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GNUnify! The All India Free Software Festival 16-February-2003 Venue: Symbiosis Vishwa Bhawan, Senapati Bapat Road, Ganesh Khind, Pune - 4.
Time Themes Symbiosis Vishwa Bhawan
09:30-10:30 Welcome and Opening Ceremony Dr. S.B. Mujumdar (Chancellor SIEC Deemed University)
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea Break
11:00-11:40 IT Industry and GNU/Linux Mr. Atul Chitnis (CTO - Exocore Consulting) "Linux/OpenSource on Corporate Desktop"
11:40-12:20 Free Software in Education Dr. G. Sivakumar (Head of Computer Center - IIT Mumbai)
"IIT Bombay's Network and Systems setup and the crtical role of GNU/Linux in it".
12:20-1:00 Prof. Jitendra Shah (Senior Lecturer - VJTI, Mumbai) "Free Software with Localisation in Education"
01:00-02:00 Lunch Break
02:00-02:40 Future Tech Mr. M Sasikumar (Senior Research Scientist - NCST)
"A.I. Demystified"
02:40-03:20 * * * Made In India
o Mr. Venky Hariharan (MediaLabs) and Mr. Guntupalli Karunakar (IndLinux) "GNU/Linux localisation and its usage, esp its relevance to our country."
p Mr. Naba Kumar (Software Engineer - Belzabar Software Development India Pvt Ltd.) "Anjuta IDE for C,C++ on GNU/Linux"
03:20-04:00
Mr. Samyeer Metrani (Group Manager Embedded Systems - Encore Software Limited) "Simputer"
04:00-04:30 Tea Break
04:30-05:10 Government and GNU/Linux
Dr. S.Ramakrishnan (Senior Director - Department of Information Technology - Government of India)
05:10-05:30 Introduction and Felicitation of Guru
Dr. Nagarjuna (TIFR) Introduction to RMS
Dr. T.M. Kanvinde (Director - SICSR) Felicitation
05:30-07:00 The Guru Speaks Mr. Richard Stallman (President and Founder of FSF) "The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System"
7:10-07:30 Free Software Song and Vote Of Thanks
Students
SICSR