FOSS Workshop at Chennai -Nov 2009

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.