Category: events

Let's Talk About - Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022

Free Software Movement Karnataka is organizing a discussion on the Digitial Personal Data Protection Bill which is under proposal. Every citizen of this country must understand what is being proposed under this bill and how will it affect us once it is passed. And what can we do about it....

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12 Feb 2023

A surprise at FSMK Camp happening in PESCE, Mandya

To those of you who dont know Dr Stallman (aka RMS), he launched the [Free software](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) movement in 1983. FSMK organises camps every year focused at enabling students on various free software tools and technologies which helps them add career value. But why are we suddenly talking about both these...

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11 Jan 2019

Open Day

Open day - an annual event that takes place in Indian Institute of Science (hereafter known as IISc), Bengaluru. Whilst Open Day is an event started by IISc, it has opportunely become a platform that Free Software Movement Karnataka (FSMK) utilises for spreading awareness to the attendees of Open Day....

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19 Mar 2018

Fsmk Winter Camp '18

![image](/images/All_web.png) FSMK Camp 2018 is here!!! FSMK Camps is an initiative by the Free Software Movement Karnataka. Aimed at budding engineers and enthusiasts, we teach participants to use Free Software, instead of proprietary software, to develop their ideas into solutions. FSMK has been actively organizing workshops in various engineering colleges...

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Starts on 22 Jan 2018

Open day on the conclusion of EmbeddedforHer

The first iteration of the Embedded for Her program will be concluded this week. To mark this, an open day has been scheduled. Members from the embedded systems and open hardware communities have been invited to interact with the participants. Date: Sunday, 13th August Venue: IKP Eden Time: 4pm -...

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Starts on 13 Aug 2017

Report on Hacktivist Camp 2017

Day 1 - 28/07/2017 Started around 11:30 am Self-introduction of the participants and the speaker. Discussion on GNU/LINUX and its history ( evolution of free software and about RMS, Linus Torvalds and Eben) Discussion on the licenses and Creative Commons. Lunch Break at 2:15 pm Second half session started around...

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Starts on 28 Aug 2017

From Karshapanas to Crypto- A Brief History of Money

Developments such as demonetisation and crypto-currencies have led people to scratch their heads about the nature of money - and its relation to the economy. This talk traces the history and the logic of money from ancient times (like the Mauryan ‘karshapanas’) to the modern crypto-currencies (such as Bitcoin). Speaker...

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Starts on 23 Apr 2017

Arduino Workshop at BMSIT&M

Greetings! The Free Software Club (BMSIT&M) is having a hands-on session on Arduino conducted by Anup Pravin. This is going to be a two day workshop. Day one, 7th April, Friday, will cover topics like Freedom Hardware, Adruino coding basics, understanding actuators and sensors using motors. Day two, 21st April,...

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Starts on 07 Apr 2017

Arduino Day 2017

Free Software Movement Karnataka (Freedom Hardware) will be celebrating "Arduino Day 2017" on coming April 1st, Saturday. Arduino Day is a worldwide birthday celebration of Arduino– organized directly by the community– where people interested in Arduino or any interesting ideas get together, share their experiences, and learn more. Arduino Day...

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Starts on 01 Apr 2017

Impulse'17

TOGGLE and The Department of Computer Science and Engineering present 'IMPULSE'17' in association with FSMK. TOGGLE(The Oxford Group of GNU/Linux Enthusiasts) is a GLUG established at The Oxford College of Engineering,under the guidance of FSMK to create awareness on free-software and hardware. IMPULSE is a Technical Extravaganza,organised by students of...

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Starts on 07 Apr 2017

Regional Camp Hassan is back

FSMK camps are amazing. Where FSMK educates engineering students about free software philosophy and teaches competitive industry oriented technologies. Participants from across the states attend these camps. But we always got feedback that seats are limited and also camps are Bengaluru centric. Due to which many enthusiastic participants from other...

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Starts on 13 Apr 2017

Open Day 2017 at IISc

### What is Open Day? Open Day is an annual event organized by the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru to commemorate the birthday of its founder — Jamshedji Tata. Every department opens their doors to the general public, and the huge campus is abuzz with demonstrations, stalls, competitions, open laboratories...

