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== 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. | |||
*[http://foss.in/2005/ FOSS.IN/2005] | |||
== BMSCE Bangalore == | |||
On 24th September 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 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 | |||
*[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 | |||
== VIT Pune == | |||
We in our college ( VIT Pune) have arranged FREE SEMINAR SERIES for | 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.). | 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 : | The main attraction of the event are : | ||
# Dr. Nagarjuna (scientist TIFR) Chairman FSF(FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION) India. | |||
#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. | |||
#On DAy 3 there are Big shots like MD/CEOs of redhat, codito, IBM. | |||
#Technical seminars are to be covered by speakers from Codito,Redhat, IBM, Xandros | |||
*[http://www.vit.edu/techstasy Techstasy 2k5] | *[http://www.vit.edu/techstasy Techstasy 2k5] | ||