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Issue : 20Team : T.Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com ) , K.Balavignesh ( kbalavignesh@gmail.com )Date : 05-03-2009Join Mailing List athttp://groups.google.com/group/fossnews/

Contents

1. fossconf-092. Open Source India Tech Days 2009 at Chennai3. Download the Linux Starter Pack 4. A Call from UbuntuWeblogs.org5. The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open SourceAlternatives6. UK government backs open source7. VPN - Virtual Private Network and OpenVPN8. The 12 Best Firefox About:Config Performance Tweaks9. Cheese : Easy to use WebCam application for Linux10. 25 Top 3D Linux Games

1. fossconf-09

The fossconf-09 at TCE,Madurai, was successfully conducted.

Highlights

a. Visitors: about 1300 excluding tce students (which may about 500)b. All talks were well received good attendance(good by our standards >10)c. Demo stalls this time have upstaged all the previous demo's we have conducted. About 10 topicsincluding gcc, shell scripting and commands were done by school students i.e 9th and 11thstandard.Two schools were involved TVS matriculation school and Srividhyalam Matriculation school,Madurai. These students performed exceedingly well.We slightly changed the prizes that we planned. Here is what we awarded.a. Best project:

Tamil spell checker

by Selva & team from Jaya Engg College. Rs.2000/-b. Best student speaker: Mr.Anirudh of VIT for talk on

virtualisation

Rs.2000/-c. Best demo stall to TVS and Srividhyalam Schools. Since TVS school hadmore stalls we awardedTVS Matriculation School : Rs.2000Srividhyalam School : Rs.1000d. An appreciation award (a.k.a party fund) to the TCE organising team Rs.2000

Free Open Source Software News 2On the whole it was satisfactory, much better organized than last year.On behalf of ILUGC We thank the management, principal,staff and students of tce for the excellentwork they have done. A special thanks to Prof.Shalinie, HOD of CSE TCE.We thank Jaya Engg College - Prof.Kumaran and Students- for major participation - in projects anddemo.We extend thanks to fellow ILUGC members and NRCFOSS team for the success.See the snaps athttp://fossconf.in/content/fossconf09-picturesWe thank Senthil Kumaran (stylesen) for snaps.

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2. Open Source India Tech Days 2009 at Chennai

India's leading Open Source event is coming to Chennai with the aim to spread awareness abouthow Linux and other open source technologies can help India to survive, and thrive, despite these'hard times'!

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Manage IT infrastructure better and at lower cost using Open Source.

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Develop software “cheaper, faster and better” using Open Source.

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Why Open Source makes sense for Governments, SMEs and educational institutions.To answer these questions, FOSS experts from across the globe and India are converging together atOpen Source India Tech Days. Undoubtedly, India's biggest Linux and Open Source event, OSI TechDays is scheduled to happen in Chennai from 12th to 14th March 2009 at the Chennai Trade Center.Powered by NRCFOSS, C-DAC, FOSII and LINUX For You, the three-day event will aim to enableIndia, and Asia, to face the meltdown with the power of open source and Linux technologies.

OSI Tech DaysDate

12, 13, 14 March 2009Venue

Chennai Trade Center

, Nandambakkam, ChennaiThere are many events and talks for the entire three days.Registration for SILVER PASS is free.Register athttp://www.osidays.com/users/delegate09.phpSee more athttp://www.osidays.com