FOSS.IN 2005 starts today
FOSS.IN is India's largest Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) event. It attracts a lot of participants from India and from rest of the world. This is the natural successor to the enormously successful Linux Bangalore conference, and it covers many additional topics related to FOSS, like *BSD, community, advocacy, FOSS in education, copyrights and patents, etc.
This year, it becomes more significant, as the Govt. of India would be the "Principal Sponsor" of the event, apart from the sponsorship from various corporates like Intel, Google, Sun and HP. The venue has been changed to Palace ground considering the increased number of participation.
The event also boasts of a large number of distinguished speakers ranging from Alan Cox (Linux kernel maintainer), Rasmus Lerdof (Mr. Php), Harald Welte (netfilters/iptables), Zaheda Bhorat (Head of Open Source, Google) and a lots of other *star* Indian and foreign speakers.
Prasad and myself had proposed two topics. One of them, Cross Platform Programming Techniques was today. The schedule was slipped due the the morning talks getting extended. We had only about 50 participants for this talk. We felt that, any topics without a linux word in that attract less crowd. I gave the presenaton alone since the time given was only 40 minutes.
This year, it becomes more significant, as the Govt. of India would be the "Principal Sponsor" of the event, apart from the sponsorship from various corporates like Intel, Google, Sun and HP. The venue has been changed to Palace ground considering the increased number of participation.
The event also boasts of a large number of distinguished speakers ranging from Alan Cox (Linux kernel maintainer), Rasmus Lerdof (Mr. Php), Harald Welte (netfilters/iptables), Zaheda Bhorat (Head of Open Source, Google) and a lots of other *star* Indian and foreign speakers.
Prasad and myself had proposed two topics. One of them, Cross Platform Programming Techniques was today. The schedule was slipped due the the morning talks getting extended. We had only about 50 participants for this talk. We felt that, any topics without a linux word in that attract less crowd. I gave the presenaton alone since the time given was only 40 minutes.
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