Registration

This is a FREE-of-charge event, but delegates are required to register. For more details, please check FAQs.

'C' Block, 2nd Floor I.I.I.T, Hyderabad

 

We the Geeks (BoF session)

We the Geeks is a Birds of the same feather discussion that seeks to engage all participating speakers and members of the audience around a single theme of discussion.

With moderator to set the tone and mikes available, the 45 minute session is expected to be a real energizer in terms of discussions, interactions and non-linear thoughts. This is a must attend event for anybody keen to know where Open Source can go !

The theme is : "How to become number 1 in Open Source and influence globally"

Don't miss the discussion. Mark you calendar today.

 

Schedule

The final schedule will be updated here on 12 December.

For the latest updates, click here .

 

Venue

Open Source Summit 2008 will be held on December 13 and 14 at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.

In case you face any difficulty, please feel free to call on +91 - 99897 13507 or +91 - 99852 94722

The complete postal address is,

Hall 119
I.I.I.T. Main Building
International Institute of Information Technology (I.I.I.T.)
Gachibowli
Hyderabad 500 032

How to Reach IIIT ?

• By MMTS - Please board the Lingampally MMTS and get down at the Lingampally station. You can take a sharing auto till IIIT Gate for about Rs 20.
• By Road (Hitech city) - If you are coming from Hitech-City side, please take the Hitech-Old Bombay road connector and drive till Gachibowli signal. Take the left flank of the 'Y' junction.
• By Road (Marredpally/Nampally) - If you are coming from Secunderabad/Nampally side, please take the Punjagutta flyover and take the left flank to join on Banjara Hills Road No. 1. Drive past Taj Krishna to Mehdipatnam flyover junction. You need to take a right turn and drive past Mehdipatnam, Toli Chowki and all the way upto Gachibowli 'Y' junction.
• By Bus - For delegates coming from Marredpally side, there are many buses available from Secunderabad bus stand, Clock Tower or Paradise station.
• By Bus - For delegates coming from Kacheguda side, there is a direct bus to Mehdipatnam. Alternatively, there are many buses available from Koti bus station.

Please refer to the road map here

 

Promote OSS 2008

We've setup this page to help you promote Open Source Summit 2008 using audio, video, web button or  simply URL links.

Theme Music

Inspired by Ashutosh Gowarikar's Swades, we have selected first 40 sec of 'Yuhin Chala chal' as the theme music for the event. It is our earnest desire to put India on the number 1 position on the global  arena of Open Source. Come join us in this momentous journey.

 

Twincling OSS8 Live

Live Twitter updates on a daily basis about the Open Source Summit 2008. During the Summit, we 'll be updating you every 10 minutes. Just click inside the box to select and the paste the HTML code in your HTML page. (thanks to Sandip Tiwari)

<div id="twitter_div"> <h2 class="sidebar-title">Twincling OSS8 Live</h2> <ul id="twitter_update_list"></ul> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/twincling.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=2"></script>

 

Web Button

This is one of the best ways to show your support for the Open Source vision. As an added bonus, the visitor to your website is updated on the upcoming Open Source Summit 2008 :-) . (Thanks to Sampath Inturi)

<div><a href="http://www.twincling.org/node/287" _fcksavedurl="http://www.twincling.org/node/287"><img src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/images/oss8/oss8button.png" _fcksavedurl="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/images/oss8/oss8button.png"></a></div>

 

Tell a Friend

Let your friends know about this 'remarkable' event that happens once a year with the potential to inspire you to achieve greater heights in your career ! Please click the image below to see how this functionality works.

 

Get the code here, if you want to integrate it in your website.

<div><a href=http://www.twincling.org/taf _fcksavedurl=http://www.twincling.org/taf> <img src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/images/oss8/logo-taf.png" _fcksavedurl="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/images/oss8/logo-taf.png"></a></div>

 

Poster Promo Pack

Want to print some stuff and put up in your college, company or common softboard. Here is some high resolution posters for you to use and promote the event. (thanks to Manohar Vanga). We've created an tar.gz archive. You can extract it using 'tar zxvf oss8.tar.gz' or use winzip.

