FREED.IN

Why Freed.in and FOSS

(A short SOP on Freed.in, and links to some really inspirational quotes/blogs on FOSS - Please fill in below)

(The official line.....) freed.in has become the leading community event in the Indian sub-continent and the developing world, promoting freedom in technology, software and other related fields, and personal privacy. The annual event makes free and open source software more visible to the world. freed.in helps nurture the community and enables networking within and outside the community in a fun environment. The event strives towards seeding of new projects.

Wikipedia Freed.in entry

The event brought together the Indian Open Source Community, a large group of software developers and users of Open Source Software. Besides bouncing ideas off each other through advanced level presentations, there were intermediate and entry level talks as well as workshops to introduce concepts to an enthusiastic audience.

Technical Sessions:

Collaboration and Communication

• Shawn Kwon Ideas and Inspirations on FOSS from the Korea Experience
• Sudhanwa Jogalekar Career Opportunities in FOSS
• Robin Miller How to make people happy, while saving money

Software Development

• Mukesh Gangadhar, Santosh Bhat, Valsa Williams (a) Moblin - The Mobile & Internet Linux Project (b) Threading Building Blocks (TBB) for Open Source
• O R Senthil Kumaran The Python Standard Library
• Gopal Vijayaraghavan Ten Things You Didn't Know about Python
• Vijay Manohar Gujja Centralized authentication with LDAP
• Chetan K. Nanda Maemo Setup and Application Demo
• Pradeepto Bhattacharya Programming with Qt 4 - Multiplatform/Portable GUI Programming Made Easy
• Philip Tellis Project management using Bugzilla
• Vaibhav Khatavkar Introduction to routing software
• Gaurav Chaturvedi Free and opensource tools for network and server security
• Jitendra Shah GIS in e-governance

Operating Systems and Systems Administration

• Ram Prasad Gopichandran Open Solaris: An Introduction
• Anant Narayanan UNIX++: Plan 9 From Bell Labs
• Devdas Bhagat Automating System Administration
• Kiran Chand Hurd LX Installer
• Zoram Thanga Technical features of Open Solaris
• Karanbir Singh CentOS, unifying the dichotomy between enterprise requirements and community support

Scientific/Govt./Education

• Samir Brahmachari Open Source drug discovery: A solution for infectious diseases
• Hardeep Rai GRASSY GIS
• C N Krishnan F/OSS in Higher Technical Education ?
• Ajay Kumar A Distributed Architecture for a Free Community Oriented Learning Management System
• Aanjhan Ranganathan FOSS VLSI/Electronics Design CAD Tools

Web development

• Abhishek Parolkar Web 2.0: Doing it the FOSS way
• Barkha Khatri Rich Internet Applications – Vanilla or Hot Chocolate Fudge
• Pankaj Kaushal Scaling Web Applications
• Anurag Patel Smarty : Templating engine for PHP
• Arun Murthy Open Source Grid Computing: Apache Hadoop

Native Language computing

• Jui Mhatre, Siji Sunny Vedic Sanskrit on GNU/LINUX
• Karunakar Guntupalli Indic Computing Handbook
• Kartik Mistry Debian-IN: Debian for Indic Languages

Multimedia

• Niyam Bhushan FOSS Digital Creativity as a Profession
• Sudarsan Yennamalli Blender 2.44: Its functions and its areas of implementations

General

• Atul Chitnis FOSS: The Startup and Innovation Enabler
• Raj Mathur How to become a criminal

Workshops

• Devdas Bhagat Conversations
• Niyam Bhushan Digitally Sound
• Arun Khan Enterprise IT Infrastructure using FOSS
• Ajay Kumar Free/Open Tools for Free/Open Educational Content
• Abhishek Mahanty Sun Java Workshop
• Pradeepto Bhattacharya Programming with Qt 4 - Multiplatform/Portable GUI Programming Made Easy
• Sudhanwa Jogalekar Career Opportunities in FOSS
• Gaurav Pant I LUG... therefore I am

Media Reports and Outreach

(original post from Namita Arora and Rajesh Lalwani)

Key activities undertaken

• Pre event Release
  • Published on online wire agencies
  • Disseminated to mainstream media and trade publications
  • Uploaded on relevant forums and tech communities like techarena.in,techtree.com,tech2.com

• Event Release
  • Published on online wire agencies (300+ views)
  • Disseminated to mainstream media and trade publications
  • IANS published the news item

• Media interactions
  • Hindustan Times – Interview conducted
  • Indian Express – Coverage appeared
  • Total TV – Coverage appeared
  • Headlines Today and Dataquest have indicated a keen interest in scheduling an interaction

• Bloggers Outreach
  • Identified influential bloggers to promote Freed.in online
  • Posts were published in Webyantra, Rajesh@Blogworks, Blognation, Themarketingblog
  • Event information posted on Facebook and Orkut.Information also disseminated using LinkedIn?

Links

http://www.webyantra.net/2007/09/17/freedinfor-free-open-source-software-enthusiasts-in-delhi/

http://www.indiaenews.com/business/20071002/73139.htm

http://newspostindia.com/report-17226

http://pradeepto.livejournal.com/7001.html

http://indiaslive.com/freedin-leading-free-open-source-community-event-opens-in-new-delhi/

Digg / upcoming - http://digg.com/

http://trendtrac.blogspot.com/2007/10/october-2-news-ist.html

http://technofreakatchennai.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/missed-freed/

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-10-03-014-26-NW-EV

http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/oct/02/delhi_foss_event_gets_growing_attention

http://anotherloon.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/anesthetize/

http://rakhisaxena.blogspot.com/2007/09/second-day-at-freedin.html

http://presszoom.com/story_141215.html

http://twb-dl.com/alumni

http://www.hostingforum.ca/810592-long-news-digest-linux-news-digest-24hrs-preceding-30-09-07-a.html

http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/popular/4/

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_thread/thread/654d6de85b851ec2/ae77e536a606410b

http://www.xtremeopensource.org/

http://in.blognation.com/2007/09/26/freedin-foss-community-event-on-september-28-29/

http://dailyconnect.in/2007/09/24/freedin-open-source-community-event/

http://tariquesani.livejournal.com/180161.html

http://insanoid.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/freedin-september-28-29-2007/

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/261850/

http://themarketingblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/turned-six-months-old-freedin/

http://images.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/photo/index.cgi?mode=view&album=/freed.in.2007

Conclusion

The event created substantial buzz online with interest amongst mainstream media as well. The junket organized by Microsoft in that week resulted in key journalists being out of station. Links still continue to be generated, with very positive feedback.

-- AndrewLynn - 16 Oct 2007