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Starts on 04 Mar 2017

Workshop on Low Cost Community Networks with FreedomBox

# About Swecha and the FreedomBox project invite you to learn how to build community Wi-Fi networks with FreedomBox. Community networks spanning entire villages and campuses providing free Internet access and other digital services such as free VOIP calls and radio services are possible for a low cost of about...

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Starts on 18 Mar 2017

FSMK Annual General Body Meeting - 2017

Hello Friends, FSMK is organizing its Annual General Body meeting on 8th Jan 2017 from 10:30 AM to 1 PM. As part of this, we have come up with following procedure to get members from various sections of society to FSMK GB. General Body is the core group of FSMK...

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21 Dec 2016

FSMI's 2nd National Conference - 4CCon

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16 Dec 2016

General Body Meeting 2016

Hello!Greetings to all, After thorough planning and rescheduling, FSMK has decided to hold itsAnnual General Body meeting on 24th April 2016, at FSMK Office, WilsonGarden,Bangalore. As part of this, we have come up with following procedureto get members from various sections of society to FSMK GB. General Body isthe core...

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23 Apr 2016

Sunday School : Introduction to Django on 6th March 2016

Held first sunday school of this term, Introduction to django. Facilitators were Ayesha, Omema, Aishwarya and Gunjan. Around 18 participants were present.

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06 Mar 2016

Git, emacs and Latex workshop held at SVCE

Git, emacs and Latex workshop held at SVCE 13th Feb 2016. Around 50 students attended the workshop and it was completely hands on. Vikram Vincent handled the workshop. The workshop was organized by FOCUS GLUG a unit of FSMK in SVCE.

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22 Feb 2016

FreedomHack 2016

FreedomHack 2016 is a 24 hour Hackathon which is being organised by Free Software Movement Karnataka (FSMK) in association with [HackerEarth][1]. FreedomHack 2016 is being organised in the memory of the late Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who fought for the open and free Internet platform. You can read more...

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07 Jan 2016

Protest against Facebook's Free Basics

Today was a protest by ‪FSMK‬ activists. This is a part of the call by Free Software Movement of India to all its member organisations to ‪#‎SayNoToFreeBasics‬ and yes to ‪#‎NetNeutrality‬ From FSMK EC, Abhiram Ravikumar who is also a Mozilla rep, Ayesha Ishrath, Rameez Thonnakkal, Divya Thasma Shijil and...

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02 Jan 2016

First DevOps meet up in FSMK banner Events

Venue : [FSMK office, Wilson Garden][1] Date : 15th Nov 2015 Time : 10:00 AM [1]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2470953886 What is DevOps? DevOps is a software development method that emphasizes communication, collaboration, integration, automation. The method acknowledges the interdependence of software development, quality assurance (QA), and IT operations, and aims to help...

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13 Nov 2015

BYTESTRUCK 2015

We are pleased to inform you that GLUG PACE is presenting Bytestruck '15 (for the 7th consecutive time). For more: http://bytestruck.in.

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23 Oct 2015

Sunday School Git Sessoin IRC Log

Today sundayschool was special as the whole session was conducted online on IRC , around 20 attended.. Vikram Vincent handled the session. We upload IRC log for further reference. [09:58] will start at 10AM [09:59] two more minutes for class to start [09:59] since we dont have to go anywhere...

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16 Aug 2015

Map Your Waste

On 14th August, Free Software Movement Karnataka is organising an open street map(OSM) event . The idea is to use your smart phones with this OSM software to map the sewage lines and public toilets online so that we can quickly identify clogs and ensure that the govt takes action...

