National Conference on Free Software March 20-21, 2010
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Ist Day - 20th March 2010
10:00 AM to 12:30 Noon
Jnana Jyothi Auditorium
Inaugural Session
10:30 – 10.45
Welcome the gathering and welcome guests and speakers to dias
Jay Kumar
10.45 – 11.20
Prof. Gopinath, IISc.
11.20 – 11.30
Inauguration of the Conference
Prof. Baraguru Ramachandrappa
11.30 – 12:00
Inaugural Address
Baraguru Ramachandrappa
12:00 – 12:30
Inspiration Speeches by
Dr. N. Prabhu Dev, Vice Chancellor, Bangalore University
Umashankar, IAS, E-Governance Specialist & Former MD, Elcot
12:30 – 12:45 The Journey So Far
Free Software as a Movement - Report of Free Software Activities in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and West Bengal
12:45 – 1:00
Vote of Thanks
Announcement of the Schedule and other announcements
1:00 Lunch Break
DELEGATE'S SESSION
(Delegates' only)(2:00 PM to 7:00 PM)
(Venue : Shikshakara Sadana)
PARALLEL SESSION
(Visitors):(1:45 PM to 5:00 PM)
1:45 PM to 2:45 PM
E-Governance and Free Software
Umashankar, IAS
Ashok Kumar Munoli,IAS, Principal Secretary, IT & BT, GOK
Ajay Adala, E-Procurement, GOK
(Venue : Jnana Jyothi Auditorium)
3.00 PM - 5:30 PM
Python Workshop
Baiju
(Venue : Jnana Jyothi Auditorium)
3.00 PM – 3:45 PM
Introduction to Amazon web services
Simone Brunozzi, Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
(Venue : Seminar Hall in Jnana Jyothi Auditorium )
4.00 PM – 5:45 PM
Migration To Free Software
Abhas Abhinav, Deeproot & Mahiti
(Venue : Seminar Hall in Jnana Jyothi Auditorium )
II Day - 21st March 2010
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (including 10 min break)
Introduction to Qt and How to build KDE
Sujith, Shantanu & Sudhend
(Venue : Jnana Jyothi Auditorium)
1.45 to 2:45 PM
Discussion on UID in Indian Context
Srinivasan Ramani, EPW
Prof. Chatterjee, IIAP
(Venue : Jnana Jyothi Auditorium)
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Debate on Kannada Computing and Free Software
Prof. K Chidananda Gowda
Prof. Narahalli Balasubramanya
Prof. M.H. Krishnaiah
NAM Ismael
Jaykumar
(Venue : Shikshakara Sadana)
Free Software: Accessibility Computing
Dr. M Sasikumar, CDAC Mumbai
L Subramani, Deccan Herald.
(Venue : Seminar Hall in Jnana Jyothi Auditorium )
IT@School : Demo of school teachers' manuals
(Venue : Senate Hall)
11:45 Noon to 1:00 PM
IT@School - A Case Study and Scope in Karnataka
Dr Ekbal Chair
Anwar Sadat,Director, IT@School Kerala.
Gurumurthy Kasinathan, ITforChange, Government Officials.
Y.Kiran Chandra
Ravi
(Venue : Shikshakara Sadana)
Geospatial tools in FOSS for governance
TV Ramachandra (IISc)
PG Diwakar (ISRO)
Dr K S Rajan (IIITH)
V Ravikuamr
(Venue : Seminar Hall in Jnana Jyothi Auditorium )
Creative Commons
Prabir Purkayastha, Knowledge Commons, Delhi
Sunil Abraham, CIS
Vijay Padaki
Senthil Sundaram
(Venue : Senate Hall)
12:45 PM Lunch Break
1:45 PM to 2:45 PM
Free Software in Higher Education and Research
Prof Ashok Thakur
Prof K S Rajan
Prof L.Pratap Reddy
Prof. Gopinath, IISc
(Venue : Shikshakara Sadana)
Debate on Open Standards draft 2.4
Venkatesh Hariharan, Policy Director, Red Hat
Prabir Purkayastha, Knowledge Commons
(Venue : Seminar Hall in Jnana Jyothi Auditorium )
Free Software Business Model – Software as a service
Prof. Shankar Venkatgiri, IIM
Anjan Banerjee, IT Consultant
Atul Singh, CGI
Krishna Das, OSSICS
Karthik, FSMK
(Venue : Senate Hall)
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Yahoo! - Web World
(Venue : Jnana Jyothi Auditorium)
Developing a Free software, Inside story
Chenthill P, Gnome Evolution Maintainer
Nikanth Karthikesan, Linux Kernel Developer
(Venue : Seminar Hall in Jnana Jyothi Auditorium)
Eben Moglen on “cloud” computing discussion
Prof:Kunjumon , CUSAT, Kerela
Valedictory Session
4:15 PM to 5:00 PM
Prof Gopinath, IISC, Bangalore
President
General Secretary
