A workshop on 'Open Source Software and Information Technology', was held at the Jhalwa Campus, sponsored by the IEEE UP Chapter, IIT Kanpur. Prominent Speakers attending the workshop included Dr. Anjan Kumar Ghosh, Dr. Y.N. Singh and Dr. Gaurav Bajpai from IIT Kanpur, Dr. S.K. Bajpai from IET Lucknow, Justice Yatinder Singh and Justice Sunil Ambawani from High Court Allahabad. Lectures were delivered on the increasing penetration of the Open Source Movement in the country. Novel ways of implementing the open source movement in India and still generating good revenue was part of the talk. The issue of IPR was also taken up as it forms a close bond with the Open source issues and various legalities concerning the same were debated upon. |