Richard Stallman, founder and leader of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, will be inaugurating the Tamil Nadu Chapter of Free Software Foundation of India, at the Vellore Institute of Technology, on Sunday, the 6th February, 2005, at 9:30 AM and deliver the keynote address. All are welcome to the event, and more information about the inaugural function is available at http://www.swatantra.info
One of the prime objectives of FSF-TN is to take free software closer to people in all the districts in Tamil Nadu, by organising meetings, events, demos, and user groups wherever possible. An open public mailing list to discuss and promote the adoption of free software in TN, has been started at: http://gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsf-tn
Please volunteer to join fsf-tn and lend your support.
-Ramanraj K
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FLOSS Meet @ NIT Calicut
A one day seminar/workshop on the Free/Libre open source softwares is going to be held in National Instute of Technology Calicut on 29th Jan 2005( Saturday) at NIT Calicut. The Seminar is 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 is organised by 1.GNU/Linux Users Group Calicut 2. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) student Branch 3. Computer Society of India Calicut chapter
The seminar is intended to highlight the development and need for free and open source software under GNU/Linux platform. The seminar will encourage the students to use this free software with presentations and interactive sessions by experts in the field. A large number of delegates from academic institutions and industry are likely to participate.
About the Event
The event comprises of two sessions. The morning session will be on the concepts and philosophy of free software. Free software alternatives like Openoffice, Octave, Apache etc, will be introduced and discussed with a view to bring out the advantages of these. It will also cover the security issues rising in the computer world. The afternoon session will be a workshop on the languages used in this context. It will be a live demonstration about the computer language Python, and SQLlite used on open source platforms.
Contact Details
Interested candidates can register either through the website http://glugc.nitc.ac.in/floss Or through email dilpu.v@gmail.com, pravi.a@gmail.com Mobile No 09447367875
Profile of the Speakers
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 – He is working as a Systems engineer, Yahoo! Bangalore. In his spare time, he advocates the spread of BSD technology, an alternative open source platform to GNU/Linux.
3.Swaroop C H -- Software engineer in Yahoo! , His book A Byte of Python has been downloaded more than 24,000 times
4.Pradeep Kishore Gowda -- Senior Software engineer in ZeOmega infotech,a Bangalore based company deeply rooted in Open Source Software development.
Sponsors
The main sponsor for the event is M/s Tata Consultancy Services. Other sponsors are IBM ACE Centre, and Computer Engineering Associations.
Regards, - - Dilip V, Mobile No : 09447367875 eey1071@nitc.ac.in, dilpu.v@gmail.com, Semester 8th, Electrical and Electronics, National Institute Of Technology, Calicut. (Formerly known as Regional Engineering College Calicut)
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