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http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/date/20071121 Wednesday November 21, 2007

GlassFish @ FOSS.IN 2007

I'll be attending FOSS.IN, Dec 4-8 in Silicon Valley of India (more popularly known as Bangalore). This is going to be my first formal conference in India so I am excited! Find me and talk anything about GlassFish.

Sun Microsystems has held open systems to be the cornerstone of its business philosophy since the beginning. Today, through shared technology innovation, Sun's continued commitment to Open Source is reflected in its leadership and key contributions to the many projects including GlassFish, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, GNOME, Grid Engine, java.net, NetBeans, and Mozilla. And here as well, Sun is a Principal Sponsor of the event.

Here are some important links:

  • When ? Dec 4-8, 2007
  • Where ? National Science Symposium Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  • Schedule - At this this this is a list of all the events happening with NO date/time/location assigned to them. It seems slightly late knowing that the conference is less than 3 weeks ago. And of course there is no individualized page where I can pick/choose the sessions of my interest.
  • Register here - The registration process is slightly confusing by introducing different kinds of delegates and the way payment is made. It is primitive too because you register on the Web and then pay at the event (no Credit Card payments). The rules are stern, for example no reissuing of conference badge.
  • Know more - Join the Mailing List. The traffic is becoming high as the date is approaching.
  • Live stats of registered attendees is a good. More than 1000 delegates have registered so far with a significant chunk from outside Bangalore (like me :).
  • FOSS.IN is still Looking for Volunteers, help them out!

Where can you find Sun ?

  • Talks
    • "The OpenSolaris Project: Getting Involved" by Jim Grisanzio
    • "PostgreSQL 8.3: a Story of Hundreds of Patches" by Josh Berkus
    • "The Virtuous Cycle: Sun's FOSS Philosophy and Strategy" by Simon Phipps
    • "OpenJDK and Mobile & Embedded: The First Year" by Roger Brinkley
    • "Packaging Java Applications for Ubuntu Platform" by Harpreet Singh
  • Project Days
    • Open Solaris
    • OpenOffice
  • Sun Booths
  • In the hallways
  • Elsewhere in the conference

Where can you find me ?

  • Around GlassFish Booth in the Expo
  • Likely giving 1 or more BoF
  • Likely giving 1 or more Lightning Talk
  • Taking pictures

What can you do before the event ?

  • Download GlassFish
  • Try one or more screencasts to get a feel
  • Where can you hear the latest and greatest about GlassFish - Of course, TheAquarium. So use your favorite RSS reader and subscribe to it.
  • Find and talk to me about GlassFish, I'd love to hear your feedback.
  • And you can monitor other Sun FOSS.IN bloggers.

And of course, I'm looking forward to feast on Sambar/Dosa - one of the finest dishes in the whole world :)

I'll be there, will you ? Stay tuned for pictures from the event!

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BTW, out of curiosity, could you easily give your lectures in Hindi if asked to do so, or would you find yourself continually switching to English if you tried?

Posted by Glen on November 22, 2007 at 09:02 PM PST #

Gosh, it would be hard to give the entire lecture in Hindi :) But I can certainly explain the concepts and talk to people in Hindi, that's my mother tongue pal :) Moreover, almost all (if not all) Hindi speaking software engineers would understand English pretty well, so I don't see a need of giving a talk in Hindi.

Posted by Arun Gupta on November 22, 2007 at 11:46 PM PST #

Hi Arun, I was glad to see your presentations on GlassFish, JRuby and Metro @ CGI in Montreal. Netbeans is fantastic too.

Posted by Josh on November 25, 2007 at 05:42 PM PST #

thanks

Posted by sohbet on December 02, 2007 at 04:18 AM PST #

as for me good :) interesting

Posted by satılık on December 10, 2007 at 03:11 AM PST #

Hi Arun,

I'd like to get in touch with you by email for an input for an IT article on open source I'm working on.

Could you please send me a mail at your earliest convenience so that I can revert with details.

Best,

Charu

Posted by Charu Bahri on December 19, 2007 at 10:51 PM PST #

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