FOSS Shaastra2008
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FOSS Workshop @ Shaastra 2008 - Tentative Plans
This page is for the organizers to plan the event. None of the information put up here is finalized.
Aim of the event
As FOSS solutions become more and more important in the enterprise and FOSS developers are in demand, we wish to have a event related to Free and Open Source Software @ Shaastra 2008.
Duration of the event
The event will consist of a workshop and a hackfest. While we plan to have talks by Developers during the workshop. Hackfest will be spread over all 4 days and will try to create a good application.
FOSS Conference
We intend to have a FOSS Developers' Conference. 6 hours, 4 talks.
Indian FOSS Contributors, who are Potential Speakers:
1. Shreyas Srinivasan [CONFIRMED] 2. Sudharshan S [CONFIRMED] 3. Pradeepto Bhattacharya 4. Arun Chaganty [with Shreyas] 5. Thejaswi Puthraya 6. Shakti Kannan 7. Dr. Kapil 8. Sriram Karra?
Other potential speakers / International Speakers:
1. Nat Friedman 2. Miguel de Icaza 3. Rusty Russell 4. Lennart Poettering 5. David Faure 6. Aaron Seigo 7. Harald Welte 8. Michael Tiemann 9. Atul Chitnis
Topics for talks:
1. Shreyas + Arun: Contributing for newbies, on the line of "User to Hacker in 90 minutes" @ FOSS.IN 2007 2. Sudharshan: The Freesmartphone.org project.
Expected Turnout:
100 ~ 160 participants.
Audience Prerequisites:
- Enthusiastic about FOSS development
- Familiar with the FOSS concept
- Familiar with the use of a typical desktop environment + command line
= The KDE.IN Autumn hacKathon 2008
Existing hacKers:
1. Pradeepto Bhattacharya 2. Sharan Rao 3. Tejas Dinkar 4. Gopalakrishna A 5. Shashank Singh 6. Akarsh Simha 7. Prakash Mohan
Expected turnout:
20 folks
Event plan:
- Introduce the KDE Kodebase in general, Qt fundamentals in a quick talk
- Demo the various appliKations being hacKed.
- Split the enthusiasts into groups and introduce the kodebase of individual apps
- hacK away.
Potential AppliKations to hacK + hacKers to do the kodebase intros:
1. KDE PIM [Pradeepto] 2. Kexi [Sharan] 3. Kopete [Tejas] 4. Umbrello [Gopala] 5. Marble [Shashank] 6. KStars [Akarsh, Prakash]
Shall we release a new produKt? (Ideas):
[TODO: Fill in Ideas here. What do we miss in KDE?]
The GNOME Hackathon [RENAME suitably]
Existing hacKers:
1. Shreyas Srinivasan 2. Arun Raghavan 3. Nirbheek Chauhan 4. Arun Tejaswi Chaganty 5. Sudharshan S?
Expected turnout:
20 folks
Event Plan:
- Introduce the Codebase in general - libraries like GTK+, pyGTK, Clutter etc.
- Demo the various apps being hacked
- Split into groups of interested hackers and developer gives an introduction to the codebase of particular app.
Potential apps to hack + hackers to do the codebase intros:
1. Evolution [Shreyas Srinivasan] 2. Anjuta DevStudio [Arun Chaganty] 3. Beagle [Arun Raghavan and Nirbheek Chauhan]
Shall we release a new product? (Ideas):
[TODO: Fill in Ideas here. What do we miss in GNOME?]
The OpenMoko Hackathon
[TODO: Where does this fit in?]
Existing hackers:
1. Sudharshan S 2. Shreyas Srinivasan?
Expected turnout:
20 folks
Event Plan:
[TODO: Fill this up]
Potential apps to hack + hackers to do the codebase intros:
???
Shall we release a new product? (Ideas):
1. Port something new to OpenMoko?
Potential Sponsors
We intend to look at the following companies as potential sponsors:
- Redhat
- Geodesic
- FOSS.IN
- Trolltech
- Novell Inc
- Sun Microsystems
- Yahoo
- Nokia
- Zilogic Systems
- ELCOT
- C-DAC
[TODO: List out many more!]
We wish to have sponsors associated with FOSS, so that we may provide incentive for sponsorship by alloting a slot to demonstrate / discuss the sponsors' FOSS solutions.
