Enigma

An Intra-college technical event that attracts the brightest talents. The sheer range of events including programming & debugging contests, µpro, GNU/Linux quiz, FOSS quiz, Configure IT, rolling events like cryptic math, hanging quiz, crossword and gaming and the huge prize money on offer is enough to leave anyone spell bound. The day is power packed with much more interesting events , with preliminaries conducted in the forenoon session , finals during afternoon and prize distribution on the same evening. Lectures on various rare topics attract the knowledge thirsty. Its events have helped rewarding the best, identifying all talented, encouraging the interested and seeding computer craze throughout the campus.

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Carte Blanche

For those who doubt whether anything good under the sun would ever be offered for free, Carte Blanche is our answer.This event is for those who are not satisfied with just knowing and using free / open source softwares but also have the urge to tweak or create their own software. Carte Blanche helps them to get into the details, to collaborate in creating open source products and to appreciate the efforts of fellow enthusiasts. This event which was started in 2005 saw huge responses and instantly was a hit with the open source community in India. Since then it has been providing a platform for the budding software engineers from across the country to display the prowess in various fields of computing with a special importance towards open source.

The event is supported by the Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai( ILUGC), National Resource Centre for FOSS, Computer Society of India (CSI), AU-KBC Research Centre and IEEE Computer Society. Formerly titled Linux Demo Day, it evoked tremendous response both from the public and the student community. In the past three years, Carte Blanche has grown into a one-of-a-kind technical symposium with special events like Linux demos, workshops, lectures, free software distribution, as well as conventional Programming contests, Debugging and hacking contests, Online contests, Debates. Whatever be the event, our theme is the same!! Free software!!

RMS and Carte Blanche

The wishes fom Richard Matthew Stallman, the founder of FSF and the GNU project -

I thank all the students who have helped to hold the Carte Blanche event. Teaching other students and the general public,to appreciate the freedom that free software provides is vital if freedom is to prevail. The social mission of a school is to teach of a free society. In the computing field, this means teaching them to be users of free software. The entire university ought to do this. Your dedication can bring this about.

The journey of Carte Blanche with RMS did not stop here . Carte Blanche '10 added yet another feather to the cap with RMS interacting with the students through audio conferencing wherein RMS took queries from the students and answered the same through phone. A pre-recorded video of his talk was also played.

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