Team FOSS.IN is happy to announce that, with the help of the community, we have been able to finalise the dates (and hence the venue) for FOSS.IN/2009.

FOSS.IN/2009 will be held on December 1-5, 2009 (Tuesday through Saturday) at Bangalore’s largest and most modern conference venue – the NIMHANS Convention Centre.

The dates and the choice of venue have interesting backgrounds:

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We are about to fix the FOSS.IN/2009 dates, and this time we would like to get some early inputs from people about convenient dates.

This is specifically targeted at students in engineering colleges – please move heaven and earth, and try and find out which set of dates works best for you vis-a-vis exams:

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The proposed dates are one the following three sets:

1. December 1-5, 2009
2. December 8-12, 2009
3. December 15-19, 2009

Please vote for your preferred dates:

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Any people outside India reading this who will want to come to India to participate in FOSS.IN/2009 – you have a say as well. Please let us know which dates are convenient for you.

Everyone – check your event calendars, your exam calendars, call the VC of your university, tell him that you dont want to miss FOSS.IN (again), and whether he would help set up non-clashing exam dates, etc.

Spread this message far and wide, on mailing lists, notice boards, blogs, twitter, etc. and make sure that as many people as possible can get to see it.

If you don’t want to reply to this list, contact us via http://foss.in/contact

Thanks in advance for your quick replies!

The event is over, and what an event it was! Many many many thanks to everyone who made it such a success – the speakers, the workout leads, the delegates, the sponsors, the volunteers and the people supporting it from near and far.

Without any question at all – this was the single-most developer and contribution oriented Free and Open Source Software event ever in India. And while we at Team FOSS.IN admit to having been seriously worried about how people would take to this completely new avatar of our project, we are totally relieved to see from the feedback that everyone loved it, and are actually asking for more!

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Here’s something we have been trying to get up and going, but because of network issues (now resolved) got delayed:

You can now listen to all the talks happening in the main 750 seater hall at FOSS.IN/2008 – online!

Just point your media player at http://radioverve.com/foss.in.pls (or http://radioverve.com/foss.in.m3u), and listen to the stream of all the talks. Check the schedule for what’s being heard right now, and don’t miss the WorkOut Wrapup every evening.

Many thanks to our friends at RadioVerve for setting this up and relaying it via their server!

Do you work on the Linux kernel? Have you been tackling some interesting challenges on the kernel lately or do you have war stories about the kernel to share? If the answer to these questions is yes, don’t forget to register for the Lightning Talks session at the Linux Kernel Hacker Gathering on Friday, 28th November.

You can register your lightning talk at the Venue by contacting Tejas Dinkar (tejasdinkar yat gmail, +91-9845572696). We have a fixed number of slots, REGISTER NOW!

To top this off, there is going to be a Linux Kernel Workout on Saturday, 29th November. So if you have a problem that’s been bugging you for a while, or if you have an itch that you’ve been waiting to scratch, head over to the charts that’re sprinkled over the venue, note down your problem, find people who are also interested, and check out the Linux Kernel WorkOut wiki page for more details on how you can come prepared.

Everyone who is anyone in the Indian Linux Kernel community is here, are you?

Well-known wildlife photographer, geek, security expert and all-round nice-guy, Kalyan Varma, will give the closing keynote at FOSS.IN/2008 in the evening of the 29th of November.

Kalyan Varma is one of India’s leading wildlife photographers. Although he started his career in the IT and software sector, his passion for nature and wildlife made him leave this behind so that he could devote his time and effort to nature photography and film-making. A winner of the Sanctuary Asia Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, Kalyan’s photos, blogs, workshops, and field efforts have made him a well-known name in wildlife conservation circles. His work has appeared in many international magazines like National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation, Sanctuary Asia, etc.

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And here they are – the sponsors of FOSS.IN/2008, the ones who make it possible for this event to happen!

Technology Sponsor

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Media Sponsors

Many thanks to our sponsors for making it possible to conduct the event this year!