 We have already talked about the Aakash project funding, but there has been some very interesting development led by Professor Kannan. Incidentally, a whole lot of interesting applications, particularly hardware experimental applications on Aakash and the Linux implementation has been done by his team, has been done by his team. He is of course not only the co-PI of the T-10KT project, but he is also the overall coordinator of all national mission projects and the institute is running more than eight such national mission projects for the mission. He has come up with a new device, an affordable device, which he fondly calls Netbook, which is an Android device, he will tell you more about it, but we are constantly engaged as you know on finding out an affordable access device to be used by masses. His work is in that direction and for next half an hour he will tell you about that. Thank you Professor Fartik, thank you Mukta for giving this slot. I am very happy to be here because I get to see the coordinators of 200 plus remote centers in one place, okay, it is a great feeling. So this is the Netbook that Professor Fartik talked about, it is almost like a laptop, it has full keyboard, it has two USB drives, it has a HDMI port and it has an RJ45 that is a LAN port, it runs full Linux distribution, in fact we call this distribution as foci operating system because otherwise you need from somebody to use the word Linux or to use the word Ubuntu, so it is our distribution and on the computer, on the screen you see some of the things, some of the software that runs on it, in the meantime what I will do is let me fire, I am not planted properly, otherwise I would have connected this, this one does not have the serial port, what I will do is I will fire Sylab in the meantime that the Sylab come up. So here is the distribution that we have, you can see the size of the distribution, you see this, where I am, is about 4.5 GB, by the way it has a 8 GB NAND flash, 1 GB RAM, it is an 820 ARM processor, so it is a dual core, I would say that it is about at least twice as fast as Akash maybe even four times, so the users will have about 2 GB of working space, in addition they can connect external devices through SD card and two full size USB ports, we could use a 32 GB SD card that we bought for 1100, so you pay 1000 rupees you can actually get a 32 GB SD card, you can use that, it is over here, I do not want to remove it because the Linux is running out of that, by the way this is Sylab running, we could also use a 2 TB terabyte external drive through USB, so there is no limit at all, how much you can add, but that is all external, all external and I was showing this to my colleague Professor Sudhakar who was just, who happened to be here today, I told him about this limitation, oh he said he can never fill his 16 GB pen drive, okay, he says of course if you download movies, then this space is not enough, for all other people what we have is more than enough, okay, and look at the things that it comes with, here is the collection of, here is the collection of some other packages, Chromium is the browser, Emacs is there, we have GCC, C++, compilers, GAD, GeoGebra for those of you into algebra geometry, GIMP is there, it is an alternative to Photoshop, we have GunuPlot, Inkscape, another alternative to GIMP, Jamol, it is a chemistry software, in fact that workshop happening, we are teaching Jamol, we can actually visualize a 3D molecule, students have difficulty understanding how the molecules look, how come this end is close to the other end, you actually put it down, it comes like this, so you can actually see all that, okay, K turtle for children, we have latex running, by the way Sylab is running, you can see that, it is a 3D plot that I have just got out of it, okay, Sylab is running, we have LibreOffice, LibreOffice is MSOffice equivalent, Octave is like Sylab, we have all Python things running, okay, Sylab is running as I told you, TechLive is there, TechWorks, so for programmers it has Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, of course I already told about C, C++, how many of you use latex, there are quite a few people who use latex, some of these actually take up a lot of space, so I just opened latex using a software called TechWorks, so I can see that, once again I am unable to show, but you can see the latex file here and latex output, so some complicated mathematical equations, okay, it is, we bought 1000 of this at a cost of 4990 plus tax, so the taxes work out to about 600 rupees for IIT, for an educational institution like IIT, otherwise it will be slightly more, in any case it is going to be less than 6000 rupees, we are buying 1000 of these, this is for a pilot, so we are going to do a pilot on this, using this, we are buying only 1000, okay, as a result we would, we are not in a position, I cannot have the large heart that Professor Fartek had to give every remote center 200, 250, 100 devices, because the total itself is 1000 and we have so many other uses already identified, so I have a proposal for you, it may be possible for me to allocate something like 50 to maybe 100 machines for all the remote centers put together, only 100, so no, no, as somebody said that, if you distribute it, you will only have poverty, right, so what we are going to do is, we are going to find out what you did in the, with the Akash, in fact we are going to have a webpage where we will ask you to upload the information, number one, number two, so this time we will actually carefully go through, we will analyze, find out, identify those centers that have done good work, okay, number one, number two, we would also want you to tell us what you have done on Linux, because this is a Linux platform, what you have done on Linux, either using Akash or otherwise, that is the second one, third one, we would want you to tell us, if this device is given to you, what you will do, okay, taking all these three into account, we will select a few centers and then to them, we will give these netbooks, okay, because I have only about 100, if a center is doing extremely well, I would like to give 5 to 10 devices, so that they will contribute, because we are talking about, so what is the reason for doing pilot, I mean in fact, in the chemistry workshop I went, everybody was interested, I said look, I can always ask the vendor, because we are not getting any tax exemption, right, we are not taking any tax exemption as an IIT, whatever we can get, we are, we didn't go to government for exemption for anything special, so at the same price you can make it available, certainly to the academic institutions, but you can, you can buy, bring 10,000 more devices and make them available, but supposing you take it and you find that after two days something is not working, then you will complain, IIT Bombayne-Bolatha and this is 11, not working, so tomorrow it will be Times of India