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ALL-INDIAN FOSS MONTH Balaji Narayanan http:// February 2008 marked the month of forum for students to interact FOSS conferences across India. The with industry professionals Indian Linux Users’ Group Chennai, the and FOSS contributors. This National Resource Centre For Free/Open year, the event focused on creativecommons.org/

Source Software (NRCFOSS), the Madras providing a complete pack- licenses/ Institute of Technology, and FOSS.IN col- age to the students, including

laborated in organizing the FOSSConf08 install fests, BoFs, and work- by-sa/ in Tamil Nadu’s capital Chennai. Confer- shops in addition to the stan-

ence organizers encouraged first-time dard talks and presentations. 2.0/ speakers to discuss their projects. The Attended by more than 500 audience – including 863 registered dele- delegates, GNUnify was in- gates – was composed of a blend of FOSS teractive and included intense hallway nize the freed.in annual event. The Feb- community members, students, and and corridor discussions and gatherings. ruary 22-24 event’s theme was “Knowl- teachers. Beginning on February 1, the The Indian Institute of Technology in edge Shall Set You Free.” Aimed at dis- 190 talks over three days started what Kanpur organized FOSSKriti February 14- cussing the tools, protocols, and econom- will perhaps turn out to be another regu- 17 as part of the annual TechKriti event. ics of making knowledge available to lar conference on the calendar. Highlights included the everybody, freed.in offered a two-day- NRCFOSS rolled out custom software workshop by Ankita Garg, who spoke long conclave in addition to a series of for conference management, which pow- for six straight hours, and the eye candy talks. Talk topics included community ered FOSSConf. The conference, held at Clutter demo by Shreyas Srinivasan. radio, independent music, OLPC, content Anna University, included booths dis- Arun Raghavan, in addition to being a translation communities, and community playing final-year projects. student, also contributes to Beagle and building. GNUnify, held February 8-9, already led a Beagle hackfest that produced fixes http:// fossconf. in/ is an annual event organized by the stu- to some pending issues and secured a http:// gnunify. in/ dents of the Symbiosis Institute of Com- couple of new contributors. http:// www. techkriti. org/ #lookup_ puter Studies and Research in Pune and The Jawaharlal Nehru University and FossKriti_About the local Linux Users’ Group, providing a Indian Linux Users’ Group Delhi orga- http:// freed. in/ 2008/

PIMP MY LUGRADIO CONTEST LINUX AT THE NATURAL PARK LugRadio, a British podcast on gridge, Chris Procter, and Adam A few miles northwest of Paris, the French Regional Natural Linux and OSS, announced the Sweet talking about Linux, Park of the Vexin (PNRVF) tries to preserve a beautiful winner of its Christmas 2007 open source, and so forth, won natural and cultural – seen around the world in “Pimp My LugRadio” competi- an Asus Eee PC for his efforts. impressionist paintings by Pissarro, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and tion on February 25. Sean Ellis, LUGRadio is recorded every Cézanne – now using Linux. Following a call for vendors in who made a puppet video imi- two weeks in Wolverhampton, June 2007, which closed with no replies, the park’s adminis- tating the four LugRadio pre- England, published in Ogg Vor- tration decided to invite to bid again in September 2007. senters , Stuart Lan- bis and MP3 formats, and After a migration and deployment process of only one licensed under Creative month, the French open source specialist Tranquil IT Sys- Commons licenses. tems could present the new solution, with four new servers April 12-13, LugRadio running Mandriva Linux, at the end of February. The Win- arrives in America for its dows workstations were converted into light clients, and Live USA 2008 show at three passive terminals were added to the setup. Eventually, The Metreon Theater in the remaining Windows workstations also will be replaced San Francisco, featuring by terminals. , Ian Mur- http:// www. parc-naturel-vexin. fr/ v_en/ doch, , http:// www. tranquil-it-systems. fr/ (French) and Val Henson, among http:// www. mandriva. com/ enterprise/ en/ company/ press/ others. mandriva-linux-at-the-heart-of-the-new-infrastruc- http:// www. . org/ ture-of-the-french-regional-natura

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