Organized by: FSMI National Convention for Hosted by: Swecha Free Software Movement of India Knowledge Partner: TalentSprint Academics and Research organizes With the increased penetration of the About FSMI: computing tools and techniques into modern science and technology, education Free Software Movement of India and technological research are faced with National (FSMI) is a not-for-profit organisation the challenges of not just teaching the which is a national coalition of various conceptual models of S&T but also equip, regional and sectoral free software train and enable students, researchers and Convention for movements operating in different parts of industrial work force to handle these in the India. FSMI was formed at the National furtherance of their goals and objectives. Academics and Free Software Conference - 2010 held in An important challenge to this happens to Bangalore in 20–21 March 2010. FSMI is be the ready availability of such tools, a Pan-India level initiative to propagate the ability to study and modify them suitably Research idea of free software and popularize the to the evolving scientific and technological usage of free software. One of the aims of tempers at both individual and institutional FSMI is to take Free Software and its levels. Towards fostering this scientific and NN CAR CAR -2010-2010 potential to all classes of computer users research temper, enabling and empowering including academia, researchers and the individuals, Free Software Movement technologists, and to cater to the demands of India (FSMI) is organizing the First “Computing Freedom In of Indian society across the digital divide. National Convention for Academics and Education, Research and http://www.fsmi.in Research (NCAR-2010) for spreading Technology” awareness of Free/Libre and Open Source About Swecha: Software (FOSS / FLOSS), provide for a Science, Technology, Engineering Swecha is a not-for-profit organization in platform for sharing of experiences and & Mathematics Andhra Pradesh that has evolved as an views in its use in Academia/Research organisation of researchers from industry, communities and to foster a collaborate approach to education in developing and academia and users of computers who Inaugurated by respect computing in freedom . Swecha OS improving educational aids including is a working example that provides a software tools. H.E Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam computing solution to a population that The convention will focus on a wide range Former President of India understands only Telugu there by work in of topics through dedicated track sessions bridging the gap between the computer on academic and research areas like technology that exists predominantly in th th scientific computing and visualization to 16 -18 December, 2010 English and the Telugu-speaking Indian Language technologies and community of India. The journey so far has application specific domains of Mobile, Hyderabad been one of the most exciting stories in the GIS and the like. In addition, it will also history of the Free Software Movement host demonstrations, exhibitions, and around the world. tutorial sessions for providing hands-on http://www.swecha.org training. http://ncar2010.fsmi.in Important Dates Parallel Sessions during the Convention: Tutorials : 16th Dec 2010 th th Session Title Session Coordinator(s) Convention : 17 -18 Dec 2010 FOSS in VLSI and Embedded technologies Prof. Shankar Prof. Pratap Reddy, JNTU Hyderabad Registration: Geospatial technologies (GIS, Remote Dr. PS Roy , IIRS, NRSC/ISRO, Dehradun For Main Conference [17th and 18th Dec] Sensing) Early Bird (before 8th Dec) Rs. 500/- Last Date (before 15th Dec) Rs. 750/- Environmental Simulation and Modelling Prof. TV Ramachandra, IISc, Bangalore Spot Registration Rs. 1000/- FOSS in Bioinformatics and Open Source Prof. Ashoke Ranjan Thakur, West Bengal State Biology University For Tutorials Sessions [16th December] Early Bird (before 1st Dec) Rs. 2500/- Mobile Applications: Programming for Prof. K. Gopinath, IISc, Bangalore Last Date (before 15th Dec) Rs. 3000/- areas such as health, pollution monitoring Scientific computing Prof. Harjinder Singh, IIIT Hyderabad Venue: Scientific visualization Prof. K S Rajan, IIIT Hyderabad The convention will be held in Grid computing Prof. Nandini Mukerjee, Jadavpur University, Hyderabad, the pearl city of India and Kolkata home of Swecha.org. For further details R and its uses in Scientific Analysis Dr. Rahul Roy, ISI, New Delhi including how to reach the venue will be available on the convention portal. FOSS in Networking and Security Dr. Kishore Kothapalli and Dr. Srinathan, IIIT Hyderabad For Registration & Updates: Technical aspects of Indic computing Mr. Kiran Chandra, FSMI & Swecha http://ncar2010.fsmi.in Natural Language Processing and Machine Prof. Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad Translation And Many More. Altogether, 26 sessions will be held. Full details on http://ncar2010.fsmi.in Contact: NCAR 2010 Conference Secretariat, Tutorial Sessions: C/o LSI, International Institute of Full-day hands on tutorial sessions will be held on 16th December on various Free Software tools: Information Technology-Hyderabad, Moodle, R, Octave for Image and Signal Processing, VLSI & Embedded Systems, Drupal, Gachibowli, Hyderabad. 500 032 Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Software Carpentry, GNU/Linux Distribution development, Scipting Tools etc. Tel: 040- 6653 1276 Please note that you need to additionally register for the Tutorial of your interest and seats are Fax: 040-6653 1413 available on First come First serve basis. Email: [email protected] Visit http://ncar2010.fsmi.in/tutorials for full list and details of tutorial sessions..