Free Software Free Society
Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture

Speaker	Events
Adam Arvidsson	Ethical economy
Alan Story	Talk by CopySouth
Anand Babu Periasamy	GlusterFS – GNU Cluster File System
Anil Nair	Free Software for Free Media
Aslam Raffee.	Free Software and Global South
Binod P.G	Building and hosting your own communication server with Java EE and SailFin
Carolina Botero	Talk by CopySouth
Cheekay Cinco	FOSS and gender
Dr. Prabhu Ramachandran	Python and Mayavi
Dr. V Sasi Kumar	Open Access
Eben Moglen	Keynote By Eben Moglen Software Patents
Fatima Lasay	Talk by CopySouth
Frank Jennings	Java, Netbeans & OpenSolaris – Innovations, latest features and Opportunities
G Nagarjuna	Open Access Collaborative Innovation
Govt Agency Representatives	Free Software in E-Governance
Harshad Oak	Dive Into Grails
Jacob John (Dilip)	Development as Freedom – Free software partner in struggle for development
Jacob Royal	Java, Netbeans & OpenSolaris – Innovations, latest features and Opportunities
Jaisen Nedumpala	FOSS in Agriculture and Fisheries
Jimmy Wales	Keynote By Jimmy Wales Malayalam Wikipedia – Way forward
Joost Smiers	Talk by CopySouth
Kishore Kumar	RIA and Java FX
Marco Ciurcina	Software Patents
Mayuresh Nirhali	MySQL : The most popular open source database : Technical Overview An introduction to OpenSolaris
Michel Bauwens	Network Civilization
Mishi Chowdary	Software Patents
Neville Roy Singham	Keynote By Neville Roy Singham
NIIBE Yukta	Embedded System development in GNU/Linux
Paritosh Pungaliya	Applying India to Free Software
Prof. Rajanish Das	Free Software Education & Research
Radhakrishnan T	FOSS in Agriculture and Fisheries
Rahul De	Free Software and Global South Free Software Education & Research
Raji P. R	FOSS and gender
Raj Mohan	maSh
RedHat Representative	JBoss
Richard Matthew Stallman	Inaugural Session
Rishabh Ghosh	Free Software and Global South Free Software Education & Research
Roberto Verzola	Talk by CopySouth Talk by CopySouth
Satish Babu	Android
Senthil Prabhu	OpenESB – An Overview
Srihari Srinivasan	Beautiful Code with Ruby and Rails
Stefan Merten	Free Software, Free Society
Subbiah Arunachalam	Open Access
Sunando Banerjee	Open Bravo – The Way to go
Sunil Abraham	Just Copy! Copy Culture
Surendran	Trends in high-performance database systems
Venkitesh Hariharan	Software Patents Collaborative Innovation
Vihang Pathak	OpenPortal – Project WebSynergy

Free Software Free Society
Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture

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http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/2008/national-free-software-conference-boycott-novell-turn-outs

http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC/StatementOnNCFS2008Kochi

http://aswinatgec.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/boycott-novell-boycotted-from-free-software-conference/
http://njaan.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/free-software-conference-at-cusat/
http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2008/11/boycott-novell-protesters-man-handled.html

http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2008-November/005695.html

http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2008-November/005700.html

Few points from the circular

By geting Broadband Internet connection main services like web site, wikipedia, E-mail, blog, chat etc are to be used under studies by teachers and students.

All students from high schools must use an own Email ID.

By creating Email IDs to students they have to use it better and the decipline of Email should be aware to them.

How to search required matter, collection of details, examination results, notices are to be able to check and way of filling and submitting online application are to be compulsorily learned by them.

For each school they are permitted to use 3 GB every month.

Smt K.G Ajila (Jila Panchayath Member), Sri G. Sajinakumar (PTA President), Sri. C.S. Sreenivasan (Vilavoorkal Panchayath President), Sri Balachandran (Best teacher of HSS), Sri K. Sarathchandran (Headmaster)
Jila panchayath member K.G. Ajila laid foundation stone for a new building for higher secondary school at vilavoorkal on 13-11-08. By lighting lamp on stage speaks of respected people and carried out inauguration of keralaschools social network. In the absence of IT Secretary Dr. Ajaykumar IAS Vilavoorkal panchayath president inaugurated the social net work. At that time the IT Secretary called keralafarmer on phone personally and told about his exigency of his duties and gave his blessings to the function.  Keralafarmer (Chandrasekharan Nair) was honoured for settingup a social network for the schools named keralaschools. Sri Balachandran was also honoured for getting the  award for the best teacher of higher secondary schools in kerala. This award was first one in this respect granded by Govt of kerala. Both of them belonged to the Vilavoorkal Panchayath.

Social network of schools launched

A SOCIAL network community for teachers and students of Government Schools, Vilavoorkal, on Thursday.

Named www.keralaschools.ning.com, the schools’ social network is an effort to create a space for student community with the support of open softwre system. On the request of teachers of Vilavoorkal school, Chandrasekharan Nair, known as keralafarmer in the blogosphere, created the social community network. According to the school authorities, the articles or creative pieces or even accademic notes of one school in Thiruvananthapuram can be read and used by another school in Kasargod through the community.

“But the students and teachers must be member of the network, there cannot be any kind of anonymity. The works of the students will be moderated by teachers before publishing it,” said Udaykumar, principal-in-charge of Vilavoorkal HSS.

The community will also help teachers and students to exchange the method of teaching and learning employed in their schools. Each school is given a specific email id. Students can write in English, Malayalam and Hindi and it will be moderated by teachers handling those language in schools.

Uzhamalakkal Sree Narayana Higher Secondary School and Government HSS, Kavalayur, had already joined the community apart from Vilavoorkal HSS and students from various other schools making it a total of 26 members on the launching day itself. The schools, social network was launched by Vilavoorkal Grama Panchayat president C.S.Sreenivasan.

The school’s new building for the higher secondary students was also opened on Thursday.

Courtesy : The new Indian Express on 14-11-08

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