Anyone interested .... i would love to if my finances and my course
allowed !!
COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA Mumbai Chapter Presents A two day
comprehensive workshop on Open Source - The Revolutionary Approach
On 17th & 18th January 2003, Time : 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
INTRODUCTION : Helping the industry discover the benefits of Open
Source Technology One of the biggest developments in software
during the past decade has been the growth of the open-source
software movement. The Open Source movement is an extremely
powerful model for software
development and advancement, and emerging economies like India
particularly have a lot to gain from adopting it. "In the
information age, value is based not on scarcity but on familiarity"
- This is the seed thought for the movement. Open Source
technologies is a term used to define those technologies which is
available to the public in source code form, and which does not
have licensing restrictions Open Source software generally is
distributed under a license that guarantees the right to read,
modify, redistribute and use the software freely. Much of the open
source software is distributed under the GNU General Public
License (GNU GPL).
Open Source is doing what GOD, government and market have failed to
do. It is putting powerful technology within the reach of cash
poor but
idea-rich people. And, YES -- that is Revolutionary!!!
Linux and the Open Source Movement have been developing rapidly in
recent years and are now seen as serious competitors to Microsoft.
There are millions of user/s world-wide. Some of most successful
and robust
software on the web today has been developed under this license.
IBM and Oracle are now among the 'big names' supporting Linux and
have released Linux versions of their database server products. A
high-powered lab has been set up to encourage open source
development and research. Among the sponsors are Dell, Fujitsu,
IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Intel, NEC, Mitsubishi, Red Hat and
SGI.
The Indian government, too, is planning a countrywide campaign to
promote the use of Open Source software as the "platform of
choice". The
Department of Information Technology has already devised a
strategy to introduce Linux and open source software as a de-facto
standard in academic institutions, especially in engineering
colleges through course work that encourages use of such systems.
Research establishments would be advised to use and develop
re-distributable toolboxes just as Central government departments
and state governments would be asked to use Linux-based offerings.
OBJECTIVES
To understand the Open Source Technology and achieve clarity of
thinking for making cost-effective information technology based
decisions. A further take-home would be a freedom of choice on
decisions of softwares and an insight into the value-added benefits
of the Open Source Technology.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: CIOs, CEOs, CTOs, Head of ITs, IT Managers and
IT Consultants.
WORKSHOP DETAILS
The workshop is designed to give a holistic picture of the Open
Source Technology domain. It is designed to help one understand
the various pros and cons attributable to Proprietary softwares
vis-�-vis Open source based softwares.
The workshop will start with the basics of Open Source followed by
case studies of organisations who have adopted Open Source
Technology (eg. Times Of India, Bajaj, Skypak Couriers, etc). Then
we will look into the pros and cons of using Open source based
softwares. In the wake of these, we will see the problems faced in
the implementation of Open source solutions. Here we will look at
resource management and tacit knowledge. After this, we will look
at the state of the art in technology.
The workshop will consist of impromptu discussion sessions, so that
there is a forum to share experiences. There will be lots of case
studies and demonstrations throughout the workshop.
CONTENTS :
1. STEPPING INSIDE THE WORLD OF OPEN SOURCE
a.. WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE?
b.. WHAT IS FREE?
c.. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FREE & OPEN SOURCE
d.. LICENSE - GNU & OTHERS
e.. FLOSS
2. OPEN SOURCE INTEGRATORS: A LARGER VIEW ON THE OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARES a.. OPERATING SYSTEM-
a.. LINUX-
b.. MICRO LINUX
c.. DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTORS (RED HAT, CALDERA, DEBIAN ET AL)
b.. DATABASE-
a.. MySQL-
b.. SAP DB
c.. POSTGRES SQL
d.. SQL LITE
e.. ORACLE
c.. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES-
a.. JAVA-
b.. PHP
c.. PYTHON
d.. AUBIT 4GL-
e.. PERL
f.. OTHERS (AWK, SED, BASH)
d.. LIBRARIES- AN OVERVIEW ( PHPLIB, PERL DBI, PHP GEM)
e.. DOCUMENTORS (DIA)
f.. TESTING TOOL
3. OPEN SOURCE BASED UTILITIES
a.. VNC
b.. PHP - PROJECT
4. OPEN SOURCE FOR END USERS
a.. GNU CASH - AN ACCOUNTING PACKAGE
b.. OFFICE SUITES
5. NETWORKING THE WORLD
a.. LINUX WITH OTHER NETWORKS - SAMBA, MARSNWE
b.. MAIL SERVER
c.. PROXY (SQUID)
d.. LINUX ROUTER
6.EMBEDDED LINUX
7.WAP BASED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WITH KANNEL
8. COST SAVING METHODOLOGIES - LTSP
9. THE ROAD AHEAD
SPEAKER :
Mr. T. Srinivas Reddy, founder, Optimal Solution Providers, is an
MCS from the Inter Disciplinary School of Scientific Computing
(ISSC) Pune. He is an expert in networking, designing architectures
and building web based applications using the Open Source
Technology.
He has garnered significant expertise in handling various Software
Turn Key projects with complete solutions, providing
implementation support to off-shore as well as local clients,
handling Off-shore Recruitment & imparting computer based training
to various professionals such as Doctors, Railway Police Staff,
MBA/MCA Students, etc. Driven with an objective to contribute to
the world of open source by creating awareness about the open
source technologies, he has implemented numerous Open Source
software based applications in various organizations such as Konkan
Railway Corporation of India, Bajaj Electricals, Western Outdoors,
Skypak Couriers, Wilson Greetings, et al. Last, but not the least,
a testimony to his endeavor is the successful creation of an
environment facilitating the 'freedom to choose' (the seed thought
of the Open Source Movement) amongst all his valued clientele
Registration Fees:
CSI Member : Rs. 2000/-
Other : Rs.
2500/- ( Registration Fees covers sessions, Courseware , Lunch &
Tea / Coffee )
Cheque should be in favour of "CSI - Mumbai Chapter"
Venue, Please Register with :
Rajendra Munge
Computer Society of India - Mumbai Chapter
E -217, Floral Deck Plaza, Near Seepz, Andheri East, Mumbai - 400
093 Tel: 28235476 / 5548 Fax: 28235546
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