Saturday, August 14, 2010

Open Source India Conference,Chennai,2010

A year of preparation & planning, fighting & execution, and the long wait is to bear fruit finally.The Open Source India Conference, 2010(formerly LinuxAsia) will be unveiled at Trade Center,Chennai on 19th September,2010. A path-breaking movement for Open Source in India started in 2003, and with the mission to accelerate the growth of adoption of Open Source in Asia. Till date, the overall mission of Open Source India remains same. A key attribute of Open Source India is that it tries to bridge the gap between the 'community' and the 'industry'

OSI Days is the crossroads of all things open source, bringing together 3000+ of the best, brightest, and most interesting people to explore what's new, and to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption

Official Website : http://osidays.com/

Registrations     : http://osidays.com/register-now

Speakers          : http://osidays.com/speakers

Sessions           : http://osidays.com/sessions

The various highlights of the conference:
  • Meet the experts of PHP, Open Source Databases, Apache, Python, Perl, Ruby on Rails
  • See the best of breed technologies of Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Parallelism for Open Source World
  • Meet decision makers, CXO level Open Source champions, students and Government Official
  • Use open source to target Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms
  • Learn Open Source Business Models, Legal Issues and marketing strategies
  • Participate in FOSS India Awards, 2010.

At OSI Days you can choose to attend from multiple tracks around open source technologies and platforms, attend best of breed tutorials/ workshops, network with who is who of open source world and a chance to see a great city Chennai and India! The proposed tracks of event are:

  • Mobile(App Development, Game Development, Android, iPhone, Symbian & Others)
  • IT Managers / Business(Legal, Community Management, Best Practices, Marketing Strategies, Open Web / Standardization, & Business Models)
  • Cloud Computing(Tools and Platforms, Cloudnomics, Cloud for Dummies & Others)
  • Government(Applications, eGovernance, Case Study, & Legal)
  • Hardware(Infrastructure Management, Security, Semi Embedded Devices, Parallelization, Grid, Multi Core, Multi Threading, Virtualization & Others)
  • PHP(PHP 5 & 6, PHP Security, Frameworks, Architecture / QA, & Best Practices)
  • Ruby on Rails(Drupal:Best Practices, Module Development, Theme Development, Scaling/ Management/ Performance & Others)
  • Databases(MySQL, NoSQL, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, Ingres, SQLite & Others)
  • Developer / Tools & Techniques



OSI Days is organized by the 'Forum for Open Source Initiative in India' (FOSII)', in association with LINUX For You magazine, and powered by the EFY Group of publications.