Hello Just a friendly update about OSI Days 2010. Speakers from more than 10 countries are joining us for more than 50 sessions and 12 workshops/trainings over the three day conference. There is emphasis on PHP, Drupal, Databases, Mobile, and Government Communities at the conference. The rich content at the conference will be useful for building technical skills and leveraging Open Source for strategic advantage.
I am including some highlights from the conference, and request your help in promoting the conference and ensuring that it is successful in meeting its objectives and is a step forward. *For PHP Community:* - Creator of the Symfony Framework & CEO of Sensiolabs, Fabien Potencier is taking a session on upcoming Symfony 2 and a hands-on workshop on Symfony 2 - Jonathan Wage, a familiar name behind Symfony Framework is taking in-depth sessions on MongoDB and Doctrine2 - Workshop on Zend Certification by Rakesh, Rajul and Ankur - our in-house Zend experts - A session by David Recordon (Senior Open Programs Manager, Facebook) on How Facebook leverages Open Source tools - Sessions on PHP Unit Testing, PHP Documenter, and Advance Eclipse workshop by Bastian Feder - Workshop on Restful APIs and a comprehensive session on PHP 5.3 by David Coallier (President, PEAR Group) - QA in PHP Projects & Cloud Hosting secrets from Markus Franz, CEO of Sucomo KG, Germany - Sessions Java Script by Prajwala and HTML 5 by Jason Levitt of Kaltura USA *For Mobile Developers:* - A full day dedicated to Mobile Developers Tracks - 4 Hrs workshop on Android App Development by Dibya Prakash, a popular name in Android and ROR world - 4 Hrs workshop on iphone/ ipad App development by Reetu Raj of techahead.com exploring development of iPhone apps using open source tools *For Database Community:* - Sonali Minocha from OSSCube is taking workshop on MySQL Clusters and a session on Performance Tuning of MySQL - Jonathan Gray (Software Engineer & Open Source Advocate, Facebook) is taking sessions on Hadoop, HBase, NoSQL and Hive at Facebook - Co-Author of the official PHP Manual, Jakub Vrana, is taking sessions on Adminer Editor - Denis Lafont-Trevisan (Technical Director, Capgemini) will take a session on Drupal High End Architecture Best Practices *For Drupal Community:* - Workshop on Drupal Theming and Drupal 7 theming session by Marek Sotak (Designer of the popular RootCandy theme) - Session on Aegir by Dave Hall from Australia to manage thousands of Drupal Sites effectively - Kaltura for Drupal by Jason Levitt & Building Powerful search in Drupal by Prajwala - Case study on Drupal Multisite and Multilingual implementation for Kabbalah.com by Oriya Pollak from Kabbalah USA and Rakesh, Ankur from OSSCube - Workshop on Drupal Module development by Ipsita Mishra & Siva Kumar Epari - Session on Citizen Journalism using Drupal by Markus Franz, CEO of Sucomo KG, Germany *A little more:* - Eben Moglen (Founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center) and Mishi Choudhary (Counsel, SFLC and Founding Director, SFLC India) will take sessions on Legal aspects in FOSS - Siddhartha Agarwal (VP, Americas Field Operations, Zend) has also confirmed his participation at OSI Days 2010 - A BrainJam (A high energy 2 hour event to tap into the collective knowledge of the audience) hosted by Kiruba Shankar, specifically focussed for SMEs The conference schedule looks promising and has shaped up really well. I would encourage you all to participate in the conference and make it a success. The conference passes are priced at INR 2000 (Gold Pass) and INR 5000 (Platinum Pass) alongwith free Community Passes. We are also running a discount campaign right now and you can avail a 30% discount on the registration by using the coupon code "30pass" (campaign ends today though). *More details on:* - registration - http://osidays.com/register-now - speakers - http://osidays.com/speakers - sessions - http://osidays.com/sessions - schedule - http://osidays.com/schedule - conference website - http://osidays.com -- regards Kinshuk Sunil +91-9910024895 -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
