FOSS.IN/2007: Schedules

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Last Updated: December 15, 2007, 3:12 PM

Tuesday, 4th December, 2007 : Project Days

Time	JNTata/750	SDA/250	A/120	B/90	C/60
10:00 am	Giving back to the community: how does Debian perform? Sam Hocevar	Writing Applications with Mozilla Framework Prasad Sunkari Synovel Technologies [Tutorial]	Bring your own hammer - I have the nails ! Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay	OpenSolaris Introduction Glynn Foster Sun Microsystems
10:15 am
10:30 am
10:45 am	Contributing to Debian for dummies Christian Perrier The Debian Project		How to Contribute to GNOME as an Artist or Designer Mairin Duffy Red Hat, Inc.
11:00 am		An introduction to XPConnect: Writing Extensions in Pure JavaScript Anant Narayanan Malaviya National Institute of Technology
11:15 am
11:30 am			ZeroConf Networking with Avahi Lennart Poettering Red Hat	Deep Dive into Project Indiana Moinak Ghosh SUN Microsystems [Tutorial]
11:45 am	Internationalisation in Debian: a key for the universal operating system Christian Perrier The Debian Project
12:00 pm
12:15 pm	Bug management with the Debian BTS and Ubuntu Launchpad Baishampayan Ghose The Ubuntu Project	Making Firefox Accessible Krishnakant Mane	Clutter: Fun with opengl interfaces Shreyas Srinivasan Geodesic Information Systems
12:30 pm
12:45 pm
1:00 pm	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
2:00 pm	Dealing with Indic issues in Debian/Ubuntu Kartik Mistry Magnet Technologies Pvt Ltd	How to Help Evangelize Mozilla in India & Beyond Mary Colvig Mozilla Corporation	Gnome Translation Project-Your language on the Desktop Runa Bhattacharjee Red Hat	Distribution Constructor: A hands on workshop Anil Gulecha JSSATE [Workshop]
2:15 pm
2:30 pm	Debian/Ubuntu Package building and Maintenance Baishampayan Ghose The Ubuntu Project [Workshop]	Mozilla Localization Ankit Patel Red Hat
2:45 pm			hunting bugs Ritesh Khadgaray Red Hat [Workshop]
3:00 pm
3:15 pm		Testing Sprint Chris Hofmann Mozilla Corporation [Workshop]		Going handson on OpenSolaris development Shivakumar GN Nokia Siemens Networks
3:30 pm
3:45 pm			The challenges and opportunities of properly writing multi-threaded GTK based GNOME programs Andrew Cowie Operational Dynamics [Workshop]
4:00 pm	Packaging Java Applications for Ubuntu Platform Harpreet Singh Sun Microsystems Inc	Improving Mozilla Localizations Axel Hecht Mozilla Corporation [Tutorial]
4:15 pm				Getting to know OpenSolaris codebase and the development environments Sriram Narayanan Thoughtworks
4:30 pm
4:45 pm
5:00 pm	Remastering of Ubuntu amit karpe Wiki Ocean [Tutorial]
5:15 pm			Integrated communication framework for GNOME - elements of telepathy Naba Kumar Nokia	Contributing to OpenSolaris distros Komala R East West Institute of Technology
5:30 pm
5:45 pm
6:00 pm
6:15 pm
6:30 pm
6:45 pm
7:00 pm

