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FOSS : From the Open Source Shelf : CDAC Monthly Seminar Series Download
Upcoming Seminars: March 20 | April 17 Previous Seminars: January 16, 2010 | December 19, 2009
CDAC Mumbai, Kharghar centre, announces a series of lecture demos to introduce you to the wide range of high quality softwares available in open source. Being open source they are available with the full source code and the freedom for you to copy, distribute, study, adapt and extend as you feel like. Usually these are also available free of charge. These lecturedemos will be held on the third saturday of every month at the Kharghar campus of CDAC (address below), and will be from 10 to 12.30. We will cover 24 softwares at a time.
The softwares being planned in the list include
- office productivity tools like office suite, e-mail clients, latex, project management, etc
- multimedia tools like players, CD/DVD writers, audio/video/image editing tools, 3D image manipulation
- learning management, content management, knowledge management, library management, document management, etc
- artificial intelligence tools in areas such as natural language processing, machine learning, neural network, etc
- visualisation and plotting tools
- tools for localisation and accessibility
- application softwares such as hospital management and ecommerce.
- Tools for software development – IDEs, performance evaluation, etc
Target audience:The seminars will be of interest to small/medium scale companies, faculty members (particularly those pursuing any research), and students of different disciplines.
Registration: Registration is necessary for participation. Seats are limited – a max of 100 per session. Registration fee: Rs 200/ per session, payable directly at CDAC office or on site. In order to register, please apply giving your name, institution, contact address (incl email and phone), etc and a local cheque/DD for the fee, and send to the address below.
Programme Details: Check the www.ossrc.org.in web site for the details of specific sessions. The first session will be on 21st November, 2009.If any of you are expert on any open source softwares and would like to demonstrate it, please write to the address below with relevant details.
Contact:
Course Administration, CDAC (formerly NCST), Raintree Marg, Near Bharati Vidyapeeth Engg College, Opp. Kharghar Railway Station, Sector 7, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai 400614, India.
Telephone: +912227565303 Telefax: +912227560004.
5 minutes walk from Kharghar Railway station.
Website: http://www.ossrc.org.in; E-mail: course_kh@cdacmumbai.in
Program: NCOSS 2009 (National Conference on Open Source Software – 2009)
Date: May 25th-26th, 2009.
More details at ncoss.cdacmumbai.in
Program :OSSRC meet with IBM partners
Date : 6th March 2008
Venue : C-DAC Mumbai, Kharghar office
Seminar/Talk on :
- Introduction to FOSS – What, Why and Aspects of FOSS, by Aparna Ramamurthy
- Demo of Drishti – by Drishti team
- Demo of Anumaan – by Shagun
- Demo of RE portal – by RE team
- Demo of Tool for Incremental Localisation (IL) and Hindi Moodle – by IL team
Participation by OSSD
Helping Flood Relief Operations in Bihar
A 2 member team from OSSRC at CDAC mumbai went to Patna for 2 weeks (11-24 September 2008) in order to support a humanitarian effort, to help flood relief in Bihar. This particular effort, which was being led by IBM India, required them to use some specialised Software(s) to assist Government of Bihar, with certain aspects of flood management (e.g. Shelter Management, Disaster Victim Registry etc.). The OSSRC team was entrusted with the task of installation & customization (in part) of a popular FOSS disaster management software named Sahana ( http://www.Sahana.lk/ ). The team used it's FOSS experience to carry out all required tasks and the work was praised by IBM India.
Program: National Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Differently Abled People (DAP).
Date: September 19-20, 2008
Venue: Ahmedabad, Gujrat.
Organiser: CSI, Ahmedabad chapter.
