FYI... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Atul Chitnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 27, 2007 1:44 PM Subject: [foss.in] FOSS.IN/2007: First List To: "FOSS.IN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
All: http://foss.in/2007/shortlist.php This is the first list of talks. There are still plenty of things that will change over the next week. Some talks/speakers will be added, some removed, and none of the keynotes or panel discussions or BoFs are in this list yet. But this should do two things: 1. Give you a fairly good idea what talks we are going to have 2. Give you a fairly good idea of who is speaking This year, I simply do not have the energy to make a separate post about all the famous names who are coming to FoSS.IN, but let me wave to Rusty Russel, Mitchell Baker, James Morris, Jim Grisanzio, Thomas Gleixner, Harald Welte, Sam Hocevar, Danese Cooper, Andrew Cooper, Josh Berkus, Till Adam, Ulrich Drepper and many others who are coming this year - welcome (back) to FOSS.IN, guys! :) As usual, our two keynote speakers will be revealed only just before the event. And there are a few well known names that we are waiting to receive confirmation from, or whose talks we are working on. And you will also find a lot of surprising names simply *attending* the event this year - because they all think that FOSS.IN is an event worth flying round the world for. This has been a REALLY hard process for Team FOSS.IN - never before have we fought so hard and so long to get FOSS.IN to be what we want it to be. But the taste of the pudding is in the eating, and at the end of the 5 days of the event, we will know whether we succeeded in triggering off a wave of FOSS contribution from India. Early next week we announce our sponsors, and delegate registration starts on Tuesday as well. Call for volunteers will go our a day later. Whew! Atul -- F O S S . I N / 2 0 0 7 India's Premier FOSS Conference December 4-8, 2007 Bangalore, India http://foss.in -- The List Rules : http://foss.in/list-rules The Event Site : http://foss.in The Event Planet : http://planet.foss.in The Event Channel : #foss.in on irc.freenode.net The Event List : http://foss.in/list Yahoo! Groups Links
