If you have been living under a rock, here’s a helpful news update about FOSS.IN/2009: Almost 800 registrations at the time of writing, almost all sponsor slots filled, and much more. Read the update: FOSS.IN/2009 – registrations, sponsors, expo, excitement & more

If you plan to be anything more than a delegate at FOSS.IN/2009, you better hurry – registrations close on Monday, October 26th, at 23:59 GMT+0530. So if you want to be part of the largest and most important Free & Open Source Software event in this part of the world, and stand shoulder to shoulder [...]

Please note that the FOSS.IN/2009 Speaker registration is open, and a number of submissions have already been received. Read the CfP at http://foss.in/news/fossincfp-2009.html and then head to http://foss.in/register/speaker-registration-2009 And submit your talk/workout/workshop/bof/hacker-session/project-of-the-day proposal. It’s best NOT to do what most people do every year – procrastinate till the last moment, especially since talk evaluation is [...]

And here we go – FOSS.IN/2009′s Call for Participation. Apologies for the delays, things are very different for us this year, with a new venue, new team members, and all sorts of aches and pains we don’t want to talk about http://foss.in/news/fossincfp-2009.html The registration system for speakers is open NOW – head there as soon [...]

For those of you sleeping under a rock (which means that you are not on Twitter or following Planet FOSS.IN) – we announced the dates and venue for FOSS.IN/2009 yesterday. FOSS.IN/2009 will happen on December 1-5, 2009 at the NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore, and it will be bigger and better than ever. I recommend [...]

If you are interested in participating in FOSS.IN this year, you may have a chance to decide when the event takes place. Check out out this post, where Team FOSS.IN is trying to get a fair fix on a set of dates for this year’s event.

This is it, folks, your last heads-up: FOSS.IN/2008, India’s best known, much awaited, Free and Open Source Software event, begins tomorrow morning (Tuesday, 25th November), at the National Science Symposium Center (JN Tata Auditorium), Indian Institute of Science (aka Tata Institute), in Bangalore, and goes on till Saturday, the 29th of November. Tomorrow morning’s opening [...]

It is not often that I get dragged into something like this, but the team felt it was time to raise the bar, so here it is – the first ever promotional video for FOSS.IN.

While we have been working hard in the background to bring the event to life, it looks like a few FUD (Fear-Uncertanity-Doubt) jockeys have been having a field day spreading wrong information about what the event is all about. Normally, we ignore this kind of stuff, but I think a bit of clarification is in [...]