Talk Details

The Impact of FOSS on Everything

Name Atul Chitnis

Organisation

Website http://atulchitnis.com

Scope General

Topic Encouraging Indian contributors

Type talk

Abstract Free & Open Source Software has been around for more than two decades, yet people ask "when will it see widespread adoption?" or "will it ever reach world domination?"

This talk addresses these questions, and will hopefully provide some answers.

Pre-requisites

Profile Atul Chitnis is a technology consultant, living in Bangalore, India.

His focus areas include mobile and hand-held computing, wireless data networks, "appropriate technologies" (matching available technologies to actual requirements, instead of the other way round), Linux and Open Source, computing in entertainment technologies (especially the music industry), and the identification and understanding of future technologies that could impact his clients and technology audiences.