Shanker Balan from Yahoo! Bangalore would lead the workshop on Open Source on February 15th at Excel 2k7(www.excelmec.org ), a technical festival at Model Engineering College ( www.mec.ac.in).
Shanker Balan is a systems engineer at Yahoo! Engineering Services India (Bangalore) where he is part of the Yahoo! Mail operations team. He's an Opensource enthusiast and technologist, he is active in the Linux community in Bangalore and routinely gives talks and presentations at events like "Linux Bangalore", " foss.in" etc. First Session - The "WHY" Of Open Source The opening session is more general and open to all section on the thoughts that go into developing and using Opensource. It will deal with the decisions that go into evaluating and choosing the best fit technology for your needs. Will also cover getting involved with Open Source development groups and contributing. Second Session - The "HOW" Of Open Source This is a more operational side to putting Open Source technologies to use. How do you do it? Does faster, safer, easier, cheaper etc really work? Venue: Model Engineering College Schedule: Feb 15th, 2007 First Session - 10:00 am to 12:00 noon Second Session - 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm Registration Fee: Rs. 100, Limited number of seats Please register online at www.excelmec.org -- Sony Francis Jose S8, Computer Sci. and Engg. Model Engineering College Phone: 9495045399 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20070206/98a57585/attachment.html
