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Two days workshop on Free Software Philosophy: A dive into the depths, 7th 8th of Jan 2012

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 6 January, 2012 - 14:56
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Dear Friends,

Have you ever wondered:
- How free software can transform education?
- What kind of an impact Free Software can have on the Indian Economy?
- Why Social Change is necessary through Free Software?

and so much more more...

Then, this is your chance to find the answers in a fun, interactive sessions and substance-full discussions with with like-minded students and activists.

Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu, presents a two days workshop on the Philosophy of Free Software.
The following topics will be discussed.

- GNU project and Manifesto
- Ownership of Software
- Open source and Free software
- Patents
- CopyLeft
- Licenses

Days: 7th & 8th of Jan 2012

Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Place: University of Madras, Chepauk.

Place:
The workshop venue has been changed to,

ICSA Programme Centre,
Pantheon Road,
Opposite to Connemara Library (or) National Museum,
Egmore.

We are regret to inform you that we would be charging 100 Rs. as registration fee.
Unfortunately the University of Madras venue(which was free) has been changed due to its internal university events to this new venue(which is paid).

We believe this would be an opportunity where Geeks, Beginners, Newbies, attain the next level.

Note:
- Limited Seats!
- Participation has to be conformed in prior to the event through mail to alagunambiwelkin at fsftn dot org (or) contact 9962240050 / 9176661086.
- No registration fee, Food, Accommodation on your own.

--
Alagunambi Welkin
Executive Committee Member,
Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu,
part of Free Software Movement of India.
http://www.fsftn.org

Exebit 2011 - FOSS Workshop

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Submitted by sasiinguva on 26 February, 2011 - 20:34
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Do you want to know the myriad ways to customize the software to suit your needs ? Are you facing difficulties in updating your website's contents ? How to manage your website's functionalities(Administration) ? Then this workshop is for you.

Learn about Content Management Systems and how they can help you easily update your website's content including pictures and files. See what a Drupal website looks like for visitors and for the updater.

Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License, and is a free software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.

Do you think that the mobile manufacturers still use Nokia's Symbian O.S. in Mobiles? Have you noticed the open-source platforms like Android taking over the smart phone market? If you are interested in knowing these latest platform, then this workshop is the place to start. This workshop deals with the development of mobile applications on Android platform.

FYI: In Q4 2010 the Android O.S. was the world's best-selling smart phone platform, dethroning Nokia's Symbian from the 10 year top position, according to Canalys.

Each workshop will take around 3 to 4 hrs. Drupal will be a hands-on workshop, whereas Android App Development would be a normal session. Participants are allowed to bring their laptops.
Participants are screened based on their profiles.

For more queries contact foss@exebit.org or log on to our site http://www.exebit.org

Event Date: 
11 Mar 2011 - 04:33 - 13 Mar 2011 - 17:33
Event Place: 
Computer Science Department , IIT Madras , Chennai - 600036

Workshop on GNU/Linux at SRK Engg College

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Submitted by tshrinivasan on 6 December, 2010 - 02:08
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Last Friday, Dec 3, We had a workshop on Gnu/Linux at
SRK Engineering College, Poonamalee, Chennai.

We had around 30 participants from vatious colleges and organizations.
College provided the LAB with redhat machines for the practice.

Arun Eapen, from RedHat
http://people.redhat.com/aeapen/
gave intro about the FOSS History and its growth.
Then, he moved to explained the concepts of "Visualization".

Using the "virt-manager" in the computers, he demonstrated on how to install another OS inside a host.
Participants explored the "virt-manager" and the hands on session was interesting to all of them.

I showed a demo of ubuntu desktop, multimedia, office applications, and other alternate applications.

Raman trained on the shell commands and linux file system architecture.
Then, he moved on "Perl" Training.
It was so interesting to see the participants learning perl with much interest.
Myself and Dhilip were helping them to practise.

Due to less time, I missed the handson training on Python.
Just showed a slideshow about Python.
http://www.slideshare.net/arulalan/python-an-intro

Ended with the talk on "Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai" [ http://ilugc.in ]

The feedback from the audience is delightful for all.
they want more workshops like this.
Let us plan and do more.

Thanks for Safia, Sathya Sai, Munisamy, Muthu and other college staff for the
excellent hosting, food, travel, lab arrangements and the efforts.

The interest on FOSS shown by the college management is so great.
Hoping for more sessions in the college.

