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Focus on trends in free, open-source software

Staff Reporter

Nearly 200 people attend meet at NIT-C

KOZHIKODE: A workshop on `Free and open-source software (FOSS), `FOSS@NITC 2006,' which focussed on recent trends in open source software development, concluded at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C), on Sunday.

The two-day workshop was inaugurated by G.R.C. Reddy, Director of the institute. M. Muralidharan, head of the Microsoft Division at Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, and an alumnus of the erstwhile Calicut Regional Engineering College, delivered the keynote address.

K.P. Mohandas, Dean (P.G), NIT-C, Deepak Malani, Amarjith Singh and Arun C. Pullat spoke.

The meet was organised by the Institution of Electronics and Electrical Engineers, NIT-C chapter; the Computer Society of India (CSI), Calicut chapter; Computer Science and Engineering Association (CSEA), NIT-C; GNU Linux Users' Group, Calicut; and Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE).

The official sponsor was Tata Consultancy Services.

The first talk on `Qt/KDE' was given by Pradeepto Bhattacharya, En-interactive technologies. Gopal Vijayraghavan from Yahoo! Inc delivered the next talk which was on the DOTGNU technology. The last talk in pre-lunch session was on Gentoo Linux development by Shyam Mani, who is a developer for Gentoo Linux himself.

In the post-lunch session, Philip Tellis of Yahoo! Inc interacted with the participants on `Creative commons.' This was followed by a demo on `game programming' by Shree Kumar from Hewlett-Packard (HP).

Six speakers addressed the technical sessions on the second day of the workshop on Sunday. The speakers included Premshree Pillai of Yahoo! Inc who spoke on `Ruby,' Anjhan R. of Robert Bosch on `VLSI/ EDA Design Tools' in the morning session and `Embedded Linux' in the afternoon, Shreyas Srinivasan of NOVELL on `FOSS Foundry,' Arun M. of Free Software Foundation/SPACE on `Licenses' and Kalyan Verma of SecuPrise on `Network Security.'

Nearly 200 people attended the meet, with as many as 50 students from other institutions and colleges.

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