The Software Division of Computer Society of India in association with CICC, Singapore, National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software of CDAC Chennai and RMK Engineering College is organizing a five days southern regional training programme from 22nd May to 26th May 2006 at Chennai on Open Source Software.
This training the trainers programme will broadly cover the following:
Free and Open Source Software and GNU/LINUX Linux Installations OSS Licensing and Copyright issues
Desktop Management, Command Line, File System operations Package, User, Hardware Management
Apache / MySQL
PHP Introduction and detailed discussion
Web Database connectivity - LAMP
Localization Projects etc.
On the last day (26th May 2006) of the programme, a one day conference on Open Source Software will be held in which the trends in open systems and their applications in the enterprises would be dealt in detail.
The speakers and the resource persons for this training programme and the conference are drawn from both academia and industry with extensive experience in OSS. A team of resource persons supported by CICC will provide international perspectives to the subject.
This training programme & the one day conference are FREE and open to members of the teaching faculty. Persons from industry, Government Departments and other organizations are also eligible. This first southern regional programme planned at Chennai is open to the participants from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. RMK Engineering College, Kavaraipettai (near Chennai) will host this programme and provide the infrastructure and logistics support. Outstation participants will be provided with accommodation at the college hostel and their travel cost to the extent of 3 tier AC sleeper charges / bus charges will be met on production of tickets.
Interested candidates may get the details by sending an email to
csiaoss@gmail.comor from the website: www.rmkec.ac.in/csiaoss/index.html The last date for receiving the nominations is 10th May 2006.
Posted by:
Atanu Garai.
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