State Level Convention for Academicians on Free Software

Organized by the Free Software Movement - Karnataka and Reva Institute of Technology

Free Software in Academics has proven itself to be an undisputed requirement in today's technology driven society, with most of the Foreign and National universities inculcating the culture of using Free and Open Source Software in Academics and Research.

In an attempt to portray this phenomenon of Free Software in Academics and Research at regional level, the Free Software Movement-Karnataka in collaboration with the Reva Institute of Technology are organizing a 'State Level Convention for Academicians on Free Software'. The convention aims at bringing out the various facets of Free Software in Academics and extents of applicability in Research to facilitate and enable the teaching faculty and research pursuant to utilize the abundant resources available in the Free and Open Source Software world.
Date: 11th and 12th March, 2011

Venue: Reva Institute of Technology and Management, Bagalur Cross, Yelahanka, Bangalore-560064

List of Talks

Day-1: 11th March,2011

Inauguration: Keynote speech and Inauguration of Reva GNU/Linux Users Group by Prof. K Gopinath, IISc., Dr.N Ranapratap Reddy, Principal,Reva ITM, Jayakumar HS, FSMK, Joint Secretary FSMI
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Session 1:Introduction to Free Software & FOSS in teaching and learning by Vikram Vincent and Prabodh
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Session 2:Free Software and Research by Prof.K.Gopinath, Indian Institute of Science
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Session 3:Spin Your Own GNU/Linux Distro by Bhuvan Krishna, Swecha
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Session 4:Programming, debugging using GCC/GDB based IDE's by Balaji Kutty, FSMK/FSMI

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Day-2: 12th March,2011

Session 5-1:Migrating ECE labs to Fedora Electronics Lab by Rangeen Basu, Fedora Ambassador
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Session 5-2:Application development for Android by Saket Srivastav, Oracle, Linux For You
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Session 6:Information Security Foundations and Challenges by Mr.ThiruVaazhi, SSN institutions, Chennai
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Session 7: FOSS in Cloud by Hemanth HM, Wisdomleaf
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& Contributing to FOSS by Bhavani Shankar, Ubuntu Develepor,Mindtree