FOSS.IN 2008: Show Me The Code

Suggested by Satyajeet Singh

Event: FOSS.IN 2008

Venue: National Science Symposium Centre, IISc, Bangalore, India

Key Dates:
Event: November 25-29, 2008
Registration Now Open

ODF Olympiad for Schools- Presentation Contest

ODF Olympiad for Schools

Organised By:
Dept. of Management Studies, IIT Delhi and
Sun Microsystems

Key Dates:
Deadline for submitting the Presentations: November 15, 2008

For Whom:
School students upto class-12

Sun Microsystems Announces Code For Freedom 2008

Sun Code For Freedom 2008

Organised By: Sun Microsystems

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submission of Project Proposal: December 31, 2008
Contest Ends: April 30, 2009
Winners Announced: June 14, 2009

FLOSS Fellowships 2008

Floss Fellowships 2008

Offered By : The Sarai programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.

Funded By : National Internet Exchange of India.

Key Dates:
Deadline for Application Submission : 14 September, 2008.

For Whom :
Students, developers, researchers, and practitioners interested in the FLOSS(Free/Libre and Open Source Software) arena can apply for the fellowships.

The Great Mind Challenge 2008- IBM Academic Initiative

Event: The Great Mind Challenge-2008 (TGMC) (Website)

Organized by: IBM Academic Initiative

Key Dates:
Deadline for Registrations: August 20, 2008
Deadline for Synopsis Submission: September 15, 2008
Deadline for Project Submission: November 1, 2008

Students Review Contest- Write on OpenSolaris OS/ NetBeans IDE 6.1

Event: Student Reviews Contest- NetBeans 6.1 and OpenSolaris OS (Website)

Organized By: Sun Microsystems Inc.

Key Dates:
Contest Begins: May 5, 2008
Deadline for Contest: June 6, 2008
Judging Period: June 7- June 20, 2008
Winner’s announced: June 25, 2008

FOSSMeet@NITC 2008

Event: FOSSMeet @ NITC 2008 (Website)

Organised By:
NIT Calicut Student Branches of IEEE, CSI, CSEA and GLUGC

Key Dates:
Event Dates: April 4-6, 2008

Great Indian Developer Summit

Event: Great Indian Developer Summit (Website)

Venue: National Science Symposium Complex (NSSC),Bangalore

Key Dates:
Event :May 19-23,2008

Google Summer of Code 2008

Event: Google Summer of Code (Website)

Organized By: Google

Key Dates:
Deadline for Accepting Applications for Mentoring Organization: March 12, 2008
Accepting Applications for Student: March 24, 2008 Onwards
Deadline for student Applications: March 31, 2008

Sun Tech Days: WorldWide Developer Conference

Event: Sun Tech Days (Website)

Organized By: Sun Microsystems

Venue: Hyderabad International Convention Center

Key Dates:
Event: February 27-29, 2008

Mukti ’08: Technical Symposium on Linux and FOSS

Suggested by Prabhu Hari

Event: Mukti ’08 (Website)

Organised By: Linux User’s Group, NIT Durgapur

Key Dates:
Fest: February 16-17, 2008
Deadline for abstract submission: January 27, 2008
Online Programming contest: February 2 – 9, 2008

Code for Freedom

Suggested by Ashwin Bhat

Event: Code for Freedom Contest (Website)

Organised by: Sun Microsystems India

Key Dates:
Contest Period: August 15, 2007-February 14, 2008
Results: March 2008

For Whom:
You can participate in this contest if you are a student from a recognized university in India.

1. Read the rules and the FAQs.
2. Register for the contest.
3. Choose your open source project and know how to contribute: (OpenSolaris,Project GlassFish, NetBeans, Apache Derby, OpenPortal)
4. Join the http://groups.google.com/group/CodeForFreedom forum. You can post all your technical queries to this alias and participate in the Code For Freedom contest discussions.
5. Once you have installed the software and compiled the source code, you can request for a mentor from Sun. The mentor will help you thru the rest of the code contribution process.
6. Submit your contribution.
7. For any non-technical queries on code for freedom contact codeforfreedom@sun.com
   

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FOSS.IN 2007

Suggested by Ashwin Bhat

Event: FOSS.IN, National Science Symposium Centre of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Website)

Key Dates:
“Project Days” – December 4-5, 2007 (Tue and Wed)
The Main Conference – December 6-8, 2007 (Thu, Fri, and Sat)

For Whom:
Someone who possesses skills such as coding, testing, documentation, etc. that are useful for a FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) project, wants to participate in a FOSS project or already contributes to a FOSS project.

FOSS.IN is one of the world’s largest and most focussed FOSS events. It is held annually in India. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants, and eminent speakers. The speaker roster usually reads like a “Who’s Who” of FOSS contributors from all over the world.

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