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FOSS.in 2006 conference

FOSS.in 2006 conference is being held from Nov 24th to 26th 2006 in Indian Institue of Science(JN Tata Auditorium), Bangalore, one of the premier institute in India. BangLinux was its original name, from last year onwards this has been renamed to FOSS - Free Open Source Software. Sun being platinum sponsor this year too and we had great FOSS event last time. This time also under the leadership of Sumitha, Joe and couple of others lead from the front and prepared lots of things.

Day 1

We are showing the following cool demos

- Virtualization on OpenSolaris
       This includes zones, branded zones, xen, qemu

- ZFS

- Sun Grid

- FMA - Fault Management Agent

- Looking glass, Belenix(LiveCD OpenSolaris distro from IEC)

-  Glassfish

- OpenJDK, portal server and so on

 Lots of BOF sessions are lined up, first day we had couple of dTrace BOF sessions.

Handouts being distributed on the Sun technologies. Also there is a quiz contest being

organized by Ananth. quiz contest

Lots of interest in the student, developer communities. Pleople used to ask questions related to how do I contribute? Can I get a help if I'm stuck? Students ask on how about projects ?. There is whole lot of enthusiasm across the community.

NAL(National Aerospace Laboratories), one of the premier organization in Bangalore, India. One of the executive from NAL came to the booth and asking about solaris and its technologies. He was more interested to know about virtulization. During our discussion it turned out to be replacing all his boxes by solaris which solvs his lots of problems. Totally he was very excited and told me that he is bringing some other persons from NAL tomorrow to know more about our technologies. We need to tap this market as well as there is lots of growth and potential in such premier organizations.

Thats it. more is coming later. Stay tuned.

 

Posted at 04:26PM Nov 24, 2006 by G S Hiregoudar in Solaris  |