freedom in technology and software

Feb

20

Inauguration at freed.in/2009

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freed.in/2009 had a very unique inauguration ceremony. In any case, freed.in has never had a chief guest other than members of the community, but this year there was also no lighting of the lamp, I guess the economic slowdown, caused the tenting and venue arrangements guy to skip the lamp and save his oil/ghee!
Here’s a […]

Feb

19

BOF: FOSS Survival Guide

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BoF: FOSS Survival Guide

Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla
FOSS Survival Guide

Institute/Affiliation
Fedora, Redhat

Abstract
Most of the Companies, due to strict economic budgeting, are moving towards opensource solutions. This BoF would like to bring about the general usage of Open technologies in the industry and acedemia . This main would focus on miminal FOSS skills a prospective employee/ developer / […]

Feb

19

OSSD - mini-unconference at freed.in/2009

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This year, we would be running a OSDD “unconference” along the main
conference, which incidently kicks off with a keynote on OSDD.
Our basic flow would be
[1] Discussion of the various work-plans, into which the OSDD project is divided
[2] Bat data generating methods against data analysis methods
Potential take-home: A list of experiments and data analysis
methods which […]

Feb

18

Event Schedule

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More or less final, of course comes with the standard disclaimer “Subject to change, without notice…” but here is the schedule for freed.in/2009:

Schedule - Day 1, Friday 20th Feb, 2009

Time
Name
Description

10:00am - 10:30am
 
Welcome ceremony

10:30am - 11:15am
Andrew Lynn
OSDD

11:15am - Noon
Goldwyn Rodrigues
Free Internet access on paid Wifi networks

Noon - 12:45pm
Shantanu Choudhary
Offline Wikipedia

12:45pm - 1:30pm
 
Lunch

1:30pm - 2:15pm
Animesh Kumar et […]

Feb

3

Talk List for freed.in/2009

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Selected Talks - freed.in/2009

Speaker
Presentation title

Shantanu Choudhary
Offline Wikipedia

Anusha Kadambala
GNUKhata: A complete replacement for proprietary software

Animesh Kumar et al
Learning through Open Source: Our experience with GNU/Linux-based clustering

Senthil Kumaran
Lets develop a game using Pygame

Krishnakant Mane
RPC for modular programming

Dr. Gita Mathur and Dr. Promila Kumar
Developing Open Educational Resources: WikiEducator-Gargi 2009 - A Step Forward

Rakesh Pandit
Gach: doing the grunt work

Goldwyn […]

Jan

20

Announcement for Freed.in 2009

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We have some good news, and some bad news for you about Freed.in 2009. The good news is that the third Freed.in will be held as scheduled on Feb. 20th, and 21st, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi. Please see the revised call for papers here, noting in particular that the new deadline […]

Jan

2

Freed.in 2009: A long gloaming’s journey into daylight

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What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another — Harold Kushner
Freed.in, the annual event of the Indian Linux Users Group, Delhi (ILUG-D) has now gone through a couple of iterations, and some major changes from what used to be an event focused entirely on software practitioners. The […]

Nov

8

freed.in/2009 - Getting there together

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We are delighted to announce that freed.in/2009 will be held on the 20th, and 21st of February, 2009. freed.in is the leading community event in the Indian sub-continent and the developing world, promoting freedom and personal privacy in technology, software and related fields. freed.in helps nurture the community, enables networking within and outside the […]