Web Wizard – Sri Lanka is proud to sponsor another prestigious event held at APIIT Sri Lanka, organized by the FOSS community of APIIT.
APIIT FOSS Con 2009
APIIT Sri Lanka student community is organizing APIIT FOSS Con 2009, a Free and Open Source Software Conference with the goal of educating the undergraduates as well as graduates about the benefits of using high quality Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in education, government, at home, and in business. This event will be held on the 2nd October 2009 at the APIIT – Sri Lanka City Campus premises commencing at 08.30 a.m.
This is the third consecutive year that the APIIT – Sri Lankan students, in association with the FOSS Community comprising the users and developers of free software as well as supporters of the free software movement, are staging this event. It is expected that the APIIT FOSS Con 2009 will make a valuable contribution to the FOSS movement by raising undergraduate interest and awareness on development and use of FOSS.
The APIIT undergraduates, lecturers, APIIT Alumni, FOSS Community and other fellow university students will be taking part in this prestigious event.
Esteemed guest speakers from renowned organisations in the industry including ICTA, The Linux Center, THINKCube, Virtusa, WSO2, and OrangeHRM will add value to the FOSS Conference sharing their expertise and highlighting the value and potential of the use and development of FOSS during technical sessions.
The tech-talks will be followed by a FOSS Web Designing Competition, a Code Competition and an Installfest. The Installfest is an installation festival where computer users will have the opportunity to install FOSS on their machines. This event will no doubt help popularise the usage of FOSS.
APIIT FOSS Con is yet another event that provides APIIT students with a forum to integrate with industry specialists in a knowledge sharing session. During their studies at APIIT – Sri Lanka, students are encouraged to actively engage in numerous activities both academic and extra-curricular to be abreast of ongoing developments in relation to their chosen field of study and at the same time develop themselves as dynamic professionals. As a leading higher education institution in the country, APIIT’s goal is to produce outstanding professionals who can contribute significantly to the socio-economic development of the country.
Warm wishes form Web Wizard to the organizers of ”APIIT FOSS 09′”
