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96 Hours Of Open Source Talks In Bangalore

Posted by timothy on Wed Dec 03, 2003 03:11 AM
from the bring-no-doz dept.
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nileshch writes "The ongoing community-driven Linux Bangalore 2003 is upto a record of sorts. There are, hold your breath, 96 scheduled talks. That's about 96 hours of open-source talk in three days! The first day with 30 talks is already over with star speakers like Nat Friedman, Miguel De Icaza and Sirtaj Singh Kang enthralling the audience with their refreshing perspectives on Linux and Open Source. Rasmus Lerdorf and Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! Inc, amongst others, are also scheduled to talk at the event."
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  • You don't really see Bangalore as being the Capital of Open Source, I would have thought a more appropriate place would be Finland.

  • like the song... (Score:5, Funny)

    by wrinkledshirt (228541) on Wednesday December 03 2003, @03:14AM (#7616504) Homepage
    96 Hours Of Open Source Talks In Bangalore! 96 Hours Of Open Source Talks...!

    Take a poster of Darl down, kick it around...

    95 Hours of Open Source Talks in Bangalore!

  • Dont fear the curry (Score:4, Insightful)

    by dankdirk77 (690855) on Wednesday December 03 2003, @03:23AM (#7616553)
    I hear whining from people all the time about jobs going to India, but news like this I hope can make at least the real slashdot crowd aware of the good going on there.

    India is a natural ally of the united states because it is one of the few stable democracies in the region. The people are diverse, smart, conservative, and could potentially join us with japan as the new rulers of the world.

    May open source flourish in that country!!!

    • Re:Dont fear the curry (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Copley (726927) on Wednesday December 03 2003, @03:35AM (#7616581)
      Agreed... Everytime the topics of Indian software / service centres / whatever come up (and it's more and more often these days), comments appear which seem to imply that the products supplied will inherently be 2nd rate... Does anyone have any evidence to base this on?! Just because products is not coming from the good ol' US of A doesn't necessarily mean it's crap!

      • Re:Dont fear the curry (Score:4, Interesting)

        by PurpleWizard (643191) on Wednesday December 03 2003, @05:48AM (#7616897)
        My experience in the Power Industry (high voltage power transmission and related electric infrastructure stuff) is that the engineers are superb.Individual work at least as good as the UK staff I worked with.

        What was lacking was good procedures and best practice working methods, along with overall project management. Once those started to be in place the products started to be as good too.

        To put it in context look around you and grade the dedication and motivation of yourself and your coworkers. If it is less than 9/10 you will rapidly be at risk from over seas. They are as clever, they are as well educated (maybe better because of the dedication) and they are much more motivated and dedicated.

            • Re:Dont fear the curry (Score:1, Insightful)

              by Anonymous Coward
              Yes!, continue to believe that, just like Japonese made steel sucks, and Chinese manufactured goods suck, and how all heavy industrial products from Korea suck.
            • No, not difficult...

              Just wanted him to confirm his small-minded ignorance!
    • ...and could potentially join us with japan as the new rulers of the world.

      This is the most arrogant thing I've ever heard an American say, and I've watched Bush's speeches. Has it occured to anyone in this god damn country that the rest of the world is getting fed up with us assuming that we are at the top of the food chain from now until eternity?
    • apart from the obvious question of what makes being conservative a good thing (or do you think that burning brides for their dowries is just a quaint ethnic folkway?), India has elected Communist state governments in the past. One of my most eye-opening experiences, in fact, was being taken round Mumbai by a Communist councillor and getting a first hand view on the difference between US lunatic fringe communism, Russo/chinese dictatorship communism, and genuinely elected communism...

      Just because a section o

      • The vast majority of India is not Muslim, and given that they get their fair share of Muslims blowing themselves up in public places, I doubt the EU's "Muslim friendliness" will account for much in their decision of who to align with.

      • Re:no thanks buddha man (Score:1, Insightful)

        by Anonymous Coward
        > I'd prefer the U.S. be the ONLY ruler of teh world.

        Exactly! how else are we going to break international laws and continue to piss off the rest of the world?

        > As far as India is concerned, I wouldn't want to live a day in that third-world shit hole.

