[cyberg]

Computer Society of MIT is conducting "Carte Blanche 07", a fete on
free/Open Source Softwares on March 3rd, 2007. We welcome you all to
share the spirit of freedom and to take part in various contests.

Demos on various GNU/Linux topics are conducted through out the day,
catering to all people, ranging from the newbies to the experts.It is
a one day crash course on GNU/Linux, where one can get a feel of what
Linux really is.

Apart from this, there are many events for students and professionals
like Programming contests, debugging, Linux Quiz, Paper Presentations,
Online Programming Contest, Web Blogging, Web designing,Technical
Treasure Hunt etc. The instant price money touches new heights than ever.

Also, lectures and seminars by eminent GNU/Linux and open source gurus
are part of the agenda.

CD's of all GNU/Linux Distributions will be distributed and also our
custom-built GNU/Linux for Engineering students "Carte Blanche
V 1.07" will be released on the day.

Visit www.cs-mit.org/cb07 for details

Demos, lectures and workshops are open to all!!

We would really like to have contributions of any kind may be
technical suggestions,monetary from the free/open source community.
Please do feel free to contact us for any queries to me
raju.apm@gmail.com
and it is our pleasure to get you back for your
reasonable queries and of course serve the Free and opensource community!!

Our technical partners in making this festival of freedom an
Exhaustive one includes
NRCFOSS -> nrcfoss.org.in
ILUG-Chennai -> www.chennailug.org
Computer Society of India -> www.csi-india.org
IEEE Computer Society -> www.computer.org/
AU-KBC - www.au-kbc.org

Do feel free to participate in this revolution too!!

Think GNU/Linux ! Think MIT!!

regds
Rajasekar M
Student Organizer,MIT

[jaipraveen]

It is worth attending bcos
-->It is the gathering of like-minded people..I mean the Open source souls.
-->It provides a broad platform for Open source developers to showcase their talents and create awareness
-->100% satisfaction guranteed!

[kameshee17]

Thanks buddy, but how to register for the program, on line registration has not started yet. Is there any fee to be paid regarding the same.

Kamesh.

[ozar]

Originally Posted by kameshee17

Thanks buddy, but how to register for the program, on line registration has not started yet. Is there any fee to be paid regarding the same.

Kamesh.

From reading the post above, I'm guessing it's free, but I'm unable to tell for sure as the website is not working at all for me.

Anyone else able to pull it up?

[kameshee17]

Originally Posted by ozar

From reading the post above, I'm guessing it's free, but I'm unable to tell for sure as the website is not working at all for me.

Anyone else able to pull it up?

I am able to access the site following the first link specified, but registration process has not started yet, but Red Hat is sponsoring the event. Hope it will be good one.

[jaipraveen]

I will post a message when the registration starts....
www.cs-mit.org/cb07 - This link contains information about the events,demos and lectures.