[Indianlc] FOSS.IN is here - Are you IN?

[priti patil]

Hello,

--- Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar at wNWdAU_G-pv5qpOBXV0DjueZeRpUHWsEHlVVdRPT_tJQnuEJzhymOrCmkVD58nsGCQ0nzxSjlNxuaf_MbMjoJw.yahoo.invalid>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Heads-up for anyone interested in Free & Open Source
> Software,
> FOSS.IN is here.
> 
> FOSS.IN/2005 (the successor to the well known Linux
> Bangalore
> conferences) is from November 29th to December 2nd,
> at the Bangalore
> Palace in Bangalore, India. This is India's biggest
> FOSS conference.
> 
> If you want to know more, check out
> http://foss.in/2005
> 
> FOSS.IN/2005 is a community-oriented event. For it
> to be successful,
> it needs to reach the people who would benefit the
> most from it, and
> help in increasing the tribe of contributors and
> users of Free & Open
> Source Software.
> 
> The four day conference intends to bring together
> the entire cross
> section of players in the FOSS scenario - users from
> different target
> communities, technologists, developers,
> educationists, businesses as
> well as policy makers.
> 
> The theme for this year's conference is
> "Conversations". On the FOSS
> horizon, there are several efforts that are
> represented or addressed
> across the country. In, parallel, there are various
> technical
> discussions and dialogues that have happened at the
> earlier
> conferences and meetings and are expected to happen
> at this
> conference too.
> 
> At FOSS.IN/2005, the focus would be to catalyze
> mutually beneficial
> interaction between the technologists and technology
> implementers
> (FOSS developers) and the end users, policy makers,
> educationists and
> industry. This focus would be in addition to the
> intent of enabling
> technology knowledge dissemination across the
> community through talks
> and/or demonstrations.
> 
> The call for participations has been out for quite
> some time now.
> 
> You can see the Call for participation @
> http://foss.in/2005/cfp/
> A list of possible topics is available at
> http://foss.in/2005/topics/
> 
> If you would like to give a talk, tutorial, do a
> workshop or
> organize a Birds of Feather session, then register
> it at the
> earliest, only 4 days left for speaker registration.
> 
> To register as a speaker visit
> http://foss.in/2005/speakers/
> 
> Giving a talk for first time? Do read do's & don'ts
> compiled by past
> speaker experiences
> http://foss.in/2005/guides/speakers.php
> 
> If you are planning to speak or attend (or even if
> you cant attend
> due to reasons beyond your control),   you can help
> getting
> the word out in a variety of ways: 
> eg. talking about it friends, colleagues, clients
> etc, putting it up
> on your blog if are planning to speak or attend,
> putting up posters
> about the event at your school/college/organization
> etc. 
> See http://foss.in/2005/promote/  on ways to promote
> it.
> 
> If you are part of a LUG/GLUG/FSUG etc post on your
> mailing lists
> about this event, especially if you stay in south.
> 
> Also keep a watch on
>
http://linux-bangalore.org/2005/wiki/index.php/Community_Issues
> where we would be planning for some pre-event
> activities where we
> welcome participation of all FOSS communities.
> Primary action items
> being conducting a web-survey of FOSS usage in India
> in academic and
> business environment. And also on mapping the FOSS
> movement in
> India. More on this in a future mail.
> 
> So are you IN?

YES, I would like to attend the event but not sure
about the topic for talk, may be I'll decide it later.


Probably you can help me out, since one of the topics
in my preference list is "Women in FOSS", I don't know
what and how a woman can play a role in FOSS.

> 
> Karunakar
> 
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Regards.

Priti Patil
janabhaaratii Team
C-DAC (formerly NCST), Mumbai.


		
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