Please download it from here.

 

Got better ideas ?

We'd love to hear from you how we can do even better. Please drop a mail to info@twincling.org or  http://www.twincling.org/contact

 

Speaker Profile

Rama Kishan Malladi

Rama Kishan Malladi is an Application Engineer with the Software and Solutions Group at Intel in Bangalore. He works with various software developers and vendors, enabling their applications on the latest Intel platforms by addressing architecture, platform, and performance-related issues. Rama has been working at Intel since 2004 supporting Intel Software Tools, tuning high-performance computing applications on Intel architecture, and resolving performance issues on client/ server applications. He holds a M.S. from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
 

 

Mahesh U Patil

Mahesh aka CDACPenguin is an embedded Linux software engineer with more than 7 years of IT industry experience. He is well known as designer of the CDAC Embedded and VLSI course.  His area of expertise is Real time Linux and embedded Linux.

 

Rohit Srivastwa

Rohit Srivastwa is a well known security technologist. He has an expertise in cyber crime investigation and IT infrastructure management. Rohit is actively involved advising several military agencies, law enforcement personnel, media, corporate and Government bodies in these fields. He blogs at http://rohit11.blogspot.com/

 

 

Moinak Ghosh

Moinak Ghosh is a consultant specializing on OpenSolaris and *nix technologies. His past experience includes a 4.5yr stint at SUN Microsystems Solaris Sustaining Engineering team, 5yr stint at HCL Tech. Cisco ODC on Unix and networking. His interests include hacking on Unix, Linux and OpenSource in general. He has played around with Linux right from the Slackware 0.1 days and have occasionally contributed to opensource projects in the form of bugfixes and RFEs, eg. TkZip http://www.woodsway.com/TkZip/, Xfce, e2fsprogs, supertux, Brian Kernighan's One true AWK.

He has been heavily involved with the OpenSolaris community for the last 3 years contributing to various opensource projects like livemedia, loficc, Slim Install and fox. He has also been actively driving the Bangalore OpenSolaris user's group. 3 years ago he came up with my own LiveCD distribution of OpenSolaris called BeleniX (http://www.belenix.org/) which today is one of the most popular OpenSolaris distros and is maintained by a group of community folks. BeleniX is maintained entirely by spare time efforts from volunteers and is not a SUN project. The BeleniX website lives on genunix.org and project development portal is at SourceForge (http://sf.net/projects/belenix). BeleniX is developed and maintained entirely out of Bangalore with a build server in Russia and network package repositories and SVN workspaces also available.

Moinak blogs at http://moinakg.wordpress.com/

 

Arun Raghavan

Arun Raghavan is a long-time Linux and Open Source enthusiast and all-round geek. He is a developer on the Gentoo project as part of the Gnome Desktop team. He also wrote the Xesam adaptor for the Beagle desktop search project, which he continues to maintain. Arun holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science and currently works with the Embedded Software division at NVidia Graphics, Bangalore. He goes by the nick 'Ford_Prefect' on the Freenode IRC network. He maintains his website at http://nemesis.accosted.net

 

Durga Prasad Adusumalli
Durga Prasad is a Team Leader - Security Services at AppLabs, a global IT services company. In this position, he is responsible for delivery of Network and Application security assessments for the customers of AppLabs.
 

 

 

Keshav Prasad Kuruva
Keshav is the founder and COO of GameBuddys.com a game software development and testing company in Hyderabad.

Keshav Kuruva Prasad spent 2 years working on latest open source technologies and thoroughly walked in the Web2.0 world and RIA applications. Then he started moving as a consultant suggesting the technology and the platforms for building up either a simple social networking app to a sophisticated transactional model. 

