OSS Week -- Training Programmes in Open Source Software

The Open Source Software (OSS) Week is being organized with two/three
days Training Programmes in Open Source Essentials in parallel at
different places in Tamilnadu from 22-24, January 2008 by the Div 2
on Software, SIGOSS & Div V on Education and Research of the Computer
Society of India (CSI) & IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter in
association with the Center for International Cooperation for
Computerization (CICC) and the National Resource Centre for Free and
Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) of CDAC with the support of the host
institutions namely CDAC, VIT Univ. & Bharadhidasan University

Guidelines: The registration for these programs is either free of cost
or at a nominal charges to cover the basic cost of the training and
will be left to respective programme centres. The no. of participants
would be around 30 per programme and will be first cum first served
basis. For registrations, pl. get in touch with the contact persons of
the respective programme. Programme No. 1: At Chennai during 22-23, Jan 08.
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Linux Desktops & Distributions and System Administration:

FOSS, Licensing and Copyrights issues and
Software Development
Open Protocols and standards
Booting up Linux Live CD
System Setup
System Administration
Managing Directories & Files
Wireless Connectivity
Connecting Printers and Scanners
Open Source Server based application like
Mail server and monitoring tools
Applications
Internet
Office Applications
Using Windows Applications in Linux and Samba

Venue: CDAC Office

Contact Persons:
Mr. R. Rajagopalan / Mr. N.S. Gowri Ganesh
Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC)
Block II, 6/13, Park Avenue
Keshavaperumalpuram
Chennai- 600 028
mrr@cdac.in / nsgganesh@cdac.in

Programme No. 2: At Vellore during 23-24, Jan 08.
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Apache_MySQL_PHP and OSS applications:

FOSS, Licensing and Copyrights issues and
Software Development
Open Protocols and standards
Installation and Configuration
Introduction to databases with MySQL
PHP: General structure of PHP and programming concepts
Create basic web application
Database connection from PHP
Joomla, Drupal, Media Wiki, Plone, OS commerce
Ruby on Rails (one day if possible

Venue: VIT Univ

Contact persons:
Prof. H.R. Vishwakarama / Mr. Karthikselvan
School of Computing Sciences
VIT University, Vellore
hrvishwakarma@vit.ac.in / skarthikselvan@vit.ac.in

Programme No. 3: At Trichy during 23-24, Jan 08.
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Linux Internals and Embedded LINUX:

FOSS, Licensing and Copyrights issues and
Software Development
Building the Linux Kernel Image
Booting
Kernel command line
Process and Interrupt Management
Virtual Filesystem (VFS)
IPC mechanisms
Generic Linux Requirements for Embedded Systems
Linux Salient Features
Linux Drawbacks for Hard Real Time Systems
Embedded Linux Market Trends
Some Directions for Future Developments

Venue: Bharadhidasan Univ.

Contact Person:
Dr. Gopinath Ganapathy
Director, Technology Park
Bharathidasan University
director@butp.org / gganapathy@gmail.com

For General enquiries, pl. conatct:
Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman, Div II, CSI
csiaoss@gmail.com

Additional Resource Persons
Dr. B. Thangaraju, WIPRO Technologies
Mr. Mohan H.R, CSI
Mr. Narayanan, CICC, Singapore

Special Guest
Mr. Yasumasa Takuma, CICC, Singapore