What's New?

• An Affordable Hospital Information System: stakeholder meeting on September 11, 2009. For more details click here
• NCOSS 2009 (National Conference on Open Source Software – 2009) is being planned on May 25th-26th, 2009. For more details please visit ncoss.cdacmumbai.in

• Helping Flood Relief Operations in Bihar

A 2 member team from OSSRC at CDAC mumbai went to Patna for 2 weeks (11-24 September 2008) in order to support a humanitarian effort, to help flood relief in Bihar. This particular effort, which was being led by IBM India, required them to use some specialised Software(s) to assist Government of Bihar, with certain aspects of flood management (e.g. Shelter Management, Disaster Victim Registry etc.). The OSSRC team was entrusted with the task of installation & customization (in part) of a popular FOSS disaster management software named Sahana ( http://www.Sahana.lk/ ). The team used it's FOSS experience to carry out all required tasks and the work was praised by IBM India.

Publications

• An article on Sutra has been published as the cover feature of the September 2008 issue of the e-Gov magazineAparna R, Sasikumar M, Santosh M 'Sutra – An Intelligent Translator Tool for Incremental Localisation'
• Marathi Tutor Motivating Language Learning Archana Rane, M Sasikumar and Sunny Saurav Digital Learning, July 2008
• A Constructive Learning Framework for Language Tutoring Archana Rane, M Sasikumar Iskander (ed.), Innovation in E-Learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment and Engineering Education, 2007, pp.73-78
• Moodling Your Way to E-learning, M Sasikumar, Linux For You, September 2008