- Event Website: http://www.fossmeet.in/nitc/
Highlights[]
The Honorable Chief Minister of Kerala Shri V S Achuthanandan will be the chief guest
(but unfortunately he couldnt due to ongoing budget session)
The schedule is avialable here
Day 1[]
- FOSS in Professional Life By Atul Chitnis
- Unconference by Kiruba Shankar
- Hack the badge contest - [1] [2] Pramode CE
- Zope Component Architecture - Baiju M
- MySQL Storage Engine Architecture - Ramkumar Lakshminarayanan
Day 2[]
- Internationalisation and Localisation (workshop/hands-on) - Praveen A
- Alliance VLSI CAD tools HOWTO - Shakthi Kannan
- Embedded Systems by Aanjan
- How to choose open source cms - Vivek Khurana Slides (pdf)
- Careers with GNU/Linux - Shakthi Kannan
- OpenPCD demo/hacking - Kushal Das
- RTAI (RealTime Application Interface for Linux) workshop - Sreejith N
- Phoenix workshop - Pramod CE
- From Seeds to Software: Culture of Copying - Anivar Aravind, GAIA
- Session on Dhvani Malayalam Text-to-speech engine - Santhosh Thottingal
- Lets Play with the wiki (tutorial/hands-on ) - Hiran Venugopalan
- FOSS Business models By Atul Chitnis Slides (pdf)
Day 3[]
- Panel Discussion - Involving students in FOSS development (Pramod CE, Hiran V, Shakthi Kannan, Aanjhan R)
- Font development workshop - Hussain KH, Suresh P
- caching for web applications - Vivek Khurana Slides (pdf)
- Decorators in Python - Parthan S R, NRCFOSS
- And a lot more...(a free lunch from the great "A MESS")
FOSS Projects Demo[]
Got an exciting FOSS project to show off? Tell us what you require and be there! You can reach us here.
- Akshara Malayalam OCR - Antony FM, MES Kuttippuram
- Village Office Automation Software - Jinesh K.J, Mohd. Suhail Rehman, MES Kuttippuram
Community Meetups[]
Blogs/Comments[]
[...] I've got fond memories of last year - preparing the slides at the last minute, walking about in that big campus, spending time at Calicut beach. We had a lot of fun and I mean, A LOT. And the conference is really good, the kids do use Fedora on the desktop in their labs. The XGL demos were a particular attraction last year.
[...] NITC's FOSS event has grown in stature, and is quickly becoming one of the recognized FOSS events in India, along with Gnunify, Freedel and of course FOSS.IN.[...]
[...]Today, I was supposed to leave for Calicut to attend FOSS.NITC which starts tomorrow. I should be in Netravati at the moment but I am not thanks to certain issues that cropped up in the morning and I realised that I can't go today :/, I immediately booked tomorrow's flight tickets to Calicut as I didn't want to miss the conference.[...]
[...] The organizers, students belonging to various branches in NITC, did a very nice job. This is their 3rd year of conducting the FOSS meet and they did show signs of maturity.[...]
[...] It still amazes me “How in such a short span of time these NITC Folks have managed to make FOSS.NITC a nationwide Community event”. Keep it up guys.[...]
- Vivek Khurana
[...] I attended recently concluded foss.nitc in Calicut. Conducted in fluctuating weather of Kerla, foss.nitc was hosted inside beautiful NIT Calicut campus, few kilometers away from civilization. [...]
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