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Subject: [Reader-list] India's Silicon Valley Gets
Ready for an Ambitious Gnu/Linux Event

INDIA'S SILICON VALLEY GETS READY FOR AN AMBITIOUS
GNU/LINUX EVENT

By Frederick Noronha

IT'S BEING billed as one of the most ambitious
GNU/Linux event of its kind, and it's being staged
in Bangalore, the South Indian city considered the
...

To be held from December 10 to 12, 2001, this
event is being built into an 'applied technology'
conference. It is intended for open source and
free-software developers, administrators, and
users. And IT decision makers.
...

This conference aims to cover a large number of
areas that include core Linux technologies, Open
Source, Embedded Systems and other allied
technologies.

Its primary audience will be the core (or
potential) Linux-using community of developers
(who are being appropriately categorized, for this
techie meet, as /dev), system administrators
(/adm), users (/usr) and CxO/managers/decision
makers (/cxo).

"Each track will include introductory, technical,
how-to and tutorial sessions, catering to
'newbies' (people new to Linux) to 'gurus' (people
who know Linux in and out)," explained Mahendra.

To make this event accessible to many, entrance is
free.
...

Over one thousand persons registered for the event
by end-November, according to Indian Linux guru
Atul Chitnis.
...

In addition, also planned are separate workshops,
tutorials, case studies and
demonstrations. Speakers for this event will be
drawn from the Indian Linux community, as well as
the IT industry.

This event is being held at the impressive
J.N.Tata Auditorium at the Bangalore-based Indian
Institute of Science (IISc). Incidentally, a team
at the IISc itself is inching its way towards
completing what it calls the 'Simputer'. This
simple and inexpensive sub-$200 (Rs 9000)
computing device that is expected to make
computing affordable to the commonman (and woman).
Not coincidentally perhaps, the Simputer is to
work on GNU/Linux.
...

Updates are at  http://linux-bangalore.org/2001

In addition, there is also a mailing-list set up
to discuss plans for the event. If you wish to
discuss about the event, send a blank email to
 linux-bangalore-2001-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
(ENDS)
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