The Bangalore Linux User Group today announced that India's premier Linux and Opensource event - Linux Bangalore/2002 - will be held on December 3-5, 2002, in Bangalore, India.

LB/2002 follows the unquestioned success of last year's event (Linux Bangalore/2001), which saw the participation of thousands of particpants, attending more than 60 talks by both Indian and foreign speakers.

The event will again feature numerous talks, workshops and panel discussions, exposing developers, users, corporate IT decision makers and government agencies to the lates in Linux and OpenSource based technologies and developments.

Speakers are drawn from the industry as well as the development community from across India and abroad.

The BLUG announced that, in addition to the technical and orientational talks, the event will this year include an exhibition to allow organisations to present Linux and OpenSource based solutions.

BLUG coordinator Kingsly John said that the entire event was conceived and managed by a group of managers drawn from the BLUG.

The event would be funded by sponsors. "We will be approaching giants such as HP, IBM, Wipro, Infosys and the Tatas, who, like a majority of the industry today, have an extremely heavy involvement with Linux" said BLUG advisor Atul Chitnis. Last year's event received unprecedented sponsor interest from HP ISO, who funded the entire event.

About the Bangalore Linux Users Group

Started in 1994, the BLUG became a registered non-profit, voluntary organisation in 2000. It works to promote Linux and OpenSource technologies, and has thousands of members.

The BLUG has a lot of activities - apart from the tech-talks at every meet, it also participates in most IT-related event that takes place in in Bangalore, and often coordinates with other LUGs in India to ensure that India knows all about Linux!

The BLUG has previously organized the Linux-India community's presence at IT.Com '99, IT.Com '2000, and Wrox Press' Bang!inux 2000 and 2001. Thanks to the participation by the community in these events, facilitated by the BLUG, Linux no longer remains just another concept, but is on the way to becoming a very popular Indian operating system. At IT.Com'99, various Indian Linux user groups, with the Bangalore Linux user group at their center, were educating businesses and engineers about Linux. The purpose was served as was seen in IT.Com'2000.

More about the BLUG can be found at http://linux-bangalore.org

About Linux Bangalore/2002

The technology showcase is a new addition in LB/2002. The showcase will consist of an exposition of Linux technologies and products from the industry.

More information about the event can be found at http://linux-bangalore.org/2002

About Linux Bangalore/2001

The primary audience for this event were the core (or potential) Linux-using community of developers (/dev), system administrators (/adm), users (/usr) and CxO/Managers/Decision makers (/cxo).

More than 3000 delegates and over 60 speakers attended the Conference. Linux Bangalore/2001 was sponsored by Hewlett Packard (India Software Operations).

Contact

For more information about the BLUG, please visit http://linux-bangalore.org

For additional information, please write to lb2-info@linux-bangalore.org