FOSS.IN 2008 has been started from Tuesday , 25th November at IISC, Bangalore. I am lucky enough to get the opportunity to participate there on behalf of Sun Microsystems, one and only 'Gold Sponsor' of the event. Open source enthusiasts from all over the country as well as outside India gathered there to share and develop their knowledge and expertise about various open source products. lots of conferences and interesting workouts were organized there. some of them are like KDE on Solaris , profiling Gnome using DTrace etc. Sun has one booth there and talented folks from IEC were always present there to demonstrate various interesting and outstanding feature of Sun products. Open Solaris , Virtual Box , NetBeans, Cifs , Amber road , Mysql , IPS ,Open solaris 2008.11, Cross bow, D trace , Open Office everything was presented in front of enthusiastic guys. The delegate kit was equipped with the latest open solaris distro i.e OpenSolaris 2008.11 and a bunch of Sun products like Sun studio, open office , virtual box , mysql , websynergy , netbeans , glassfish and a lot more. Participants were helped by Sun volunteers to install and use those products in their own system. Foss enthusiasts from sun has started blogging with exclusive news from Foss , Sun @ FOSS.IN 2008 - be sure to check it out !
There were also some other booths from vmware , nokia etc. It's going to be ended by tomorrow, 29th November for this year , 2008. We are all looking forward to make it again next year more successful and more gorgeous.
