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96 Hours Of Open Source Talks In Bangalore

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. No better place by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No better place to demonstrate the futility of expensive labor than India, and no better topic to demonstrate the futility of expensive proprietary software than OSS.

    You hit the nail on the head.

  2. You forgot ... by skjaidev · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Micro soft ;-)

  3. Conference proceedings or transcripts by Space+cowboy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there (or will there be, once it's finished) an online transcript of any of these 96 speeches ? Not necessarily for free (though free would be good :-))

    Simon

    --
    Physicists get Hadrons!
  4. Re:Dont fear the curry by PurpleWizard · · Score: 4, Interesting
    My experience in the Power Industry (high voltage power transmission and related electric infrastructure stuff) is that the engineers are superb.Individual work at least as good as the UK staff I worked with.

    What was lacking was good procedures and best practice working methods, along with overall project management. Once those started to be in place the products started to be as good too.

    To put it in context look around you and grade the dedication and motivation of yourself and your coworkers. If it is less than 9/10 you will rapidly be at risk from over seas. They are as clever, they are as well educated (maybe better because of the dedication) and they are much more motivated and dedicated.