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This is a Call for Participation inviting proposals for FOSS talks, hackfests, Workshops, and Birds of a Feather sessions at FOSSKriti 2010.

About FOSSKriti

FOSSKriti was started in 2008 as an event to promote Free and Open Source software as a part of Techkriti, the technical festival of IIT Kanpur. It instantly became a success and attracted huge participation beyond initial expectations. The event constitutes talks, workshops and hackfests primarily aimed at the student community. FOSSKriti is a theme oriented event - with the 2008 being the year of desktops, 2009 having the open web as the main theme.

Event format

Since FOSSKriti attracts students from varied backgrounds, this year we plan split the event into 2 tracks.

One of these will be a beginner track consisting of tutorials starting at a relatively basic level. This track is aimed at enthusiastic students who are interested in understanding what Free and Open Source Software is and, more importantly, how they can start contributing to it themselves.

The second will be a more advanced track, intended for students who are comfortable with coding and working on open source software. The advanced track this year will focus on "F/OSS in the Embedded World". Students are free to participate in either or both tracks. The aim here would be to introduce specific projects and problems that interested participants can attack, usually at the event itself.

The bottom line here is we hope to make some difference by enabling people to utilize F/OSS tools in their education.

Interested in presenting a talk/conducting a workshop/hackfest?

If you are interested in presenting at talk at FOSSKriti 2010, please mail us an abstract of your talk at fosskriti@techkriti.org and also you can discuss about it on our irc channel #fosskriti on the Freenode IRC network.