The target audience was teachers from Science/CS background. The three day
workshop was guided & assisted by experts from BPRIM, Pune, IIT-Bombay & SPACE,
Thiruvananthapuram. Dr. S. Katre (BPRIM), Prof. Manjusha Joshi (BPRIM), Dr. V.
Sasikumar (SPACE), Prof. Mani Bhushan (IIT Bombay) & Prof. Madhu Belur (ITI
Bombay) were the experts who guided the seminar. There were 55 participants from
37 institutes in Kerala & Tamilnadu.
3. One Day Linux Workshop
A one day workshop on Linux was organized on Nov 4, 2009 by the FREE SOFTWARE
CELL jointly with Indian Linux Users group Kochi Chapter. 30 Students of Ist
year MCA programme along with some faculties attended the workshop. The workshop
was lead by Mr. Sameer Thahir [Wipro technologies], Mr. Jay Jacob [Security
Expert, Linux], Mr. Sreenadh and Mr. Venkat.
The main focus was on the use of GNU/
Linux as a popular Operating system and familiarizing with other Free Software
tools like Open Office and gcc. The experts also discussed the philosophy of
Free Open Source Software and the career opportunities related to FOSS. The
workshop ended with a movie ' Big Buck Bunny' entirely produced with free
software tools. The workshop came to an end at 1.30 pm.
4.Koha Workshop
The FOSS Cell of Department of Computer Applications and
NRCFOSS/AU-KBC Centre, Anna University, Chennai jointly conducted 2 day
Workshop on KOHA on 22nd and 23rd of May 2009. Mr.S Senthil Anand , Mr.
Balasundaram and Mr.Mohammed Imran were the resource persons.View Photos
5. PHP/MYSQL Workshop
One day PHP/MYSQL Workshop was
conducted on 17th January 2009. Mr. Sony George, Senior Developer, Open Source
Solutions handled classes.
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