I suggest using any of these topics for an informal BOF session.

Please help us to gauge interest by adding your name to the topics you are interested in. Also feel free to add/edit any of the topics below.

In order to hold a BoF? , make an announcement on the list. Sarai, CSDS is available as a venue any Sat. evening, but please give us at least a day's notice by copying floss AT sarai DOT net on the email announcement.

1. FOSS document sharing and publishing. Especially an alternative to PDF. - Anupam Jain
2. Any web dev topics PHP/RoR/Python, AJAX, anything. - Anupam Jain Gaurav Mishra
3. FOSS platforms suitable for embedded systems. OpenMoko? , Android, Embedded Forth/Erlang/Scheme/Python. - Anupam Jain, Gaurav Mishra, GoraMohanty (though I would change the topic to hacking hardware with FOSS).
4. FOSS Functional programming. Haskell, Erlang, Scheme. - Anupam Jain
5. Foss alternatives for shared Calendars, shared code development, shared todo lists, milestone and task management. - Anupam Jain Gaurav Mishra
6. What's up in Ubuntu/Debian. Ubuntu 9.04. - Anupam Jain
7. Gnome/KDE roadmap. Gnome/KDE translations into local languages. Getting a better user experience in Linux - Anupam Jain
8. What's up with Firefox? What's up with Chrome? What's up with Epiphany and Dillo? - Anupam Jain
9. New advances in Javascript engines. V8. Tracemonkey. - Anupam Jain Gaurav Mishra
10. FOSS based massive information management. Search engines. - Anupam Jain Gaurav Mishra
11. Indian-language computing related tasks (related to immediate work at Sarai): GoraMohanty
    1. OCR
    2. Font converters
    3. Indic rendering in DTP packages like Scribus
12. Setting up Media convergence devices @ home (MythTV? ) etc. - Anupam Jain

-- AnupamJain - 08 May 2009