Sponsors

Established in March 1988 as a Scientific Society of the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), is primarily an R & D institution involved in the design, development and deployment of advanced Information Technology (IT) based solutions. C-DAC exemplifies India’s ingenuity in the field of Advanced Computing with a mission to deliver state-of-the-art, open architecture, scalable high performance computers in the desktop to teraflop range, embodying the emergent industry-standard building blocks. Towards fulfillment of this goal, C-DAC has advented the OpenFrame Architecture which has been realized in its celebrated PARAM series of High Performance Computers.
http://www.cdac.in/

CK12

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in January 2007. Our mission is to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide, but also to empower teacher practitioners by generating or adapting content relevant to their local context. Using a collaborative and web-based compilation model that can manifest open resource content as an adaptive textbook, termed the "FlexBook", CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality, locally and temporally relevant, educational web texts. The content generated by CK-12 and the CK-12 community will serve both as source material for a student's learning and provide an adaptive environment that scaffolds the learner's journey as he or she masters a standards-based body of knowledge, while allowing for passion-based learning.
http://www.ck12.org/

Imaxsys Technologies

IMAXSYS Technologies is an IT Infrastructure Solutions Company dedicated to offer Technology Solutions and Services. World-class products, expertise and solutions that empower your business to achieve peak performance.
IMAXSYS Technologies has been empowering and enabling businesses succeed with a secure and reliable IT infrastructure. One that is pervasive, cost-effective and efficient, allowing you to take advantage of every new business opportunity.
http://www.imaxsys.com/

Nace Solutions

A Team of dynamic computer professionals sowed the seeds of NACE Solutions (P) Ltd., and nurtured it into a respected Information Technology (IT) Training company providing quality and cost-effective training solutions to its clients. NACE offers IT training solutions under one roof to its client’s world wide, across a broad range of platforms encompassing both current and emerging technologies.
Headquartered in Chennai, India. it has operations in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Bahrain in the Middle East. NACE maintains a roster of full fledged dynamically trained trainers, who are the back bone of NACE’s successes.
Managed by professionals with an average experience of more than 15 years in IT & IT Education; NACE's strength comes from several thousand man hours of hands-on experience in the industry as well as a sound understanding of international business practices.
http://www.naceedu.com/

Nokia

Nokia has played a pioneering role in the growth of cellular technology in India, starting with the first-ever cellular call a decade ago, made on a Nokia mobile phone over a Nokia-deployed network.
Nokia has established itself as the market and brand leader in the mobile devices market in India. The company has built a diverse product portfolio to meet the needs of different consumer segments and therefore offers devices across five categories ie. Entry, Live, Connect, Explore and Achieve. These include products that cater to first time subscribers to advanced business devices and high performance multimedia devices for imaging, music and gaming.
http://www.nokia.co.in/

Torres Networks

Torres Networks offers a suite of carrier grade IP Service Flow Management and Enhancement products that enable optimal roll out of Subscriber-Centric, Next Generation Networks quickly and profitably. The initial focus is on WiMAX Networks. These products provide the complete gamut of functionalities needed to manage an IP Service Flow end-to-end on a per subscriber basis.
With IP Service Flow Management, Carriers can go beyond the simple “bit pipes” to build application aware smart networks, optimize bandwidth and Router resources in the network. This will result in cost savings, and enable Carriers to move up the value chain with differentiated charging, also create subscriber-centric database that can be used to personalize subscriber experience and monetize web behaviour.
http://www.torresnetworks.com

Contest Sponsors

Sun provides a diversity of software, systems, services, and microelectronics that power everything from consumer electronics, to developer tools and the world's most powerful datacenters. Our core brands include the Java technology platform, Solaris operating system, the MySQL database management system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.
We serve consumers and individual developers, alongside the largest global enterprises. Our network computing platforms are used by nearly every sector of society and industry, and power some of the world's best known search, social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy and engineering companies - broadened by one of the world's largest portfolio of software and service partners.
Every day, companies and governments around the world benefit from Sun's technology stewardship, via our work to create the standards that bridge the world's digital divide, to our solutions and business practices that offer higher performance with lower power, cooling, and space requirements. Sun invents products and services that save time and money for those seeking to use technology to create opportunities. Today more than ever: The Network is the Computer.

http://in.sun.com/

Organisers

The GNU/Linux User Group of Thiagarajar College of Engineering(GLUGOT) was started in Dec.2003 with an objective to promote Free Software and the spirit of co-operation among students of TCE. The group contributes to the community in the form of awareness meetings and sessions. It regularly conducts training programs and technical meetings to teach students on Free Software related technologies. It also caters to the specific needs of students project. TCENet is the FOSS based ERP package developed inhouse to automate the day-to-day activities of the institution. In addition, there are many on-going interdisciplinary research in FOSS. It has been conducting Software Freedom Day (Fstival) from 2004 to educate the college students, school students and general public in and around Madurai. This group also facilitates the meeting of GLUG-Madurai at TCE campus. The group also has a mailing list hosted on the TCE Mailserver. To join the mailing list visit link (http://lists.tce.edu/mailman/listinfo/glugot).
http://www.tce.edu/

Ilugc

Indian Linux User Group, Chennai (LUGC) is one of the oldest LUGs in the country and has been continuously active since its inception in 1997. It specialises in grass roots level work all around Tamilnadu and in the neighboring states too. Under its guidance, many local LUGs are active in colleges and towns all around Tamilnadu. At the same time, ILUGC members are in the forefront of the FOSS movement both at the national and international level.
http://chennailug.org/

NRCFOSS

NRCFOSS, is a Central Government Project, funded by the DIT and jointly run by C-DAC Chennai, and AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus of Anna University, Chennai, to promote development and deployment of FOSS. For the past two and half years, NRCFOSS has been actively promoting FOSS in the academic and government domain. The focus areas include introduction of FOSS in academic curriculum, encouraging student projects in FOSS, and inducing academia to release it's work under FOSS/Creative Commons licenses. C-DAC has developed and released the desktop and server versions of Bharat Operating Systems Solutions (BOSS). AU-KBC Research Centre has ongoing research activities in Computational Linugistics, Bio-informatics, Wireless, Cryptography and embedded computing, much of which uses FOSS tools and some of the research works have been added to the FOSS repository.
http://nrcfoss.org.in/
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
http://www.au-kbc.org/