Bangalore/BMSCE

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We are participating the Software Freedom Day 06 celebrations of Bangalore FOSS Community.

Software Freedom Day 06

The event is on 16th September 2006. We start at 10.30am.

The sessions are

• Free Software Philosophy -- by Aanjhan R
• Discussion/FAQ on FOSS (motivation, benefits, challenges, student contributors) -- Praveen A, Aanjhan, Srikanth
• Demo of AIGLX and GNU/Linux on ipod -- Aanjhan R
• Demos/Presentations/Feedback by students
• Future plans for BMS FOSS Community/Upcoming events
• Desktop SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

(SLED10) - Rajababu Gorjala, Technology Sales Specialist - Linux Impact,Novell Inc.

Co-Ordinators

1. Praveen A - pravi -dot- a -at- gmail -dot- com
2. Aanjhan R - aanjhan -at- gmail -dot- com
3. Anish Jacob - anishblogs -at- gmail -dot- com
4. Sharadha M - sharadha -dot- bmsce at- gmail -dot- com
5. 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

• Dilip V
• Praveen A
• Thejesh GN
• 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

• FOSS Day at BMSCE by Praveen A
• FOSS and College Projects by Thejesh GN
• A Day with a difference by Dilip V

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