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10 Aug 2015

Walkathon in the print media 23 April 2015

The announcement for the walkathon http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/A-Walk-for-Free-Internet/2015/04/23/article2777720.ece The reports covering the walkathon that was organised in support of net neutrality http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Protests-in-Chennai-Bengaluru-for-net-neutrality/articleshow/47037770.cms http://www.aninews.in/newsdetail2/story213124/protests-in-chennai-bengaluru-for-net-neutrality.html http://bharatpress.com/2015/04/24/protests-in-chennai-bengaluru-for-net-neutrality/ The mashup video that FSMK made to promote the 23 April campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr8Dnm_9lsE The footage from walkathon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQ9gYRidm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc6cCcjzy0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0J0tpKZq94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2OeMKyVrRE

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26 Apr 2015

Walkathon in Bangalore Save The Internet Protect Net Neutrality

Walkathon in Bangalore - Koramangala - from National Games Village(NGV) gate till Forum. Date: 23 April 2015 Meeting time 17:30 hrs. Bring your music, cosplay, placards, street plays... Please enter your contact details so that we may remind you about the events http://goo.gl/forms/vljdJu5ZHx

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21 Apr 2015

FSMK General Body

Free Software Movement of Karnataka is conducting its general body meeting on 7th May 2011(Saturday) at FSMK office. Address FSMK Office No: 121/17, Near Old Hari Lekshmi Theater 6th Main Road, 14th Cross, Wilson Garden, Bangalore- 560030 Former vice-chancellor Prof. Chidananda Gowda will be inaugurating the meeting. Convener of the...

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14 Mar 2015

Ethical Hacking Workshop

Hacking, the term by itself has acquired various connotations because of the unscrupulous use of it by the media. Hacking, simply is a means of refining, and in computer science of code and technology. To clarify this distinction two other terms - ethical hacking and cracking are used now. Ethical...

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14 Mar 2015

FSMK Protest Against Misuse of Section 66A of IT Act to protect our Fundamental Democratic Rights

FSMK Protest Against Misuse of Section 66A of IT Act to protect our Fundamental Democratic Rights Sunday, December 2, 2012at 4:30pm @Corporation Circle, Near Halasuru Gate Police Station

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14 Mar 2015

Debian (and Ubuntu) Release Party

Let's celebrate the latest release of Debian, the Universal Operating System. In spite of there being a few hundred GNU/Linux Distributions, Debian holds a place of its own. Not for being the mother of Ubuntu, but for the commitment it has to the idea of Free Software. Oh yeah, let's...

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14 Mar 2015

Software Freedom Day Celebration

1.Cake cutting 2.Software freedom day wall.Will set up a white wall at fsmk office.Students are requested to come up with creative ideas to decorate the wall.It can be slogans,paintings,paper cutting.. etc. Please bring sketches, paints etc. 3.Students to talk 5 min on "My favourite free software tool" or "Why I...

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School Session on Comet ISON and sky watch using Stellarium

Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) has been the most talked-about comet of 2013. When discovered in late 2012, it was said to have the potential to become a striking object visible to the eye alone around the time of its perihelion – or closest point to the sun – on November...

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14 Mar 2015

Session on Firefox DevTools

This Sunday School, join us to learn Firefox Devtools by Kaustav Das Modak, a ReMo - Mozilla Reps. Please download the latest nightly Firefox Package from http://nightly.mozilla.org/ and install the same on your system. Sunday, December 1, 2013at 2:00pm - 4:30pm @FSMK Office, Wilson Garden

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14 Mar 2015

Hands on with 'Processing'

Building interactive programs, hands on, with Processing, a java-based language designed for beginners. Pre-requisites: Download Processing from http://processing.org/download/?processing for the machine of your choice. I will also have all the download packages, so it is okay if this step is not done, provided students arrive early, so I can install the...

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14 Mar 2015

New Year Celebration

In Fsmk Office Community center student's are celebrating New Year, and you all are invited! We are going have Cultural activity, Fun game, snacks, Cake Cutting, etc..... let us celebrate together...... January 1, 2014 - January 2, 2014 Jan 1, 2014 at 4:30pm to Jan 2, 2014 at 6:30pm @Fsmk...