Thanks for Arun Eapen, Raman and Dhilip for making this event a good start for the upcoming events.

Some snaps are here.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=44078&id=133359730009404

FOSS for budding developers at CMRIT

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Submitted by root on 5 April, 2010 - 12:45
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Free Software Movement-Karnataka (FSMK) in association with IBM Software Labs is organizing the encore workshop on 'FOSS for budding developers' at CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore, on 10th and 11th April 2010, targeted at students becoming code contributors - foss developers.

For more information

Event Date: 
10 Apr 2010 (All day) - 11 Apr 2010 (All day)
Event Place: 
CMR Institute of Technology No. 132, AECS Layout, IT Park Road, Bengaluru - 560 037.

Web development workshop using Joomla

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Submitted by root on 17 February, 2010 - 12:00
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Hi all,
There is a 2 Day workshop on web development using Joomla (www.joomla.org) at Sir MVIT College, Bangalore. Joomla is a very successful open sourced Content Management System.

This Workshop, open to students of all streams studying in Bangalore, will be conducted by Faculty members of IIT Roorkee.

Its a 12 hour workshop, 6hours each day.

The registration amount is Rs650/- per head.

At the end of the workshop the attendees will be awarded a certificate for the same.

All interested may reply to this email with the following details:

Name:
College:
USN:
Mobile Number:

For Further details please contact kunal [dot] t2 [at] gmail [dot] com.

Event Date: 
27 Feb 2010 (All day) - 28 Feb 2010 (All day)
Event Place: 
Sir MVIT College, Bangalore

SciPy Workshop @ AVIT Chennai

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Submitted by root on 13 January, 2010 - 21:45
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Two day workshop on "Python for Scientific Computing" is organized at AVIT by FOSSEE Team, on Thu Jan 28th and Fri Jan 29th. Registration fee for participant from academic institution is Rs 400 and for others Rs 2000.

For more info visit:
http://avitfossclub.org/

To get an idea, visit the previous workshop pages:
http://fossee.in/Py-UC-09

Event Date: 
28 Jan 2010 (All day) - 29 Jan 2010 (All day)
Event Place: 
Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Vinayaka Missions University.

Two-day workshop @ SSN by FSFTN

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Submitted by root on 16 November, 2009 - 09:06
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We Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu are organizing a two-day workshop at SSN College on December 5th and December 6th, 2009. Click the following link to check the details - http://fsftn.org/content/workshopssn2

Hurry up Students !!! Click here to register to the workshop. Only 120 Seats available !!!!

*Automatic enrollment to projects* of Free Software Foundation on registering to the workshop. In the workshop you would learn :

- Business Models in Free Software
- How to configure Linux for your day-to-day use?
- Scripting Languages !!
- Learn all these on-hands at Lab.
- Learn Ajax.
- Ever thought of having your own Operating System? Learn it, Build it!!!
- Start working on Free Software projects with guidance from experts in Software industry.

*This is the ideal way to use your holidays !!! Fun, Learn, Hack !!!!!!!*

--
Thanks & Regards
Siddhartha Malempati

Event Date: 
5 Dec 2009 (All day) - 6 Dec 2009 (All day)
Event Place: 
SSN College

Workshop-cum-Demo of Open Source Software Tools/Technologies at Chennai

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Submitted by mbchandar on 8 September, 2009 - 19:16
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10:00 - 10:45 Inauguration
Welcome Address : Dr. S. Srinivasan, C-DAC Chennai
Address by : Mr. M.R. Rajagopalan, Director, C-DAC Chennai
Inaugural address : Dr. Santhosh Babu, I.A.S., Managing Director,ELCOT
Vote of Thanks : Mr. R. Nagesh, C-DAC Chennai

10:45 - 11:00 Tea Break

11:00 - 12:00 Introduction to FOSS : Dr. M. Sasikumar, C-DAC
12:00 - 12:30 FOSS in eGov -- NIC Experience : Dr. P. Balasubramanian,NIC
12:30 - 13:30 An Introduction to BOSS/Open Office Live Demo -- C-DAC Team

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch and Demos

14:30 - 15:30 Q&A Session

Source: http://bosslinux.in/schedule-for-chennai-workshop/view

Event Date: 
23 Sep 2009 (All day)
Event Place: 
Savera Hotels Ltd. (Samavesh Hall), #146, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai, Chennai 600 004
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