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Contents 1 Reports 1.1 First State Conference on Free Software Movement 1.1.1 Key Note Address by Dr. Nagarjuna 1.1.2 Free Software in e.Governance from Amtron 1.1.3 Free Software and Sovereignty : Kiran Chandra 1.1.4 Application Development with Free Software : Pradeepto Bhattacharya (KDE) 1.1.5 Discussion Session Reports 1.1.5.1 Combined e-Gov and Application Development Session 1.1.6 Plenary Session 1.1.7 Future Programme 2 Past Events 3 Upcoming Events 4 Meetings

Reports

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

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Application Development with Free Software : Pradeepto Bhattacharya (KDE)

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

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Combined e-Gov and Application Development Session

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

Details coming shortly

Future Programme

Coming shortly

Past Events

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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Upcoming Events

Meetings

• [Organizing Committee Meeting on 19th Jan]