About FOSS.IN/2005

Since the year 2001, the Linux Bangalore conference, held every year in Bangalore, India, has been the most anticipated Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) event of the year.

FOSS.IN/2005 is the fifth in the series of these immensely successful conferences, and will be held from 29-Nov-2005 to 02-Dec-2005, at the Bangalore Palace, in Bangalore, India.

This year the conference has been renamed to FOSS.IN/2005 (in the tradition of Linux-Bangalore/2001, /2002, etc.) to signify the inclusive scope of the conference and areas of focus. Every year the conferences have been more innovative than the previous ones and FOSS.IN/2005 is another step towards this.

The audience for this event range from technologists to developers, researchers to strategists, end users to business and enterprise users and decision makers to entrepreneurs, in addition to focus on the government and education segments. The wide range of audience targeted is to ensure that there is sufficient interaction between the user of FOSS, the decision makers as well as the primary developers of FOSS, so the needs and concerns of the users are conveyed and vice versa.

The focus of this year's conference is towards the development and implementation of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) technologies. The conference will feature focused technology topics and a separate business showcase, case studies and discussion.

FOSS.IN/2005 is intended to serve as a forum for discussing and examining the latest in FOSS technologies, migration to & deployment of FOSS, business models in FOSS services and overall FOSS adoption strategies in sectors like government, education and military use.

We ensure that it delivers quality information and education about FOSS technologies to thousands of participants every year. Have a look at the demographics of attendees at last year's event.

The event features talks, discussions, workshops, round-table meetings and demonstrations by national and international speakers, and covers a diverse spectrum of FOSS technologies, ranging from Kernel-programming and Embedded systems to Desktop Environments and Localisation to Databases and Web Applications to Gaming and Multimedia, to community and User Group Development. Some of these technologies are classified under technology topics to provide an overall picture of what is available in the FOSS world for a given technology, what requires to be developed and what feature enhancements are necessary.

Several concurrent sessions will be held on all the four days featuring speakers from around the world and experts in their own fields.