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CDAC, Mumbai has announced the beta release of portal Sangrah – Knowledge Repository for FOSS in Education . This portal contains resources about different categories like Learning Management System, Content Management System, etc. It also contains user experiences for these categories, comparative analysis of various tools from these categories, specialised search, and collaboration facility for community supported content updates. The portal is maintained with least manual intervention as most of the tasks including, resource collection, categorization, user experience identification, comparative analysis, etc are largely automated. The portal is intended for academic institutions, entrepreneurs, among others to help them to adopt Free and Open Source Softwares (FOSS). The portal is still evolving, hence feedback about the portal, improvement suggestions can be given through the feedback section on portal. Users can visit and register on the portal at -  http://

C-DAC Mumbai is offering 1-year full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Software Technology (PG-DST) for the past several years with excellent placement records. The course provides a systematic blend of theory and hands-on, foundational and advanced concepts, and includes current trends and technologies.   Admission is now open for the next batch of PG-DST commencing on 27th August 2013, and its admission test (CST) will be held on 14th July 2013. Application form and more details of the course are given in brochure: PGDST_Brochure .  The PG-DST course exposes the candidates to a variety of tools and frameworks including programming languages (C, C++ and Java), database systems (MySQL, Oracle, Hibernate, NoSQL), development frameworks (Spring, HTML-5, PHP, JavaScript), tools in software engineering (Redmine, Git), Operating systems (Gnu/Linux, Windows, Android), etc.    Contact details:   C-DAC, Near Kharghar Rly Stn, Navi Mumbai (Tel 022-27565303)  C-DAC, Gulmohar C