Free Software Foundation of India, SPACE and NIT, Calicut, are
organising a national conference on Free Software and education at
Kozhikode on September 10, 11 and 12. Speakers like Prof. G. Nagarjuna
(TIFR, Mumbai), Prof. Kannan Moudgalya and Prabhu Ramachandran (IIT,
Mumbai) and Prof. K.R. Srivathsan (PVC, IGNOU) will speak on why only
Free Software should be used in education, and demonstrate some of the
applications that can be used in science and engineering education.
There will also be a few speakers from abroad, who will speak through
video networking.
The inauguration will be on 10th evening and Richard Stallman, founder
of the Free Software movement will give the keynote address. There
will also be a few speeches in Malayalam and an exhibition on Free
Software for education from 3 pm on 10th evening.
More details on the function are available at
http://c11.space-kerala.org/fsinedu where people can also register for
the conference. Registration fee is only Rs. 200 (Rs. 100 for
students). We are unable to provide trave support or free
accommodation to all participants. However, support can be provided to
a few participants who may need it.
Regards
Sasi
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V. Sasi Kumar
Free Software Foundation of India
Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/
Hi all
Happy to inform you all that RMS will be in bangalore in september , he will
be landing in bangalore on 7th and he has been invited by ABB, Bangalore for
a meeting / talk .
on 8th there is a public talk going to be hosted by one of the engineering
colleges in northern part of bangalore ( already several colleges are
showing interest to host the event, i am in touch with three engineering
colleges, that is Reva IT, MVIT and BMSIT ) after the talk he will be
attending a music program and will be leaving to kochi on 8th evening .
will be updating you all about every development
with regards
renuka prasad
Live streaming
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In a world where students have access to technology, there is
increasing need to incorporate systems wherein the focus is on the
learner than the teacher. Technology has a huge role to play in this
paradigm shift. In order that the teachers as facilitators grasp the
huge untapped potential of technology, TQMS is organizing a virtual
global conference in educational technology titled “Technology for
Blended and Distributed Education” from August 18-20, 2010 wherein
the speakers address the participants over virtual mode through video
conferencing and webinars. The objective is manifold to tap the
potential of technology, to bring world renowned and distinguished
speakers in specialized domains in ICT advancements in education and
address emerging concepts, technology based administrative deployment
practices, strategies and possibilities to share their experiences
with a select audience from their home location from any part of the
world. The sessions would be scheduled to take into consideration the
various location of speakers from different time zones. While
participants of the conference will assemble at Christ University,
the venue for conference proceedings, the robustness of the
conference will also be built around high quality peer reviewed
papers for a few face to face presentation as ‘interlude conference
plug-in sessions’ at the physical location of the conference on all
the days of the conference. It is intended that the conference will
also reinforce the supplementary and complementary nature of
technology wherein the facilitator plays a very important role.
--
Vikram Vincent
+919448810822
080 4012 9072
It's 'Free' as in Swatantra.
Dear All,
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is filing a pre-grant opposition
to a software patent application by Microsoft. We need people to help us
analyse the technical claims of the application and possibly those of
previously granted patents/previously filed applications where the invention
is similar to the one in the application we wish to oppose.
Interested persons may write to me at the earliest at krithika.dn(a)gmail.com.
Regards
Krithika
The Centre for Internet and Society
Bangalore