?”
I was sure that they’ll deny. Surprisingly, I got to see lots of nods in the crowd! I was enthralled. They started writing down the equation and they got it perfectly in the document. Finally the talk was over.
I was contented and enthralled. My mind told me that I was successful this time. Vijo,Shivendra,Abhay congratulated me for the talk.
“Good Show” Said Vijo
It was a treat for my ears.
Meet Linux was a hit. Feedback said that.
Abhay’s Talk on the First Day
It was a great experience.