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[http://nitc.ac.in NIT Calicut, formerly known as REC Calicut] is hosting a two day [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS FOSS] event on 18th [Saturday] and 19th [Sunday] of March 2006 ([[Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/06 | NITC FOSS Meet 2006 ]]). It is the second edition of the event [Last year it was called FLOSS Meet]

* [[Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/05| FLOSS Meet 2005]]

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 [http://foss-edu-in.sarovar.org/ FOSS EDU group] to popularise FOSS among students. FOSS EDU already conducted successful events at [[Bangalore/BMSCE| BMS College of Engineering]], [[Bangalore/PESIT| PES Institute of Technology]], [Bangalore/MCC| Mount Carmel College]], [[Bangalore/SCE |Sapthagiri College of Engineering]] (all in [[Bangalore]]). Our next destination after [[Calicut/NIT|NIT Calicut]] is [[Bangalore/MSRIT|MSRIT]], Bangalore. NITC FOSS Meet is a part of the [[Bangalore/FOSS_Month-2006|FOSS Month 2006]] celebrations

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 [http://www.techmag.biz/dollar_one_encyclopedia dollar one encyclopedia], ie, to bring out a CD/DVD edition of [http://wikipedia.org wikipedia]. 


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 [http://foss.in/2006 FOSS.IN]

Looking forward to your support and participation.