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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    
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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          
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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        
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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