Talk on:
Predictive Writing to reduce keyboard overhead (particularly for Indian Languages text), by Mr. Sagun Baijal
Program: CDA Workshop
Date: 16-17 April 2008
Venue: Bangalore
Organiser: IBM India
Program: HL7 Conference
Date: 15th April 2008
Venue: Bangalore
Organiser: IBM India
Program : FOSS and Language Computing 2008
Date : March 25th - 27th, 2008
Venue : Bhubaneshwar, Orissa
Organiser : BOSS support team, C-DAC Mumbai.
Seminar/Talk on :
FOSS and Indian Language computing' - by Dr. Sasikumar M. Localisation of Moodle, a case study – by Aparna Ramamurthy
Program : FOSS Conference
Date : Februray 02 , 2008
Venue : FOSS Conference Chennai (MIT Campus)
Organiser : NRC FOSS Chennai
Seminar/Talk: An Ophthalmology EMR system, using Open Source tools by Abey S.A
Program : Techshare India 2008
Date : February 4-5, 2008
Venue : Delhi
Organiser : BarrierBreak Technologies, Net Systems Informatics (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Seminar/Talk on
Automatic Generation of speech Interface for GUI tools/application using Accessibility frame work by Mr. Naveen Kumar
Program : Seminar for teachers on "Demystifying E-Learning"
Date: January 5-6, 2008
Venue :CDAC Mumbai Kharghar.
Organiser : Education Technology Unit
Seminar/Talk on :
- Gimp, Audacity, Kino - by Lalitanand Dandge
- Introduction to Localisation – by Aparna Ramamurthy
Program : Elitex 2008 - Electronics and Information Technology Exposition
Date : January 17 -18, 2008
Venue : India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Organiser : Department of Information Technology, Ministry of IT, Government of India
Seminar/Talk: Presented a demo of Drishti
Program : Two-Day Workshop on Open Source Software Tools for Libraray- Professionals: Koha and Drupal
Date : November 29-30, 2007
Venue : CDAC Mumbai Juhu
Organiser : OSSRC along with CDAC Mumbai Library
Seminar/Talk : Drupal and Koha by Mr. Lalitanand Dandge and Mr. Abey S.A.
Program : Moodle Training
Date : 13th & 14th nov 2007
Venue : Mumbai
Organiser : QUINOX
Seminar/Talk: How-to use Moodle by Mr. Sandip Saha
Program : National Conference on Open Source Software
Date : 13 to 15 July 2007
Venue : Ahmedabad
Organiser : CII Ahmedabad
Seminars/Talks:
Drupal, PHP, MySql, Eclipse, Sankara Case Study by Lalitanand Dandge, Pradeep Kumar, Hari R and Aparna Ramamurthy
Program : Office Productivity and System Management
Date : 7th July 2007
Venue : CDAC Mumbai Juhu
Organiser : BCCI
Seminar/Talk: Linux Desktop by Santosh Mondal Linux File System by Aparna Ramamurthy FireFox by Pradeep Kumar Media player for linux (vlc, totem), Internet Protocol Messanger(GAIM), Voice chatting Tools(Ekiga Softphone, Linphone) by Sunny Saurav Drupal by Lalitanand Dandge and Abey S.A GIMP by Naveen Kumar
Program : Flossworld International workshop
Date : April 2007
Venue : Brussels
Organiser : Flossworld team
Seminar/Talk : FOSS in India, by Aparna Ramamurthy
Program : Localisation workshop by MAIT
Date : February 2007
Venue : Delhi
Organiser : MAIT
Seminar/Talk :
- Introduction to Localisation by Aparna Ramamurthy
- Input Methods for Localisation – by Aparna Ramamurthy
Program : Flossworld Regional workshop
Date : January 2007
Venue : Delhi
Organiser : Flossworld team, C-DAC Mumbai
Seminar/Talk on :
- FOSS survey analysis and results – by Dr. Sasikumar
- Flossworld project discussions
Program :Vernacular Languages -the danger due to computers – a meet
Date : 25 – 28 January 2007
Venue : Vasai, Mumbai
Seminar/Talk: Bridging the Language Divide by Aparna Ramamurthy
