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==FOSS Meet@NITC 2007== | ==FOSS Meet@NITC 2007== | ||
[[Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/07|FOSS Meet@NITC 2007]] - Third edition of the event organised by glugc | [[Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/07|FOSS Meet@NITC 2007]] - Third edition of the event organised by glugc | ||
==FOSS in Science 2007== | |||
[[www.space-kerala.org/fsc|FOSS in Science]] is a national workshop | |||
being organised by the [[http://www.uccollege.edu.in/|Union Christian | |||
College]], Aluva, Kerala State, in | |||
collaboration with the Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing | |||
and Employment (SPACE)[www.space-kerala.org] and [[www.gnu.org.in|Free Software | |||
Foundation of India (FSFI)]]. | |||
The three-day workshop will focus on the relevance of Free and Open | |||
Source Software (FOSS) in science education, scientific research and | |||
scientific computing. This is the first such workshop to be conducted | |||
in India, and is aimed at introducing FOSS to college teachers, | |||
doctoral students, research workers and others. | |||
The workshop will have as speakers, eminent FOSS experts from leading | |||
institutions like IIT Bombay, TIFR, Institute of Plasma Research, | |||
Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana, Free Software Foundation of India and | |||
Geological Survey of India. Participants will also have an opportunity | |||
to get hands on experience in using some of the software that is | |||
introduced by the speakers. A CD containing the GNU/Linux operating | |||
system, along with a number of applications that can be used in | |||
scientific research, will be given to all participants. The CD may be | |||
used to install the software on any number of computers and may also | |||
be freely copied and distributed. | |||
==Debian Developers Conference 2006== | ==Debian Developers Conference 2006== | ||