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School Hands on session on Git

Sunday School - Hands on session on Git by Kaustav Das Modak Sunday, January 5, 2014at 2:00pm - 4:00pm @FSMK Office

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School on Debian Packaging

Sunday School on Debian Packaging by Nitesh Jain Sunday, February 2, 2014at 11:00am - 2:00pm @FSMK Office

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School: Modelling and Texturing using Blender

We have earlier covered Basics of Blender in one of the previous Sunday School session last year. This time let us take it from there and learn how to do basic modelling and texturing from Kaushik Ram. Please install Blender on your laptop before coming the session. Also do bring an...

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School on DuckDuckGo Goodies + Mobile API development using NodeJS

Session on three types of DuckDuckGo goodies and move on to Mobile API development using NodeJS by Mayank Gupta Sunday, February 16, 2014at 2:00pm - 4:00pm @FSMK Office

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14 Mar 2015

Why we have to learn computer? Session by Gnani Sankaran

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School Gaming and Game Development on Gnu/Linux

*Introduction to gaming platforms available on GNU/Linux *Game development concepts *Development platforms available *LAN party over WiFi by [Ajith Demon][1] [1]: https://www.facebook.com/ajith.demon Sunday, February 23, 2014at 2:00pm - 4:00pm @FSMK Office

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14 Mar 2015

Google Summer of Code(GSoC), Ruby SoC, KDE SoC, Outreach Program for Women, ...

The Free Software Community is looking for you eagerly, are you interested to work for the community? Various attempts are being made by the Free Software Community to reach out to more and more people and encourage them to contribute to the community. Not only is the community actively doing...

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School Session on Software Testing

Topics ! 1. What are your instincts towards life ? yes it matters ! 2. What does the word 'TEST' mean to you ? 3. What does it take to be a Software Tester ? 4. Life Cycle 5. Techniques 6. Test Cases on White, Grey and Black Box 7....

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School Learning Git (Basics + Advanced)

For participants of FSMK Summer Camp 2014 and anybody else interested in learning Git. Basics: What's and Why's of Git and a few basic commands to get started. Advanced: Advanced commands with a practical exercise of collective collaboration over a network to highlight the advanced features of Git. Requirements: *...

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14 Mar 2015

FSMK Sunday School : AngularJS and Algorithms

Building Web Apps using AngularJS and Algorithms group's first meet-up: Divide and Conquer Algorithms-1 By [Karthic Rao][1] and [Abhiram Ravikumar][2] [1]: https://www.facebook.com/karthick.rao1 [2]: https://www.facebook.com/abhi12ravi Sunday, August 10, 2014at 10:30am - 1:00pm @FSMK Office,No. 121/17, 1st Floor, 6th main, 14th Cross, Wilson garden, Bengaluru - 560030. Ph: 080-42817353

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School on Free Hardware

Discussion and demonstration of automatic doorbell for home automation. Also covering, demonstration of 'Line Follower'. By Shashank Chakravarthy Sunday, August 17, 2014at 11:00am @FSMK Office,No. 121/17, 1st Floor, 6th main, 14th Cross, Wilson garden, Bengaluru - 560030. Ph: 080-42817353

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14 Mar 2015

Session on Email Encryption

Have you ever wondered how Google knows exactly where you are traveling and how it is able to show you targeted ads? Does it scare you that every email that you have on your email account is constantly being scanned and read to find something interesting about you.? Would you...

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School Hands on Session on Drupal

Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end framework for at least 2.1% of all Web sites worldwide. Requirements: Bring a GNU/Linux Laptop (recommended) Have LAMP package installed. Instructions given here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu or...

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School on Cassandra

In case if you have not heard about cassandra , before refer http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations http://planetcassandra.org/summit-presentations/ http://www.datastax.com/resources/webinars http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/573604395/tutorial-getting-started-with-cassandra download cassandra from http://planetcassandra.org/cassandra/ or any other free software repositories. Session will be handled by Rameez Thonnakkal Sunday, October 19, 2014at 11:00am @Free Software Movement Karnataka No. 121/17, 1st Floor, 6th main, 14th Cross,...

