We are delighted to announce that freed.in/2009 will be held on the 20th, and 21st of February, 2009. freed.in is the leading community event in the Indian sub-continent and the developing world, promoting freedom and personal privacy in technology, software and related fields. freed.in helps nurture the community, enables networking within and outside the community in a fun environment, and strives towards the seeding of new projects.
The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement has brought about a remarkable change in the way software applications, and computer operating systems are developed; by actively engaging the end user in the process. The success of FOSS has spawned a number of interesting experiments such as the development of open content through sites like Wikipedia, open access and constructivist approaches to the creation of knowledge, the growth of open hardware, and various other projects aimed at applying the ideals behind the FOSS movement to other fields.
One of the most important current projects in India using the FOSS paradigm is the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project, which aims to leverage the power of community to discover a drug for tuberculosis; a disease that kills a thousand people a day. Since tuberculosis is mostly prevalent in the developing world, it receives little attention from the large pharmaceutical companies. OSDD encompasses many of the principles of the FOSS development process, harnessing the power of the community for development, bringing together people with diverse backgrounds to solve a common problem, using appropriate free and open source licenses for all the work to protect the appropriation of the results by any single entity.
Such projects require a massive and diverse set of expertise to succeed; including, but not limited to, legal, hardware, software, chemical, biological, content development, repository management, genetics, databases and search optimization. freed.in this year is an attempt to bring luminaries and community from these fields together.
Its going to be an exciting event. you surely don't want to miss it!
For more detail refer to www.freed.in | For Registration to attend the event register at - http://freed.in/2009/delegate-registration
Konark.K.Modi | Mob:- 9888211816 | E-Mail- modi.konark@gmail.com
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