Amrita University & TIFAC CORE in association with VeriSign proudly present InCTF’10, India’s First National Level “Capture the Flag” Style Ethical HACKING contest.
InCTF’10 is from February to March 2010 and is focused exclusively on the student community. You can participate from your own university and no travel is required. No prior exposure or experience in [...]
After the Success of FOSSTER ‘09 that was conducted on 28th and 29th of March, 2009; FOSSTER ‘10, the National Level FOSS Conference at Amritapuri Campus is back. It will be held on 20th and 21st of February, 2010.
FOSSTER now has an official website http://fosster.co.in [we we not able to reserve fosster.in - which is [...]
Richard St. John tells us the Secret of success in just 8 words!!! This is actually a 2-hour presentation cut down to 3 minutes. Very powerful presentation. Kudos to tedsters :)
There is another good video availablea at Mr Richard’s site http://www.richardstjohn.com/download/Richardstjohn_at_TED.zip
Happy Success :D
I was just sitting on my seat at Sun Microsystems’ India Engineering Centre (Sun Office), Bangalore after the JavaOne Conference, when Ganesh sir comes in and says “Avinash, you have an interview tomorrow and you will have to tell about your experiences at J1″…
I seriously did not know what to say! I was like “Ok… [...]
Organizer: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and University at Buffalo-SUNY
Key Dates
Conference begins: August 19, 2009
Conference ends: August 21, 2009
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and University at Buffalo-SUNY jointly present a joint conference and workshop on “Cyber Security, Cyber Crime and Cyber Forensics”. This program will have tutorials, and workshop sessions aimed at bringing eminent researchers from both academia and [...]
Attending JavaOne 2009 Conference at San Francisco was a wonderful, learning experience. As a part of Sun Microsystems’s Campus Ambassador Program, they nominated five CA’s from all over the world who would get an opportunity to attend the JavaOne 2009 Conference, fully sponsored by them. Let me now share my JavaOne 2009 experiences with you [...]
Sun Campus Ambassadors Talk about OSUM Clubs and student communities.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/globalcommunities/
There are literally thousands of totally free ways to customize your Firefox to fit exactly what you like to do online.
Mozilla to let enterprises build custom Firefox browsers
The upcoming Build Your Own Browser program will let companies customize Firefox 3.5 and install it across multiple desktops
Mozilla is readying a program that will allow companies to [...]
David Douglas, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Overview
Sun just launched the OpenSolaris Apps of Steel Challenge. This is a great opportunity to learn about developing and porting packages. Then use your talents and participate for a chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop! The winning packages will also be showcased at the OpenSolaris Install Lounge at CommunityOne West, in San Francisco on [...]
April 6, 2009
Amritapuri Campus
When
NASA decided to build Mars Exploration Rovers at a cost of several
hundred million dollars, it chose free and open source software to
power the robots. Launched on the Martian surface in 2003, the rovers
are still going strong today. When Amrita decided to build a complex
ERP software solution for its 1300-bed specialty hospital [...]
Article from: http://foss.in/news/fossin2009-event-announcement.html
Team FOSS.IN is happy to announce that, with the help of the community, we have been able to finalise the dates (and hence the venue) for FOSS.IN/2009.
FOSS.IN/2009 will be held on December 1-5, 2009 (Tuesday through Saturday) at Bangalore’s largest and most modern conference venue – the NIMHANS Convention Centre.
The dates and the [...]
Let me introduce you to FOSSTER ‘09, a FOSS (Free and open source software) workshop and conference on 28th and 29th March 2009 at our campus (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus).
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is a contributor to the Open Source movement since 2003 and has developed AmritaVPN that is being used widely. Amrita was awarded [...]
Sun Microsystems has announced the Code JavaFX Contest 2009 contest. Students and developers across India can participate in this contest.
This contest is aimed to generate enthusiasm for the JavaFX technology and to encourage developers to develop and contribute sample applications or games that demonstrate use of JavaFX in creating rich internet applications.
Prizes will be awarded [...]
The Sun Club at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus conducted the first ever fossquiz ‘09, a college wide FOSS contest.
To start with, we had the registration on 21st and 22nd of January. Registration desks were placed in the College corridors. The first day, we had 50 teams registered and on the second day, it shot [...]
It was a hectic day!
Aghosh and I got up at 4 in the morning, to get going on a 3 hour journey to Ernakulam to attend the fossmeet @ mec just because Atul Chitnis, Shreyas and Santosh – the major players in foss were coming to speak there. I was lot more excited as I [...]
Richard M Stallman told the Kerala crowd @FSFS, Trivandrum about the Church of Emacs!!
The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement has brought about a remarkable change in the way software applications, and computer operating systems are developed; by actively engaging the end user in the process. The success of FOSS has spawned a number of interesting experiments such as the development of open content through sites like [...]
It was 8th, Monday afternoon when I left Amritapuri Campus to attend and talk at the FSFS (http://fsfs.in) conference at Trivandrum. I met Unni, my seinor with whom I left for Trivandrum. We caught a bus from Vallikavu to Karunagapally (KNPLY) from where we got Fast Passenger bus to Trivandrum.
On reaching Trivandurm, I went to [...]