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School on GIMP

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Sunday, November 2, 2014at 11:00am @fsmk office

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School Hands on Session on Gnu Debugger(GDB)

Hands on session on Gnu Debugger(GDB) Pre requisites : Any Linux based OS with gcc. Sunday, November 9, 2014at 10:00am @Free Software Movement Karnataka No. 121/17, 1st Floor, 6th main, 14th Cross, Wilson garden, Bengaluru - 56003

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14 Mar 2015

Understanding the Database concepts

Understanding the Database concepts : "Views, Temporary tables, Reorg Utility and Overview of Stored Procedures and Triggers" Prerequisistes: Basic knowledge of Query writing. LAMP package installed, along with PHPmyadmin. LAMP: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu PHPmyadmin: sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin Sunday, November 16, 2014at 11:00am @Free Software Movement Karnataka No. 121/17, 1st Floor, 6th...

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14 Mar 2015

FSMK Contribution Drive

##Contribution Drive #WHAT FSMK Contribution Drive is meant to be a drive that focuses on spreading awareness about free software and free software adoption much like the summer camps. In addition, this drive will primarily focus on contribution to free software projects by volunteers from several fields and backgrounds. Contribution...

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday School On Kannada Wikipedia Session

Kannada wikipedia Session: http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=i&rct=j&q&esrc=s&source=images&cd&cad=rja&uact=8&ved&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AKannada_wikipedia_logo_in_kannada.png&ei=5v_KVKL2E8fvUJv5gPAB&bvm=bv.84607526%2Cd.d24&psig=AFQjCNHJX-NF__k9QQANvX1MBFhAN5Hbew&ust=1422676326594992 Sunday, February 1at 12:00pm FSMK, #121/17, 14th cross, 6th main, Wilson garden, Bangalore

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14 Mar 2015

Sunday school Session On creating a web page using Basic HTML and CSS

Sunday school Session On creating a web page using Basic HTML and CSS Sunday, February 15at 2:30pm about 3 weeks ago @FSMK Office, #121/17, 14th Cross, 6th Main, Near Old Harilakshmi Theatre, Wilson garden, Bangalore

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14 Mar 2015

Industry Orientation Workshop on Free Software Technologies 2013 @JVIT

FSMK camps are technologically intensive and the effort is always to ensure that during the span of the camp students are exposed to as many different free software technologies and free software tools as possible. Few of the topics which are popular and are considered to be hot technologies are given more emphasis such that...

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06 Mar 2015

Industry Orientation Workshop on Free Software Technologies 2013 @SVIT

Free Software movement Karnataka (FSMK) is organizing 5 days Industry Orientation workshop on preparing participants on Free Software technologies for the software industry. Currently software industry is actively adopting free software to reduce the cost and have much more freedom to modify the software to suit their needs. This has...

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06 Mar 2015

FSMK Camp Fun. Freedom. Knowledge ; Registration is open

We are back again , this time targeting 200 participants over a period of 9 days from July 19th to 27th. Fore more detail FSMK has been actively organizing workshops in various engineering colleges across the state since last 5 years. However, we noticed that a longer duration residential camp...

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21 May 2014

FSMK Summer Camp

It has been decided to organize the summer camp. The camp will cover basics of FOSS technologies, improvised on previous camp syllabus. soon we will be launching website for the camp. [][1] [1]: http://fsmkblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/10269336_10152776146912995_904756544085730709_o.jpg Camp detail **Duration: 9 days** **Dates: 19 - 27 July, 2014** **Target participation: 200...

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26 Apr 2014

ARDUINO HANDS ON WORKSHOP For CCC

Conducted by:- Free Hardware Movement Conducted on:- 31-03-2014 (sunday) at 11.00am to 05.00pm Handled by:- Harshitha,Suryo and Karan Venu:- FSMK office History of Arduino software :- ** ****Arduino** is a single board micro controller, intended to make the application of interactive objects or environments more accessible. The hardware consists...

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04 Apr 2014

Arduino hands on workshop

ARDUINO HANDS ON WORKSHOP Conducted by:- Free hardware movement Conducted on:- 31-03-2014 (sunday) at 11.00am to 05.00pm Handled by:- Harshitha,Suryo and Karan Venu:- FSMK office History of Arduino software :- Arduino is a single board micro controller, intended to make the application of interactive objects or environments more accessible. The...

