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Software Freedom Day-2008 @ National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India

September 20, 2008 is being observed as the International Software Freedom Day (SFD). SFD is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The non-profit company Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboratio but volunteer teams around the world organise the local SFD events to impact their own communities. In NITK the event is bieng conducted completely free of cost by the Web Enthusiasts Club and Linux Users Group sponsored by NAABO and NITK Sun OSUM sponsored by Sun Microsystems (as par of Sun CA Program). We are celebrating the Software Freedom Week between 21st Spetember to 25th September, 2008. Series of events have been planned which will kick off tomorrow. NITK Director will be inaugurating the event. The events to be held are as follows:

September 21, 2008:

Video Screening- Screening of Videos on Open Source
Time: 9:00- 9:30 AM

Introduction to SFD and Directors Address
Time: 9:30- 9:55 AM

Talk by NAABO 
Time:  9:55- 10:15 AM

Talk on Open Source Opportunities by  Mr. Mahesha Nanjundaiah, General Manager for Compiler and Tools R&D Labs,Hewlett Packard.
Time: 10:15-11:15 AM

Open Moko Demo- Open Source Mobile Phone
Time: 11:15- 12:15

Desktop Glamour- Desktop Effects and Open Source Games Demo
Time: 1:15- 2:15 PM

Soft War- Software Debate
Time: 2:00 PM Onwards

September 23, 2008

Workshop on MySQL, PHP and Apache
Time: 5:30-7:30 PM
Venue: ATB Seminar Hall

September 24, 2008

Introduction  to Open Solaris and ZFS
Time: 5:30-7:30 PM
Venue: ATB Seminar Hall 

September 25, 2008

NetBeans Deep Dive 
TIme: 5:30-7:30 PM
Venue: ATB Seminar Hall 

Looking forward towards an Eventful blogs.sun.com/images/smileys/smile.gif" class="smiley" alt=":)" title=":)" /> Week!!!

Posted at 11:18PM Sep 20, 2008 by Mohammed Sanaulla in CA  |  Comments[0]