The long awaited first shortlist of talks and workouts for FOSS.IN/2008 is out. You can see it at http://foss.in/news/first-shortlist.html Please read the introduction at the top of the page FIRST – we don’t want any accidental jumping-out-of-windows! And yes, I have been rather quiet these past few weeks. I should be able to give you [...]

A lot of people have noticed that unlike in previous years, we are not as loud about FOSS.IN as we usually are. Now that the Call for Participation is about to be published, it is time to explain why FOSS.IN/2008 is going to be different from earlier incarnations. (Clicky)

Someone pointed out that everyone is writing about the FOSS.IN posters in their blogs and journals – except me. Well, every year, Team FOSS.IN brings out some promotional posters for the event. This year, we decided to focus on people and a message – the message being that one should contribute to FOSS. And as [...]

Some updates from the FOSS.IN trenches – Delegate registration is now open here. – Volunteer registration is now open here. – Posters released here – thanks, Hari! And the fun is beginning to escalate – tons of people are actively planning activities for the event. Lightning Talks, BoFs, Corridor Meets, Stickers, T-shirts, FOSS project stalls, [...]

We just posted this on the FOSS.IN/2007 site, but I thought I’d post this in my journal as well, since not everyone is subscribed to the FOSS.IN RSS Feed: We simply *have* to put out this post before we go completely nuts! Throughout the year, we run into people who talk about the event, but [...]

If you have been following the FOSS.IN/2007 saga, you know that we chose to do a CfP Restart rather than compromise on the objectives of the event. The CfP finally closed on October 20th, and we have been spending the past week weeding through 300 talk submissions, choosing talks that were closest to what we [...]

We have about 48 hours left before talk submission for FOSS.IN/2007 finally closes. At this point, I *still* have people asking me what kind of talk they should submit, or whether they should. Rather than say it myself, I will point you a post I made last year, which referred to Rusty Russel’s fabulous post. [...]

If you plan to submit a talk to FOSS.IN/2007, please note that talk submissions close THIS SATURDAY, 20TH OF OCTOBER, at 23:59 GMT+0530. So go here, make sure that you have read the Call for Participation, and submit your talks! At 00:00am on Sunday morning, it will be too late.

For those who came in late (or were just living under a rock for a while): FOSS.IN in India’s largest and probably best known Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) conferences, and is now spoken about as one of the the four primary, grassroot-level FOSS conferences in the world, the other three being being linux.conf.au, [...]

OK, so I had it up to here with some of the mails I have been getting, with people asking whether they have to submit talks to FOSS.IN/2007 or whether (implied) they are big and famous enough to get selected directly, or whether they will be given keynotes, etc. Here is my reply. FOSS.IN focuses [...]