Hi,
This is an invitation to join NITC FOSS Meet 2006. The latest version of this document is availbale in wiki form at http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/06/Invitation
Regards Praveen A
NIT Calicut, formerly known as REC Calicut http://nitc.ac.in/ is hosting a two day FOSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS event on 18th [Saturday] and 19th [Sunday] of March 2006 ( NITC FOSS Meet 2006 http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/06). It is the second edition of the event [Last year it was called FLOSS Meet]
- FLOSS Meet 2005http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/05
The event has grown from last years 4 speakers/3 talks/one day to 13 speakers/10 talks + 2 workshops/bofs and more/two days.
It is part of the ongoing effort from the FOSS EDU grouphttp://foss-edu-in.sarovar.org/to popularise FOSS among students. FOSS EDU already conducted successful events at BMS College of Engineeringhttp://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore/BMSCE, PES Institute of Technology http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore/PESIT, [Bangalore/MCC| Mount Carmel College]], Sapthagiri College of Engineeringhttp://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore/SCE(all in Bangalore http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore). Our next destination after NIT Calicut http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Calicut/NIT is MSRIThttp://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore/MSRIT, Bangalore. NITC FOSS Meet is a part of the FOSS Month 2006http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore/FOSS_Month-2006celebrations
FOSS EDU group is started as an offort to provide FOSS Education tools customised for Indian educational institutions. The first step in this direction is to produce a dollar one encyclopediahttp://www.techmag.biz/dollar_one_encyclopedia, ie, to bring out a CD/DVD edition of wikipedia http://wikipedia.org/.
Now back to the event details. 9 Talks + 2 Workshops March 18,19 2006
- Arun M Foss - General Talk [FOSS in Society] Intellectual Property, Copyright, Licence issues - Gopal Vijayraghavan DotGNU / Mozilla Hack - Kalyan Varma Network Security - Philip Tellis Education/Creative Commons - Praveen and Dilip Debian Workshop - Premshree Pillai Ruby - Sharath Lakshman Live CD Workshop - Shreekumar Quake 3 - Fun and more - Shreyas Srinivasan GNOME Hack - Pradeepto K Bhattacharya KDE Development - Shyam Mani Gentoo Developer - Aanjhan R Embedded Linux - Kushal Das Fedora BOF
Apart from the scheduled talks there will be bofs on various topics like we saw in FOSS.IN http://foss.in/2006
Looking forward to your support and participation.
-- "GNU is the system, and Linux is the kernel." A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr