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NCOSS-09 was successfully concluded on May 26, 2009. This two day conference was organized to provide a plateform to showcase the work or research being done in open source with respect to various verticals like knowledge management, e-commerce, Indian language computing etc. Experts and distinguished professors expressed their views on open source through invited talks apart from paper presentations under various vertical-specific sessions. The common view point was that India must play a crucial role in the adoption of open source world wide. Although there are many initiatives both in government and private sector, but still a lot more is required to be done. Apart from paper presentations, demo hall session were also organized as a showcase of open source technology. Pre-conference tutorials held one day before i.e. May 24, 2009 also received good appreciation from the audience. In the last, during the panel discussion, views were expressed on the various barriers in FOSS adoption....

NCOSS-09 begins at CDAC, Navi Mumbai on 25/05/2009. This conference will provide a platform to showcase niche technologies being developed in the area of FOSS and discuss about open source softwares in various verticals like knowledge management, e-learning, e-commerce, Indian Language Computing etc. More details on http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in .

Call for Participation NCOSS-09: National Conference on Open Source Software May 25 - 26, 2009, Navi Mumbai, India. Organized by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai Supported by IEEE Computer Society, Mumbai and Chennai chapters & CSI, Div II on Software & SIG-OS Media partner Linux for You The National Conference on Open Source Software is intended to act as a forum for promoting adoption of open source softwares and solutions in different areas, by sharing experiences in solution selection, customisation/adaptation, etc. Over 110 papers were submitted to the conference from all over India. After a rigorous international refereeing process, about 30 papers have been selected, which will be presented during the conference. Conference Programme : Paper Presentation in areas including e-Learning Collaboration Technology Language Com...

NCOSS-09: National Conference on Open Source Software May 25 th - 26 th , 2009, Mumbai, India Organized by C-DAC, Mumbai Supported by IEEE Computer Society, Mumbai and Chennai chapters Computer Society of India, Div II on Software & SIG-OSS * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * NCOSS - 2009 is being conceived of as a forum to bring together the various groups working on developing Open Source Applications catering to specific domains in the ICT world, including education, health, accessibility, localisation, e-commerce, disaster management, expert systems, machine learning, etc. A number of high quality software solutions are available in many of these areas, for example, SugarCRM, Koha, Drupal, Moodle, Sahana, CollabCAD, etc. Work on these systems require a combination of domain knowledge and development expertise. Much of the public awareness in open source is focussed on desktop, operating system and general productivity tools. With this background, NCOSS-09 has chosen to...