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A workshop on awareness of citizen journalism was held at JCC Channel Office, Jagiroad.

27 people attended the workshop.

Today we attended the press meet at Guwahati Press Club, Guwahati.

We displayed the proceedings of our workshop and the second batch of workshops which will be residential workshops focussing on technical expertise

Today we did a workshop at Dhubri Press Club.

Some 25 enthusiasts enjoyed the new concept of journalism.

Due to net issues we couldnt update the blog asap.

We did the workshop at Silapathar District Amateur Athletic Association Hall, Silapathar, Assam.

20 participants enjoyed the awareness on CJ.

A workshop for the citizens of Udalguri, Assam, on Citizen Journalism was taken at District Deputy Commissioner Office, Udalguri.

A total of 40 citizens participants attended it.

Today we had a workshop on Citizen Journalism and New Media.

Journalist and others who attended the workshop at Hotel Sudakshana, Silchar, Assam said that the workshop is "information delivered".

The workshop had 30+ attendees.

We had a awareness workshop on Citizen Journalism in DY365(Haflong) Office, Haflong, Assam.

A group of 9 individuals got aware of ways of raising their voice to the general public on internet.

Citizen Journalism & New Media workshop was held at Bhojpuri Samaj Seva Trust, Golaghat, Assam.

15+ people participated in workshop.

Today we successfully finished a workshop at Jan Shikshan Sansthan, Jorhat, Assam.

We had 13 participants who enjoyed the sessions and wanted more.

The workshop at DY365(News) branch office, Dibrugarh, Assam,

Today 7-8 journalists learnt about Citizen Journalism.

The workshop at DoomDooma Press club had 34 participants.

Its added to the list of well gone workshops. :)

The CJ based workshop held at Surjadaya, Makum, Assam

The 13+ participants of this workshop learnt something new.

A meeting on CJ was conducted at Mayuri Hotel, Duliajan, Assam.

The 6 participants were all anxious to learn some new technologies.

We continued the citizen journalism awareness in Assam.

Today it was at Assam Thermal Electricity club, Namrup, Assam where a total of 24 participants took part.

Nazira, Assam gets another addition to its long list of successful events in history.

Its nothing but the latest sensation in Assam media, Citizen Journalism was initiated in here.

Thanks to the combined effort of Assam Times, NEJA(North East Journalist Association), and Mahiti.

All the 30+ participants were enthusiastic of the community driven news program.

We are on schedule for 13 other workshops. Make sure to visit the site to get the updates.

A One-day crash workshop was conducted in Anudip, Kolakta.

We impressed the Anudip  IT trainers with FOSS tools and knowledge sharing.

They are looking forward to future workshops which are more elaborate than todays so that can explore the ocean of Open Source more.

Mozilla,the team behind the popular web browser Firefox, and Mahiti Bangalore  are organizing an informal developer-oriented conference in Bangalore on Saturday February 27, 2010.

The Mozilla DevDay will be an opportunity for developers, open source enthusiasts, and web aficionados who live in and around Bangalore, to meet Mozilla staff and learn about the Mozilla Project and its technologies. The DevDay is a free conference open to the general public. For more information     please visit:       http://j.mp/BLRMozDevDay

We had a 3-day workshop on FOSS tools and knowledge sharing which was held at Uddami Foundation, Kolkata successfully.

23 participants attended the programme ,some students,some social workers and some staff from uddami.

Topics covered at the workshop:

FOSS philosophy

Blogs/wikis

Video/Audio editing

Ubuntu desktop and installation

Creative commons.

Pics Updated !!!

A free software workshop was conducted in Kerala in association with vayali folk group www.vayali.org . Around 9 participants attended and those who attended included some research scholars,students,artists ,video and photographers.

Free software workshop held in Mumbai concluded successfully with 13 participants attending the workshop.

A broad range of topics were covered :

Free Software philosophy

Ubuntu installation

Open office and firefox

Creative commons

GImp image editing and inkscape vector graphics editor

Free cd's were distributed to all the participants and t shirts were given away.

A one day workshop was organized by NRC FOSS AU-KBC Research center on January 12th 2010

It was a presentation about how businesses can be built around the FOSS ecosystem.

Chethan Elvis,Marketing Director from Mahiti gave a presentation on Mahiti and its effective deployment of Free and Open Source solutions in business.

Other speakers who presented at the workshop :

 A quick overview of FOSS Technologies –

Siddharth Govindaraj, Silverstripes Software.

