Venue:
Tamil Internet 2009 conference will take place at the
"Hörsaalgebäude" on the main Campus of the University of Cologne.
Street address: Universitätsstrasse 35
Albertus-Magnus-Platz 1, 50931 Köln, Germany
URL:
U Cologne campus map, location 1
About University of Cologne :
University Cologne Webpage in English
Schedule:
The conference will be for about 2.5 days starting in the afternoon of
Friday, October 23, 2009.Following is a provisional layout of various sessions planned for the conference.
CONFERENCE HUB
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Friday 23 October 2009
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15.00 - 16.00
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Inagural Session
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16.00 -16.30
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Coffee Break/Mixer
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16.30 - 18.00
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Technical Session 1
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Saturday 24 October 2009
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10.00 - 12.00
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Technical Session 2
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12.00 - 13.30
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Lunch Break |
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13.30 - 15.00
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Technical Session 3
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15.00 - 15.30
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Coffee Break |
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15.30 - 17.00
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Technical Session 4
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17.00 - 18.00
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INFITT General Body Meet |
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Sunday 25 October 2009
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10.00 - 12.00
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Technical Session 5
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12.00 - 13.30
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Lunch Break |
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13.30 - 15.00
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Technical Session 6
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15.00 - 15.30
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Coffee Break |
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15.30 - 17.00
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Technical Session
7
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17.00 - 18.00
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Closing Session |
Satellite Events : Exhibition and Tamil IT Workshop
In addition to the technical sessions ("conference hub"), during Saturday and Sunday,
there will be an Exhibition of Tamil Softwares and Tamil IT Workshops
In the Exhibition Hub Softwares for Tamil computing, IT developed in
different parts of the world will
be displayed (along with live "demos") with volunteers to explain
the usage and scope of the softwares.
For those who want to learn more about
using Tamil on computers, Tamil IT Workshops
will be conducted at two levels - one for beginners (on Tamil fonts, browsers, Text Editors
and other basic tools) and one at advanced level (covering topics such as Tamil websites and blog sites
design and development, computer-aided teaching of Tamil, design and management
for
databases for Tamil in Unicode for e-commerce, ....). Opportunity to have hands-on
testing will be provided using laptop computers.
All those interested to participate
in the Tamil IT Workshop need to register in advance. Number of participants for the
Workshop is limited.
Above is for prelim. information to help travel plans of the conference participants.
More details will be posted here in the coming weeks.
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