Linux Bangalore/2004 is the fourth in the series of immensely successful "Linux Bangalore" conferences that started in 2001. Every year the conferences have been more innovative than the previous ones and LB/2004 definitely promises to keep up this trend.
The primary audience for this event is the wide community of developers,
system administrators, users, managers and decision makers. More than 3000
delegates are expected to attend the conference. The sessions, talks and tutorials are planned to be delivered in manner that helps the delegates learn about technologies, techniques and methods that are more "hands on" and cannot be easily gleaned through manuals, books and/or the internet. Linux Bangalore/2004 aims at delivering "Something Extra" to the delegates.
The onus of making this possible is on you - The speaker !
Linux Bangalore/2004 will be a great opportunity for Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) developers from India and the rest of the world to meet and exchange ideas about current and upcoming projects that (will) play an important role for FOSS. You are invited to participate in this famous and one of its kind Linux community event by giving a presentation about your current work, experiences with FOSS, or future plans.
Details of the sessions
Conference Language : English
Technical Tracks
FOSS Community Tracks
Business Tracks
Tutorial sessions & general talks
LB/2004 will also feature sessions and tutorials on topics that fall outside the perview of the focus sessions. The talks will focus on general Open
Source Software, underlying software technologies, and the free software and Open Source philosophy. Presentations should take about 50 minutes including
discussions, Q & A and demos (wherever applicable).
Towards these sessions, contributed papers and presentations are solicited concerning, but not limited to, the following areas:
- New and/or advanced Linux kernel issues
- Networking (IPv6, IPsec, bandwidth control, policy routing, ...)
- Development (application, web-apps, GUI-apps, databases, ....)
- SysAdmin (Security, High Availability,
- Storage Management (RAID, File-systems, LVM, ...)
- Users (Desktops, Office productivity tools, Desktop environments)
- Multimedia (sound, video, streaming media, gaming, conferencing)
- Community (user-groups, governments, OSS adoption, ...)
- FOSS philosophy (anything !!)
BoF sessions
To address the fast evolving nature of Linux, new topics not covered by the conference talks can be discussed during informal gatherings, called
Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions. BoFs may be scheduled at the conference or in advance by mailing the program committee.
Talk Submissions
The proposals and/or abstracts for the technical talks will be reviewed by a technical committee.
The paper submission involves two steps.
1. Submission of abstract
An abstract of the talk should be submitted via the web-form available at
http://linux-bangalore.org/2004/participate/speakers. The abstract should be in English, ASCII format (250-300 words) and should clearly describe the planned talk.
2. Submission of slides and/or paper.
Authors of the accepted submissions will have to provide a final slideshow of the talk. This should preferably be original and not published anywhere before.
Notes :
- The conference proceedings will be distributed under a Creative Commons License. Slides/Papers/abstracts submitted along with non-disclosure agreements are not acceptable and will not be considered by the program committee.
- The talk slides and/or the papers will be published together as part of the conference proceedings.
Important Dates
- Abstracts Due : Friday, 29th of October, 2004, 17:30 GMT+0530
- Speaker intimation : Tuesday 2nd November, 2004, 17:30 GMT+0530
- Final slides due : Friday 12th November, 2004, 17:30 GMT+0530
