Topics

here is a list of suggested areas of interest, provided by a bunch of well known hackers. An updated version of this list can be found at http://foss.in/register/speaker/topics:

  • Security
  • System hardening (protecting against memory attacks, kernel bugs etc.)
  • Filesystems & storage
  • Networking, including IPv6
  • Power efficiency
  • Mobile development and power management
  • Virtualization (low level) and Containers
  • Audio hacking
  • Embedded multimedia
  • FOSS OS design & low-level systems programming
  • Real Time
  • Fast Booting
  • Flicker-free boot, from bootloader to window manager
  • FOSS based Telephony, including GSM, VoIP
  • Security infrastructure for mobile platforms
  • Scalable architecture – Memcache v/s rdbms v/s non rdbms
  • Open source game engines
  • Home brew solutions & embedded devices based on beagle board, arduino, etc
  • HTML5 platforms
  • Managing multiple form factors for your s/w stack
  • Cloud computing: the missing pieces
  • Consolidating kernel embedded code better
  • Next generation UIs – thinking beyond Windows UI emulation
  • Porting Qt to new platforms and languages
  • Dealing with new UI paradigms, e.g. Touch
  • Mobile telephony
  • Radio communications
  • Signalling intelligence
  • Surveillance, privacy & data protection
  • Drones
  • Rebuilds of vintage computers
  • Open cores (FPGA)
  • Reverse engineering techniques for hardware and software
  • DIY electronic music software / synthesizers
  • Electronic Art
  • Hacking popular mobile devices to do more
  • Scaling your FOSS-based web app to 10K concurrent users
  • Building Highly Concurrent Applications using FOSS
  • Test-driven FOSS development
  • Education solutions for the 21st century
  • Open Source Robotics
  • Building Cloud Infrastructure using FOSS



Like we said, this is not an exhaustive list – just suggestions to get you started.We also want to hear from people what topics they would be interested in – mail or tweet them to us, and we will add it to the list of suggested topics at http://foss.in/register/speaker/topics.

And if you have an idea but just want some crowd validation, or throw it open for discussion – the “5 Minute Incubation Lightning Talks” that will happen throughout the event will get you there – you don’t even have to register them now!