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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[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]<br /> <br /> * [[Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/05| FLOSS Meet 2005]]<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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<br /> <br /> 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]. <br /> <br /> <br /> Now back to the event details.<br /> 9 Talks + 2 Workshops March 18,19 2006<br /> <br /> <br /> *Arun M Foss - General Talk [FOSS in Society] Intellectual Property, Copyright, Licence issues <br /> *Gopal Vijayraghavan DotGNU / Mozilla Hack <br /> *Kalyan Varma Network Security <br /> *Philip Tellis Education/Creative Commons <br /> *Praveen and Dilip Debian Workshop <br /> *Premshree Pillai Ruby <br /> *Sharath Lakshman Live CD Workshop <br /> *Shreekumar Quake 3 - Fun and more<br /> *Shreyas Srinivasan GNOME Hack<br /> *Pradeepto K Bhattacharya KDE Development<br /> *Shyam Mani Gentoo Developer<br /> *Aanjhan R Embedded Linux<br /> *Kushal Das Fedora BOF<br /> <br /> Apart from the scheduled talks there will be bofs on various topics like we saw in [http://foss.in/2006 FOSS.IN]<br /> <br /> Looking forward to your support and participation.</div>

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