ENGINEERS CONSORTIUM FOR OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE [ECOSS]

The Engineer's Consortium for Open Source Software is a non-profit organization founded by Dr. J Surya Rao on 20 September 2008 to support the free software movement, a copyleft-based movement which aims to promote the universal freedom to distribute and modify computer software without restriction. The ECOSS is incorporated in Roland Institute of Technology , India. The ECOSS is a joint forum of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering , Information Technology Engineering & PG Department of Computer Application.

The team is running under the direction of Er. Sunil Kumar Sahu. The training division is running under the sweet shadow of Mr. Manik Chand Patanaik.

The crew of around 20 members is leaded by Mr. Manmohan Brahma .

The various other open-source heroes are Mr. Anil Kumar , Mr. Purushottam Kumar , Miss P Divya , Mr. K Sai Kiran , Mr. Hrudaya Prasanna Dash , Miss Neetasha Patnaik , Mr. Sandeepan Patra , Mr. Abhishek David , Mr. Jeeban Kumar Dalai , Mr. Subhra Ranjan Padhy , and others.

The forum is going to organize the SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY 2009 on 19th September 2009. The program has the intention to teach the B.Tech & MCA students about the flavour of Open Source Software.

The programme would for 3 days. The entire 2 days will be used for the training purpose as per the course module and the 3rd day that is on 19 th September 2009 there would be various open source apptitude examinations. The 5th day will also be used for some short of cultural activities. Moreover there would be a keynote speaker that will be inviting from a govt. organization who will be deeply endulged with open source technologies.

The details of the programme can be found from the site http://www.ecoss.in

For further details u can contact us @

ECOSS

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Roland Institute of Technology

At: PO - Golanthara

Berhampur [Gm.]

Orissa 761008

India