For Those who interested,
This event is happening just before ourmedia conference in bangaloreAnd another event That attaracts the interests of Ourmedia Vparticipants is world information city which is happening atbangalore from November14 -20.
For more Informationhttp://world-information.org/wio/program/bangalore2005
SolidarityAnivar Aravind
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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 Bangaloreconferences) is from November 29th to December 2nd, at the BangalorePalace in Bangalore, India. This is India's biggest FOSS conference.
If you want to know more, check out http://foss.in/2005
Imp: Last day for speaker registration is 8th October 2005, tillmidnight IST! So hurry.
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, andhelp in increasing the tribe of contributors and users of Free & OpenSource Software.
The four day conference intends to bring together the entire crosssection of players in the FOSS scenario - users from different targetcommunities, technologists, developers, educationists, businesses aswell as policy makers.
The theme for this year's conference is "Conversations". On the FOSShorizon, there are several efforts that are represented or addressedacross the country. In, parallel, there are various technicaldiscussions and dialogues that have happened at the earlierconferences and meetings and are expected to happen at thisconference too.
At FOSS.IN/2005, the focus would be to catalyze mutually beneficialinteraction between the technologists and technology implementers(FOSS developers) and the end users, policy makers, educationists andindustry. This focus would be in addition to the intent of enablingtechnology knowledge dissemination across the community through talksand/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 ororganize a Birds of Feather session, then register it at theearliest.
Imp: Last day for speaker registration is 8th October 2005, tillmidnight IST! So hurry.
To register as a speaker visithttp://foss.in/2005/speakers/
Giving a talk for first time? Do read do's & don'ts compiled by pastspeaker experienceshttp://foss.in/2005/guides/speakers.php
If you are planning to speak or attend (or even if you cant attenddue to reasons beyond your control), you can help gettingthe word out in a variety of ways:eg. talking about it friends, colleagues, clients etc, putting it upon your blog if are planning to speak or attend, putting up postersabout 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 listsabout this event, especially if you stay in south.
Also keep a watch onhttp://linux-bangalore.org/2005/wiki/index.php/Community_Issueswhere we would be planning for some pre-event activities where wewelcome participation of all FOSS communities. Primary action itemsbeing conducting a web-survey of FOSS usage in India in academic andbusiness environment. And also on mapping the FOSS movement inIndia. More on this in a future mail.
So are you IN?
Karunakar
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