a. Best project: 
   Tamil spell checker by Mr. Selvam & team from Jaya Engg College - Rs.2000/­
b. Best student speaker:
   Mr.Anirudh of VIT for talk on virtualisation - Rs.2000/­
c. Best demo stall:
   Since TVS school had more stalls we awarded
      TVS Matriculation School : Rs.2000/-
      Srividhyalam School : Rs.1000/-
d. An appreciation award
    TCE organising team - Rs.2000/-

FOSSConf'09 event is over and we thank all the participants of this event. You can see pictures taken at FOSSConf09 event here - http://pavithran.org/fossconf/

This highly influential event depends on the generous support of our sponsors who join us in spreading the spirit of Free/Open Source Software. We invite you to participate and be recognized in a variety of ways, including monetary donations to speakers travel, stay, and gift, promotional gifts, volunteers food, conference kits, etc.

Sponsorship packages are outlined below. Other sponsorship ideas and contributions are also welcome.

Platinum Sponsorship (Rs 2,00,000) 1 Sponsor

• Logo/Sign in the registration hall
• Logo/Link on the FOSSConf Main Homepage

FOSSConf09 brochure is available here. Feel free to share it by any means and spread the news about FOSSConf09.

FOSSConf team.

FOSSConf09 poster is available here. You can download a copy of it from here - http://fossconf.in/files/images/fossconf09-poster.jpg

The conference will focus on new users/contributors to FOSS.

As Audience: First timers or newcomers.

As Speakers: First time speakers.

As contributors: Students who are doing their projects, academic personal who have worked with FOSS tools but are yet to release their work, and, of course, the huge surge of new users in the government domain. At the same time, provide a forum for interaction for more experienced developers who will be coming to the conference.

The GNU/Linux User Group of Thiagarajar College of Engineering(GLUGOT)[4] was started in Dec.2003 with an objective to promote Free Software and the spirit of co-operation among students of TCE. The group contributes to the community in the form of awareness meetings and sessions. It regularly conducts training programs and technical meetings to teach students on Free Software related technologies. It also caters to the specific needs of students project. TCENet is the FOSS based ERP package developed inhouse to automate the day-to-day activities of the institution.

We invite participation in the following areas - in order of importance.

1. Delegates to the conference. There is no fun in having a conference if there is no audience. Our primary focus is on audience. Please register as a delegate and encourage your friends to do so. We cannot guarantee transport and accommodation, but if you have a group of people who want to come and let us know early enough, we will try to get your travel and accommodation sponsored.