The deliberations will focus mainly on following areas.
(However, any other relevant topic can be included/ addressed as well.)
Open Source: Sociology & Growth
Practices, innovation, communities, sociology of open source, open source for non profits, customization, Extending technology and impact.
Open Source: Challenges and opportunities.
License and Legal Aspects, Maintenance and upgradation, Customization, Economic and financial aspects, Cost effectiveness, etc
Open Source: Software & Design
Development and administration, solutions, metrics, design, immigration to open source, open source aspect to programming, modularity and interoperability.
Open Source: Commercial Aspect
Commercialization of open source software, revenue aspect
Government sector: Adoptation (Challenges and issues)
Application in Development Areas, Overview of Developers in Government to citizen and citizen to Government, Emphasis on web servers, content management software, server operating systems, embedded systems (such as secure gateways and network attached storage,), ‘middleware’ systems (Allowing communications between different systems)
Adoption of Open Source in Business World:
Developing nations and open source, open source and India, Breaking the myth
Operating systems and other utilities:
Linux, Mozilla, Debian, Apache, LAMP, MySql, AJAX.
Special Groups and Applications:
Government/Open Governance /Education/Health/Music/Libraries/Information
Digital Content creation and delivery:
Audio, Video, 3D, Animation, Recreation, Digital library etc
Data extraction and mining:
Algorithms and adoption of new innovative techniques
Web enabled Technologies:
Social Networking and tools, Impact, Transparency, Accountability.
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