Wednesday, 5th December, 2007 : Project Days

Time	JNTata/750	SDA/250	A/120	B/90	C/60
10:00 am	Fedora - Freedom is a feature Rahul Sundaram Red Hat	The Pillars of KDE 4 Till Adam KDAB	Is the OpenOffice.org Community in India a study in meiosis ? Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay	IndLinux: Introduction Karunakar Guntupalli IndLinux.org
10:15 am
10:30 am
10:45 am	How to Theme Fedora Mairin Duffy Red Hat, Inc. [Tutorial]			Understanding Indic Ramakrishna Reddy
11:00 am		How to be a part of the gang? Pradeepto K Bhattacharya	OpenOffice.org programmability – at a glance Juergen Schmidt Sun Microsystems, Inc.
11:15 am		KDE 4 development setup Pradeepto K Bhattacharya
11:30 am	Transifex: Upstream-friendly, community-centric translations Dimitris Glezos Fedora Project			Indian language spell-checking Gora Mohanty Sarai, CSDS
11:45 am
12:00 pm		Qt/KDE Concepts and Frameworks: Overview Kevin Ottens [Workshop]	Linguistic Localization Frame Work for OOo Jaganadh.G C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram
12:15 pm	Best Practices with RPM Tom Callaway Red Hat			TeX / LaTeX in Indic Languages: Status and the Road ahead C S Yogananda S.J.College of Engineering, Mysore [Workshop]
12:30 pm
12:45 pm
1:00 pm	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
2:00 pm	Opyum: offline package management with Yum Debarshi Ray Interra Systems	Styling Qt Using Style Sheets Girish Ramakrishnan Trolltech ASA	OpenOffice.org: Building Dictionary and spellchecker Kartik Mistry Magnet Technologies Pvt Ltd	Dhvani: Indian Language Text to Speech System- Demo, Adding Language support, Usage Santhosh Thottingal Swathanthra Malayalam Computing [Workshop]
2:15 pm
2:30 pm			OpenOffice.org extensions development in Java with NetBeans in practise Juergen Schmidt Sun Microsystems, Inc. [Workshop]
2:45 pm	Fonts in Fedora Rahul Bhalerao Red Hat Software Services Pvt. Ltd. [Workshop]			A crash course on Speech Recognition and using CMU sphinx to build ASRs Shyam.k Swathanthra Malayalam Computing [Workshop]
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
3:30 pm	Fedora Secondary Architectures: Moving Beyond x86 Tom Callaway Red Hat	Kdevelop3/4: Beyond C++...extending the Language Base. Piyush Verma Sapphire Mobile Systems
3:45 pm				Facilitating Indian language users on FOSS platforms Gora Mohanty Sarai, CSDS
4:00 pm		Test Driven Development with Qt and KDE Kevin Ottens [Workshop]	VBA Macros - Interoperability Rajesh Sola NBKR Institute Of Science & Technology, Vidyanagar. [Tutorial]
4:15 pm	Spin your own Fedora - Custom spins, software appliances and derivative distributions Rahul Sundaram Red Hat
4:30 pm
4:45 pm
5:00 pm	Fedora-ARM : Call for contributions Amey Inamdar Marvell India Pvt. Ltd. (Subsidiary of Marvell Semiconductor Inc.)		Lowering the Barrier - OpenOffice.org Documentation Project Frank Peters Sun Microsystems
5:15 pm
5:30 pm		Component Software Design/Development Prashanth N Udupa VCreate Logic (P) Ltd. [Tutorial]	How to work on OpenOffice.org Louis Suarez Potts Sun Microsystems/OpenOffice.org
5:45 pm
6:00 pm
6:15 pm
6:30 pm
6:45 pm
7:00 pm

Thursday, 6th December, 2007 : Main Conference

Time	JNTata/750	SDA/250	A/120	B/90	C/60
10:00 am	FOSS.IN/2007 Inauguration Atul Chitnis Team FOSS.IN
10:15 am	FOSS.IN/2007 Inauguration Atul Chitnis Team FOSS.IN
10:30 am	Anjuta DevStudio: present and future Naba Kumar Nokia
10:45 am
11:00 am
11:15 am
11:30 am	How and Why You Should Be a Kernel Hacker James Morris Red Hat	Using OpenEmbedded to power Open Devices Holger Hans Peter Freyther GMIT GmbH/Trolltech	Making Gentoo Tick Anant Narayanan Malaviya National Institute of Technology	Natively supporting RDBMS in Plone/ Zope for storing Content Sreekanth S R Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm
12:45 pm
1:00 pm	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
2:00 pm	lguest: Hacking the Little Linux Hypervisor Rusty Russell IBM	Meet Hadoop! (Open Source Grid Computing) Devaraj Das Yahoo! Bangalore R & D	Free Software for Wireless Community Networks Rene Ejury	Understanding and Extending Sahi (A Web Automation and Test Tool) V Narayan Raman
2:15 pm
2:30 pm
2:45 pm
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
3:30 pm	Turning Linux into a Real-time Kernel Thomas Gleixner linutronix	QtWebKit Simon Hausmann Trolltech ASA	GCC Internals: A Conceptual View into GCC Abhijat Vichare Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay	Contributing to Zope project Baiju M ZeOmega Infotech Pvt. Ltd.	PowerBoF: LinuxChix India Runa Bhattacharjee Red Hat [BOF]
3:45 pm
4:00 pm
4:15 pm
4:30 pm
4:45 pm
5:00 pm	The PulseAudio Sound Server Lennart Poettering Red Hat	Community-led Open Source Art: The Fedora Art Team Mairin Duffy Red Hat, Inc.	KDE/ISI Student Projects Kevin Ottens	Plan 9 from Bell Labs Anant Narayanan Malaviya National Institute of Technology	Lightning Talks #1 Team FOSS.IN
5:15 pm
5:30 pm
5:45 pm
6:00 pm
6:15 pm
6:30 pm
6:45 pm
7:00 pm