        Yeah! Some places in India don't even have running water, like some places in Tennessee! Shitholes!
      • Not to be trolling, but I am real sick of these pretentious so called indians like arundhati roy.<P>
        India is a place of many cultures and languages and the dynamics of the region are far too complex. Arundhati does not even live in india , so what gives her or any outsider the right to judge .<P>
        She is just a controversy creating person, I mean how else would all those books of her sell, and how else would she be decorated by the western world ?

  • Sirtaj Singh Kang (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    > Sirtaj Singh Kang: From hell's heart, I code at thee

    KAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN{G}!!!!!

    • Re:Sirtaj Singh Kang (Score:4, Funny)

      by Jacco de Leeuw (4646) on Wednesday December 03 2003, @04:36AM (#7616739) Homepage
      I, for one, welcome our new Bangalore Overlords.
          • It has nothing to do with Kang or Kodos. It was from the episode where Homer goes on the Space Shuttle, and the hero of the episode was an "inanimate carbon rod". As far as I recall, neither Kang nor Kodos made an appearance in this episode.

            BTW both those alien names are from Star Trek (TOS)...Kang was a Klingon (natch) played by Michael Ansara and Kodos was "Kodos the Executioner", the unfortunate-governor-of-Tarsus-IV-turned-Shakespea rean-actor.

  • You forgot ... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by skjaidev (546202) on Wednesday December 03 2003, @04:24AM (#7616711) Homepage
    Micro [linux-bangalore.org] soft [linux-bangalore.org] ;-)
    • In a way, it was to be expected. considering that MS' IndDev Center at Hyderabad is into development of Services for Unix (SFU).

      It'll be interesting, though, to see, say, Steve Ballmer's reaction to the title of the guy's talk. (I'm talking about the first link, obviously)

  • Conference proceedings or transcripts (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Space cowboy (13680) on Wednesday December 03 2003, @04:40AM (#7616746) Journal
    Is there (or will there be, once it's finished) an online transcript of any of these 96 speeches ? Not necessarily for free (though free would be good :-))

    Simon
  • ...do they fit 96 hours in THREE days (72 hours)?

  • Intelligent and realistic positioning of Linux (Score:5, Informative)

    by cyberjessy (444290) on Wednesday December 03 2003, @05:52AM (#7616907) Homepage
    I have just come back from Linux Bangalore 2003. One of the most striking things I noticed is that there is hardly any "hardline linux advocacy" at the venue. It focuses well on how linux would fit into today's computing environment, including interoperating with Microsoft Windows.

    It is evident from the fact that Mono is given great prominence. Miguel De Icaza is speaking today as well as on friday. A top official from Microsoft (YES Microsoft!) is speaking on how Windows and Linux can co-exist.

    In short, a very credible and organized meet of enthusiasts and business users. Hats off to the organizers!

  • Miguel de Icaza (Score:2, Informative)

    by yodha (636988)
    I attended the Linux Bangalore/2003 event today. After Miguel de Icaza's Mono talk, me and five others had a really long and interesting one-on-one talk with Miguel over lunch. Some photos here [webshots.com]. It was really nice to see and interact with some great people over here in Bangalore itself.
  • I was surprised to learn that the cost of living is greater in Bangalore than Seattle. If you make $60k a year in Seattle, you need to make $67k in Bangalore to maintain a similar standard of living.

    http://www.homefair.com/homefair/servlet/Action S er vlet?pid=246&previousPage=245&cid=homefair&fromSal ary=60000&fromCity=743&toCity=389

    It seems that anyone moving jobs to India is not only taking american jobs away, but also stealing from shareholders by paying an unnecessarily high pric
  • No wonder everyone outsources to bangalore, each day there is %33 longer!

    96/3 = 32 hours in a day.... Heck, with that much time in a day, you wonder why it's just software that gets sourced out.

    • Re:Hrm (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Unless you're already in Bangalore studying, you don't have to worry about being sent to conferences. You'll have a hard enough time trying to remember if the order was a double or triple skinny grande mocha latte.

    • No better place (Score:1, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward
      No better place to demonstrate the futility of expensive labor than India, and no better topic to demonstrate the futility of expensive proprietary software than OSS.

      You hit the nail on the head.
    • Wow, I guess you didn't realize that a conference like this usually has multiple conference rooms going simultaneously with overlapping talks.

      Me: 1 point
      Anonymous Coward: Zero

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