I had been to FOSS.in last December and it was really a wonderful experience,not to forget the goodies which were part of the show.So let me provide some light on FOSS and its nitty gritties.
FOSS.IN is the one of the worlds biggest Open Source Events. To be precise FOSS is an acronym for Forum for Open Source Software.
It’s an event held in India where developers, analysts, hackers, from all over the globe meet ,exchange ideas and contribute towards building robust and user friendly Open Source Software.
FOSS.IN had its humble beginnings in year 2001 under the name Linux Bangalore and ever since then there has been no turning back.
The last FOSS.IN event was held in Bangalore at Indian Institute of Science from Dec 4th – 8th, 2007 and was known as FOSS.IN2007.
FOSS.IN 2007 was divided into Project Days and Main Conference.
Project Days consisted Debian-Ubuntu , Fedora, Gnome, IndLinux , KDE, Mozilla OpenOffice.org , OpenSolaris .
Open Solaris had put up a very good stall and had loads of information about their new products ,and contribution to Open Solaris initiatives .SUN has dedicated nearly half a dozen of its major products to Open Source. For more information on how you can contribute to OpenSolaris Initiatives visit www.openSolaris.org .
Debian-Ubuntu , Fedora, Gnome, IndLinux , KDE, Mozilla teams provided information on their upcoming releases, localization issues, Bug Tracking and logging issues.
Main conference had very good talks on Open Source projects, Linux internals, Networking, Real Time OS etc by speakers from Yahoo, Mozilla, KDE, IndLinux, ABB, SUN ,RED HAT ,IBM etc
Other events such as BOF, Lightning Talks, and Workshops were a great hit.
The event was a grand success with all the talks running full and the stalls evincing great interest from the crowd. Lot of goodies such as caps, stickers, T Shirts, bags, pens were given away to participants in events and to the general crowd, which added more zest to the event.
One of the main attractions of the event was Hack Center, which was conducted by Sun Microsystems which involved hacking and fixing Solaris 10 Kernel code.
FOSS.IN is must participation for any LINUX or Open Source enthusiast. If it is your first time, its an eye opener, if not its always an enriching experience.
Think Freedom, Think Open Source !
Some of the useful Links where you can contribute and learn more about Open Source are.
