hi all: am thankful to satyaakam for drawing my attention to the ILUG-D discussion thread on this topic. since i am a new entrant to the list, i hope you will bear with me for starting this as a new msg, instead of reply to the existing thread.
would like to share the following brief info about the NRCFOSS / BOSS workshops. ------------- “FOSS Demystified” workshops -- organized by C-DAC BOSS Centres So far held in Bengaluru (15th Jul), Noida (29 Jul – in Delhi), Mohali (31st Jul), Hyderabad (5th Aug), Thiruvananthapuram (12th Aug), Kolkata (19th Aug) and Delhi (26th Aug). There will be one in Mumbai (15th Sep) and the last of the series in Chennai (23rd Sep is the likely date). Target group : mainly Government officials, but participants have also been from academia from other groups. General agenda : FOSS overview, demo of BOSS distro, a brief presentation on BOSS deployment done (e.g., at Palakkad dist/taluk offices, Chattisgarh - CHOICE (Chattisgarh Online Information System for Citizen Empowerment) project, etc.) The main idea is to create an awarness about FOSS and entice them to look for FOSS-based solutions. At some of these workshop, Inaugural / key note address by eminent persons (to make an impact on the participants) : e.g., Niyam Bhushan at Mohali ; Dr Debesh Das, Min.-in-C of IT, Govt. of West Bengal ; Prof Srivatsan, Pro-Vice Chancellor, IGNOU ; DG, NIC ; Shri Sitaram Chamarty, TCS Hyderabad ---------------- with best wishes Srinivasan. Dr. S. Srinivasan Project Scientist, NRCFOSS C-DAC Chennai srinivas...@cdac.in <http://webmail.cdac.in/twig/index.php?&s%5Bmailbox%5D=mail%2Fsent-mail&s%5BmailGroup%5D=%2A&s%5Bmail_startmsg%5D=1&s%5Bsortby%5D=date&s%5Bsortbyway%5D=1&s%5Bdelete-return%5D=msgview&s%5Bmailtree%5D=0%7C&c%5Bf%5D=mail&c%5Ba%5D=compose&form%5bto%5d=srinivas...@cdac.in> 94443 02439 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