Friday, 7th December, 2007 : Main Conference

Time	JNTata/750	SDA/250	A/120	B/90	C/60
10:00 am	The Virtuous Cycle: Sun's FOSS Philosophy and Strategy Simon Phipps Sun Microsystems	Hacking the Air Waves with GNURadio Rakesh Peter Center for Excellence in Computational Engg. and Networking	Union Mount: VFS based Filesystem Namespace Unification for Linux Bharata B Rao IBM	Parallel Compositing Library Shree Kumar Hewlett Packard
10:15 am
10:30 am
10:45 am
11:00 am
11:15 am
11:30 am	Trekking with White Elephants Danese Cooper Intel Corporation	OpenJDK and Mobile & Embedded: The First Year Roger Brinkley Sun Microsystems	The State of SELinux James Morris Red Hat	MySQL and the Architecture of Participation Colin Charles MySQL AB
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm
12:45 pm
1:00 pm	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
2:00 pm	The Mozilla Project Mitchell baker Mozilla Corporation	PostgreSQL 8.3: a Story of Hundreds of Patches Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Project	Linux Kernel Testing - Know Your Contribution Kamalesh Babulal IBM India	Network topology, routing and security model of Freenet Srivatsan ravi
2:15 pm
2:30 pm
2:45 pm
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
3:30 pm	Akonadi - Personal Information Unleashed Till Adam KDAB	OpenMoko: What, why and how Harald Welte Chaos Computer Club	Hacking the Fox Myk Melez Mozilla	SELF Platform Nagarjuna G Free Software Foundation of India / Tata Institute of Fundamental Research [Workshop]	PowerBoF: Indic Computing Gora Mohanty Sarai, CSDS [BOF]
3:45 pm
4:00 pm
4:15 pm
4:30 pm
4:45 pm
5:00 pm		Introduction to Maemo development Naba Kumar Nokia [Tutorial]	Developing PIM applications with Akonadi Volker Krause KDAB	Groupdav connector for evolution Shreyas Srinivasan Geodesic Information Systems	Lightning Talks #2 Team FOSS.IN
5:15 pm
5:30 pm
5:45 pm
6:00 pm
6:15 pm
6:30 pm
6:45 pm
7:00 pm

Saturday, 8th December, 2007 : Main Conference

Time	JNTata/750	SDA/250	A/120	B/90	C/60
10:00 am	User to hacker in 90 minutes: the tools and techniques needed to actually contribute to Open Source Andrew Cowie Operational Dynamics [Tutorial]		Introduction into practical real-time programming in userspace on Linux Lennart Poettering Red Hat	Writing ayttm plugins Philip Tellis Yahoo! Inc [Tutorial]
10:15 am
10:30 am
10:45 am
11:00 am
11:15 am
11:30 am	Inside PHP Rasmus Lerdorf Yahoo! Inc.		Contributing to the Basic Runtime UlrichDrepper Red Hat, Inc.	Lingua-Franca , A language translation plugin for chat clients sashank dara
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm
12:45 pm
1:00 pm	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
2:00 pm	The Debian Project Sam Hocevar		talloc: The Power of C Rusty Russell IBM	Reassembling PHP Gopal Vijayaraghavan Yahoo! Inc
2:15 pm
2:30 pm
2:45 pm
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
3:30 pm	The OpenSolaris Project: Getting Involved Jim Grisanzio Sun Microsystems		The realtime preemption patch - tech internals Thomas Gleixner linutronix	Virtualisation: The KVM Way Amit Shah Qumranet	Lightning Talks #3 Team FOSS.IN
3:45 pm
4:00 pm
4:15 pm
4:30 pm
4:45 pm
5:00 pm	Rusty and Friends Team FOSS.IN
5:15 pm
5:30 pm
5:45 pm
6:00 pm	Closing Ceremony Team FOSS.IN
6:15 pm
6:30 pm
6:45 pm
7:00 pm

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Project Days: Debian-Ubuntu	Project Days: Fedora	Project Days: Gnome	Project Days: IndLinux	Project Days: KDE
Project Days: Mozilla	Project Days: OpenOffice.org	Project Days: Open Solaris	Main Conference	Main Conference: Special
Main Conference: Languages and Compilers	Main Conference: Virtualization	Main Conference: Operating Systems	Main Conference: Distributions	Main Conference: Developer Tools
Main Conference: Web	Main Conference: File Systems	Main Conference: Databases	Main Conference: General	Main Conference: Distributed Computing
Main Conference: Embedded Systems	Main Conference: Applications	Main Conference: Programming	Main Conference: Networking

Tuesday, 4th December, 2007 : Project Days

Wednesday, 5th December, 2007 : Project Days

Thursday, 6th December, 2007 : Main Conference

Friday, 7th December, 2007 : Main Conference

Saturday, 8th December, 2007 : Main Conference

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