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Topics & Sessions

This year at LinuxAsia: 'The Customer Speaks'. Here is where customers who want to know about the latest in open source software express their needs and find the best solutions.

LinuxAsia 2006 highlights what a customer wants to know about easy-to-use, virus-free desktops, about high-performance clusters, about data and application migration, about wireless computing, about scalable storage and virtualization, and about best practices, collaboration, standards and saving big money.

Conference Sessions

Sessions and forums will include:

1. Industry Sessions
   Sessions on Open Source adoption and deployment in various market segments such as the large enterprise, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), business process outsourcing organizations (BPO), banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) organizations, telecommunications and media will be held at LinuxAsia 2006. These sessions will highlight the customer's requirements, deployment issues and open source technology ready to be used.
   
   
   • Enterprise
   • Banking, Financial Services, Insurance
   • Small and Medium Business
   • ITES & BPOs
   • Telecom
   • Media


2. India E-Governance Forum
   The E-Governance Forum will highlight topics including why open source software is the most cost-effective choice for e-government IT solutions, the need for fair procurement practices and policies promoting adoption of open standards and open technologies for citizen services.


3. India Education Forum
   The Education Forum will discuss topics such as the need for open source software to build talent for India's booming IT industry, using OSS packages for education, distros like Edubuntu for students and the need for a choice based technology education curriculum.


4. Desktop Forum
   This forum will focus on open standards, LSB, localization and internationalization in OSS and the need for open standards in Indian automation.


5. Intellectual Property & Open Source Panel
   Intellectual Property and Open Source: Friends or Foes?
   
   Can Open Source survive in the ruthless world of copyrights, patents, and trademarks? Not only can this new paradigm of technology collaboration survive happily, the growing intellectual commons offers a framework to benefit all IP stakeholders!


6. Technology Talks & Workshops
   These talks will cover the latest technologies, tools and techniques such as distros (*Ubuntu, Knoppix, Debian, *BSD), desktop environments (KDE, GNOME), programming languages (PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python), Web services (Apache, Tomcat), databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), security (IPTables, VPNs), search tools and more.

Topics

Specific topics include:

• Data and Application Migration
• Open Source Desktops
• High Performance Computing and Clustering
• Databases
• Content Management Systems
• Scalable Storage and File Systems
• Virtualization
• Wireless and Mobile Computing
• Security
• LAMP Technologies
• Open Source IDEs
• Web Applications and Services
• Open Source Best Practices and Collaboration Models
• Open Source Licensing and Business Models
• Localization in Indian Languages
• Open Source Support and Deployment
• Open Standards

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