-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Ilugc] Swatantra- Symposium on FOSS- RMS in Vellore!! Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:05:45 -0500 From: contact@swatantra.info contact@swatantra.info Reply-To: contact@swatantra.info To: ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in

Played around with gzip, gcc. Wana meet the person who created these software gizmos?

This is event is for you then. Vellore Institute of Technology is organsing a symposium on Free

and Open SOurce software technologies titled Swatantra(6th - 7th Feb, 05).

Founder of GNu and the man responsible for coining the term Free SOftware, Richard M Stallman

will be there to deliver the keynote address of the symposium and to answer all the questions

that you have always wanted to ask about these amazingly simply yet inherently complex programs.

The event will also feature various competitions to kindle your nack for Linux tweaking and

tuning such as:-

LINSTALL-- The Linux installation challenge. Anaconda !! YaSt !! familiar with all these name? Have been installing on your system for a long

time and you find it fun?? making the X server run?? configuring the boot loader?? ..YES??..One

event where apply all your skills which you developed over the years by trying to install

GNU/Linux on your system.

WEBMINISTER-- The Apache web server Challenge Love Apache because of the customizability it offers while deploying your website? Love fiddling

with httpd.conf and think you are best at it? This is one event to prove yourself! Come and

demonstrate that your are the best at the best webserver that there is and ever was.....

CORE WARS-- Challenge the memory This event will feature an old game called core wars which involves destroying your opponents

programs by overwriting the memory in which this program is stored. It will kindle the nerves of

memory geeks with pointers and direct memory references expertise being the norm.

Watch out for cool demonstartions on MONO, Linux Cluster, Linux from scratch and much more....

For further details log on to: http://www.swatantra.info or mail us at: contact@swatantra.info

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