Though playing video games on different consoles rating them on game forums, writing reviews and working as freelancer for games, as an enduser. Keshav loves playing video games and lives in that world and that led him to start a firm called GameBuddys.

 

 

 

Namita Iyer
Namita is a  enterprise storage specialist with more than 11 years of industry experience. During the course of her career she has worked with Infosys, VERITAS, Recombinant, CommVault and Brocade. Her interests include filesystems, snapshot technologies, CDP, Backup solutions, multi-protocol SANs and virtualization. She is a contributing author to Infostore magazine and has delivered many talks on Enterprise backup technologies. She is also a founding member of Twincling Technology Foundation and currently serves as the President. Namita blogs at http://namitaiyer.blogspot.com/

 

S Venkatesh
S Venkatesh is a Staff Software engineer at Yahoo Inc. and has worked extensively on Hadoop and distributed infrastructures.

 

Sugandh Rakha
Sugandh is a software engineer at Amazon India Development Center, Hyderabad. He is focussed on distributed algorithms design and FP - inspired frameworks like "Map - Reduce".

 

Sandip Tiwari
Sandip is an Open Source software geek and ultimate tinkerer, explorer, thinker and programmer. He is focussed on Qt 4.x, repository design, openSUSE Linux, Gentoo ebuilds, hacking and has keen eye for observing smart features in various software. He also heads the Twincling Vijayawada unit.

 

Sponsorship Information

Community events such as Open Source Summit 2008 are powered by creativity and enthusiasm of volunteers. It is a great opportunity to reach out to large number of individuals, geeks, professionals and convey a strong message about your organization, product or service.

The best sponsorship combines funds with active participation as that helps build relationships that transcend the event. You may find a business partner, a future colleague or a collaborator for your Open Source project or business.

Please see the table below to review the various sponsorship levels available. Please note that all amounts are in Indian National Rupees (INR).

Level	Amount	Value
Platinum	999,000	logo on all promotional material (1 yr), website (1yr),  newsletters (1yr), TSM (1 yr), TCM (1 yr). Patron status.
Gold	499,000	logo on all promotional material (6m), website (6m),  newsletters (6m), TSM (6m), TCM (6m)
Silver	99,000	logo on all promotional material (2m), website (2m),  newsletters (2m), TSM (2m), TCM (2m) - you decide the months.
Bronze	79,000	logo on all promotional material (1m), website (1m),  newsletters (1m), TSM (1m), TCM (1m) - you decide the months.
L3	49,000	event specific, your banner, 20 min marketing talk, networking, your stall, your cards
L4	29,000	event specific, technical talk, networking, logo on t-shirt and event page
L5	19,000	event specific, your stall, printed brochure, logo on event page
L6	9,000	event specific, brochure, acknowledgment, logo on event page
Individuals	79	available to individuals, listing in acknowledgments, link to blog/website

 All interested sponsors, well wishers and inviduals are very welcome. Please contact namita AT twincling DOT org.

List of Registered Delegates

Here is the confirmed list of registered delegates.

