And here comes the day, We RITians, were eagerly waiting for. The Red Hat Pune team visited Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Islampur on 29th April, 2017 as a part of University Connect Program.

Rupali Talwatkar, Varsha Kate, Ganesh Kadam, Satyajit Bulage, Sachin Patil, Prathamesh Chavan and Kenneth Dsouza were the members who represented Red Hat Pune at the event.

The event started with Project Exhibition where final year student presented their projects to Red Hat team.

Event kicked off with a brief inauguration ceremony by Prof. Shivananda Poojara. Without wasting time, Rupali took the stage and talked about the University Connect program and Red Hat. It was really a nice start. Sachin Patil spoke about Open Source projects and some myths about open source.

After that, Prathamesh and Kenneth started with introducing the Linux booting process which is one of the amazing sessions. They gave a brief overview as how the process is carried out with the control getting transferred from one component to other and showed demonstration about the same.

In the next session, Sachin and Ganesh discussed about git and did hands-on creating repositories, committing changes, pushing requests, etc. Satyajit explained about working of distributed version control system.

And finally team showed how to subscribe to mailing list and join IRC channels. They encouraged us to stay connected with them and to start with open source projects to contribute in.

The program ended with a vote of thanks proposed by Prof.Savita Patil and with an awesome surprise by final year students to Prof. Shivananda Poojara for his extra-ordinary efforts.

Students of third year and final year worked hard for success of program. Thanks to Red Hat Pune team to come up with such a nice initiative of University Connect. Overall, the program was a great success and we will look forward to conduct more such Red Hat sessions in future at RIT.