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Online programming contest held on 1st April, from 1400 IST to 1700 IST.




 "My best wishes to Carte Blanche `07 and its organisers." - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, His Excellency, The President of India.

"I thank all the students who have helped to hold the Carte Blanche 07 event. Teaching other students, and the general public, to appreciate the freedom that free software provides is vital if freedom is to prevail.

The social mission of a school is to teach citizens to live as members of a free society. In the computing field, this means teaching them to be users of free software. The entire university ought to do this. Your dedication can bring this about." - Richard Matthew Stallman


Carte Blanche is an exclusive event to promote the usage of Free and Open source Technologies, organized by Computer Society of MIT! The event is supported by the Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai( ILUGC),National Resource Centre for FOSS, Computer Society of India (CSI), AU-KBC Research Centre and IEEE Computer Society. Formerly titled 'Linux Demo Day', it evoked tremendous response both from the public and the student community. In the past three years, Carte Blanche has grown into a one-of-a-kind technical symposium with special events like Linux demos, workshops, lectures, free software distribution, as well as conventional Paper presentations, Programming contests, Debugging and hacking contests, Online contests, Debates. Whatever be the event, our theme is the same!! Open source!! Goto events page..

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GNU/Linux Demos - Open to all!!
The event is all about knowledge sharing and Demos are the best way to do that.These Demos are aimed at introducing the users to the open source movement and philosophy and promoting the various open source software and technologies. The Demos are free and open to all. Its open source after all! Read More.

Developer's Talks
The day is filled with several lectures, talks and presentations from developers of the open source community.These lectures include developers from Cognizant,RedHat, Deeproot Linux and so on..No other open source festival can bring these delegates under the same roof. Read More.



Free Software Distrubution
The event also features distribution free software to all participants of the day. This includes the distribution of " Swatantara V1.07" - the GNU/Linux distro designed by MIT for engineering professionals. Make sure you don't miss your copy. Read More.