Open source mela (Moments of Day 1)
Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
This blog captures just 33% of the excitement! A bird's eye view of what happened so far. There are at least three parallel sessions going on at any point of time, so I am trying to report from what I attended. This is just 33% of the excitement.
Day 1 of the open source mela started at 10am today. KNR gave a presentation on the open source efforts going on in IEC. He talked about the "open source culture" and the importance of thinking and being in the open. The hall started filling in as soon as KNR started to talk. This was followed by Harish's talk on open source technologies.
At 11am, there was an interesting talk by SaiSatish Vedam on "Architectures, Code, and Law". Sai talked about copyrights, controlled environments, and coding. In a proprietary software environment, there is an inherent copyright associated with the code we create (and the comments on the source code). The software industry is at a crossroads in terms of our understanding of the legal aspects of coding. This is not so straightforward unlike other industries. A lot of real-life examples helped the audience relate to what Sai talked about. Open source software comes to the software industry's rescue in these cases. In the ground floor conference room, Suvendu Ray talked about Sun's open source initiative and gave tips on how to participate in the open source programs. Incidentally, Suvendu is also one of the "think tanks" of Sun's open source agenda in IEC.
The 4th floor yoga room and cafeteria were abuzz with activity. Participants tried their luck on "how much do you know about Sun" quizzes and got a chance to talk to the engineers working on today's bleeding edge technologies.
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