96 Hours Of Open Source Talks In Bangalore

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96 Hours Of Open Source Talks In Bangalore

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 2, 2003 @08:11PM from the bring-no-doz dept.

nileshch writes "The ongoing community-driven Linux Bangalore 2003 is upto a record of sorts. There are, hold your breath, 96 scheduled talks. That's about 96 hours of open-source talk in three days! The first day with 30 talks is already over with star speakers like Nat Friedman, Miguel De Icaza and Sirtaj Singh Kang enthralling the audience with their refreshing perspectives on Linux and Open Source. Rasmus Lerdorf and Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! Inc, amongst others, are also scheduled to talk at the event."

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Re:Weird place to have it by slavitos · 2003-12-02 20:17 · Score: 5, Informative

Doesn't seem too weird to me. If I am not mistaken, Bangalore already has more software engineers than Silicon Valley.
Re: Finland comment. A Finnish-based electronic musician Vladislav Delay once noted that Finland was a country where "like, 500 people listen to jazz".
Re:This is no surprise by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-02 22:24 · Score: 1, Informative

You mean this fella?
Intelligent and realistic positioning of Linux by cyberjessy · 2003-12-02 22:52 · Score: 5, Informative

I have just come back from Linux Bangalore 2003. One of the most striking things I noticed is that there is hardly any "hardline linux advocacy" at the venue. It focuses well on how linux would fit into today's computing environment, including interoperating with Microsoft Windows.

It is evident from the fact that Mono is given great prominence. Miguel De Icaza is speaking today as well as on friday. A top official from Microsoft (YES Microsoft!) is speaking on how Windows and Linux can co-exist.

In short, a very credible and organized meet of enthusiasts and business users. Hats off to the organizers!

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1. Re:Intelligent and realistic positioning of Linux by watzinaneihm · 2003-12-03 00:09 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  It has to be free of any hardline advocacy since the Indian government is the main sponsor (Ministry of Information and communications from the website).The government seems to follow a policy of "best job for the tool" and are rather neutral when it comes to software.
  
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Re:How the hell... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-02 23:20 · Score: 1, Informative

Actually, they use multiprocessing:

http://linux-bangalore.org/2003/schedules/
Re:Conference proceedings or transcripts by toolz · 2003-12-03 00:05 · Score: 2, Informative

Well, transcripts of 96 talks are kind of difficult. The slides will be up as always after the event.

And for free, of course :)

As in beer.

Check the schedules a couple of days after the event.

If you are interested, you can also check out the slides from LB/2002 and LB/2001.

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Re:How the hell... by gavri · 2003-12-03 01:21 · Score: 3, Informative

If you had RTFA, you'd see that those are talks taking place simultaneously in different halls.

Tough luck if both your fav speakers are on at the same time
Miguel de Icaza by yodha · 2003-12-03 02:42 · Score: 2, Informative

I attended the Linux Bangalore/2003 event today. After Miguel de Icaza's Mono talk, me and five others had a really long and interesting one-on-one talk with Miguel over lunch. Some photos here. It was really nice to see and interact with some great people over here in Bangalore itself.