Posted on behalf of Gireesha US from Dell Linux Engineering team.
OSI (Open Source India) Days - The Asia's Mega Open Source Convention ( www.osidays.com) was being organized for the 9th time in India during October 12 to 14 at the NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore. It was targeted at nurturing and promoting the open source ecosystem.
This year, the conference was segmented with different domain-specific events to include more topics encompassing open source tools, technology and beyond.
Day - 1 (Academia, Mobile App Dev Day & Cloud Day); A entire day dedicated for Cloud Computing.
Day - 2 (Managing IT Infra, Web Dev Day & Kernel Day)
Day - 3 (FOSS For Everyone, Database Day)
Please visit http://osidays.com/osidays_schedule.html to browse the scheduled programs in the conference.
Apart from technology sessions, there were hands-on workshops on HTML5, MySQL, MySQL Cluster, OpenLDAP, Managing PostgreSQL Databases, JBoss etc. from the industry experts. An interesting workshop on App Development, talked about why should developers choose Android, basics of Android platform, development environment set-up, Android building blocks, Android user interface, resources framework, storage options, accessing Phone Components and publishing an application.
OSI days attracted professionals from industry, community and students who came to have a closer look and feel of the FOSS (Free Open Source Software) ecosystem.
Dell R&D center team contributes to different open source programs through code contribution. Dell has contributed to open source in various areas like IPMI, Systems Management and network subsystems and contribution has been recognized by the community. Also, Dell has contributed to many community conferences.
Dell R&D center has been participating in the OSI days conference by providing presentation on different topic to share the knowledge and expertise. Apart from this Dell also being one of the advisory committee member to help them strategize the entire conference.
These are list of topic, on which Dell India R&D center Bangalore has shared the knowledge and expertise.
- Keynote talk on Combination of cloud and high performance computing clusters
Presenter: Ramesh Rajagopalan, Engineering Director
- Talk on “Simplifying The Build Procedure Using Yocto Framework” - An introduction to Yocto project which helps create custom linux distributions
Presenter: Surya Prabhakar, Software Dev Engineer and Prasad Neti, Platform software Engineer
- Talk on “Deploying Openstack Using Crowbar” - An introduction to Crowbar software framework with automates and accelerates the deployment, configuration and ongoing operation of the cloud.
Presenter: Surya Prabhakar, Software Dev Engineer and Srinivas Gowda G, Software Dev Engineer
- Talk on “I/O Subsystem Enhancements To Harness Solid State Storage” - Quantifying the Linux IO subsystem bottlenecks for High Performance SSDs
Presenter: Ashokan Vellimalai, Storage Dev Engineer and Harikrishnan R, Platform software Engineer
- Talk on “Openstack-Quantum” - Introduced Quantum -Network as service module in Openstack.
Presenter: Surya Prabhakar, Software Dev Engineer
- Talk on “Exploring Devstack” - Setting up and running OpenStack inside a VM. Introduction on basic components of OpenStack and its development environment
Presenter: Srinivas Gowda G, Software Dev Engineer
- Talk on “Network Monitoring with Nagios” - Introduce Nagios and how we can use it for smaller to larger networks data centers to simplify the management of network resources.
Presenter: Gireesha US, Software Dev Engineer
Please visit http://osidays.com/speakers.html to browse list of speakers that were part of the conference.
Open Source India 2012 concluded with positive note, promising to come back next year with much more power and increased involvement of the open source community.
OSI days 2013 will be conducted during November 13 to 15 at the NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore (http://osidays.com/osidays/)