National seminar on Open Source: Opportunities in entrepreneurship Ver 2.0

INMANTEC Business School · February 15-17, 2012

Open Source software is catching fancy of millions of technocrats around the world. A lot of emphasis is being laid on developing applications based on Open Source, which are either free or are available at nominal costs. This is coming out as a big opportunity to developers and users alike. It is estimated that by 2015, Open Source Market will assume 37% market share of overall development scenario. This needs for deep introspection both at micro and macro level so that the true potential of Open Source can be explored and entrepreneurs are prepared with right mindsets.

INMANTEC had successfully organized first seminar on “Open Source: Opportunities in Entrepreneurship” on March 13, 2010. This seminar was a huge attraction among open source professionals and budding entrepreneurs. The glimpse of the same can be accessed from here.

Keeping the same fervor, INMANTEC is organizing second seminar in this series entitled “Open Source: Opportunities in Entrepreneurship Ver 2.0” on February 15, 2012 at INMANTEC, Ghaziabad.

Through this seminar, we wish to address following issues impeding growth of entrepreneurs in Open Source:

Entrepreneurship through open source

Capital for entrepreneurship venture on open source

Marketing of open source products & services

Customization of open source software

We shall also be conducting parallel workshops on February 16 & 17, 2012 on following topics:-

1. Spoken Tutorials

2. Open Source OS: Ubuntu ( A Separate session on Ubuntu for Schools. )

3. Game development using Open Source.

4. Content management using Wordpress

5. Open Source ERP

6. Moodle 2.0: A Course Management System

7. Open Java

8. Android Apps Development

9. Workshop on library automation using newgenlib

Having said above, we shall be eagerly looking forward to your active participation as a speaker or sponsor or both. We shall be more than happy to assist you through queries that you may have.

Each workshop will have a fee of Rs. 200/-(student) and Rs. 500/-(delegates) that one has to pay in cash at the reception counter, on the day of the workshop.

All interested students must file their nominations for the workshops and seminar from a web link coming soon.