I had given a talk on “Opportunities in Free (Libre) and Open Source Software”(FLOSS) on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at the Computer Society of India, Madras Chapter, jointly organized by the IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter and ACM India Chennai Professional Chapter. The Computer Society of India, Education Directorate is located opposite to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Taramani, close to the Tidel Park. Students, IT professionals and professors from IIT Madras, Anna University and engineering colleges in and around Chennai attended the event.

At around 6:00 p.m. people had assembled for networking, snacks and beverage. I started the “Building Careers with FLOSS” presentation at 6:30 p.m. Prof. Dr. D. Janakiram, CSE, IIT Madras also shared his insights on the benefits of learning from source code available under a FLOSS license. The session was very interactive and the audience asked a lot of good questions. Dr. B. Govindarajulu, author of the famous “IBM PC and Clones: Hardware, Troubleshooting and Maintenance” book then presented his views on creating a Computer History Museum in Chennai. Dinner was served around 8:00 p.m. at the venue.

A review of my book has been published in Volume 14: No. 1, January-March 2019 IEEE India Council Newsletter. The excerpts of Chapter 4 of my book on “Project Guidelines” is also available. I had also written an article on “Seasons of Code” which is published in this edition of the IEEE newsletter.

Special thanks to Mr. H. R. Mohan, Editor, IEEE India and Chairman, ACM Professional Chapter, Chennai for organizing the event and for the logistics support.