<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Hi all,</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br>
The Free Software Cell of FISAT Engineering College (Angamali,Cochin,Kerala), FFSC is organizing a national level FOSS Conference "ICE-FOSS '10" on April 9th & 10th.It will be highly gracious if you could spare us some contacts for sponsorship and guide us in finding speakers and resource persons for the events. We will be highly elated if you and your team <font size="2">"Democratic Alliance for Knowledge Freedom"</font>could take part in the event and attend the seminars and open discussions<b>.<br>
<br>About FISAT<br></b><br>Federal Institute of Science And Technology (FISAT) is a ISO 9001:2000 certified private self financing Engineering College in the city of Cochin, Kerala. The College has always been a centre of excellence and believes in not just producing graduates of technology but in producing valuable professionals who can contribute to the community.Within a short span of 7<br>
years the college has become one of the most sought after engineering colleges.<br><b><br>About FFSC<br></b><br>Fisat Free Software Cell established in 2006 under the Computer science Department of FISAT and is one of the most active Student Cells in the College. It stands for a person's right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. FFSC undertakes various open source related projects and Dakshina - A high performance Cluster Computer was one such<br>
project. We also conduct regular classes on Linux, Web Design and development. FFSC activities also include Conducting linux install fests, seminars and conferences.<br><br>Following are the events which we are planning to conduct:<br>
<br>Talks:<br><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px; "> FOSS,GNU & Ethics</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "> Green IT and High Performance Computing</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "> GIT Version Control Systems</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px; "> Free software in education and Beyond</li></ul><br><br>Workshops<br><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Kernel Programming </li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Qt Workshop (and Maemo Basics)</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Python and SciPy</li></ul><br>Open Discussions<br><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px; "> Localization and Malayalam Community</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Open Source for the differently-abled (Focusing on Visually Challenged)</li>
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