Last Saturday, I got a chance to talk about Free Software at NIIT TechRhapsody which was held at Bhaskara Auditorium, Birla Planetarium, Hyderabad. Harish, my organization’s CTO and myself was invited to the event as chief guests . In between the regular programmes, our session held. Harish introduced about Open Source software to the audience. He concentrated mainly on the market acceptance of Open Source softwares and technologies. and he also spoke about Azri’s adoption of Open Source technologies for the product development. As we planned, I handled a session about Free Software in the middle of the session. Due to the lack of time, I lost the flow and missed out a few important points I planned to convey the audience. I concluded my talk quickly and then Harish took the session to a finish.

Most NIITians may have heard about Open Source especially due to NIITs long time relation with Sun Microsystems through their conduct of courses related to Java, SCNP etc., where now days Sun is running after Open Source. But I really wanted them to have an understanding about Free Software, which is the base of all happenings. I am not sure about how many people got the matter that I tried to convey.

A few snaps of the session…