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Day 3 at freed.in/2008 saw some very exciting talks, we had Nagurjuna starting off the day with a talk on the SELF project. This was followed by an eye-operning talk on Open Standards by Venky Hariharan. There is some very active lobbying going on around open standards, check out whats happening on the ILUG-D wiki. Aanjhan Ranganathan gave a very nice talk on FOSS for Electronic enthusiasts, this was followed by a great lunch and then more exciment post-lunch, two talks on Independent Music and Radio by Shreyas, Friji and Raj , then one of the most awaited talks on the OLPC by Sayamindu and the last talk of the session by Pradeepto on the exciting educational software in KDE. In all a very good day.

While the blogs are all buzzing about freed.in and the galleries are filling up with photos, the event still goes on. Jace was volunteered (ILUG-D Style) to be the official photographer Sankarshan was volunteered in the same way to be the official blogger.

The pre-lunch sessions went well and we had some very good talks and vibrant discussions. The real fun started post lunch. Thats when the conclave started. Here are a few photos from thepost-lunch session:

Slightly late, but we got off the groud. A rapid inaugural session, with intros by Kishore Bhargava, Andrew Lynn, Raj Mathur, Gora Mohanty. A community chief guest lamp lighting ceremony and then finally to the first talk by Sankarshan Mukhopadhya.

 

Hey somebody other than Jace better start shooting photos and letting us know. Jace is now the official photographer for freed.in/2008 till such time that others don’t start sharing their photos!

There were very few photos being made during Day 0, but Jace did get some shots:

If you are at freed.in/2008 and you blog, take photos or in anyway will be talking about freed.in, then please use the following tags:

Freed.in, freed.in,  FOSS, india, freedom, knowledge, ecosystem, jnu,technology, software, freed.in/2008, foss, opensource

Many thanks…Team freed.in/2008

freed.in/2008 is taking an ambitious step in trying to bring together people from like-minded streams into a collaborative creation of a knowledge ecosystem. As the scope of such a system is as yet ill-defined, a key part of the event will be a planning conclave, with the idea of:

• Getting like-minded people to come together to talk about issues on which they can fruitfully collaborate.
• Introducing people to possibilities arising out work in other areas. A main focus here would be to get technical, and non-technical people to talk to one another.
• Identifying immediate areas of focus, and laying out a roadmap, possibly one that identifies specific projects to take up.

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Schedule - Day 1 (22nd February, 2008)

Time	Speaker Name	Talk Description
10 am - 11 am	Andrew, Raj, Other Freed managers	Inauguration & Welcome Address
11 am - noon	Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay	Communities is an oft used word
noon - 1pm	Samiah Sultana	All work and no play
Lunch
2pm - 3pm	Valsa Williams	Maximizing creation and access to content
3pm - 4pm	Sajan Venniyoor	Community radio
4pm - 5pm	Atul Chitnis	Open Mobility
5pm - 6pm	Krishnakant Mane	GNU/Linux Accessibility For Blind
6pm	Panel

Schedule - Day 2 (23rd February, 2008)

Time	Speaker Name	Talk Description
10am - 11am	Schuyler Erle/Mikel Maron	OpenStreetMap - India
11 am - noon	Rene Ejury	Wireless Community Mesh Networks - Free Infrastructure Self-made
noon - 1pm	Kiran Jonnalagadda	Remote management of rural telecentre computers
Lunch
2pm - 3pm	Andreas Vox	Scribus
3pm - 4pm	Rakesh Peter	Software-defined radio
4pm - 5pm	Runa Bhattacharjee	Setting up a Translation Community
5pm - 6pm	Jayesh Gohel	Information Dissemination System - Public Transport
6pm	Panel

Schedule - Day 3 (24th February, 2008)

Time	Speaker Name	Talk Description
10 am - 11 am	Niyam Bhushan	What They Do't Teach You At School
11 am - noon	Venkatesh Hariharan	Open Standards, Open Society
noon - 1pm	Aanjhan Ranganathan	FOSS for Electronics Enthusiasts
Lunch
2pm - 3pm	Shreyas Srinivasan	Independent Music Eco-system
3pm - 4pm	Friji Karthikeyan	Open source audio/video streaming
4pm - 5pm	Sayamindu Dasgupta	OLPC - It is an education project, not a laptop project
5pm - 6pm	Pradeepto Bhattacharya	Back to school
6pm	Panel

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