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== PESIT Bangalore ==
== PESIT Bangalore ==


FOSS seminar is being organised in Mid November 2005 in PESIT. Stay tuned here or follow the [http://lists.wikicities.com/mailman/listinfo/fci-l mailing list] for more details. We are looking for volunteers for the event.
FOSS seminar is being organised from 4 - 7 pm  on 24th November 2005 in PESIT. Stay tuned here or follow the [http://lists.wikicities.com/mailman/listinfo/fci-l mailing list] for more details.  
 
*Session 1 Why FOSS ? / Introduction to FOSS by Anush and [http://www.livejournal.com/users/tejasd/ Tejas]
*Session 2 FOSS in Education project - what needs to be done ? [http://www.pravi.co.nr Praveen]
*Session 3 Web tools (Python) / Mono [http://blogs.gnome.org/portal/shres Shreyas] and [http://www.swaroopch.info Swaroop CH]
*Session 4 FOSS jobs [http://atulchitnis.net Atul Chitnis]


== BMSCE Bangalore ==
== BMSCE Bangalore ==

Revision as of 20:58, 31 October 2005

FOSS.IN

FOSS.IN is India's largest Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) event, bringing together thousands of participants from across India, Asia and the rest of the world.

As the natural successor to the enormously successful Linux Bangalore conferences, held in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, FOSS.IN/2005 is now a "Meta-conference" - a conference of conferences.

PESIT Bangalore

FOSS seminar is being organised from 4 - 7 pm on 24th November 2005 in PESIT. Stay tuned here or follow the mailing list for more details.

  • Session 1 Why FOSS ? / Introduction to FOSS by Anush and Tejas
  • Session 2 FOSS in Education project - what needs to be done ? Praveen
  • Session 3 Web tools (Python) / Mono Shreyas and Swaroop CH
  • Session 4 FOSS jobs Atul Chitnis

BMSCE Bangalore

On 24th September the FOSS Community Bangalore conducted a seminar on FOSS. The speakers were

Dilip and Praveen introduced FOSS and the advantages of FOSS. Pradyumna Sampath give 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

VIT Pune

We in our college ( VIT Pune) have arranged FREE SEMINAR SERIES for complete 3 Days & WORKSHOPS on GNU/Linux & FOSS Tools. call GNU Jagruti 2005 (20th Sept. to 22nd Sept.).

The main attraction of the event are :

  1. Dr. Nagarjuna (scientist TIFR) Chairman FSF(FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION) India.
  2. Niyam Bhushan (Mr. Niyam Bhushan Technology Writer, Editor, Columnist and a Digital Imagery). He is going to give seminar on each of the three Days. His talk on DAY 1 @ 5:30pm has not been updated in the schedule on the website. It will be on " 7 Steps Of Software Samadhi". He is coming for this event from Delhi.
  3. On DAy 3 there are Big shots like MD/CEOs of redhat, codito, IBM.
  4. Technical seminars are to be covered by speakers from Codito,Redhat, IBM, Xandros