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Software Freedom Workshop 2012

FSMWB jointly with Linux Users' Group Kolkata and School of Mobile Computing and Communication will organise a workshop on Software Freedom Day on 14th September 2012 at 2:00 pm at Jadavpur University main campus.

FINAL SCHEDULE
TOPIC	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TIME
Inauguration	Ashok Thakur	President, FSMWB	14:00 - 14:10 hrs
Free Software and Freedom	P. K. Das	FSMWB	14:10 - 14:40 hrs
GNU/Linux Basics	A Mani	Calcutta University	14:40 - 15:25 hrs
GNU/Debugger (GDB) and Related Tools	Mandar Mitra	I.S.I. Kolkata	15:25 - 16:25 hrs
Ankur and Localisation-1	Tirtha Chatterjee	KDE Developer	16:25 - 17:00 hrs
HIGH TEA			17:00 - 17:25 hrs
Ankur and Localisation-2	Tirtha Chatterjee	KDE Developer	17:25 - 17:55 hrs
GNU/Haskell and Related Packaging	Lakshmi Narasimhan	Fedora Project	18:00 - 19:00 hrs
JAVA Frameworks	J.P. Mathews and Team	DPS, India	19:00 - 19:30 hrs
Concluding Remarks	TBA	TBA	19:30 - 19:35 hrs

REGISTRATION

It is necessary for all intending participants to pre-register. For pre-registration, please send an email to FSMWB (freesoftwaremanchawb AT gmail.com ) along with the following details (in the same order): Name, Occupation, Academic Qualification, Age, Email, Mobile, Address, Exposure to FOSS and Remarks. Certificates of participation will be issued to all participants.

The program poster is here

Reports

FSMWB Howrah District Conference

Was held on 12th September, 2010 at Jogesh Chandra Girls' High School, Howrah. Photographs are here

First State Conference on Free Software Movement

Key Note Address by Dr. Nagarjuna

Dr. Nagarjuna delivered the keynote address - "Free Software as a Social Movement". His slide presentation is available here - FSM-30th-Jan-Nagarjuna-Prez.pdf.

He also left with us a copy (with permission to re-print and re-distribute) of his essay "Clearing the roadblocks to Create a Free Digital Society", which is essentially the gist of his talk. The essay can be downloaded from here Nagarjuna-roadblocks.pdf

Free Software in e.Governance from Amtron

Mr. Anupam Barman, System Consultant, Amtron, Govt of Assam spoke at length on the FOSS activities initiated at Amtron. He emphasized how FOSS was helping Assam Govt to deliver better services. His slides are available here in PDF Leveraging_Free_Open_Source_in_eGovernance-Amtron.pdf‎ format.

Free Software and Sovereignty : Kiran Chandra

Coming shortly

Application Development with Free Software : Pradeepto Bhattacharya (KDE)

Pradeepto Bhattacharya, KDE Asia Representative

Pradeepto Bhattacharya from KDE Project was the last speaker on Day 1. He gave a passionate speech on how everyone, from any walk of life can contribute to Free Software. How it is all about empowering people e.g. in the KDE project the youngest contributor aged 16 to the oldest at 68 years. That one need not be a software geek to contribute. His talk also focussed on the new mobile centric computing and how Free Software is again proving its mettle in that area.

Discussion Session Reports

Details coming shortly

Combined e-Gov and Application Development Session

Combined E-Gov and AppsDev Session, Chaired by Dr. Tinku Acharya

Mr. Jayanta Parial, Joint Director, CDAC Kolkata, spoke on NRC-FOSS, its FOSS Helpline, the BOSS project and e-Gov applications developed by CDAC in general. His slides are available here Boss-bangla-ed.pdf and here E-Governance-and-foss-cdac.pdf.

Plenary Session

Plenary Session, Chaired by Prof. Subimal Sen

Details coming shortly

Future Programme

Coming shortly

Past Events

FSMWB organised a 2-Day State Level Workshop on Free Software Applications at the School of Mobile Computing & Communication (SMCC), Jadavpur University, Salt Lake Campus.

The program schedule is here

The Paschim Banga Vigyan Mancha and the Free Software Movement West Bengal Work Group jointly organised the 1st State Conference on Free Software Movement. The conference was held at the Rajabazar Science College, 92 APC Road, Kolkata – 700009 during 31 & 31 January 2010. For details, please click here

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Meetings

[Organizing Committee Meeting on 19th Jan]