BWI: Open Source India 2011 Kick-Starts Today

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Source: Open Source India
Sunday, November 20, 2011 09:45 AM IST (04:15 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, People; Business: Business services, Information technology, Media & entertainment; Technology
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Open Source India 2011 Kick-Starts Today
The wait is over. The day has come. The much-awaited open source event OSI 2011 is all set to begin today

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Sunday, November 20, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) -- Gear yourself up for three consecutive days of learning and exciting time with 3,000+ open source innovators, enthusiasts, and gurus at Bengaluru's NIMHANS Convention Centre. The technology world is looking at open source technology for future innovations. Thus, the 8th edition of OSI Days, which will run through 22 November 2011, becomes even more important. It aims to commemorate and celebrate the true spirit of open source, and strengthen and consolidate the Indian open source community.

The event will be inaugurated by Ramesh Chopra, founder and editor, Electronics For You. Regunath Balasubramanian, principal architect of the Govt of India UIDAI project, will be the guest of honour at this year's event.

Balasubramanian will talk about Use of OSS in Aadhaar project - The World's Largest Identity Platform. He will discuss how OSS has been used in a project of national importance where hundreds of terabytes of data is processed to issue millions of UIDs to residents.

Open Source India (OSI) is the largest open source conference in Asia, targeted at nurturing and promoting the open source ecosystem in the subcontinent. Started as Linux Asia in 2004, OSI has been at the helm while bringing together the open source industry and the community, over the last eight years. The 8th edition of OSI this year aims to take this event a notch higher by focusing on the open source ecosystem in Asia, and more specifically in India.

The convention also aims to provide a BIG opportunity to open source lovers to interact with the gurus from the world of Linux and open source.

The special highlights of the 3-day convention (http://2011.osidays.com/osidays_schedule.html) would cover special tracks such as 'FOSS For Everyone', 'PHP Days', 'Kernel Day', 'Database Days', 'Mobile Apps Development', 'Web Apps Development' and 'FOSS For Developers'.

Tobias Schlitt, PHP expert and co-founder, Qafoo GmbH; Alessandro Nadalin, software agilist in DNSEE, an Italian firm based in Rome; Arne Blankerts, co-founder and principal consultant at thePHP.cc, Germany; Hugo Hamon, a PHP geek for 10 years and training manager at the SensioLabs company, Paris, France; Sebastian Bergmann, creator of PHPUnit and co-founder of thePHP.cc at thePHP.cc; Jason Levitt, director of the Kaltura Developer Network at Kaltura, in Austin, USA; Bastian Feder, senior developer and quality coach for the Liip Inc, Zürich, Switzerland; and Arne Blankerts, co-founder and principal consultant at thePHP.cc, are but a few of the international luminaries who will be sharing their knowledge with the Indian open source community at the event.

Apart from this, national open source technologists and industry veterans like Janakiram MSV, Web Services Evangelist, Amazon Web Services; Naren Datha, researcher, Microsoft Research India; Khasim Syed Mohammed, lead engineer, Texas Instruments, Varad Gupta, CTO of Keen & Able Computers, and many others will join in and share their experiences and knowledge related to FOSS technologies.

We are sure their talks will fire up your imagination: http://2011.osidays.com/speakers

A convention for all FOSS lovers

The event sure has something exciting in store for fans of open source and Linux, whether they are developers, system administrators, CIOs, CTOs, geeks or newbies. There's something for everyone to look forward to. Software developers would get exposed to the latest open source solutions, software technologies and the best practices that ensure a faster, better and cheaper way to function. IT managers and administrators are guaranteed to have their own share of 'economical' fun with talks on the latest open solutions that can help them manage their IT infrastructure better in a cost-effective manner.

This is the perfect platform for kernel developers too to familiarise themselves with the latest developments related to the Linux kernel, and for CIOs to learn about the new open source solutions and best practices to drive strategic IT decisions across India and the globe. There are also special workshops for skillset enhancement on open source technologies.

To know more about the speakers and their sessions, visit: www.osidays.com, the official website of Open Source India 2011.

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