FOSS.IN events
FOSS.IN was held at Palace Grounds in Bangalore from 29th Nov to 2nd Dec 2005. Sun was a platinum sponsor for this event.
We were giving demos on the new technologies of recently open sourced Solaris. The demos were on Dtrace, ZFS, Zones and SMF. We also had demos on Glassfish which is an open source application server and Netbeans which is an open source IDE. We had a demo on Belenix which is a live cd of the latest Solaris. We were giving away free Belenix CDs and Solaris 10 DVDs. We had not planned for Looking Glass demo, but we setup a demo station as many delegates were asking for it.
The crowd at Sun's stall was overwhelming. The volunteers had a difficult time to handle all the delegates. We had a large number of delegates registering for Bangalore Open Solaris User's Group (BOSUG) and some of them were interested in being part of Open Solaris development
too.
I found a couple of other stalls there quite interesting.
One stall was from Spike Source. They bundle a whole bunch of open source software, test it and make them work together. This whole bundle is available for free. Patches are released periodically and are also free. The charge is for service which include providing a relief before the next scheduled release of the patch. Their solution is not available on Solaris, but they are already planning to do so in the near future.
Another stall was of project Phoenix. This is a open source product written mainly in Python. This software is used to conduct physics experiments. The software and the circuit diagrams are availble for free on their website. Users can add their own experiments. This is very useful for schools and colleges.
Some of the stalls did not have any open source related products. I guess they were there just for marketing their products.
This event left all the organisers and volunteers exhausted. But hey! We got a free t-shirt :-).
We were giving demos on the new technologies of recently open sourced Solaris. The demos were on Dtrace, ZFS, Zones and SMF. We also had demos on Glassfish which is an open source application server and Netbeans which is an open source IDE. We had a demo on Belenix which is a live cd of the latest Solaris. We were giving away free Belenix CDs and Solaris 10 DVDs. We had not planned for Looking Glass demo, but we setup a demo station as many delegates were asking for it.
The crowd at Sun's stall was overwhelming. The volunteers had a difficult time to handle all the delegates. We had a large number of delegates registering for Bangalore Open Solaris User's Group (BOSUG) and some of them were interested in being part of Open Solaris development
too.
I found a couple of other stalls there quite interesting.
One stall was from Spike Source. They bundle a whole bunch of open source software, test it and make them work together. This whole bundle is available for free. Patches are released periodically and are also free. The charge is for service which include providing a relief before the next scheduled release of the patch. Their solution is not available on Solaris, but they are already planning to do so in the near future.
Another stall was of project Phoenix. This is a open source product written mainly in Python. This software is used to conduct physics experiments. The software and the circuit diagrams are availble for free on their website. Users can add their own experiments. This is very useful for schools and colleges.
Some of the stalls did not have any open source related products. I guess they were there just for marketing their products.
This event left all the organisers and volunteers exhausted. But hey! We got a free t-shirt :-).
