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On 24th September the FOSS Community Bangalore conducted a seminar on FOSS. The speakers were | On 24th September 2005 the FOSS Community Bangalore conducted a seminar on FOSS. The speakers were | ||
*[http://www.dilpu.net Dilip V] | *[http://www.dilpu.net Dilip V] | ||
*[http://www.pravi.co.nr Praveen A] | *[http://www.pravi.co.nr Praveen A] | ||
Revision as of 20:19, 14 December 2005
FOSS.IN
FOSS.IN is India's Premier and 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.
Register for FOSS.IN posters printed copies now! [The posters will be available at Nov 18 BLUG Meet].
We had many BoF sessions on FOSS in Education for India and people with this interest from all over India paricipated in this discussion and here is some of the ideas/issues raised in the BoFs. FOSS.IN BoFs on Education
PESIT Bangalore
A FOSS seminar (open Talk) was organised from 4 - 7 pm on 24th November 2005 in PESIT.
- Session 1 Why FOSS ? / Introduction to FOSS by Tejas
- Session 2 FOSS Development ( Tools and Applications) byAnush Shetty
- Session 3 Intoduction to Python - Swaroop CH
- Session 4 Debugging Tools - Shreyas
- Session 5 FOSS in Education project - what needs to be done ? Praveen
- Session 6 Get Linux Jobs ! Atul Chitnis
Update: The blogs are here
See PESIT page for other FOSS activities in PESIT.
BMSCE Bangalore
On 24th September 2005 the FOSS Community Bangalore conducted a seminar on FOSS. The speakers were
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
- FOSS Day at BMSCE by Praveen A
- FOSS and College Projects by Thejesh GN
- A Day with a difference by Dilip V
VIT Pune
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.).
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