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Free Software Free Society
Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture

Speaker	Events
Adam Arvidsson	Ethical economy
Alan Story	Talk by CopySouth
Anand Babu Periasamy	GlusterFS – GNU Cluster File System
Anil Nair	Free Software for Free Media
Aslam Raffee.	Free Software and Global South
Binod P.G	Building and hosting your own communication server with Java EE and SailFin
Carolina Botero	Talk by CopySouth
Cheekay Cinco	FOSS and gender
Dr. Prabhu Ramachandran	Python and Mayavi
Dr. V Sasi Kumar	Open Access
Eben Moglen	Keynote By Eben Moglen Software Patents
Fatima Lasay	Talk by CopySouth
Frank Jennings	Java, Netbeans & OpenSolaris – Innovations, latest features and Opportunities
G Nagarjuna	Open Access Collaborative Innovation
Govt Agency Representatives	Free Software in E-Governance
Harshad Oak	Dive Into Grails
Jacob John (Dilip)	Development as Freedom – Free software partner in struggle for development
Jacob Royal	Java, Netbeans & OpenSolaris – Innovations, latest features and Opportunities
Jaisen Nedumpala	FOSS in Agriculture and Fisheries
Jimmy Wales	Keynote By Jimmy Wales Malayalam Wikipedia – Way forward
Joost Smiers	Talk by CopySouth
Kishore Kumar	RIA and Java FX
Marco Ciurcina	Software Patents
Mayuresh Nirhali	MySQL : The most popular open source database : Technical Overview An introduction to OpenSolaris
Michel Bauwens	Network Civilization
Mishi Chowdary	Software Patents
Neville Roy Singham	Keynote By Neville Roy Singham
NIIBE Yukta	Embedded System development in GNU/Linux
Paritosh Pungaliya	Applying India to Free Software
Prof. Rajanish Das	Free Software Education & Research
Radhakrishnan T	FOSS in Agriculture and Fisheries
Rahul De	Free Software and Global South Free Software Education & Research
Raji P. R	FOSS and gender
Raj Mohan	maSh
RedHat Representative	JBoss
Richard Matthew Stallman	Inaugural Session
Rishabh Ghosh	Free Software and Global South Free Software Education & Research
Roberto Verzola	Talk by CopySouth Talk by CopySouth
Satish Babu	Android
Senthil Prabhu	OpenESB – An Overview
Srihari Srinivasan	Beautiful Code with Ruby and Rails
Stefan Merten	Free Software, Free Society
Subbiah Arunachalam	Open Access
Sunando Banerjee	Open Bravo – The Way to go
Sunil Abraham	Just Copy! Copy Culture
Surendran	Trends in high-performance database systems
Venkitesh Hariharan	Software Patents Collaborative Innovation
Vihang Pathak	OpenPortal – Project WebSynergy

Free Software Free Society
Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture

• Day One (2008-09-12)
• Day Two (2008-10-12)
• Day Three (2008-11-12)
• Speakers
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http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/2008/national-free-software-conference-boycott-novell-turn-outs

http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC/StatementOnNCFS2008Kochi

http://aswinatgec.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/boycott-novell-boycotted-from-free-software-conference/
http://njaan.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/free-software-conference-at-cusat/
http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2008/11/boycott-novell-protesters-man-handled.html

http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2008-November/005695.html

http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2008-November/005700.html

Freedom Walk – in Brief

Freedom walk is a project aimed at spreading the message of ‘Freedom in Society’, ‘Freedom from Environmental Issues’, and ‘Freedom in Software’ and to promote activism around these freedoms. As part of this mobilization campaign a team of volunteers are going to walk from Kasargode to Trivandrum and organize seminars and talks on these freedoms at educational institutions and non profit organizations.

Additionally we hope to connect with people and organisations who share our vision and to work together for our common cause. We are also planning to launch a collaboration platform for such individuals and organizations to help them to work together and also to harness the power of the web to improve their efficiency.

Click here to read more about the project

The participants are as under

• GNU/Linux Users Group Trivandrum

• Swathantra Malayalam Computing

• SPACE

• Free Software Users Group Calicut

Recently, we have built an open source Hindi Speech Recognition System which is freely available at -

https://sourceforge.net/projects/hindiasr/

This system is based on CMU Sphinx3 package. hindiasr package provides the basic acoustic models for north Indian hindi speakers. These models can be plugged into any application by using Sphinx APIs. I  hope that these acoustic models will be useful for many open source application developers, who want to integrate a Hindi speech recognition system into their application. Developers are welcome to use this system freely for developing various applications which will be useful for Indian society.

The latest release of hindiasr is HindiASR-2.0 .  For detailed information about how to run the system (on Linux Platform) please check out the README2_0.txt from this release.

Regards,
Sachin Joshi