ILUG-CAL.INFO
"SEMINAR ON FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE”
The idea of Software Freedom Day is for everyone without a vested interest in proprietary software to unite and educate the world about the ideals of Software Freedom and the practical benefits of Free Software. On the Occasion of Software Freedom Day, the Kolkata team Ilug-CalInfo, in Collaboration with I.S.I Kolkata and ACM Student Chapter, ISI Kolkata cordially invites you to a “Seminar on Free and Open Source Software” on Friday the 16th of September. You will be able to interact with a number of FOSS experts on the day.
VENUE:
Platinum Jubilee Auditorium
Indian Statistical Institute
203, B. T. Road Kolkata- 700 108
DATE: 16 th September, 2011 (Friday)
Time: 15:00 hrs to 18:30 hrs
PROGRAMME:
TOPIC |
SPEAKER |
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Introduction to FOSS and GNU/Linux |
Mandar Mitra |
15:00 – 15:30 |
Introduction to LaTeX Beamer |
Arijit Bishnu |
15:30 – 15:50 |
Break |
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R for Statistics |
Subhajit Dutta |
16:00 – 16:20 |
|| NumPy and SciPy || Atriya Sen|| 16:20 – 16:40|| || SAGE || Sourav Sen Gupta || 16:40 – 17:00|| || - Tea - 20 min|||| ||
Introduction to Octave |
A. Mani |
17:20 – 17:40 |
|| FOSS in Industry||J. P. Mathews||17:40 – 18:00||
Open House |
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18:00 – 18:30 |
Organising Committee:
- Mandar Mitra
- A. Mani
- Sourav Sen Gupta
ORGANISERS:
*Kolkata Chapter of the GNU/Linux Users Group (http://www.ilug-cal.info).
*Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
*ACM Student Chapter, I.S.I., Kolkata
TEAM WEBSITE:
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/India/Kolkata/ilug-calinfo
http://www.softwarefreedom.org
Kolkata GNU/Linux Users Group's Website:
MAILING LIST:
http://www.ilug-cal.info/mailman/listinfo/linux-discussion
SOFTWARE IS A FORM OF KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE OUGHT TO BE FREE!
