Software Freedom Day 2010 Madurai (India)

Madurai

Madurai ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language|Tamil]: மதுரை and ~-IPA: -~[[mɐd̪ɯrəj]]), is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Indian peninsula. It is an ancient and prestigious city in the [state] of [Nadu], situated on the banks of the [Vaigai] in [district].

The city is widely known as the Temple City, and is often also referred to as City of four junctions (Koodal Maanagar), [capital] of [Nadu] (Kalaachaara thalainagar), City of Jasmine (Malligai Maanagar), Sleepless city (Thoonga Nagaram), Athens of the East and The City of Festivals (Thiruvizha nagaram).It is the third largest (was second largest from its origin till 2001) city in Tamil Nadu.

Madurai was the capital city of ancient Southern civilization. Madurai's cultural heritage goes back 2,500 years, and the city has been an important commercial center and has conducted trade as far as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome|Rome] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece|Greece] since as early as 550 B.C.E.

Teams

* GLUGOT - http://glugot.tce.edu* GLUG-Madurai - http://glug-madurai.org

FStival is a Free Software Festival conducted annually, since 2004, by GLUGOT and GLUG-Madurai in commemoration of Software Freedom Day (SFD). The objective of FStival is to create awareness of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) among the general public of South Tamil Nadu.Visit us at http://fstival.org

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Created by glugot on 2010-07-23 15:10:20 - Last modified by FredericMuller on 2010-07-24 15:28:33.