Avinash Joshi

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 [...]

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/

David Douglas, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Gnunify is an annual gathering of the techies.
It is organised by the students of the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR) in association with the Pune Linux Users Group(PLUG) to provide a platform for exchange of ideas and knowledge among the industry professionals, students and academia.
GNUnify symbolizes the philosophy behind Free/Open Source Software [...]

2nd International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture. 9-11, December 2008 at Mascot Convention Center, Thiruvananthapuram
The Free Software Movement, started about a quarter of a century back, pioneered the various movements for freedom in the digital world – for instance, free knowledge represented by Wikipedia or freedom of creative works from copyright restrictions [...]

Check out the FOSS.IN/2008 photos (Amrita’s Point of View)

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Through my lenses: FOSS.IN 2008
You can find Kushal’s event report here (11MB).Do check out page 16 where you can see two of my classmates who were “Hacking” on something :)

ClubHack 2008: India’s own hackers’ convention
Organised By: ClubHack
Key Dates:
Conference Dates: December 6-7, 2008
Complete Scheduled Can be found here.
Venue: International Convention Center, SB Road, Pune
Fees: INR 1000 for talk sessions, INR 1000 for each workshop. On the spot registration INR 1500
ClubHack2008 will be the second conference in Pune, India. First such conference of India was in [...]

Here’s a small video clip that tells you what to expect at FOSS.IN/2008

“Will I get a job if I attend FOSS.IN?”
Let me be brutal – FOSS.IN is *not* about getting a job, it is about Free and Open Source Software. It just so happens that FOSS developers tend to be some of the smartest and savviest developers in the world. Which is why many companies, including FOSS.IN [...]