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[image: tathva header] * FOSS @ Tathva* Tathva ‘09 is the tenth edition of the annual techno-management festival of NIT Calicut. Tathva is reputed to be the second biggest techno-management fest of South India in terms of participation, prize, money and events. NIT Calicut one of India’s premier technical institutes has been constantly placed in the top engineering institutes of India. Tathva, the technological extravaganza will be held in its complete avatar from October 22nd to October 25th, comprising events, lectures, competition, workshops, Initiatives, Tathva Nites, and Informals. Some of the highlights of this Tathva are The Distinguished Lecture Series, International Online Programming contest, Wheels - The Auto Tech show, B-Plan Competition, Bulls and Bears –virtual stock market, Robotics, Astronomy Workshop and Industrial Defined Problem.The Lecture Series will be inaugurated by the a lecture from none other than his Excellency the former President and the missile man of India ,Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and in the following days we will be hosting talks, Sir Harold Kroto-Nobel Laureate, Ms Tessy Thomas-Missile Women Of India, Dr.Shivathanu Pillai – Brahmos Director, Dr K.M Abraham Whole Time Member-SEBI. FOSS @ Tathva is an initiative to use Tathva as a platform to promote Free and Open Source Software and its philosophy. Tathva over the years has recorded large participation and so the promotion of free and open source software in this venue would be very ideal. The long term aim of this event is to convert this event to an Unconference of the highest standards. *Engineering students are one of the largest users and contributor of FOSS. The following are the events we plan to have in f...@tathva ’09*. *COMPETITIONS* » *Tux Of War: *This is an event which began in 2006 as part of Computer Science Events. The event tests the participant’s skill in Linux Commands and Shell Scripting. It recorded a participation of about 150 Teams (of 2 participants) in Tathva ’08. » *Open Software Submission: *This event is being introduced this year in Tathva ’09. Being a no strings attached event, the participant can develop any software and exhibit it as long as it is Free and Open Source. They are also allowed to develop patches for particular software. We will be getting external judges to value the softwares and also the participants of Tathva itself to rate the softwares. *WORKSHOPS* » *Beagle Board Workshop: *The BeagleBoard is a low-power, low-cost Single-board computer produced by in association with Digi-Key, designed with open source development in mind, to demonstrate the Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 system-on-a-chip. It is open-source and there exists a large community of users who work together to solve problems and come up with innovative solutions. The workshop is being handled by Syed Mohammed Khasim works for Texas Instruments, India Bangalore. He is a core member of the beagleboard.org initiative. Khasim has contributed 160 patches to Linux OMAP GIT and contributed 10 patches to Kernel.org (160 to come in). He is listed as a maintainer in 2.6_kernel/MAINTAINERS. » *User 2 Hacker:* This is a workshop which will introduce ordinary Linux users how to contribute to the ever growing society of FOSS by building their own softwares and patches. It will introduce the participants to the various tools available to them and also about what all they should keep in mind when developing the software. *OTHER EVENTS* » *FOSS Hut: *FOSS Hut will be the place to be for the FOSS enthusiasts during Tathva. It will exhibit the FOSS alternatives to proprietary softwares, especially the ones that would be used by engineers. There would also be informal talks and sessions. It would also serve as the Unconference Venue. The persons can also get the exhibited softwares installed on their system on that spot itself or burn it to a disc and take it along with them. » *Mapping Party:* We are also organizing a mapping party to map NITC and contribute to the Open Street Map Project. This is the first of the kind mapping party in Kerala and one of the first ones in India itself. A team of about 50 will be running around and mapping the whole campus of about 290 acres within 2 days. We have already got very good responses for this event and we have GeoHackers (pronounced as Geokers) as the resource partners for the same. This event is sure going to be fun and will burn some calories.Please visit the Mapping Party WIki here<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NITC_mapping_party> » *Unconference:* No FOSS Meet is complete without an unconference, here we have the FOSS enthusiasts from in and around Kerala to come and participate not to give and take, but to share their knowledge with everybody. Visit our site www.tathva.org for full information on all of the events. Please do register online and go through all the other events, we also have many exciting events from other disciplines of engineering also. Contact f...@tathva.org Abhimanyu M A +91-9496341063 Amarnath +91-9496334849 Sarath Krishna S +91-9497279623 -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/iitdlug@googlegroups.com/ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
