NGO In a Box Workshop

  June 5-6,2009,Delhi and NCR,India

Call for Participation

What is NGO in a Box?

NGO-in-a-box is a collection of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tools selected for use by non-profit organizations,along with workshops conducted to help users effectively deploy the software in their organizations.The software is distributed in down-loadable form and as a physical box set of cd's. Several customized editions of NGO-in-a-box exist to provide organizations with the software they need in relation to different topics and requirements.

This is a Call for participants for our 8^th workshop.Make use of this free software workshop to enrich your knowledge and help your organization effectively leverage free software without the licensing hassles.Learn about free software components and methodologies and how to enable it in your everyday work.

Limited accommodation can be arranged for out-of-station people, on a first-come, first-serve basis. All participants will be expected to bear their own travel costs.

For details of our previous workshops, visit http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org

Organizers: This  workshop is being organized jointly by Sarai,Delhi and Mahiti Infotech,Bangalore.

Participant profile: This event is geared towards NGOs and similar civil groups who have a need to migrate from proprietary software to open source alternatives.

The workshop will cover the following broad domains:

Free and Open Source Software:

• Introduction to Linux based distributions Fedora, Ubuntu.

• Open Office Tools.

• Internet Tools (firefox, pidgin, thunderbird).

• Desktop publishing (GIMP, scribus, inkscape), Web publishing(CMS, blogs).

Indian Language Support:

• Problems and issues related to use of non-standard/proprietary fonts and tools.

• Status of current support for Indian languages.

• Set up, and customisation for Indian language desktops

• Becoming an active member of the community, and contributing back.

Discussions on getting support, creating active groups/community out of participants and creating similar groups in their locality/work space.

Date and Place: This event will be held in  Delhi,India from June 5 -6, 2009. The exact venue will be communicated to successful applicants.

Last date for submitting application forms: May 10, 2009

Intimation of final list of participants by :    May 15, 2009 

Interested? Visit http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org and fill up the online application form

For any questions or clarifications contact :

Shantanu Choudhary: +91-97174-45360

Rajeev Nair:              +91-96113-44374