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Hi Guys,

Taking our endeavor in spreading Open Source knowledge in Gujarat to the next level, OpenKick organized yet another seminar in HL College of computer studies, one of the most reputed colleges of Gujarat in collaboration with Computer Society of India (CSI).

The audience comprised of students from the 2nd, 4th and 6th semester of MCA course. The seminar started off with me giving a brief background of OpenKick, the training division of Gloscon. Emphasis was laid on how adoption of open-source technologies by software professionals are the need of the hour and the career opportunities it has.

We then started out by giving presentation on Drupal and what are its benefits. Explaination was given on how strong Drupal and how they can easily download drupal through www.drupal.org. also reasosn were given as to why it should be adopted by students. Some highlights:

Drupal – Open Source Content Management
- Stable, Flexible and Modular
- Features such as Blogs, Forums, Polls, Workflow Management etc.
- Strong & active community
- Community of 300000+ users & developers
- Websites – 100000+
- Adoption of Drupal by major organizations

The students and Faculties were exposed some important aspects of Drupal and were provided insights on the different topics such as

- Requirements for Drupal
- Modules
- Themes
- Versions
- Important Features
- Pluggability features

were presented to the students and Faculties of HL College.

Finally the students and Faculties had lot of queries regarding Drupal and the OpenKick team did best to solve all their queries.

Openkick will be keeping different seminars across all the MCA/Engineering colleges in order to spread the word of Drupal and along with it all open source technologies in the IT professionals and student community.

Cheers to Open-Source

~ Rajat~