Imp Dates? On 8/6/10, Narendra Sisodiya <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sasi Kumar > Date: Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:48 PM > Subject: [fosscomm] National conference on Free Software and education > To: Indian FOSS Community Network list <[email protected]> > > > FSF India, SPACE and NIT, Calicut, are organising a national > conference on Free Software and Education at Calicut during September > 10-12. We expect to have speakers from prominent institutes such as > IIT, TIFR, IIIT, etc. who will explain why only Free Software should > be used in education and also demonstrate applications like Octave, > Maxima, GNU R, etc. that can be used in various courses in our > institutions of higher education. We also hope to have Stallman > delivering the keynote address. The conference will also give a call > to all institutions of higher education to use only Free Software in > the various curricula. We hope this will help in our advocacy efforts > with universities and other institutions. Several academicians from > other countries are interested in endorsing this call. > > We request our members to help bring to the conference people who make > decisions on curricula. We shall give further details as soon as the > website of the conference is set up. > > Regards > Sasi > > -- > V. Sasi Kumar > Free Software Foundation of India > Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/ > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm >
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