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FOSS.my 2009 is happening

FOSS.my 2009 is South-East-Asia's largest grassroots Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) event. It is our second such conference - we aim for this to be an annual event bringing together professionals and enthusiasts from Malaysia, South-East-Asia and the rest of the world for a two day grassroots driven FOSS conference. We've got an excellent line up: 4 keynote speakers, 28 great talks and 8 Bird-of-Feather side sessions.

Richard Stallman (rms), the father of Free Software, will be keynoting on Free Software Movement, GNU software and GNU/Linux. There will be a substantial Q&A session where you can ask him your questions and even get an autograph. We're arranging for Free Software Foundation merchandise to be sold so you can show your support for the FSF.

Brian Aker, our second keynote speaker, will be speaking on Drizzle, MySQL, Memcached and Gearman. Brian Aker is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and was previously the Director of Architecture at MySQL AB. He has contributed to many database projects. He kick-started the Drizzle Project, an important branch of MySQL 6 which is a re-thought based on the principle open exchange for developers, with over a 100 contributors from dozens of companies.

Our two Malaysia keynotes will be opening and closing the conference, respectively. John Lim is our opening keynote. He is the principle author of the ADOdb database abstraction library, an extremely widely used web infrastructure software, and it started right here in Malaysia!

Dr Yusseri Yusoff is our closing keynote. He has done amazing amounts of "behind-the-scenes" work in pushing through FOSS within the public sector and industry in Malaysia. He was instrumental in kicking off the Open Source Competency Center (OSCC) and many other FOSS government and private sector initiatives.

All in all, we have also got more international participation this time around:

  • James Morris (author of the kernel Crypto API, contributor to SELinux, LSM, Netfilter and IPsec)
  • Pradeepto (KDE hacker and co-founder of KDE India)
  • Harish Pillay (Fedora community, Open Source Architect/Evangelist RedHat Singapore)
  • Harish Mallipeddi (Performance Engineering team, Yahoo! R&D India)
  • Giuseppe Maxia (MySQL community)

 

Of course, Malaysian FOSS hackers will be present in full force. Redhuan Oon of ADempiere ERP fame, Nur Hussein on running Linux on Big Iron machines, Kris Khaira on Drupal, Errazuddin on Zend Framework, Mohan on Tomboy Web Sync, and many more will be presenting.

Check out the conference schedule: http://foss.my/2009/schedule/

Registration packages are available here http://foss.my/2009/registration-overview/

If you would like to register for the conference, please go to: http://foss.my/2009/registration/

We look forward in seeing you at FOSS.my 2009!

 

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