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Last Updated: November 29, 2005, 5:42 pm

Date 29th November 2005

Time	Intel Hall (A/750)	Torvalds Hall (B/250)	Stallman Hall (C/250)	Cox Hall (D/250)	Perens Hall (E/250)	Ballroom (G/200)
9:00	Inauguration FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team
9:15	Inauguration FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team
9:30	"Use the Source, Luke" Alan Cox
9:45
10:00
10:15
10:30	Free and Open Source: Opportunities for India Danese Cooper Open Source Initiative (employed by Intel)	The promise of web 2.0 Sriram Narayan ThoughtWorks India	Intricacies of Interrupt Handling in Linux Anandaraj Thangappan Wipro Technologies	An Investigation of Kernel Mode Linux (KML) Dr. B. Thangaraju Wipro Technologies, Bangalore	Security best practices Devdas Bhagat	Open for Business Akshay Lamba GE
10:45
11:00
11:15		Beyond Apache: Faster and better web servers Siddharth Vijayakrishnan	USB on Embedded Linux Ramya B.B Siemens Information Systems Ltd.	Performance Measurement of Linux-2.6.10 kernel Awanish Kumar Trivedi and Biswa Ranjan Nayak Wipro Technology	Cross Site Scripting detection and prevention Rasmus Lerdorf Yahoo! Inc.	Open Source Adoption - How to make it faster, safer and easier Brij Singh Apptility Software Pvt Ltd
11:30	The Political, Cultural and Economic Relevance of Open Source Venkatesh Hariharan
11:45
12:00		Delivering Educational Content on the web with Plone CMS Pradeep Kishore Gowda Partecs Participatory Technologies	Linux Test Automation Framework Ganesh Wipro Technologies	Pit falls of Linux Loadable Kernel Modules (LKMs) Biswajit Paul and Dinakara K Centre for AI and Robotics(DRDO), Bangalore	Helmet - You may need one! (Desktop Firewalls for Linux) Gaurav Vaidya Novell Software Development (India) Pvt Ltd	OSS systems and communities: Patterens of evolution Ravi kumar Jain ICFAI
12:15
12:30
12:45		NewsRack: A tool for automating news monitoring Subramanya Sastry	Participatory Testing Ashish Shah SpikeSource Software Private Limited	Tracing Linux Processes Dr. B. Thangaraju Wipro Technologies, Bangalore	The Matrix ( Evaluations ) - A Comparative In depth Evaluation of Security Features in SSL & IPSec Sashank and Nayna Center for Development of Telematics	What an organization can learn from the Open Source Movement Raj Datta MindTree Consulting
13:00
13:15
13:30 Lunch
13:45 Lunch
14:00 Lunch
14:15 Lunch
14:30	Google and Open Source Zaheda Bhorat Google Inc.	Introduction to Debian GNU/Linux Jaldhar H. Vyas Debian Project	A comparison of NetBSD and Linux kernels for embedded systems Mahendra M Infosys Technologies Ltd.	Introduction to cross platform programming techniques Jaimon Jose Novell, Inc.	DotGNU - the other, other .NET alternative Gopal Vijayaraghavan Yahoo! Inc.	Wireless Ad hoc Sensor Networks: Open Source Tools D.Manjunath IISc, Bangalore
14:45
15:00
15:15	Sun Microsystems in Open Source srikanth Ramakrishna Sun Microsystems	linux kernel auditing and user land vulnerabilities swaraj Debian	GCC Backend and Machine Description file Amber Ved True Span Inc	GIS to store , anlayse and visualize Geodata raj servelots	equivalence: configuring Java projects to build and run on Linux, or, "why I hate autoconf and what I did about it." Andrew Cowie Operational Dynamics	Linux Desktop Test Automation using LDTP Nagappan Novell Software Development (I) Pvt. Ltd
15:30
15:45
16:00	Hewlett-Packard and Open Source Ragavan Srinivasan Hewlett-Packard Company	Creating Debian Packages Jaldhar H. Vyas Debian Project	Building Industrial Embedded X86 Linux Systems Jaya Kumar Independent Developer	Measuring and Improving Application Performance Vinayak Hegde Akamai Technologies India Pvt Ltd.	Project GlassFish: Open Source Java EE Application Server Binod PG and Sivakumar Thyagarajan Sun Microsystems	FOSS Tools for Information Management Manu Konchady
16:15
16:30
16:45	Open Source at Yahoo! Rasmus Lerdorf Yahoo! Inc.				Deploying J2EE Apps with Apache Geronimo Srikrishnan Sundararajan IBM	Wildlife Conservation using FOSS Kalyan Varma Secuprise
17:00
17:15
17:30	The Impact of FOSS on Everything Atul Chitnis
17:45
18:00
18:15
18:30	Movie: Revolution OS FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team
18:45
19:00
19:15
19:30
19:45
20:00
20:15
20:30
20:45
21:00