• Pradeep Kannayagari, Idea Cellular
• Puna Gnaneshwar, IBM
• Kiran Vuppada, IBM India pvt ltd
• William Kumar Moses, Jr., KLCE
• Bhuvan  Yadav  Boinwar, SVPGS
• Sk.Muktadir Ali, IBM info services
• Sumit Upadhyay, BOA
• Leela Manoranjan, Cordys
• R.Sunil Chandar,
• Sandip Kumar Tiwari, KLCE
• Manohar Vanga, GRIET
• Ishaq Ahmed Siddiqui, Info Services
• Bishal Pantha, KLCE
• Kola Suresh Kumar, Idea Cellular
• Saheli Ghosh, IBM info services
• Rajesh Krapa, Avansec
• Ravi Vardhan Katta, Avansec Technologies
• B.Santosh Kumar
• Prasad Raju
• Veugopal .T
• Pradeep Burra
• Rama Krishna
• Dinesh Kumar Thiyagarajan
• Prabin, Satyam
• Sonali, JITM
• Arpan, Graphics Magic
• Vineela Padmaja Balla
• Vakati Girish Kumar
• Sujai Antony, Qualcomm India Pvt Ltd
• Sharmila Sujai, Cognizant Technology Solutions
• Naveen Kumar V, Infotech
• Sandeep Kumbhar, Wiantech Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai
• Devi Prasad Moddu, Vijayawada
• Siddhartha Agthu 
• Prasad Udata
• Gurudatt.G, SPAN Info Tech
• T. Harikrishnan, AMD/DAE
• Mandar Deshpande, IIIT Hyderabad
• Pratap, Middleware Solutions
• Ch.Divya Sowjanya
• Satheesh Kumar Alle, TietoEnator Telecom R&D Services India
• Snehith Chiluveru
• Sowmya, Magnastart
• paritala vana ajay, NIET
• saritha, Wipro
• Naveena Ghanate, GNITS
• Satish, Middlewaresolutions
• Md. Rehan
• Anand krishan, GKEC
• Bhasker
• B. Anand
• Archana Bhavanasi, NIET
• Devi Prasad Moddu
• Siddhartha Agthu
• Shashank Lagishetty
• Vidyadhar Rao Panga
• Abhishek Pandey
• Nitesh Maheshwari
• Rakesh Kumar Soni
• Srinivasa Rao Sunkara
• Mrityunjay Bhadauria
• Nitin Maganti
• Meghna Lowalekar
• Srinivas Reddy
• Dhiraj Chawla
•  Abhishek Sainani
• Vatsavayi Vivek Varma
• Balaji Thota
• K K Kasa
• Gowridev
• Jaideep Dhok
• Sri Lakshmi Nunna
• G V Sivakumar Reddy
• Velidi Padmini
• Archana Marupati
• Rakesh Babu
• Jinesh K J
• Sainath Gupta
• Padmini Priyadharsini
• Phanikumar
• koteswarao, IIIT
• Srinivas Bhoosarapu, Genpact
• Prashanth P
• Sudha Sundeep
• Sirisha Gannamaraju
• Sunil Kumar Paidimarry, Qualcomm
• Rashid Ahmad
• Komaragiri Rakesh Chandra, Pennywisesolutions
• Avinesh PVS
• Dimple Patel
• Rakesh Sakhamoori, TCS
• Roshan Jose, CMR
• Sasi Kumar Baratam, IIIT
• Rajendra Prasad Machani
• Naveed Ahmed
• Sirisha Nalmela
• Praneeth
• Nitish Chaparala, B V Raju Inst Tech
• Aparna Kurisetty, RKnowsys
• Nagalakshmi U
• Akhilesh Bontala, IIIT
• Sridhar Yerram, Sierra Atlantic
• Seesala Khatwanga Siva Kiran, GRIET
• Subramanyam Beere, Symphony
• Chaitanya Tej Jala, KLCE
• Ganesh Paudel,
• Kiran Varma, GRIET
• Jai Sai Varma S, ISM University, Dhanbad
• Rohit Vanam, JNTU CE
• Tabassum Mahanaz
• Yogita Sharma, Verizon
• Sambhav Kapoor, Genpact
• Oruganti Shravanth, NMREC
• Malladi Sai Praveen, Vardhaman
• M N Ashok, United online
• Arunkumar, TCS
• Deepika Bellam, Aurora Engg College
• Radhika Bellam, OU PG College
• Tarun Jain, Crypsis
• Sachin Rawat, Crypsis
• Suryakant Patidar, Crypsis
• V Anil Chowdary
• Raja Viswanadha
• V Spandan, GRIET
• Raja Pattanayak, United Online
• Srikar Chepuri, United Online
• M Nitesh Reddy, CBIT
• Mohammed Farhan Amer, GRIET
• Abhinay, JNTU CE (Karim Nagar)
• Satyanarayana reddy ch v
• Syed rameez rizwan, MJCE
