The message was clear and direct at the DevConMru 2017. Painted with a humorist approach, Loganaden Velvindron #2 of cyberstorm.mu bridged the gap between students who were mainly in the audience to reach their goal in the IT industry and Linux in Mauritius.
The DevConMru is a yearly event to bring together developers, beginners, students and professionals. The goal is to bring more craftsmen under the same roof. “Mauritius has been branded “Cyber Island” in the Indian Ocean… Opinions in those matters vary but with this conference we strive to improve the general attribution of our island. Mauritius has great political stability and economical advantages for foreign investors, and the most precious resource Mauritius has to offer is people’s knowledge. The ICT sector in Mauritius is growing since years and maturing as the fourth pillar of our economy. With its geographical position Mauritius is also welcome as a business and knowledge hub between Africa and Asia.” – MSCC.
In today’s Mauritius IT industry, everyone wants to have a better standard of living. But how? How to build a successful IT industry? Are we moving in the right direction? Are foreign investors attracted by the quality of the Mauritius IT industry? Logan did not miss those points to bring the audience on the track.
After giving a brief intro to the cyberstorm.mu team, Logan explained the requirements and life cycles of IT companies and their profits as to whether they are in the same line of fresh IT graduates and professionals. A vivid example is by analyzing the statistics of Github accounts in Mauritius, the quality and quantity of code contribution compared with Singapore. Students were encouraged to publish their coding exercise on GitHubs, create a blog and take part in Google Code-in.
Indeed, cyberstorm.mu work towards such goals, for example, participation and mentoring for the Google Code-in. Several hackathons were organized. Contributions in the real world applications such as Pfsense, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, OpenBSD, LibArchive, Firejails, Linux and others… This list is long. An award was also received during the IETF 98 Hackathon.
I was impressed with how Avinash Meetoo, hacked the audience and shed some light to boost the students. Avinash mentioned himself about his passion for blogging and the importance of projecting his personality with the right vision.
At cyberstorm.mu, we invite many to join us, but one has to work hard to attain a certain level of professionalism. After the presentation, many came to congratulate us for the job done. We were around chatting with many sharing our work and job experience as well as the passion for coding. I once read a phrase in an old book as follows “You are what you eat”. But things have change now because You are what You CODE!!
