Maharashtra State Level meeting on FOSS in HRD ...
NRCFOSS and VJTI, Mumbai are jointly organising a 1-day meeting on FOSS in Technical Education in MaharashtraThe National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) in association with Veermata Jijabhai Technological Institute (VJTI) , Mumbai, is organizing a one-day meet on Thursday, 22nd November 2007 at VJTI, involving senior academicians and decision makers from different universities and institutions in Maharashtra. The tentative program will include the following :
09:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. : HoDs meet
Presentation on FOSS, its relevance in Indian scenario and NRCFOSS activities followed by discussions. The presentations will be include : Prof. C.N. Krishnan, Coordinator, NRCFOSS & Director, AU-KBC Research Centre ; Mr. Kenneth Gonsalves, Consultant, NRCFOSS and Dr. G. Sivakumar, IIT - Mumbai. Participants will be HoDs, Senior faculty and others in Computer Science, Information Technology and MCA branches in Maharashtra colleges and universities.
--- Lunch ---
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. : Vice Chancellors' meet
Presentation on summary of the morning session deliberations ; discussions and drawing up an action plan for introducing FOSS in engineering curriculum in Maharashtra. Participants spectrum will include Vice-Chancellors, Deans, Directors, Members of BOCDs, etc., from Maharashtra.
For further details, please contact the NRCFOSS Mumbai Node, VJTI, Mumbai [Prof Jitendra Shah or Mr. Mehul Ved, 24198294 / 95 / 96 or 24151221]or Dr. S. Srinivasan, Project Scientist, NRCFOSS, Chennai [94443 02439] .
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