• S Phani Kumar Palacharla
• Raja Naresh
• Surapaneni Praveen
• Prasad.V Potluri Siddhartha
• Mandava Asha
• Chintamaneni Siva Sandeep
• Srujan B, VNR Vignan Jyothi
• Venkata Subbarao Sadu, Infosys
• H Ram Mohan Rao
• Meher Vijay
• Badri Venkat, NIET
• Naveenkumar Ippe, NIET
• Madhu Ankam, Congenesys Inc
• Chandu Bharadwaj, GRIET
• Srinivasa Rao Neduri, Cognizant
• Girish Kumar, IIIT Hyderabad
• Aditya R. Palashikar, C-DAC,Hyderabad
• Santosh R
• Ganesh Sanjiv Naik, Proxim Wireless
• Pavan Sudheer Rampalli, Proxim Wireless
• B.V.Prasad Babu, GNITS
• Pranesh Srinivasan, IIT Madras
• Pramod Reddy, AppLabs
• chandra sekhar reddy, TietoEnator
• N. Anil Kumar, Polaris Software Lab Ltd
• Varalakshmi Ganta, Commvault
• Vandana, Polaris software lab limited
• Yogeeswar Gabbita, Polaris Software Lab Limited
• sanjeev kumar singh, Polaris software lab limited
• Makarand Kulkarni, Polaris
• Rajapandi Nambi
• Anant Kumar
• Bipin kumar
• abhaya Kumar Jena
• Mohammad Abdul Rasheed
• Anilkumar Polisetty
• Naveen Kumar Molleti, IIT Kharagpur
• Girikrishna Talla, SCIENT
• Sreedhar Katkam
• Santosh R
• Vasavi Sreekakulam, brainstorm
• Srikanth Katokam, convergys
• srikanth katokam, convergys hyderabad
• vinod jakati, POLARIS
• Kota Venkata Mural Krishna, Polaris Software Lab Ltd
• kalyan p, polaris
• sathyavathi bhadri, POLARIS
• Geeta Madhurima, Polaris Software Labs
• Sirisha Maddikunta, Polaris Software Labs Ltd
• K Chandra Sekhar, Polaris Software Labs Limited
• Anagani Chandra Sekhar, CeeYes Technologies
• Jithender, ceeyes
• Veeranna Pakala, ceeyes software technologies
• Sowmya Ranjan Pradhan, CEEYES SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES Pvt. Ltd.
• Shreekar G, CEEYES software technologies LTD
• Ahibhushan Katti, Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology
• Suren Poruri, Polaris software lab limited
• Raja Sekhar K, Polaris Software labs ltd
• Jayaram Nori, Satyam Computers
• Sri Harsha Nooli
• Santhosh.V, Arunai Engineering college
• seetha rama raju dupati, sat-infotech pvt ltd
• raghavendra chary ragipani, cjsoft
• Syamsunder M, POLARIS
• sowmya
• Telukunta Phanindra, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad
• K Umamaheshwar Rao, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad
• P Sai Sharath, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad
• Siddharth Pal, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad
• v.s.rao, IIIT,hyderabad
• k.gowtham, IIIT,hyderabad
• shreyans jain, ies ips academy indore
• divya kolluru, nalanda institute
• Velangani Satish Nambaru, Polaris
• S.ArunKumar, Symbiosis ,student
• Praveen Kumar Vallabhaneni, Polaris Software Lab Ltd
• Rajesh Nuthalapati, Polaris
• mahammeda rafi shaik , COSS
• P.Pranay Kumar, Infotech-Enterprises
• Vuppuluri Ram Saran, VIIT, Visakhapatnam
• Tolety V. S. S. Raja Sekhar, VIIT, Visakhapatnam
• Gururaj, IIIT
• Akshey Jawa, IIITH
• M. Kumara Swamy, IIIT, Hyderabad
• ashish gudla, GRIET
• Rohit Vanam, JNTU
• Gautham, IIIT Hyderabad
• subbaraju bethalam, griet
• ravi kishore, griet
• sashikanth, griet
• Ravikishore M
• B Manoj, VNR VJIET
• S.Raghavendra, NIET
• Naveenkumar Ippe, NIET
• Gotika Bhadra Reddy, Polaris Software Lab Ltd
