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Feb
19
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 […]
Feb
19
Talk Schedule - Day 2
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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 […]
Feb
19
Talk Schedule - Day 3
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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 […]
Feb
16
freed.in/2008 - Speakers List
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There are a total of 18 talks that have been accepted. This list is just for 14 of them, the balance are still being worked upon. If you don’t see your talk listed “Don’t Panic”
freed.in/2008 - Speaker List
Name of Speaker
Title of Talk
Rahul Bhalerao
Harfbuzz : Indic text rendering
Niyam Bhushan
What Every Software Developer Must Know About Interface […]
Feb
16
talks at freed.in/2008 - What Every Software Developer Must Know About Interface Design
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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 […]
Feb
16
talks at freed.in/2008 - Open Mobility
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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 […]
Feb
16
talks at freed.in/2008 - OLPC: It is an education project, not a laptop project
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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 […]
Feb
16
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 […]
Feb
16
talks at freed.in/2008 - Information Dissemination System for the City Public Transport
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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 […]
Feb
16
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 […]