Dear All, I just received a mail from the TeX User Group (TUG) mailing list regarding this workshop. Just thought it would be useful.
Cheers, Naren Message: 1 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:42:45 +0530 From: Manjusha Joshi <[email protected]> To: TUGIndia Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: [Tugindia] Workshop on Scilab, LaTeX & other Free and open source software, in Pune Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello, Workshop on Scilab, LaTeX & other Free and open source software has been announced, under the project "Use of Open Source Software for Teaching of Mathematics" supported by MHRD. The first 5 days workshop will be held during 26 - 30 July, 2010 on Scilab, LaTeX & Other FOSS tools. * Following software will be introduced during the workshop* Scilab: A scientific software package (http://www.scilab.org) that provides a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. It is currently being used in educational and industrial environments around the world. It is distributed freely through the internet since 1994. LaTeX: Technical documentation System. Useful for Research Papers, Mathematical/Technical articles, Books, Notes, Technical Projects write-ups, Question papers etc. Other FOSS tools: GeoGebra, Maxima, R, SAGE, An overview and hands on Linux, and other utilities Who can register for the workshop? * College teachers/ registered research students * Students (M.Sc. / Engineering/ Undergraduate from IISER/IIT/B.Math) * Professionals ( a few seats) Registration Process for the workshop: * Register online with the workshop registration form. (http://fossme.bprim.org/ ) * Last date for submission of form: Monday 21st June, 2010 Time Table, speakers, Information about fees, announced on website: http://fossme.bprim.org/ Venue: Bhaskaracharya Patishthana, Pune (www.bprim.org) Thanks -- Manjusha S. Joshi P.I. of project on Use of Open source software for Teaching Maths, http://fossme.bprim.org Lecturer in Computational Mathematics, BIM, Pune, India. www.bprim.org Mobile: 09822 319328 blog:http://manjushajoshi.wordpress.com/ -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