Date 30th November 2005

Time	Intel Hall (A/750)	Torvalds Hall (B/250)	Stallman Hall (C/250)	Cox Hall (D/250)	Perens Hall (E/250)	Ballroom (G/200)
9:00	Day Briefing and News: Day 2 FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team
9:15
9:30	A Linux Kernel Roadmap Jonathan Corbet LWN.NET
9:45
10:00
10:15
10:30	Linux Standard Base Jim Zemlin Free Standards Group	A Date with Ruby Premshree Pillai Yahoo!	Overview of NSA Security Enhanced Linux James Morris	Creating websites using Python and TurboGears Swaroop C H Yahoo!	Add More to Firefox! Nalini Vasudevan and Arjun Jain Yahoo India and Pi Corp	Women in FOSS Danese Cooper Open Source Initiative (employed by Intel)
10:45
11:00
11:15		Ruby Quickstart Yogi Kulkarni ThoughtWorks		Scripting the Web with PHP 5 Rasmus Lerdorf Yahoo! Inc.	Programming the Mozilla Platform Gopalarathnam Venkatesan Yahoo! Inc
11:30	Google: Powered by Linux Arvind Jain Google Inc.		First steps towards the next generation netfilter subsystem Harald Welte hmw-consulting.de			LinuxChix Sulamita Garcia
11:45
12:00		Ruby on Rails Tutorial Avik Sengupta Itellix Software Solutions			Firefox: Plug it in Gopal Vijayaraghavan Yahoo! Inc.
12:15				Rich Internet Applications with OpenLaszlo and PHP Nirav Mehta Magnet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
12:30	Tux and the Five 9s. Noor Wipro Technologies Ltd.		SELinux Kernel Internals James Morris			Women in FOSS: Panel Discussion Danese Cooper Open Source Initiative (employed by Intel)
12:45					Greasemonkey: Remixing The Web Premshree Pillai Yahoo!
13:00
13:15
13:30 Lunch
13:45 Lunch
14:00 Lunch
14:15 Lunch
14:30	GPL and non-GPL code interaction in the Linux kernel Jaya Kumar Independent Developer	Test Driven Development with Rails Vamsee Krishna Kanakala Viamentis Technologies	Gentoo - What and Why? Seemant Kulleen Gentoo Foundation, Brontes Technologies	Building Glancer - scheduler and friend finder app for Foss.In Nirav Mehta Magnet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.	Fedora - Bleeding Edge Culture Tejas Dinkar PESIT	CxO Forum FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team
14:45
15:00
15:15			Gentoo - Who says it's for Ricers? Shyam Mani Gentoo Linux	Large-Scale PHP Rasmus Lerdorf Yahoo! Inc.	Wikipedia - What's in for India? Shantanu Oak Consultant, ENAM Asset Management Company
15:30	Shared Subtree Concept and Implementation in the Linux Kernel Ram Pai IBM	Can Ruby talk to Java? Using SWIG and GCJ for a world without language boundaries Avik Sengupta Itellix Software Solutions
15:45
16:00					Open Source KM Solutions using Zope/Plone Shahnawaz Khan MindTree Consulting Pvt Ltd
16:15			Gentoo Ebuilds 101 Arun Raghavan
16:30	Object orientation of linux kernel VinayKumarReddy.K Indian Institute of technology madras	Ajax on Rails - Bringing Web 2.0 to the masses Vamsee Krishna Kanakala Viamentis Technologies
16:45				AJAX with PHP Vijay Khambalkar Magnet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.	Gnumeric as an alternative to SPSS and SAS Madhav Kopalle icfai national college
17:00			Gentoo in Production Seemant Kulleen Gentoo Foundation, Brontes Technologies
17:15
17:30
17:45
18:00
18:15
18:30
18:45
19:00
19:15
19:30
19:45
20:00
20:15
20:30
20:45
21:00

