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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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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