What happens when enthusiasm meets intellect, ability meets encouragement and passion meets opportunity ?

Open Source Summit 2008 is the event, that should be on your calendar if you are keen on technology, keen to become an ace contributor in the world of Open Source and make your mark ! Whether you are a newbie or experienced, you will feel right at home when you interact with the coolest and most focussed Open Source community in this part of India. 

This event is sponsored by Intel and individuals. We welcome all sponsors and well-wishers to step up and raise to the occassion to make the event a great success !

Technical Presentations (Dec 13, 2008)

	openSUSE local repository design - Sandip Tiwari, KLCE
	BeleniX, opensolaris LiveCD project - Moinak Ghosh, BeleniX
	Using Git in your project - Namita Iyer, Brocade
	Gentoo Linux, portage and ebuilds - Arun Raghavan, Gentoo
	Map - Reduce, distributed model of computation - Sugandh Rakha, Amazon IDC
	Hadoop, data intensive distributed apps framework - S Venkatesh, Yahoo Inc.
	Real time Streaming Media - Uday Khatua, DimDim
	Realtime Linux, embedded Linux - Mahesh Patil, CDAC
	Creative Games development - Keshav Kuruva, buddygames
	Open Source Routers
	Layered Security using Open Source tools - Durga Prasad
	We the Geeks (Birds of the same feather aka BoF, session)

Hands-on Workshops (Dec 14, 2008)

	openMP multi-core programming workshop (Intel) - Rama Kishan Malladi, Intel Inc.
	TBB multi-core programming workshop (Intel) - Rama Kishan Malladi, Intel Inc.
	Ethical Hacking Workshop (3 hrs) - Rohit Srivastwa, ClubHack.

 Programming Contest

I.I.I.T Main building Hall 119, Ground floor Gachibowli, Hyderabad