[Fsf-friends] Invitation to NITC FOSS Meet

[प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A)]

Hi,

This is an invitation to join NITC FOSS Meet 2006. The latest version of
this document is availbale in wiki form at
http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/06/Invitation

Regards
Praveen A

NIT Calicut, formerly known as REC Calicut <http://nitc.ac.in/> is hosting a
two day FOSS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS> event on 18th [Saturday]
and 19th [Sunday] of March 2006 ( NITC FOSS Meet 2006
<http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/06>). It is the second
edition of the event [Last year it was called FLOSS Meet]

   -  FLOSS Meet 2005<http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Calicut/NIT/FOSS_Meet/05>

The event has grown from last years 4 speakers/3 talks/one day to 13
speakers/10 talks + 2 workshops/bofs and more/two days.

It is part of the ongoing effort from the FOSS EDU
group<http://foss-edu-in.sarovar.org/>to popularise FOSS among
students. FOSS EDU already conducted successful
events at BMS College of
Engineering<http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore/BMSCE>,
PES Institute of Technology <http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore/PESIT>,
[Bangalore/MCC| Mount Carmel College]], Sapthagiri College of
Engineering<http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore/SCE>(all in
Bangalore <http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore>). Our next destination
after NIT Calicut <http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Calicut/NIT> is
MSRIT<http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore/MSRIT>,
Bangalore. NITC FOSS Meet is a part of the FOSS Month
2006<http://fci.wikicities.com/wiki/Bangalore/FOSS_Month-2006>celebrations

FOSS EDU group is started as an offort to provide FOSS Education tools
customised for Indian educational institutions. The first step in this
direction is to produce a dollar one
encyclopedia<http://www.techmag.biz/dollar_one_encyclopedia>,
ie, to bring out a CD/DVD edition of wikipedia <http://wikipedia.org/>.


Now back to the event details. 9 Talks + 2 Workshops March 18,19 2006



   - Arun M Foss - General Talk [FOSS in Society] Intellectual Property,
   Copyright, Licence issues
   - Gopal Vijayraghavan DotGNU / Mozilla Hack
   - Kalyan Varma Network Security
   - Philip Tellis Education/Creative Commons
   - Praveen and Dilip Debian Workshop
   - Premshree Pillai Ruby
   - Sharath Lakshman Live CD Workshop
   - Shreekumar Quake 3 - Fun and more
   - Shreyas Srinivasan GNOME Hack
   - Pradeepto K Bhattacharya KDE Development
   - Shyam Mani Gentoo Developer
   - Aanjhan R Embedded Linux
   - Kushal Das Fedora BOF

Apart from the scheduled talks there will be bofs on various topics like we
saw in FOSS.IN <http://foss.in/2006>

Looking forward to your support and participation.


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