front page news, so I don't want that to happen, as a result we don't want to take the chance of ordering right now, we are just doing a pilot, we want to see how well, how well this device meet the requirements for various target audience, school level, college level, arts and science, engineering, polytechnic, ITI, all kinds of rural areas, all kinds of things we have already identified, in fact there is a project called Munath Bharat Abhyan, in fact IIT Bombayne was supposed to adopt 10 villages and then I had told them that I would give 5 devices each to each of these villages, but I came to know that we are adopting 28 villages, so once again it means all these things mean that I have less and less number of devices, but all this is for doing pilot, I believe it is a good device, I believe it is an excellent device because some of my colleagues in computer science tried it out and said, hey this is everything that I need, in fact I am going to, they said that I could go and give a presentation to the CS faculty, so this, I believe it is a great device, by the way the battery, the biggest problem if you recall in Akash was the battery, one of the reasons is that we got a lot of reconditioned batteries, so this current vendor who is a different person said that he would get 5000 MAH battery, but from India, they do not want Chinese, we have apparently so he says, he told me that he wants this project to be a real success, that he would do everything, so we have found that with the 5000 MAH battery, this device with a YouTube video playing, that means Wi-Fi on YouTube video playing, it came for 4 hours, so we believe in fact we have seen under normal conditions, we have seen battery coming for 8 to 10 hours, so we are talking about a good battery, good system, 700 grams, only thing it does not have is hard disk, you have 3.5 GB of working space, there was also an article on this, so let me see if I can send, I can share this document with you, there was also an article that came in Mint, did anybody see this article, no one saw this article, so this was the device I had and those of you who are interested can actually look at that, the screen is not touch screen, it is a 10 inch screen, 10 inch or 10 point something inch, I think this one says something else, 10 inch only, sorry, HDMI port is there, HDMI port is there and then of course USB ports are there, HDMI we wanted because one can connect to a TV directly, so that is the reason. The news is that teachers in the government run colleges only can. So actually I do not know whether any of you have interacted with people in media, so it is available to anybody, so maybe I will scroll out of this. Sir, many question is, I am using Sylab software after the class which you have taken in that research methodology or shop, I am using Sylab for the research purpose and I came to know that this Gerida cloud that portal is available for doing this, running the experiments and all, but I try to upload my project file and all, but it is not permitting, if an open source cloud is there, I mean on behalf of IIT. For Sylab? Yeah, for Sylab. So Sylab, good, we have set up a Gerida cloud, you are talking about Gerida cloud? Yeah, Gerida cloud. Gerida cloud, we set up a thing so that people could actually go and compute. We also made available textbook companions created by students from all your colleges. We have not yet created a repository where public can contribute on their own, we have some structures, some regulations. So your students are most welcome to participate in textbook companion, we will have them uploaded. Of course I have been telling our people that we should think of a mechanism because what will happen is if people start contributing from colleges, how do you sort it, how do you, who will ensure quality, do we say that we cannot guarantee quality, use it at your own risk, we could do that. That is one way to do that, that's how the open source systems work, whereas if you look at our Sylab textbook companion, we say that the answers will be the same as in the book, that means we are guaranteeing some quality. So if we say that use it at your own risk, then we can make it available, people can upload, then, so these are evolving things, but we do want people to contribute, yeah, thanks. If so, if the computational, sir, that thing, we can reduce the computational cost from the client side, I tried through this AgaStablets for working with this Gerida cloud. If it is open for research community or students who are doing open source projects, we can work a lot, that's a little bit, small suggestion, okay, thanks. Sir, I wonder how you could manage free to distribute 100 pieces, yeah, so, from where you could manage these funds, and if you can manage for 100, why not for 300, sir? Yeah, I know, I know Dr. Fatak very well, he could do it through HR, and by other, this is part of the, excuse me, sir, this is part of Akash project only, this is an extension of Akash, there are multiple things that are happening, the next version of Akash, the specifications have been frozen by committee, DJ S and D is running a tender for commercial availability, please understand that all these pilots must result in an ecosystem being set up, so that ordinary people can purchase these things in the market, that is the intention. All that we are trying to ensure is that whenever these devices become available in the market, they have meaningful content and applications available, they are meaningful, it is towards that end that he has started this experiment, now why 1000 is because that was the amount of money that we had to spare within the Akash project, so therefore we ordered 1000, now we could have all used 1000 in IIT itself, but like our T10KT project or like Akash project, we would like others to participate and continue, now because the limitation is saying this, that's all, can you not place a repeat order for some more and give all my 300 remote centers at least two devices? We can share the poverty, that is doubtful, but I think his plan is correct, only those centers which have actively been working on these devices should naturally get an opportunity to work more, it is not that others will be denied, these experiential continue either here or elsewhere and these devices would be available in the market, what we could do is we could let you know the details of the vendor who has supplied these tablets to us, the Delhi based vendor and following your own procurement procedures which are quite complicated as I understood in the morning, you can order a few devices for experimentation on your own as well, it's not a problem, but the Linux distribution, the application that run on it are all in open source and they will be kept in the repository by Professor Kannan, you can download them and upload it on those devices, it's not a problem. Thank you Professor Kannan. So I am finishing, I have left time.