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04 Apr 2014

Building interactive programs with Processing.

Building interactive programs, hands on, with Processing, a java-based language designed for beginners. **Pre-requisites:** Download Processing from http://processing.org/download/?processing for the machine of your choice

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28 Dec 2013

FSMK Localization Sprint

On the context of Kannada Rajyotsava, FSMK's Localization Chapter has decided to have a month long sprint to localize various Free Software tool/applications. The aim of this sprint is to create awareness amongst its members about the need for localization and how anyone, even without any technical knowledge can contribute...

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04 Nov 2013

Second Session on Public Speaking Skills by Sreejith

In the previous session Sreejith sir gave us some assignments and asked us to practice it within a week (means within next class) with the help of the hints he gave us in that class. The assignment was that, each and every students should select a different topic and give...

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22 Oct 2013

FSMK's First GLUG session in P.U.College

Spreading the Free Software Ideologies in the schools(including p.u.c) for the first time.The first experiment was made in our college SGH (Shrimathi Gangamma Hombegowda)P.U.College. This is an aided institute. Before handling the session itself, we had four volunteers from this college . Who were the regular students of Amigo Community...

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04 Oct 2013

Wikipedia Women's Workshop

On the eve of International Women's Day, FSMK has organised a women's workshop in Bangalore. The idea is to get more women aware about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. They would be guided on "How to contribute to Wikipedia?" by an hands-on editing session To participate in the event please fill...

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08 Mar 2013

Industry Orientation Workshop on Free Software Technologies

Date: 26th – 30th Jan 2013 Venue: Sai Vidya Institute of Technology, Doddaballapur Organized by: Free Software Movement Karnataka Register: Click Here Facebook Event: Click Here Free Software movement Karnataka (FSMK) is organizing 5 days Industry Orientation workshop on preparing participants on Free Software technologies for the software industry. Currently...

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15 Feb 2013

One Day Workshop on GNU Octave and Python Hands on Workshop

Numerical computation tools that run on GNU/Linux platform such as Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora are a huge blessing for all mathematical computation ‘freaks', be it students or researchers. The most famous Free Software tools are GNU/Octave, Scilab, and the powerful Python language (with its gamut of libraries) — all licensed...

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11 Feb 2013

Debian PureBlends Packaging session by Jonas Smedegaard in FSMK Office

Dear All, Debian Developer and FreedomBox Jonas Smedegaard has been in Bangalore and numerous events are being organized. http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011#Bangalore As a culmination to this stint of his stay in Bangalore, Jonas will be handling a Debian Pure Blends packaging session at FSMK Office, Bangalore. **Agenda:** 1. Understanding the differences between...

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11 Feb 2013

Faculty Development Programme @ BMSIT

As sprint events to celebrate Software Freedom Day, and celebrating Software Freedom in its true spirit the second of the sessions in BMS Institute of Technology was organized on 8th September, 2011. After a session on the Free Software approach towards 'Privacy and Security in the Internet' for students, a...

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11 Feb 2013

C Programming Workshop @ FSMK office from 22nd to 24th July

FSMK will be organizing a 3 day programming course for students in 2nd or 3rd year in Engineering or BCA at FSMK office from 22nd to 24th July. This course is based on C Programming language. The following topics will be covered in detail during the three day course: **Part...

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11 Feb 2013

Day 2: State Level Academicians Convention on Free Software in Research and Teaching

The State Convention for Academicians on Free Software in Research and Teaching, hit a new high on the second and final day. Today being Saturday, as expected we had wider range of audience with a bunch of Industry enthusiasts making it to the venue. The undercurrent and the motive behind...

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10 Feb 2013

Day 1:State Level Academicians Convention on Free Software in Research and Teaching

Karnataka's first State Level Convention for Academicians on Free Software in Research and Teaching has taken off in Bangalore on the 11th March, 2011, organized by the Free Software Movement-Karnataka (FSMK) and Reva Institute of Technology and Management. The State Convention which will go on for another day, on the...