• Bellamkonda Prudhvi Sagar, V. R. Sidhartha College Of Engineering, Vijayawada
• Karthik.V, GRIET
• Muvva Raghavendra Rao, VIIT, Visakhapatnam
• sadaarjun
• N V S M R K Hareesh
• mahidhar vallabhaneni, CMR COLLEGE OF ENGG & TECH.
• vallabhaneni narendra
• kolli manjusha, SRM UNIVERSITY
• manoj reddy, CMR COLLEGE OF ENGG & TECH.
• Hari Krishna, IIIT-H
• NAGA BHUSHANAM THALLAM, NIET
• Mattaparty Venkata Vinod Kiran, MGIT
• Devarapalli Koteshwara Rao, MGIT
• Krupakar Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad
• Aditya Kiran N., IIIT Hyderabad
• Machavarapu Sridevi, MGIT
• Akki Hima Keerthi, MGIT
• K Kranthi Krishna, MGIT
• A Mayank kumar, MGIT
• M Raj Kashyap, MGIT
• bajibabu, IIIT,hyd
• Vijay Bhaskar, GRIET
• M Suresh Kumar, GRIET
• praveen jugge, TRR College of Engineering
• Chaitanya, GRIET
• siva, CyberCafe
• adithya addanki
• v venu gopal rao
• Y munisha, MGIT
• SLSN Prasad, GRIET
• A.Jayanth, GRIET
• Devarapalli Koteshwara Rao, MGIT,Hyderabad
• Bharadwaj M, CA
• nayeemuddin, GRIET
• srikanth.pagadala, GRIET
• Doddala S R Pradyumna, GRIET
• subbaraju bethalam, GRIET
• badri narayana , vif college of engineering and technology
• v.sravan kumar, sastra university
• mani venkata vishwas
• Konakala vamsi krishna, GRIET
• Basa Keerthi, GRIET
• Basa Sadashiv, PPMU-APWSIP, Govt. of A.P., Hyderabad
• V R D Phanindhra T, POLARIS SOFTWARE LABS
• sashikanth
• Nikhil Bharadwaj, MLR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
• Seshendra Gadagottu, Nvidia
• Ankur G
• Vamsi Krishna Malisetty
• A. S. Sunil
• B.Kranthi kumar
• Varsha Nandamuri
• Lalith Suresh, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
• Lakshmi Narayana Prasad Kalavala, Qualcomm India PVT LTD
• B KUSHAL, GRIET
• VINAY RAJ CHOUHAN, GRIET
• Md. Attaur Rahman Sofi, MESCO
• sumalatha asam, GRIET
• ramya krishna, griet
• Syed Nayeemullah Abrar, MESCO
• N. Shailaja, MESCO
• Shabaz Hussain, MESCO
• Rajesh reddy, vnrvjiet
• Shashank Vatsavai
• Tejasvi Yadukula
• abinesh r, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
• Pagolu.Thanmaya, Gokaraju Rangaraju
• Mandadapu.Naga Sushma
• Makka.Sunitha Sowjanya
• Deepika.Nasika
• Bhanoori.Smitha
• harish reddy golamari, mgit
• kandula ajay kumar
• mohammed rabiya begum, griet
• Guntaka Bhaskar
• P. venkatesh
• M. dinesh
• P Viswa Teja, MLRIT,Hyderabad
• S Santosh, MLRIT,Hyderabad
• Pavan Surisetty, Right Management Consultants Private Limited
• P.Swathi Kiran Reddy
• Narani.Anusha
• Dagani.Sruthi
• Vijayreddy, CMEC
• Maddineni Kranthi Kumar, Polaris Software Labs Ltd.
• Kiran Reddy
• V.Rama krishna, GRIET
• vajjala venu gopal rao
• Abhinav. K
• C.Sainath, VNRVJIET
• Vikram M
• Priya Gupta
• Siddartha Rao Sampelly
• Palnati Murali Krishna, Qualcomm
• Jakka Srinath, jbiet
• N.Bhargav reddy, jbiet
• K.Ameer Bhargav, jbiet
• Paturi Sai Dheeraj
• Sugandh Rakha, Amazon.com
• sudhakar, giet
• k Ajit Balaram Varma
• divya ramakrishnan
• Vikram Boeina, Hi-Tech Engineering Colleage
• alapati aparna
• K Hareendra
• G.VEDAPRAKASH
• K. SHARAN BABU, Padmasri Dr B V RAJU
• k.pavani swarupa
• G.S.V.Sandeep, jbiet
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If you have not registered as yet, please register today ! 

