<h2>(FOSS) From the Open Source Shelf : CDAC Monthly Seminar Series</h2>CDAC Mumbai, Kharghar centre
<br><br><b>Last date for registering for First Upcoming Seminar</b>: <span class="keydate">March 17, 2010</span>
<br><b>First Upcoming Seminar on</b>: <span class="keydate">March 20, 2010</span>
<br><b>Last date for registering for Second Upcoming Seminar</b>: <span class="keydate">April 14, 2010</span>
<br><b>Second Upcoming Seminar on</b>: <span class="keydate">April 17, 2010</span>
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</p><p>CDAC
Mumbai, Kharghar centre, has been conducting a series of lecture demos
to introduce you to the wide range of high quality software available
in open source. A list of upcoming seminars is given below. To attend a
seminar, please register on or before the specified closing date. If
you want any other specific software to be taken up at a future
seminar, please let us know. If you are expert in any open source
software and would like to demonstrate it, please contact us with
relevant details. You may also send this information by posting a
comment to <a href="http://www.ossrc.org.in/forum">http://www.ossrc.org.in/forum</a> .<br><br>Time & Venue: 09:30 to 12:30, on third Saturday of every month at Kharghar campus of CDAC.<br><br>Upcoming Seminars -<br><br>
March 20th, 2010 (registration closes on March 17th, 2010)<br><br>•
NLTK - NLTK [Natural Language Processing Toolkit] is a complete Open
Source suite of Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for
research and development in Natural Language Processing. It provides
utilities for many NLP tasks like chunking, stemming and parsing to
name a few. It is a useful tool for students, professionals and
researchers interested in Natural Language Processing and is widely
used by NLP community all over the world.<br><br>• GNU Build System -
The GNU build system provides an environment to a computer programmer
that helps them make their software/packages portable across platforms
(at least for Unix-like operating systems). It also makes the build
process easier for the user, allowing him/her to use just a small set
of commands to build the software/package from its source code and
install it.<br><br>April 17th, 2010 (registration closes on April 14th, 2010)<br><br>Bug
tracking systems MantisBT and Bugzilla: A bug tracking system is a very
important tool in the software development process. Programmers and
quality assurance people rely on it to keep track of reported bugs in
their work. A database storing the bug data is a vital component of a
bug tracking system. In a more general sense, a bug tracking system can
be used as an issue tracking system to keep track of important issues
in any project. Both MantisBT and Bugzilla are free, open source, web
based bug tracking systems.<br><br>• MantisBT is written in PHP, uses
MySQL/ MSSQL/ PostgreSQL database, and works with Apache/ IIS
webserver. It can be installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OS and OS/2.<br>Easy to set up and use, it is very popular.<br><br>•
Bugzilla is written in Perl, uses MySQL/ PostgreSQL/ Oracle database,
and works with Apache web server. It is recommended to be installed on
Linux or Solaris, but can be installed on Windows (with some efforts).
With powerful features, it is used by many well known open source and
proprietary softwares.<br><br>On the horizon<br><br>• Eucalyptus<br><br>• Hadoop<br><br>• Drupal<br><br>• SuTra (an Intelligent Suggestive Translation assistance tool , developed by CDAC)<br><br>Previous sessions: FOSS tools presented in previous sessions.<br>
<br>Registration
fee: Rs. 200/- per participant. To register, please apply to the
address below, giving your name, institution, contact address
(including email and phone), and a local cheque/ DD for the fee.</p>
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