AOSS Training Program, August 2006, Mumbai

Organizers	(1)OSSRC a nerve centre for Open Source Software (OSS) activities in India. (2) CICC established to cooperate with Asian countries in the field of information technology to promote computerization for their economic and social development.
Supporting organizations	(1) starcomsoftware.com Mumbai, providing technical services in the areas of networking, internet technology and web-based solutions (2) SUNDYNE TECHNOLOGIES an innovative enterprise wholly dedicated to offer comprehensive, cutting-edge Embedded Systems (3) Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider.
Duration	Three days, August 28th to 30th 2006.
Venue	Open Source Software Resource Centre Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (formerly NCST) Raintree Marg, Near Bharati Vidyapeeth Opposite Kharghar Railway Station Sector 7, CBD Belapur Navi Mumbai 400614, India
No. of participants	Around 30

Group photo

Topics covered

Technical Track:

• Open Source and Open Standards
• Free and Open Source Software and GNU/Linux
• Software licensing, Copyright Issues
• Linux Installation Demo
• Desktop Management, Command Line and File system operations
• Package Administration, User Management, Hardware Management
• Backup, Cron, setting up of network addresses
• Linux Kernel Understanding and Compilation
• Iptables
• Programming basics in PHP, PERL, Mysql, Postgres
• Case Study: Applications Using PHP and Mysql in an Enterprise
• Document standards, Character encoding and UNICODE
• E-Learning and OSS
• Connectivity Solutions

General Track:

• AOSS Training Program
• CICC activities and AOSS Symposium
• Open Source Software Research Center
• OSS Developments in Asia
• Case Study on OSS based IS for a large organisation.

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