I.I.I.T. Main building Gachibowli, Hyderabad

 

Contact Us

For any clarifications or assistance, sponsorship and press inquiries, you are welcome to contact the Twincling event organizing team at

Event venue

'C' Block, 2nd Floor, Hall 1
I I I T Campus,
Gachibowli, Hyderabad.

 

Helpline

 +91 - 99852 94722

 

Email

 info@twincling.org

 

Web contact

 http://www.twincling.org/contact

 

Sponsorship and Press inquiries

 namita AT twincling DOT org

 

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

To help understand the focus of the event better, available facilities and answer frequent queries, clarifications we have collated the questions and answers below for your reference.

What is the focus of Open Source Summit 2008 ?

Technical excellence and contributing to Open Source projects. This is a technical event.

Who is the intended audience for the event ?

If you are technically focussed, then this is your event. Both newbie and professionals exploring Open Source technologies for the first time are also welcome.

I am interested in advocacy. What is there for me ?

This is not your event. There is nothing for you here.

How much does the event cost ?

The event is free-of-charge, if you are a registered delegate.

Is registration necessary for the event ?

Registration helps us provision the facilities like WiFi 802.11 a/b/g, food, snacks, volunteer strength, seating and security arrangments. Appreciate if you register for the event.

What if i don't register for the event ?

if you have not registered and turn up for the event, you can buy yourself a pass for INR 350 at the reception.

Can a registration request be denied ?

Any registration request that satisfies the following criteria - email id with high spam score, individual with focus on advocacy or individual with past track record of unbecoming behavior or in appropriate writing at a forum or misrepresentation of facts will be automatically denied. For all registration requests, the IP address and X-IP address fields are tracked and recorded in a database.

Can individuals sponsor the event ?

Yes, thanks for asking. You can sponsor INR 79 by way of cash / direct account payment towards the event. Please see the sponsorship page for additional details.

Can i bring my laptop with me ?

Yes sure, you are welcome to bring in a laptop and also a USB pen drive in case you want to copy any .iso images for the Open Source operating system images, like OpenSUSE, Gentoo, OpenSolaris.

Will lunch be provided to all the attendees ?

Yes, the Summit is a full day event and working vegetarian lunch will be available for all the attendees.

Can i bring my friends with me ?

Yes, please ask your friends to register for the event. You can tell them about it by clicking here

 

Hotel & Travel

 

A quick overview of the map of Hyderabad City.

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Work Area (for Volunteers)

This is the workarea / whiteboard for the Twincling Volunteer team for Open Soure Summit 2008.

NOTE : The Volunteers are requested to directly update this site post the IRC session, so that its always current.

The three Muskeeters

• Manohar Vanga
• Sandip Tiwari
• Sampath Inturi

Mailing list

• http://groups.google.com/group/twincling-volunteers

IRC Real time meetings

• every evening at 2015 hrs on #twincling (irc.freenode.net) - duration about an hour