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.INFO Track (Day 3)
FOSS - powered Education
Providing quality education is the aim of all leading education institutions. However, budgets become a constraint when one requires expensive resources to teach students. Thankfully, FOSS (free and open source software) solutions can help you reduce your costs to a great extent without having to compromise on the resources, or the education imparted with their use.
KEY DETAILS
Time: 0930 hrs - 1315 hrs
Date: March 13, 2009
Venue: Chennai Trade Center
City: Chennai
CONTENT PLAN
- 1000 - 1015hrs: Inaugural Adress
- 1015 - 1045hrs: The Big Picture -- FOSS and education
- 1045 - 1105hrs: Channeling Student Projects as FOSS contribution
- 1105 - 1125: FOSS for schools
- 1145 - 1205hrs: Content aggregation from the internet - the SELF Project
- 1205 - 1225hrs: FOSS Solutions in Engineering
- 1225 - 1305hrs: Teaching FOSS
- 1305 - 1400hrs: Panel Discussion -- Adopting FOSS in education - Road Ahead
FOCUS AREA
Discussion on FOSS tools that can enable education is a much better way and also can effectively replace the existing proprietory tools
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- IT Faculty
- Institutes
- Students who are enthusiastic about OSS
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