Sponsors

ELCOT which was registered in the year 1977 has been rendering , inter alia, the valuable services to the various Departments of the Government of Tamil Nadu and Public Sector Undertakings / Boards in Tamil Nadu, in the fields of Electronics, and Information Technology in particular. The role of ELCOT in the recent years has been mainly to act as the procurement agency for the Government of Tamil Nadu, Public Sector Undertakings / Boards for the procurement and supply of the IT and IT related products. The scope of the procurement services is expected to increase substantially in the years to come.
http://www.elcot.com/

BOSS

BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) is a GNU/Linux distribution developed by NRCFOSS @ C-DAC, Chennai, for enhancing the use of Free/Open Source Software in the country. Made specifically for the Indian scenario , BOSS consists of a pleasing Desktop environment coupled with Indian language support and other packages that are most relevant for use in the government domain.
http://www.bosslinux.in/

CDAC

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/

Intel

Intel is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation and based in Santa Clara, California, USA, Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network cards and ICs, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors, and other devices related to communications and computing.
http://oss.intel.com/en-us/

IBM

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
http://www.ibm.com/

Zilogic Systems

Zilogic Systems is an organization dedicated to provide design services and training in embedded systems. Zilogic's training division offers courses ranging from embedded systems design to Linux kernel device driver development. Zilogic provides design services related to embedded system software and application software development.
http://www.zilogic.com/

Friends

FOSS.IN is one of the world's largest FOSS events, held annually in India. The event is highly focussed on FOSS development and contribution. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants, and the speaker roster reads like a "Who's Who" of FOSS contributors from across the world.
http://www.foss.in/

Computer Society of MIT

The Computer Society formerly known as Computer Club of MIT is the most active non- departmental association in the MIT Campus of Anna University. The objective is to impart computer knowledge to the budding technocrats of MIT, and remove the diffidence from those who enter MIT lacking computer exposure. Through regular talks, demos and interactions, the Computer Society aims at striking at the very root of this inferiority complex existing among MITians.
http://cs-mit.org/

Organisers

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/