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Workshop on "FOSS" at NRCFOSS-INDIA
Workshop on “FOSS” aims to provide an insight into FOSS development and a preview of BOSS GNU/Linux distribution developed by NRCFOSS.
On 21st August 2006 C-DAC Chennai organized a workshop on FOSS.
Danese Cooper ( Sr. Director of Open Source Strategy for Channel Software Operations - INTEL) had delivered a talk on FOSS at NRCFOSS . After the talk a demonstration on BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) ,a linux distribution developed by NRCFOSS also took place.
Danese Cooper : Prominent and forthright Open Source advocate who has for many years been in vocal support of compatible Open Source Java. During her six years at Sun, she was involved in creation, licensing and implementation of NetBeans.org, OpenOffice.org, JXTA.org, sunsource.net and drafting of the CDDL license for OpenSolaris. She was also one of the original architects of both the java.net infrastructure and blogs.sun.com. In March 2005 Danese left Sun for Intel, where she works as Sr. Director of Open Source Strategy for Channel Software Operations and is helping to build an Open Source Programs Office.
BOSS : BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) is the Indian GNU/Linux Distribution, a deliverable of NRCFOSS as per the recommendations given by the DIT , Government of India. It aims to provide the Desktop solution with the
features catering for the government domain. Some of the salient features that can be mentioned are Graphical Installer, Bulk Document Converter, Linux Standard Base 3.1 compliance (Certification is in the process) etc. For more details please visit :
