Hi All,

We are happy to announce the one day FLOSS meet at National Institute of Technology Calicut (formerly Regional Engineering College, REC) on 29th JAnuary 2005.

For more details log on to http://glugc.nitc.ac.in/floss/index.html

FLOSS@NITC

Free/Libre Open Source Software Movement (FLOSS) which emphasis on the Freedom of using different softwares. FLOSS meet is a one day seminar/workshop focusing on Free/libre and open Source technologies on 29th January, 2004.The event is jointly organized by the IEEE Student branch, CSI Calicut Chapter and GNU/Linux Users group at Calicut. The Seminar is also intended to provoke the student community. The event will bring together academicians, students and the industry people who are involved in the Movement.

The event will comprise of two session, in the morning and afternoon. The morning sessions will be more concentrated on the floss philosophy, how students can involve and get benefit out of the floss community etc. There will be talks related to the security issues rising in the computer world. The afternoon session will be a workshop type. The workshop will be live demonstration type about the favorite floss language Python.

SPEAKERS The one day FLOSS conference will be managed by the industry people who are involved in the movement. The eminent speakers are

MORNING SESSION

1.Atul Chitnis -- He is one of India's best known technologists. He has been at the forefront of India's technology evolution. He was the chief organiser for Linux Bangalore 2004.

2. Shanker Balan -- Systems engineer, Yahoo! Bangalore. He is the part of the team which takes care of Yahoo! Mail related operations all over the world.

AFTERNOON SESSION

1. Swaroop C H -- Software engineer in Yahoo! , His book A Byte of Python has been downloaded more than 24,000 times.

2. Pradeep Kishore Gowda -- Senior Software engineer in ZeOmega infotech Bangalore. He has worked with/for Asea Brown Boveri(ABB), Ingersoll-Rand, Deeproot Linux, Business Intelligence and Newer Technologies (BIGANTS)

Regards Praveen A