National Conference on Open Source Software (NCOSS)
NCOSS - 2009 is being conceived of as a forum to bring together the various groups working on developing Open Source Applications catering to specific domains in the ICT world.
The various ICT domains include education, health, accessibility, localisation, e-commerce,
disaster management, expert systems, machine learning, etc.
A number of
high quality software solutions are available in many of these areas,
for example, SugarCRM, Koha, Drupal, Moodle, Sahana, CollabCAD, etc.
Work on these systems require a combination of domain knowledge and development expertise. Much of the public awareness in open source is focussed on desktop, operating system and general productivity tools.
With this background, NCOSS-09 has chosen to focus on the layer above this, bringing together groups working on various application domains.
The conference will consist of the following:
- Invited talks by experts from India and abroad
- Presentation of contributed papers selected based on refereeing by a panel of referees
- Live Demos of FOSS applications
- Pre-conference tutorials (on 24th May 2009)
- Panel discussion