Date 1st December 2005

Time	Intel Hall (A/750)	Torvalds Hall (B/250)	Stallman Hall (C/250)	Cox Hall (D/250)	Perens Hall (E/250)	Ballroom (G/200)
9:00	Day Briefing and News: Day 3 FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team
9:15
9:30	Inside \| Outside Andrew Cowie Operational Dynamics
9:45
10:00
10:15
10:30	Learning the rules of engagement with the global open source developer communities Neetibodh Agarwal	Distributed, Virtualized Fault Tolerant Systems Ravi A Giri	OSS based VOIP Infrastructure VaibhaV Sharma Ishi Systems Inc.	The Kolab groupware server and its KDE client Till Adam KDE	Introduction to OpenSolaris Peter Karlsson Sun Microsystems	Why FOSS in education is a Good Thing Philip Tellis Yahoo! Inc.
10:45
11:00
11:15	What motivates Open source software development? - An insight Ravi kumar Jain ICFAI	Xen and the art of Virtualization Arvind Yadav Online Productivity Solutions Pvt. Ltd.	Asterisk based telephony Gurminder Singh Arora SALIS, ECE Detpt. IISc		Zones - A virtualized operating system environment in OpenSolaris Sriram Popuri SUN Microsystems	MOODLE - the FOSS E-learning Tool - Deployment and Maintenance Dr. George Easaw Govt. College of Engineering, Goa.
11:30				Evolution the complete Groupware client Shreyas Srinivasan Novell, Inc
11:45
12:00	Infosys Linux Users Group - A corporate LUG Mahendra M Infosys Technologies Ltd.	Virtualization in Grid Computing Subhabrata Bhattacharya Infosys Technologies	Designing an Unified Communications System VaibhaV Sharma Ishi Systems Inc.		DTrace - Dynamic Tracing framework in OpenSolaris Peter Karlsson Sun Microsystems	FOSS in Agriculture, Science & Education - An example R. Srilatha French Institute of Pondicherry
12:15
12:30				Kontact - KDE's Personal Information Manager Till Adam KDE
12:45	LiveJournal in the Corporate World Natarajan Kannan Infosys Technologies Limited	Setting up a High Availability mail server using Hearbeat+DRBD Arvind Yadav Online Productivity Solutions Pvt. Ltd.			Zettabyte File System in OpenSolaris Mahesh Siddheshwar Sun Microsystems	FOSS in Education - Indian Context Sai Sreekanth M. Yahoo
13:00
13:15
13:30 Lunch
13:45 Lunch
14:00 Lunch
14:15 Lunch
14:30	NRCFOSS Chennai - Introducing FOSS in the formal technical education curricula Prof. C N Krishnan AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University	Introducing Live CDs Kishore Bhargava LinkAxis	Audio on Linux Ish Sarai/ CSDS	Development of Scripting Language support for OpenOffice.org Jayant B Madavi Novell	Web Application Security Kalyan Varma Secuprise	CTO tales:Evangelizing Open Source to the Fortune 500 sriram bala secuprise
14:45
15:00
15:15	FOSS in Education: A Panel Discussion FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team	The Live CD Workshop Arjun Asthana and Sarath Lakshman	The FOSS Studio Workshop Mrinal Kalakrishnan Trilogy Software	Hackety Gnome Hack: Howto hack gnome Shreyas Srinivasan Novell, Inc	Advanced Python Programming Jacob Abraham Partecs Participatory Technologies
15:30						How to Give a FOSS Presentation Danese Cooper Open Source Initiative (employed by Intel)
15:45
16:00
16:15			Internet Radio and Podcasting with FOSS Kaustubh Srikanth Infinity Art
16:30
16:45		Linux terminal services Sudev Barar Nuchem Limited		The KDE Development Workshop Sirtaj Singh Kang The KDE Project	Linux Lappies - How to get more out of your Linux Laptop Sony K. Philip HCL EAI Services (P) Ltd.
17:00			Quake3 : Fun and More Shree Kumar Hewlett Packard			How I sold Linux Desktop to an Apple guy Henry Jacob IonIdea
17:15
17:30
17:45
18:00
18:15
18:30	Laya Taranga FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team
18:45
19:00
19:15
19:30
19:45
20:00
20:15
20:30
20:45
21:00

