96 Hours Of Open Source Talks In Bangalore

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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[wrinkledshirt]

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Re:Weird place to have it

[slavitos]

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:Weird place to have it

[Copley]

The capital of curry source maybe?

Dont fear the curry

[dankdirk77]

I hear whining from people all the time about jobs going to India, but news like this I hope can make at least the real slashdot crowd aware of the good going on there.

India is a natural ally of the united states because it is one of the few stable democracies in the region. The people are diverse, smart, conservative, and could potentially join us with japan as the new rulers of the world.

May open source flourish in that country!!!

Re:Dont fear the curry

[Copley]

Agreed... Everytime the topics of Indian software / service centres / whatever come up (and it's more and more often these days), comments appear which seem to imply that the products supplied will inherently be 2nd rate... Does anyone have any evidence to base this on?! Just because products is not coming from the good ol' US of A doesn't necessarily mean it's crap!

Re:Dont fear the curry

[PurpleWizard]

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.

Re:Dont fear the curry

[satyap]

Yes, thank you. I'm really sick of people tarring me with the same brush and calling me a terrorist.

You forgot ...

[skjaidev]

Micro soft ;-)

Re:Sirtaj Singh Kang

[Jacco de Leeuw]

I, for one, welcome our new Bangalore Overlords.

Conference proceedings or transcripts

[Space cowboy]

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

Re:Conference proceedings or transcripts

[toolz]

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.

Re:How the hell...

[cioxx]

...do they fit 96 hours in THREE days (72 hours)?

With the help of the new LZW time compression algorithm. Why else do you think companies outsource to Bangalore?

Intelligent and realistic positioning of Linux

[cyberjessy]

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!

Re:Intelligent and realistic positioning of Linux

[watzinaneihm]

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.

Re:How the hell...

[gavri]

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

[yodha]

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.