IIT Bombay
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay http://www.iitb.ac.in/ are celebrating in commemoration of this day.
We celebrate the software freedom day first time with various events.
This time, We have many open source applications demo stalls in a hall.
Public talk about software freedom.
Schedule
Time |
Event |
10 - 10:30 |
Inauguration by chief guest |
10:30 - 11:15 |
Talk by P. Asokan: Benefits of FOSS |
11:15 - 11:30 |
Break |
11:30 - 12:15 |
Talk by Prof. Madhu Belur: FOSSEE Project Activities |
12:15 - 1:00 |
Quiz |
1:00 - 2:00 |
Lunch |
2:00 - 3:30 |
Lightning Talks* |
3:30 - 4:30 |
Birds of feathers |
Stalls
* Spoken tutorial on LaTeX/Linux
* SBHS
* Robotics with Arduino, E-Yantra and many more
* Xcos
* Treelabs
* Stellarium
Hackathon Excercises
- 1.Virtual instrumentation with GNU radio interfacing problem.
Virtual instrumentation is about combining hardware modules with software modules that together form cost efficient instrumentation. At present LabVIEW is the leader in this field. In FOSS, GNURadio appears very promising together with Scilab + Comedi + OpenCV + HART Toolbox + RTAI(Real Time Application Interface)
- 2.Spoken-Tutorials language translation's dead air (muted period)
When English spoken tutorials are translated to regional language, then due to slightly different amount of time to convey the same "phrase", there is a small duration of *silence*. This time gap needs to be filled with some background music. An automated way of solving this problem is desired.
- 3.Pitivi video slicing bug:
The problem appears when a video is sliced in multiple chunks and any alteration like adding few more chunks to the existing video results in loss of synchronization of audio and video. We are looking for a solution that might solve this problem.
Location
Saturday, 17th September, Between 10 am to 4.30 pm, Ground floor, Powai, IIT Bombay, Mumbai - 400076.
Website
Software Freedom Day Mumbai on Social Networks
While we promote using Free and Open Source Software thus preferring platforms such as identica and Status.net we also do have presence on closed source systems in order to gather people unaware of all the benefits of FOSS.