Hi all!

This is further to our 'Call for Papers' for Open Source India Tech Days 2009, which is to be held at Chennai Trade Center (Chennai) from 12th to 14th March 2009. Thanks to your encouraging response, we have managed to finalise a few speakers, and draw up the plans for daily seminars. However, we have received many submissions that do not match the goals of various seminars.

Thus, we plan to share the exact topics that have been finalised for each seminar (one-by-one). We hope that this effort will result in a better match between the talks and the speaker submissions. Needless to say, this can be a great opportunity for FOSS firms (and consultants) to show-case their talent to an all-India audience.

So, if you or your firm has expertise in any of the topics (mentioned below), please feel free to register yourself, or nominate someone else at www.osidays.com.

Looking forward to your support in building an Open Source event that we all can be proud of.

Best, Atanu Datta On behalf of Open Source India Team

DETAILS: THE SEMINAR AND THE TOPICS *********************************** The seminar: FOSS For Everyone Date: 14th March, 2009 (Saturday) Venue: Chennai Trade Centre Highlights: This will be our most popular session, when we expect a 1000+ audience to fill the main hall of Chennai Trade Centre.

TOPICS FOR WHICH WE SEEK SPEAKERS

#1) Panel discussion: Career trends for IT Professionals WE SEEK: Senior personnel (Operations, HR, etc) of major IT firms who aggressively recruit IT professionals, especially those from the open source domain. We would like to get their perspectives on the demand for open source professionals in India.

#2) Panel discussion: Linux Distros WE SEEK: Experts / community representatives for Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva, OpenSuSE, and Debian. We would like them to highlight the key features of their distros and to share the future roadmap (if possible) with the audience.

#3) Panel discussion: Office Applications WE SEEK: Experts / community representatives for office productivity solutions like OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Thunderbird, Evolution, etc. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST MORE SUCH SOLUTIONS. We would like these speakers to highlight the key features of their solutions and to share the future roadmap (if possible) with the audience.

NOTE: We will shortly share with you the details of another seminar.