GECians,

It’s time to think about FOSS again! Freedom thoughts hit GEC, Thissur on 18th Nov 2009 as Department of Computer Science and Engg. in association with Free Software Users’ Group, Thrissur launches a programme on the topic “Free Software and Engineering Education”.

Notification mail from Sruthidevi says :

” Dept.of Computer Science,GEC Thrissur in association with FSUGTSR is conducting a seminar on 18th november 2009 at GEC,Thrissur from 9.00am-4.00pm.The goal of the programme are

1. An introduction to GNU/Linux for the newbie of free software world

2. To introduce opensource softwares for scientific computation to aid & improve the quality of education

The sessions are:

History and introduction of free softwares , Demo installation,  Desktop environments,  Stellarium, OpenOffice.org tools,  Blender 3D,  Free Software ethics,  Foss and engineering education,  Python based computing,  Fedora electronics lab,  Tex/Latex and  Scilab “

Greetings!