One-Day CEP Course on

GNU/Linux at Work        

   

 

Offered through

Distance Education Programme

(DEP, KReSIT, IITB)

   24th August, 2003

  Organized by

   Indian GNU/Linux Users Group Mumbai

 

Introduction

 

Recent times have seen the proliferation of Free Software at the enterprise level, primarily in the form of the GNU/Linux operating systems. Various flavours of the GNU/Linux operating system are penetrating into the individual user and SOHO segment of the market, with the resulting increase in the demand for customised installations and support services for GNU/Linux. Local PC vendors find it important to know this platform and the various application suites and tools available on it. Newcomers to GNU/Linux are faced with a confusing profusion of applications and a big paradigm shift in the way we use the PC. The workshop is an attempt to soften this transition by demonstrating the use of GNU/Linux on the PC platform.

 

Who may benefit

This workshop is intended as an introduction to the GNU/Linux environment, and the bewildering options available to the first-time user. The intended audience for this workshop are the PC vendors, who would like to provide GNU/Linux PCs as a product option for their customers, and also provide support services to them. In addition people who maintain SOHO setups, cyber cafés etc might also find this workshop useful.

 

Handouts

Along with course material, the participants will be provided with ready-to-run GNU/Linux CDs that they can try out on any PC without installation.

 

Contents

·         Introduction to Free Software

·         Overview of GNU/Linux distributions

·         Installing GNU/Linux in various configurations such as multi-boot PCs.

·         Setting up network services such as proxies, firewalls, email, dial-up networking etc

·         A tour of the Desktop environments

·         Productivity applications and toolkits

 

Speakers

·         Prof. G. Nagarjuna, HBCSE, Mumbai

Director, FSF India

·         Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe

Research Scholar, KReSIT, IIT Bombay

·         Other speakers invited from the Users Group

The speakers are experienced GNU/Linux users from the Indian GNU/Linux Users’ Group, Mumbai. They have considerable experience in systems administration and actively contribute to the free software community in various ways.

 

Fees

The fees for this workshop is Rs. 750/- per participant, for one day. Fees should be paid by demand draft, drawn in favour of “The Registrar, IIT Bombay- CEP Account” payable at Mumbai.

No income tax is to be deducted at source from the course fee, as IIT Bombay is exempt from the same. The course fee includes course material, working lunch and coffee/tea.

 

Programme Venue
       

The programme will be held at the KReSIT Auditorium, IIT Bombay. This course offered through the Distance Education Program, will be broadcast live through satellite transmission to a number of registered Remote Centers (RCs) with provision for live interaction. You have the choice of attending the lecturers live at IIT Bombay or at one of the following remote centers.

 

Current list of Remote Centers

1.      Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Powai, Mumbai     400 076.

 

2.      Shri G.S.Institute of Technology and Science, 23 Park Road, Indore 452 003.

 

3.      Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (Formarly VRCE), Nagpur 440 011

 

4.      Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s College of Engineering, Hingoli Road, Near Airport, Nanded  431 605.

 

5.      Sinhgad Technical Education Society, 44/1, Vadgaon (Bk),   Off Sinhgad Road, Pune  411 041.

 

How to apply

 

Send registration forms duly filled along with the demand draft for the course fee to the address given below on or before 17th August 2003.

 

Last date for receipt of application: 17th August, 2003

 

Address all communication to:

Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe

Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Powai, Bombay – 400 076

 

Tel.      : +91-22-2576 4901

Fax       : +91-22-2576 7890, 2576 6875

Email    : sameerds-gnu@it.iitb.ac.in

 

http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/

 

 

R E G IS T R A T I O N   F O R M

 

One-day CEP Workshop on

GNU/Linux at Work

August 24th , 2003

     

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