KDE Meetup is an event for Qt/KDE contributors and open source enthusiasts to meet up, share their knowledge, contribute, learn, play, have fun and create limitless possibilities using Qt and KDE. KDE Meetup is the first large scale open source Meetup in Gujarat and the largest meetup of KDE contributors in India since conf.kde.in in 2011. It will run for 2 days with talks on the latest KDE developments, sessions on how you can start contributing to open source, coding sessions and workshop.

http://www.gdgdaiict.com/kdemeetup/

Computer Society of MIT , a student
organisation of Madras Institute of Technology, Anna university,
Chennai conducts its annual Fest Carte Blanche every year which is a Technical & Free and open Source Software Fest.

The occasion of the event for this year will be celebrated on
'February 16 & 17, 2013'. This fest is mainly intend to promote the awareness about the usage of Free and open Source Software to the both college & School Students and Public.

Firefox OS App Days, Delhi
The Delhi edition of the Firefox OS App Days global sprints.

At App Days, We introduce you to the new Firefox OS and get you started with making apps for the platform.

Venue will be Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, Paschim Vihar.

Schedule
10:00am Check in.
10:30am Introduction to Firefox OS & Apps Marketplace
11:00 – 12:30pm Sessions
12:30 – 1:00pm lunch
1-5pm: app hacking
5-7pm: demos & party-time.

Details to register here http://delhi.mozillaindia.org/firefox-os-app-days-delhi/

Hello All!

This is to announce the FOSS Festival Mukti being organised by the GNU/Linux User Group of National Institute of Technology, Durgapur from the 2nd-5th February, 2012 at NIT, Durgapur.

Entry is free to all.
Lots of prizes (in cash) to be won.
Lots of free workshops.
Lots of sharing!

Events include OLPC (Algorithm intensive Online programming contest based on NIT Durgapur developed CodeCracker), InCanity (Programming contest), Konfigure (Linux Server Administration), FREEPL (Game) among the others. Please visit http://mkti.in for more information.

FOSSMeet is an annual event at NIT Calicut that brings together the Free and Open Source Community from around the country. It was started in 2005 to encourage contribution to free and open source software. The last 7 editions were hugely successful and brought together a lot of enthusiasts.

Upholding the philosophy of FOSS, the event will have talks and workshops dealing with the current trends in FOSS and open hardware, hands-on sessions to develop skills and a place to meet like minded people.

Visit http://fossmeet.in for more details.

After having to cancel the previous MozCamp in between, we are back again with a new MozCamp. This time we are doing it in Amity, Noida on the 19th of January 2013.

Updates on session plans and proposed hackathons will be put up soon. Keep watching, and meanwhile – register!

http://delhi.mozillaindia.org/register/

The newly formed Mozilla Community of Kolkata is organizing a 2 day ( Jan 5 - Jan 6 ) event dedicated to Free and Open Source Software and various Mozilla initiatives, where participants will get chance to interact with professional developers and renowned FOSS activists as well as some Mozilla Representatives from the Mozilla India Community. And they want to have a MediaWiki part as well and So, a workshop on MediaWiki there with 10-15 students maybe. It would be great to have your support, and suggestions are welcome too.

A TWO DAY EVENT DEDICATED TO OPENSOURCE

WHERE WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT RECENT TRENDS IN FOSS (FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE) WHICH WILL ENCOURAGE STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS IN KOLKATA TO FORM AN ACTIVE AND DEDICATED DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

Python for Education and Scientific Computing

Python has several libraries that enable numeric and symbolic computing. It also interfaces well with native codes in C,C++ and FORTRAN and has excellent libraries for plotting/visualization. Python also provides libraries for general purpose computing including generating user interfaces and web development. These coupled with it's interactive interpreter make Python an excellent language for Scientific Computing.

http://www.gnunify.in/

Date: 15th, 16th and 17th Feb 2013

Venue:
Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR)
Atur Centre, Gokhale Cross Road,
Model Colony, Pune - 411016.