Managed Open Source delivered on the clouds-

Tarun Dua, E2ENetworks.

FOSS Ecosystem and role of NRCFOSS -

C N Krishnan, NRCFOSS, Anna University.

IT SME s and Open Source Technologies --

Ananth Seshan, ITSME Association.

Two workshops one at Almala , a 30 min drive from Latur at Vishvesharayya Politechnic, and one at Latur at MPBCA College.

We are pleased to announce our popular Free software workshop for NGO's , civil society and other marginalised communities NGO In A Box in the city of  Mumbai on January 11- 13 , 2009.

This workshop is being jointly conducted by Comet Media Foundation ,Mumbai and Mahiti ,Bangalore.

The workshop will cover the following broad topics :

• Introduction to Linux based distributions Fedora, Ubuntu.and installation

• Open Office Tools.

• Internet Tools (firefox, pidgin messenger).

• Gimp image editor,CMS, blogs,wikis.

• Audio/video editing tools (Audacity/kino)
• Google apps
• How to migrate successfully to open source software and get support online

In keeping with our sdp and fdp programme, we are pleased to announce our sdp at Vishwesharayya College Almala and  MPBCA College ,Maharshtra.

Topics will be as following:

1.Introduction to LInux

2.Ubuntu OS, usage, installation and applications

3.Getting support

4.Python basics with hands on lab sessions in afternoon

Mahiti conducted a teacher training programme at the Higher secondary school in Nagapatnam and Pudupatnam districts of tamilnadu.Siddhalingesh and kolappa gave the lessons.

Following were the topics covered ath the workshop:

Basic components of a computer

Internet basics and surfing the web

Emails

Open office document and spreadsheets www.openoffice.org

Language of delivery was Tamil.

Mahiti is conducting a teacher training programme for higher secondary school teachers in Nagapatnam girls higher secondary school and in Pudupatnam higher secondary school.

This is our second workshop at these schools and we aim to effectively deliver basic computer training to the teachers so they can in turn teach the students.

Topics we intend to cover:

• Basics about computers,Internet concepts
• Email,browsing,chat
• Blogging
• Netforschools website use
  

Workshop on Free and Open Source tools concluded succesfully in Chennai held from November 20 - 22 ,2009 .Workshop was attended by 20 participants from in and around Chennai.

This workshop was jointly conducted by Center for Women's development and Research,Chennai and Mahiti Bangalore

 Following topics were covered in the 3 day course.

• Introduction to Linux based distributions Fedora, Ubuntu.and installation

• Open Office Tools.

• Internet Tools (firefox, pidgin messenger).

• Gimp image editor,CMS, blogs,wikis.

• Audio/video editing tools (Audacity/kino)
• Google apps
• How to migrate successfully to open source software and get support online.
  

Center for Women's Development and Research,Chennai and Mahiti ,Bangalore are jointly announcing a Free and Open Source Workshop in Chennai from November 20 - 22 ,2009.

Those interested can apply from here http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org/apply

This is a 3 day non residential workshop for participants in and around Chennai.Outstation canditates have to tak e care of their own accomodation if they are interested in attending the workshop.

There is no registration fees to attend.Food will be provided at the venue.Participants have to bear their own travel costs.

Organizers: This  workshop is being organized jointly by CWDR,Chennai http://www.cwdr.org.in/ and Mahiti Infotech,Bangalore. http://www.mahiti.org

Participant profile: This event is geared towards NGOs and similar civil groups who have a need to migrate from proprietary software to open source alternatives.System integrators and consultants who provide IT support to NGO's are encouraged to participate.

The workshop will cover the following broad domains:

Free and Open Source Software:

• Introduction to Linux based distributions Fedora, Ubuntu.

• Open Office Tools.

• Internet Tools (firefox, pidgin, thunderbird).

• Gimp image editor, Web publishing(CMS, blogs).

• Audio/video editing tools (Audacity/kino)
  

Exact venue details will be sent to all confirmed applicants.

A FOSS Workshop was conducted at the National Institute of Engineering , Mysore on the 5th of October 2009.Topics covered were similar to the previous event at MIT.

- Introduction to FOSS: Concepts, history & philosophy
- The need of FOSS technologies in the academics
- Mahiti's educational platform
- FOSS education in real life social projects
- Project work: OurBank
- Intro to OurBank technolgies: MySQL, PhP, and Zend