Team FOSS.IN

FOSS.IN is conceived, planned, created and executed by a dedicated team who are called Team FOSS.IN.

This group of friends, many of whom have been working together creating Free and Open Source Software community events since the late 1990s, works completely on an unpaid volunteer basis. They work together all year round, planning every aspect of the event, except the actual content (the talks, the activities, etc.) which comes entirely from the FOSS community. While FOSS.IN is a non-commercial event, the team strives to make it perform as professionally, or even more so, as commercial events with big budgets.

Team FOSS.IN “recruits” new members by tapping into volunteers who help during the actual event. Every member of Team FOSS.IN has joined the team this way.

Team FOSS.IN/2009

(Will be listed here shortly before the event)

Team FOSS.IN/2008

Arun Raghavan (Content)
Atul Chitnis (Coordination)
Avinash Shenoy (Networks)
Gaurav Vaz (Logistics)
Gopi Garge (Venue)
Harikrishnan C (Creatives)
Kishore Bhargava (Coordination)
Shanker Balan (Networks)
Sheela Sequeira (Catering)
Shilpa Sequeira (Hospitality)
Shreyas Srinivasan (Content)
Shyam Mani (Networks)
Sony Philip (Networks)
Sugandhi G. (Delegates)
Swati Sani (Finances)
Tarique Sani (Web)
Tejas Dinkar (Volunteers)
Vaibhav Sharma (Networks)

Volunteers for FOSS.IN/2008:

Aamod Nerurkar
Aasim Sani
Abhishek Sawant
Allen Pais
Aswin M. Sahadevan
Faheem
Geetanjali Chitnis
Padmanabhumi Abhishek
Parthasarthy Susarla
Rashmi Kulkarni
Shilpa Srinivasan
Shree Lakshmi “SL” Rao
Sridevi Koonath

Special Thanks

In addition, many delegates, speakers and other participants pitched in at different times, showing the true community nature of this event. Their efforts were much appreciated.

The team offers special thanks to Shubha Chitnis for putting up with the team during long meetings in her living room, feeding them and making sure that they remained sane under pressure.