[Mailinglist] National Conference on FOSS in SCIENCE

[Bruce Mathew]

Dear and Respected Friend

Warm Greetings from Union Christian College, Alwaye, Kerala.

We are happy to inform you that Union Christian
College<http://www.mcaucc.org/>in Association with SPACE
[Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and
Employment]<http://www.space-kerala.org/>and Free
Software Foundation of India [FSFI] <http://www.gnu.org.in/> is organizing a
3-day National Workshop on FOSS in SCIENCE
<http://www.space-kerala.org/fsc>at Union Christian College, Alwaye
from 4
th January - 6th January, 2007.

The three-day workshop will focus on the relevance of Free and Open Source
Software (FOSS) in Science Education, Scientific Research and Scientific
Computing.This is the first such workshop to be conducted in India, and is
aimed at introducing FOSS to college teachers, doctoral students, research
workers and others.


The workshop will have as speakers - eminent FOSS experts from leading
institutions like IIT Mumbai, TIFR, Institute of Plasma Research,
Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana, Free Software Foundation of India, National
Resource Centre for Foss and Geological Survey of India. Participants will
also have an opportunity to get hands on experience in using some of the
software that is introduced by the speakers. A CD containing the GNU/Linux
operating system, along with a number of applications that can be used in
scientific research, will be given to all participants. The CD may be used
to install the software on any number of computers and may also be freely
copied and distributed.
Please refer to the Workshop website for all Details regarding registration
and the Schedule www.space-kerala.org/fsc .

A Soft Copy of the Conference Brochure is attached herewith.

Looking forward to your cooperation in participation and sponsorship

Thanking You



Truly Yours

 Bruce Mathew
*Foss in Science Organizing Committee*

Union Christian College

Ph: 04842603533

Alwaye-2

Kerala
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