Date 2nd December 2005

Time	Intel Hall (A/750)	Torvalds Hall (B/250)	Stallman Hall (C/250)	Cox Hall (D/250)	Perens Hall (E/250)	Ballroom (G/200)
9:00	Day Briefing and News: Day 4 FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team
9:15
9:30	Entropy Modeller: Model and Code Transformation for the Desktop Sirtaj Singh Kang The KDE Project
9:45
10:00
10:15
10:30	A guide to mutual exclusion in Linux Jonathan Corbet LWN.NET	RBAC and Least Privilege features of OpenSolaris Surya Prasad P SUn Microsystems (I) Pvt Ltd	Understanding electronic mail Devdas Bhagat	The long and winding road: FOSS computing in Indian languages Gora Mohanty Sarai, CSDS	Simple robust and cost effective Computers for villages SIJI SUNNY CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING	NGOs and FOSS... made for each other? Frederick Noronha Independent Journalist
10:45
11:00
11:15		Service Management Facility in OpenSolaris Ganesh Hiregoudar Sun Microsystems	Mail Stack - Postfix Suite karthikeyan Red Hat, Mumbai	Delivering Localized Content in Education Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies	Tux Goes to School Arun Chadda Merry Land High School	Mapping FOSS in India G Karunakar IndLinux.org
11:30	A Modern Linux Device Driver Alan Cox
11:45
12:00		DTrace Code Camp: A Deep Dive Peter Karlsson Sun Microsystems	High Availability in Linux Sulamita Garcia	Indic Tools for Community Knowledge Bases Srinivasa Raghavan K Sarai Consultant	Software And Licensing Information System Geetha Indian Institute of Science	dgplug- First Trip Round the Sun..problems & answer Kushal Das
12:15
12:30	Reverse Engineering the Motorola EZX (A768,A780,E680) series of Linux-based GSM phones Harald Welte hmw-consulting.de
12:45				A Javascript Indic Input Method Editor Surekha Sastry Sarai Consultant	Free Software Distribution and Indian Law Mahesh T. Pai	FOSS... lessons from India Frederick Noronha Independent Journalist
13:00
13:15
13:30 Lunch
13:45 Lunch
14:00 Lunch
14:15 Lunch
14:30		The Open Source Alternative Murugan Pal SpikeSource, Inc	Choosing A Database Management System David Fetter	Localization With Mono Kartik Mistry Magnet WebPublishing Pvt. Ltd.	Building products with FreeBSD and open-source Joseph Koshy The FreeBSD Project	LiMux -- Free Software for Munich Volker Grassmuck Humboldt University / Wizards of OS
14:45
15:00
15:15		FOSS Enterprise Computing Platform Dr.R.R.Alluri Pointgain India	MySQL What's new in 5.0? Shantanu Oak Consultant, ENAM Asset Management Company	Multilingual Internet G Karunakar IndLinux.org	Moving up to FreeBSD 6 Shanker Balan Yahoo Bangalore
15:30						Free/Open Source Software and Policy Sunil Abraham MAHITI
15:45
16:00		Providing external access to corporate email using open source software Ragavan Srinivasan Hewlett-Packard Company	Designing and Tuning Large-Scale Applications on MySQL Hitesh Shah Yahoo! Inc.	Babel on the Web: Internationalization challenges facing the WWW Badi Kumar S Yahoo! Inc	The Ports Collection - Package management on BSD Vinayak Hegde* Akamai Technologies India Pvt Ltd.
16:15						Data Openness: Issues and Concerns T.Harikrishnan AMD, Dept of Atomic Energy
16:30
16:45		Open Directory Standards Vithalprasad Gaitonde Novell	DBI-Link: A Universal Database Connector David Fetter	workshop on Localised geographical information system kanhaiya k kale	Getting Started With FreeBSD Shanker Balan Yahoo Bangalore
17:00						Open Standards and Open Source Software in the SAGA of eGovernment Bijon B Shaha Electronics Test and Development Centre, Goa
17:15
17:30
17:45
18:00	Beyond Software: Creative Commons Volker Grassmuck Humboldt University / Wizards of OS
18:15
18:30
18:45
19:00	Closing Ceremony FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team
19:15	Closing Ceremony FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team
19:30	Phenom and Phriends FOSS.IN Team The FOSS.IN/2005 Team
19:45
20:00
20:15
20:30
20:45
21:00

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Wireless Networking	Storage & Archiving	High Performance Computing	Non-stop Computing/fault tolerant computing	ISP Services
Embedded Systems	Platform Migration	Telecom	Localisation and Indic Computing	Desktop Computing
Gaming and entertainment	Performance Tuning	Security	Cross platform applications	Education
Government	Open Standards	Encouraging Indian contributors	Legal issues	Women In FOSS
The FOSS Community	Software Development	Operating Systems	FOSS Deployment Case Studies	FOSS Advocacy
Web Services	FOSS Enterprise Solutions	FOSS in Business	Voice over IP	Linux
BSD	Debian	Gentoo	OpenSolaris	Ruby
Python	Linux Distributions	FOSS Applications

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