The Indian Patent Office is organizing a Stakeholders Meeting on Draft Patent Manual in Bangalore. The exact date has not been specified. However, 27th August...
... Hey Venky, Thanks for the awesome and informative email. Sums up the current situation brilliantly. Is there anything we as individuals who support the...
Happy Indian Independence Day, everyone! Team FOSS.IN is happy to announce that this year's edition of Asia's biggest Free and Open Source Software contributor...
... <no_sarcasm> Cool. So there are going to be just programming / mentoring / demo / hackfest sessions and no talks? That would be nice. </no_sarcasm> -aditya...
Aditya Godbole
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Aug 15, 2008 3:15 pm
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... Code is more of a metaphor for contribution and not just "source code". Cheers, Shreyas...
... Yup that would be really nice instead of ivory tower talks. Some hands on session is always more useful... regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better...
... Given that the only people who can give talks at FOSS.IN are actual contributors to projects, ivory tower talks are virtually impossible. Atul -- Atul...
... What kind of session do you suggest? Because there's nothing preventing people from, for example, sitting and just hacking at whatever they want. In fact,...
... C ya at HackCenter. "Talk Is Cheap, Show Me Hack!" -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Homepage: people.debian.org/~kartik Blogs:...
... Something like "We are adding so and so feature to Kontact. We will give la ive demo and commentary of what we are doing. And we will explain the relevant...
Aditya Godbole
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Aug 15, 2008 8:10 pm
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Too much of hacking and stuff in FOSS! More and more people view it as a development platform and well I also love to attend FOSS for this very same reason -...
... FOSS.IN is not a user conference - it is a contributor and developer oriented conference. From last year's CfP: "In the past, the event has had topics...
... Sure it can work - as long as the talk is about an actual concrete contribution in this field. How about this - you start working on some 3D game or...
... At first i thought are we going back to Linux Bangalore days in sense that its a developer conference in contrast to last years motto contributors...
... Well, Literally nothing conveys it like "Talk is cheap, show me the ChangeLog" but i dont think a lot of people will understand it. The conference motto ...
... I saw that talk last year. Where were you? ++ Ok, so that was abrupt. But foss.in is pretty clued in. We don't really need to tell them what to run....
... I was there alright. I felt that during the main conference and during the project days, the coverage of the topics was too superficial to be of...
Aditya Godbole
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Aug 16, 2008 9:24 pm
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I have end sems till 6th of December.. I wont be able to make it :-(((( I really wanted to make it.. Ankur, Manipal Institute of Tech, Manipal....
It seems some studies have revealed that audience lose concentration after 18 minutes of time while listening talks , thats why TED (http://www.ted.com/) talks...
... There were lightning talks last time (http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=555). I guess we will have them this year also. As...
... Yes ,But i dont remember there were lightning talks all days , only day it was hit is the day when Daneese Cooper organised it , but most of the talks on...
... Context. Most of what is talked about in foss.in requires a lot of context to understand. Shorter a talk is the more out of context people are going to be...
People lose concentration if the talk drags on for more than 18 minutes but only if the only one speaking is the speaker. When code sessions are held and...
The point here is ,If am from a FOSS project which is less known but actively looking for contributors , and if FOSS.IN is all about getting more contributors...
... Here again the metaphor is mis understood Code Session ? You mean the speaker would tell in between his talk "Dear all , now write a program which ... "...
... Doesn't the Lightning Talk session allow you to give a quick introduction to your project? Just put up a BoF session right after the Lightning Talk and ask...
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