Bangalore/BMSCE

Welcome to BMS College of Engineering FOSS Community (BMSLUG) page! We have a Mailing list in Yahoo and a community in orkut.

We participated the Software Freedom Day 06 celebrations of Bangalore FOSS Community and hosted Debian Conclave 06.

Debian Conclave 06

On 29th Sunday of October.

See Debian Concalve page for more details and registration.

Software Freedom Day 06

The event was on 16th September 2006. We started at 9.30am.

Blogs

16th September 2006 , Software Freedom Day @BMSCE by Netravathi B
Tuxmaniac @ BMS, Bangalore on SFD by Aanjhan R
Software Freedom Day 06 by Praveen A
Akshay

Sessions

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 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
Akshay Narayan - akshay-dot-jrao-at-yahoo-dot-co-dot-in
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 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