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Name of Speaker: Niyam Bhushan

Organisation / Affiliation
ILUG-D

Title of Talk
What Every Software Developer Must Know About Interface Design

Talk Abstract
User Interface design is not taught as a subject or discipline in India, the world’s self-proclaimed “IT-superpower” with millions of software developers. Yet User Interface (UI) makes or breaks any software or device’s adoption and success. Insights into […]

Name of Speaker: Atul Chitnis

Organisation / Affiliation
FOSS.IN and Geodesic Information Systems Limited

Title of Talk
Open Mobilty

Talk Abstract
While the world focussed on the battle for the PC desktop, a quiet coup happened elsewhere - mobile devices not only became mainstream, but many of them boot out of the box into platforms based on Free and Open Source […]

Name of Speaker: Sayamindu Dasgupta

Organisation / Affiliation
None

Title of Talk
OLPC: It is an education project, not a laptop project

Talk Abstract
The OLPC project has started the deployment of XO-1 laptops in countries all around the world, and now the focus is on the education aspect of the project. In reality, the OLPC is a education project, and […]

Name of Speaker: Rene Ejury

Organisation / Affiliation
Opennet Rostock, Germany / Janastu Bangalore

Title of Talk
Open Course Development. Empower your Students.

Talk Abstract
New technologies changed the way learning happens at schools, colleges and universities as well as the role of the teacher. Online resources are widely used to create courses, and course-materials are often published in the net […]

Name of Speaker: Jayesh Gohel

Organisation / Affiliation
openmap.info

Title of Talk
Information Dissemination System for the City Public Transport

Talk Abstract
The city public transport forms a networked system which generates information, on the basis of which the people of the city interact with it. Such systems are required to provide this information to the end-users so that the system […]

Name of Speaker: Venkatesh Hariharan

Organisation / Affiliation
Red Hat, IndLinux, ODF Alliance, Open Source Foundation of India, Knowledge Commons

Title of Talk
Open Standards, Open Society

Talk Abstract
The recent debate around OOXML has focused an unprecendented amount of attention around Open Standards. Standards are the first control point in a knowledge economy and control over standards is a powerful […]

Name of Speaker: Friji Karthikeyan

Organisation / Affiliation
Radio Schizoid

Title of Talk
Open source audio / video streaming

Talk Abstract
Open source audio/video streaming is a boon for NGO/ local groups to connect. and share their media content with the world. In this talk he would explain the technologies behind streaming multimedia content on the internet and would also present […]

Name of Speaker: Kiran Jonnalagadda

Organisation / Affiliation
Comat Technologies

Title of Talk
Remote management of rural telecentre computers

Talk Abstract
India is currently witnessing a race to setup rural information telecentres in every single village across the country. These are shops with a computer, printer and internet connection, delivering a variety of electronic services and serving as community interaction centres.Providing […]

Name of Speaker: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

Organisation / Affiliation
OpenOffice.Org,Various Linux User Groups

Title of Talk
Communities is an oft used word

Talk Abstract
In the domain of Free and Open Source software communities is an oft used word. There are various communities - of creation, of consumption and of criticism. The one thing that gets lost in the din is that […]

Name of Speaker: Samiah Sultana

Organisation / Affiliation
Educomp Pvt. Ltd.

Title of Talk
All Work and No Play

Talk Abstract
So far, traditional forms of pedagogy have more or less failed to acknowledge the importance of engagement for learning. The current forms of pedagogy work with the teacher acting as a knowledge-broker, and the student as a knowledge-receiver. This form […]

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