Open Source India Tech Days 2009
Dates: 12th to 14th March, 2009
City: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Venue: Chennai Trade Center
What started off as LinuxAsia in 2003, got renamed to Open Source India in 2008. The change in
name reflected the increased maturity of the Open Source business model, and the growing
popularity of the open source phenomenon in India.
The 2009 edition has a strong flavor of technology in it—thus the addition of the word “Tech Days”.
The target audience of OSI Tech Days ’09 will be (1) IT Managers and (2) Software Developers,
who in turn will represent the needs of India’s varied industry and academia segments.
Vision Statement of Open Source India
“To build a platform where-by we can enable India, and Asia, to lead in the development and
adoption of Open Source software solutions.”
Mission of OSI Tech Days 2009
1. Development of Open Source Software
• Promote usage of open source platforms and tools for software development
• Update software developers with the latest trends, technologies and best practices
from the open source world
2. Adoption of Open Source Software
• Accelerate implementation of OSS-powered IT solutions
• Equip IT managers with latest open source solutions and best practices

Schedule of Events
Three days plus four halls allow us to try and discuss many topics and reach out to a variety of
audience. Here’s a list of events that have been finalized till date:
Software Developers’ Track
12th March: FOSS-enabled software development
13th March: FOSS-powered Mobile phones (and devices)
IT Managers’ Track
12th March: FOSS Tools for IT Managers
13th March: Cloud Computing, Virtualization and SaaS
.INFO Track
12th March: FOSS-powered eGovernance
13th March: FOSS for education (Half-day)
14th March: FOSS-powered desktops (Half-day)
Other Events
12th March 2009: ASIAOSS Summit
12th March: Industry Demos (Half-day)
13th March: Industry Demos (Half-day)

Past speakers
Here’s a sample of FOSS luminaries who have spoken at past editions of LinuxAsia and Open
Source India Week…
Anil Valluri (Sun)
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Anthony Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon)
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Aruna Sundarajan (Kerala)
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Brian Aker (MySQL)
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Brian Behelendorf (Apache & Collabnet)
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Chris Blizzard (Fedora)
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Danese Cooper (Intel)
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David Axmark (MySQL)
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Dr Appa Rao (CTO, Cognizant)
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Dr Deepak Phatak (IIT Bombay)
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Dr S Ramakrishnan (CDAC)
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Dr Vijay Kumar (MIT)
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Dr.Inder Singh (Lynux Works)
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Eric D’ Angelo (Dell)
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F. C. Kohli (TCS)
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Harish Pillay (Red Hat)
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Jim Zemlin (LF)
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Klaus Knopper (Knoppix)
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Louis Suarez Potts (OpenOffice.org)
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Mark Manners (HP)
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Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu)
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Mary Ann Fisher (IBM)
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Michael Tiemann (Red Hat)
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Nicholas Negroponte (OLPC)
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Paul Kangro (Novell)
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Prof. M.G.K. Menon (Board, IIT)
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Rajeev Kamath (IBM)
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Robin Miller (OSDN)
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Sirtaj Singh Kaj (KDE.in veteran)
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Key Industry Verticals Being Targeted
• IT Firms (Software Development)
• ITeS Firms (BPO, KPO, etc)
• Banking & Finance (BFSI)
• Manufacturing
• Research and Development Labs
• Education (Government and Private Institutions)
• Government
Size of firms being Targeted
• SME (Small & Medium Enterprise
• Enterprise
Buzzwords & Keywords
Virtualization, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Linux, Python, LAMP,
Network Management, Security, Storage, OpenSolaris, Android,
Mobilin, t-engine, MIDs, Clusters, HPC, open source, Perl,
Identity Management, eGovernance, Education,
Open Symbian,
OpenMoko, Desktops, Eclipse, Platforms,
Qt, Xen, LiMO, free software, software as a service, Ruby,
enterprise communication servers, IP telephony, Video-
conferencing, mobile apps, OpenJDK, Mono, databases.