About Event

Carte Blanche is a national level techno-management Symposium conducted by CSMIT (Computer Society of MIT), which is a student organisation attached to the Computer Center-MIT , catering to showcase budding engineers throughout the country with the primary objective of promoting Open Source! Carte Blanche is the Open Source Arena! . Carte Blanche helps participants to get into the details, to collaborate in creating Open Source content, be it H/W or S/W, as well as appreciate the efforts of fellow enthusiasts. This event which was started in 2005 saw huge responses and instantly was a hit with the free software community in India. 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. In the past three years, Carte Blanche has grown into a one-of-a-kind technical symposium with special events like demos on various free software including GNU/Linux, Workshops, lectures, Free Software Distribution, as well as conventional programming, debugging, hacking and other technical contests relating to Electronics and Mechanical Stream.