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Welcome to BMS College of Engineering FOSS Community page! We have a Mailing list in Yahoo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bmslug
Welcome to BMS College of Engineering FOSS Community (BMSLUG - BMS Libre Software Users Group) page!


Our orkut community is http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=20821940
* [http://groups.google.com/group/bms-lug Mailing list in Google groups]
* [http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=20821940 Orkut Community]. 


We participated the [[SFD/Bangalore/06 |Software Freedom Day 06]] celebrations of [[Bangalore|Bangalore FOSS Community]].
We participated the [[SFD/Bangalore/06 |Software Freedom Day 06]] celebrations of [[Bangalore|Bangalore FOSS Community]], hosted [[Debian/Conf/06/Conclave| Debian Conclave 06]] and [[/Swatantra_Tech_Fest|Swatantra tech fest]].  


==Debian Conclave 06==


On 29th Sunday of October.
==Tutorials and References==
** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/KDE41_Install|How to Install KDE 4.1 on Hardy Heron]] - This tutorial helps you to install KDE 4.1 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04), the version that was installed in the hackfest.
** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/Synaptic_HowTo|Synaptic Package Manager]] - This tutorial helps you to install packages using Synaptic Package Manager and apt-get.


See [[Debian/Conf/06/Conclave|Debian Concalve page]] for more details and registration.
==Events==
* [[:Category:BMSLUG Events|Events organised by BMSLUG]]
** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/Install_Fest|Install fest]] - The minutes of the install fest and all that you need to know about installation and some basic usage tips.
** [[Say_No_To_Software_Patents#Bengaluru Meetup|Say No To Software Patents]] - Planning session ahead of the Bengaluru session planned by patents office on 16th August 2008
** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/Workshop_embedded_system | Workshop on Embedded Systems and VLSI tools]] on 17th November 2007
** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/HackFest| Hack Fest]]
** [[Bangalore/BMSCE/Understanding_GPL_version_3| A discussion to understand GPL Version 3]] on 10am, 20th May 2007
** [[Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_Karnataka/Etv_coverage| BMSCE on Etv]]: [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1892949130354331450 Video clip of the news story]
** [[/Swatantra_Tech_Fest|Swatantra tech fest]] - Free Software, Free Society on 21st April 2007
** [[/Basic_Installation_Workshop|Basic Installation Workshop]] - Installation of GNU/Linux on 24th March 2007
** [[Debian/Conf/06/Conclave|Debian Conclave 06]] - A planning session for the Debian Developers Conference on 29th October 2006
** [[/Software_Freedom_Day_06|Software Freedom Day 06]] - Celebrating Software Freedom on 16th September 2006
** [[/FOSS_Day_05| FOSS Day 05]] - A day with FOSS on 24th September 2005


== Software Freedom Day 06 ==
== BMSLUG Members ==
 
#[[User:Akshay.narayan|Akshay]]
The event was on 16th September 2006. We started at 9.30am.
#[[User:netravathib|Netravathi B]]
 
#[[User:Pravs|Praveen A]]
====Blogs====
#[[User:Vincentvikram|Vikram Vincent]]
 
#[[user:shashank|Shashank Bharadwaj]]
# [http://netravathib.blogspot.com/2006/09/16th-september-2006-software-freedom.html Netravathi B]
#[[user:Madhusudan|Madhusudan.C.S]]
# [http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/?p=12 Aanjhan R]
#[[user:Puneeth|Puneeth Bhat]]
# [http://www.pravi.co.nr/2006/09/16/software-freedom-day/ Praveen A]
#[[user:Krishna|Krishna Bharadwaj]]
# [http://aceraks.blogspot.com/ Akshay]
#[[user:Vattam|Santosh.G.Vattam]]
 
#[[user:Subramanyam|Subramanyam Shastri]]
====Sessions====
#[[user:Adithya|Adithya c Udupa]]
 
[[Category:Campus Communities]]
* Revolution OS (video)
* Free Software Philosophy -- by Aanjhan R, Praveen A
* Discussion/FAQ on FOSS (motivation, benefits, challenges, student contributors) -- Praveen A, Aanjhan, Srikanth, Dinesh, Dilip V
* Demo of AIGLX and [http://ipodlinux.org/ GNU/Linux on ipod] -- Aanjhan R
* SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop/Server 10 - Rajababu Gorjala, Technology Sales Specialist - Linux Impact,Novell Inc.
* Future plans for BMS FOSS Community/Upcoming events/BoFs - Praveen A, Aanjhan, Srikanth, Dinesh, Dilip V
 
====Co-Ordinators====
 
# Praveen A - pravi -dot- a -at- gmail -dot- com
# Aanjhan R - aanjhan -at- gmail -dot- com
# Anish Jacob - anishblogs -at- gmail -dot- com
# Sharadha M - sharadha -dot- bmsce at- gmail -dot- com
# Netravathi B - netra -dot- b86 -at- gmail -dot- com
 
==FOSS Day 05==
On 24th September 2005  the FOSS Community Bangalore conducted a seminar on FOSS. The speakers were
*[http://www.dilpu.net Dilip V]  
*[http://www.pravi.co.nr Praveen A]
*[http://www.techmag.biz Thejesh GN]
*[http://www.livejournal.com/users/prady/ Pradyumna Sampath]
Dilip and Praveen introduced FOSS and the advantages of FOSS. Pradyumna Sampath gave a demo of glade and gtk programming. It was followed by a talk on FOSS Tools and advantages specific to students. The event was organised in association with Protocol, Computer club of BMSCE.
 
Read on the blogs on the seminar
*[http://www.pravi.co.nr/2005/10/03/foss-day-at-bmsce/ FOSS Day at BMSCE] by Praveen A
*[http://www.techmag.biz/FOSS_and_college_projects FOSS and College Projects] by Thejesh GN
*[http://www.dilpu.net/archives/2005/09/26/a-day-with-a-difference/ A Day with a difference] by Dilip V
 
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