On behalf of Sumitha Prashanth:
Sun is a platinum sponsor for the FOSS event in Bangalore this year http://foss.in/2005/ happening from Nov29 -Dec 2. The funding for this event is from the OpenSolaris Office. Many thanks to Stephen Harpster for this. We would like to make a special mention for all the guidance and support we have received from Teresa Giacomini for this event. Sponsorship at this event has given us an opportunity to evangelize OpenSolaris on a large scale.With this sponsorship we will get 7 presentation slots to showcase OpenSolaris.We also have 5 demo booths to run OpenSolaris demos. The expected audience for this 4 day event is between 4000-5000 people. The team in India (mostly from OP/N1-RPE) have been putting in a lot of effort in getting ready and geared up for this event.We also have a number of engineers from across IEC who have volunteered to participate and assist at the demo booths.This is the first time we would be participating and running an event of this scale. It has been great for the last couple of weeks to see engineers huddle into a room to get presentations, demos and quiz questionnaires done. The energy level has just been great. We also have a twiki page set up to track the updates for this event http://iecweb.india.sun.com/iec/bin/view/Main/FossIn2005. If anyone of you have any ideas to share please do send it to foss at sun.com.
