1. My Heartiest Welcome to Prof EV Prasad, Chief Guest Prof PS Avadhani, Guest of Honor

2. Prof PS Rao Prof V Sitaramam Prof BR Gandhi Prof P Soma Raju

3. Patrons Dr B. Swamy, President, GVP Former Vice Chancellor Nagarjuna Univ Prof P. Soma Raju, Secretary, GVP Prof. B. Sarvewara Rao, Former President, GVP and Former Vice Chancellor, Nagarjuna Univ. Sri. V. Seetharamaiah And other GVP Members

4. Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Gunupur, Orissa Roland Institute of Technology, Berhampur, Orissa

5. Also I welcome All the participants from various colleges of A.P, Maharastra, Tamilnadu And my senior colleagues, young energetic department of CSE, IT staff and student Volunteers.

6. When this Refresher course Idea Came? Who is the Karta? Answer is Prof V Sitaramam

7. Why this course is planned? Till recently UNIX is considered as costly and bread and butter of Comp Sci However, after Linux release in 1992 under GNU Licence it has penetrated in Home market also. As of now many Web Servers are Linux based. Widely used for Embedded Systems also.

8. Some of the Indian Actions Our President Kalam also encourages. Orissa Govt E-governance AP Govt E-Governance Maharastra Govt E-Governance Telugu, Tamil, Hindi Language support NRC-FOSS, Chennai new Course JNTU response for starting Adv Unix Prog

9. What is Our Strengths? My book on “Adv Unix Prog” released by Prof Y.Venkatarami Reddy, the then VC of JNTU. My Another book “Unix and Windows NT” released in 2005. I have edited a book “Introduction to Linux: Installation and Programming”, a Publ of NRCFOSS, Chennai. Will be released in this Month. Forwarded by VC, Anna Univ

10. We did conduct classes on Unix in 2002,2003 under combined CSE & IT department. Prof Ramesh was actively involved. Dr. Ravi, a Ph.d from IISC has wide experience in Unix/Linux Mr. Venkat Subramanyam, former employ of COVANSYS has wide experience in Oracle under Linux and incedentally happened to be student of mine.

11. Course Schedule December 2-4, 2005 Resource Persons Prof NB Venkateswarlu Prof P.Prapoorna Roja Prof. D. Ravi Mr. Venkata Subramanyam About 17 hours Lectures and same amount of Laboratory hours.

12. Participation No of Participantsabout 70 No of Colleges from A.P45 No of Colleges form TN2 No of Colleges from Maharastra 2 No of Colleges from Orissa2

13. What after Dec 4, 2005? Yahoo Groups to continue the activity advunixprog is created. You can subscribe by sending a email With subject and text as subscribe to advunixprog-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

14. I wish all the participants will be having nice time during the course.

15. Thank You and Best of Luck