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, hosted Debian Conclave 06 and Swatantra tech fest.

Swatantra tech fest

• Swatantra tech fest - Free Software, Free Society on 21st April 2007

Basic Installation Workshop

• Basic Installation Workshop - 24th March 2007

Debian Conclave 06

• Debian Conclave page - A planning session for the Debian Developers Conference on 29th October 2006

Software Freedom Day 06

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

Blogs

1. 16th September 2006 , Software Freedom Day @BMSCE by Netravathi B
2. Tuxmaniac @ BMS, Bangalore on SFD by Aanjhan R
3. Software Freedom Day 06 by Praveen A
4. 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

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. Akshay Narayan - akshay-dot-jrao-at-yahoo-dot-co-dot-in
5. Sharadha M - sharadha -dot- bmsce at- gmail -dot- com
6. Netravathi B - netra -dot- b86 -at- gmail -dot- com
7. Vikram Vincent vincentvikram -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

BMSLUG Members

1. Akshay
2. Netravathi B
3. Praveen A
4. Vikram Vincent