FOSSKriti 2010

Its that time of the year again when we get to organize FOSSKriti.
Even though everybody is busy with their academic schedule, we are
trying to work hard to get this event take form.

About FOSSKriti:
Started in 2008 as an event to promote free and opensource software as
a part of Techkriti, the technical festival of IIT Kanpur, 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 with Shreyas
speaking about Clutter UI, Piyush Verma about KDE project, Arun
conducting a hackfest on Beagle, Ankita garg conducting a Kernel
hacking workshop, 2009 having the theme open web with a bespin demo
and the talk on html5 specs by Arun Ranganathan ( one of the
architechts of html5 specs) along with Seth Bindernagel (who works on
moz i8n), talk on Open web standards by Shwetank from Opera, a talk on
webit by Siraj, SahanaPy and Drupal hackfests .

Apart from that we had a lot of BoF sessions, some BZflag games :P etc.

This year we plan to have 2 tracks - one a beginner track consisting
of tutorials starting at a relatively basic level and a second
advanced track on "FOSS in the embedded world".

The bottom line here is we hope to make some difference by enabling
people to utilize FOSS tools in education.

The website shall be up in a couple days populated with the necessary
content and the CFP shall be sent out soon.
Keep checking the fosskriti webspace for updates and also fosskriti
could be followed on twitter @fosskriti .