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10 Feb 2013

Day:1 State Level Academicians Convention on Free Software in Research and Teaching

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10 Feb 2013

FOSS for Budding Developers

Free Software Movement-Karnataka (FSMK) a member organisation FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT INDIA in association with IBM Software Labs is organizing the encore workshop on 'FOSS for budding developers' at CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore, on 10th and 11th April 2010, targeted at students becoming code contributors - foss developers. Please visit...

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10 Feb 2013

Perl Level 1

**Perl - Level 1** 1. Data types 2. Operators & Operations 3. Control Structures 4. Subroutines 5. Hashes 6. Pattern Matching 7. Input and Output Basics 8. Regular expression 9. File handler & File Tests 10. Special String Operations Contact Person : Karthikeyan Phone number : 9620207665

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10 Feb 2013

National Conference on Free Software

National Conference on Free Software is going to happen in the month of March 2010 in Bangalore. FSMK is taking the responsibility of creating the canvas of the Conference. Delegates from different parts of India will be assembling here in Bangalore. Read More on [National conference here][1]. [1]: http://www.nc2010.fsmk.org

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10 Feb 2013

FreeSoftware Talks from RMS and Eben Moglen

Here are the links to two videos by Richard M Stallman and Eben Molgen. They talks in detail about the free software movment. [Eben Moglen at Christ University][1] [RMS at Christ University ][2] [1]: http://blip.tv/file/1618770 [2]: http://blip.tv/file/1618916 Whether you are a free software activist, sympathizer or opponent it is worth...

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10 Feb 2013

Teachers Workshop

FSMK is jointly organizing Teachers workshop on Basic Computer aspects, free software, FS philosophy, Open source Tools, etc on July 16, 17, and 18 (10.30am to 5.30pm) along with other Free Software NGOs. Audience are school teachers from schools in and around Bangalore. The syllabus is prepared by FSMK and...

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10 Feb 2013

Linux Kernel Workshop

Write up by Raghavendra The much awaited encore workshop on ***'GNU tools and Linux Kernel'*** organised by Free Software Movement-Karnataka(FSMK) and IEEE driven by IBM Linux Technology Centre conducted at BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, on 9th and 10th May 2009. Around 100 People consisting of Students and Working professionals...

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10 Feb 2013

IEEE Tutorial on GNU/Linux Kernel

Free Software Movement Karnataka(FSMK) in coordination with IEEE Bangalore section, IBM Linux Technology Centre and BMSCE announces a Linux kernel tutorial. IEEE announcement follows - IEEE Bangalore Section in association with BMS College of Engineering and Free Software Movement, Karnataka (FSMK) announces TWO DAY TUTORIAL ON GNU/LINUX Kernel Workshop By...

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10 Feb 2013

Professor Eben Moglen's Speech at Christ University

Professor Eben Moglen delivered a speech at Christ University on “free software movement and the struggle for freedom of thought”. In this speech, he explains the reasons for why software should be free and also how free software movement is a continuation of the historical struggle for freedom of thought...

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10 Feb 2013

FSMK at the 2nd National Conference on Free Software

Cochin University of Science & Technology ( CUSAT ) was the venue of the second National Conference on Free Software in India on November 15th & 16th , 2008. The first National Conference was held at Hyderabad in 2007. Kerala has been in the forefront of promoting the Free...

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10 Feb 2013

Eben Moglen visited Ambedkar Community Computer Centre (AC3)

Eben Moglen, came to Bangalore, with a packed itinerary, which included lectures at the top educational institutions in the country and also a program organized by Kannada Bloggers. He was presented with a rare gift on his arrival - a book penned by the children of AC3 based on...

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10 Feb 2013

Copyleft@IISc :An Open Discussion on Danger of Patents

**About the topic:** In the wake of centenary celebrations of our Institute, whose aim is to empower the society through knowledge, it is time to ask “what are the issues that hamper the creation of a free society where the fruits of knowledge could be equally Columbia Law School shared”....

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09 Feb 2013