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OSI Days 2010 is zipping forth at great speed. Just a little bit over a month left. Asia's premier open source business conference is knocking on your days. Hop on!

Keep watching the Conference Schedule for all the awesomeness we plan to have the conference. Details about Speakers and Sessions will help you to plan your itinerary for the conference and select your pass for registration at the conference. But, why keep all the good stuff to yourself?

Know Your Speaker: Dave Hall

Dave is the Managing Director of Dave Hall Consulting. When he isn't working with clients to build high quality web applications, he is working with them to improve their infrastructure. Dave has been using Drupal since the days of 4.7. Until recently he was working in France building, deploying and managing around 2100 Drupal 6 sites with around 400,000 users.

Know Your Speaker: David Coallier

David is a well known contributor to the international PHP community. He has previously contributed to the PHP Core and PHP Security Groups, and is currently President of the PHP PEAR Group. We talked to David about his experience with Open Source and his expectations from OSI Days 2010.

First List of Approved Speakers and Sessions

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With September rushing in so close and preps leading towards the final arrangements for the conference, we have started approving sessions and speakers for OSI Days 2010. The first list of speakers has been published along with some of their sessions.

We are pleased to have a number of FOSS Rock stars with us at this edition, including:

  • Bastian Feder, A Prolific PHP Speaker,
  • Dave Hall, Drupal Rockstar,
  • David Coallier, President (PEAR Group),
  • David Recordon, Senior Open Programs Manager (Facebook),

End of Call for Papers

Thank you for the immense response to the call for papers for OSI Days 2010. We are humbled and honored. After the end of the initial period of call for papers on June 15th, we extended the deadline to June 25th, which expired a few days ago.

The call for papers is now officially over for the PHP and Open Source Databases tracks. We are not switching off the proposal submission process completely, but from this point onwards, only proposals that have that special something stand a chance.

Proposal submission dates extended to June 25th

The original deadline for submitting proposals for OSI Days 2010 was over on June 15th. However, we have been receiving many submissions since then, specially from Indian Speakers. Some of our international speakers have requested us to extend the deadline to accommodate them as well.

Shortlisting of Proposals Begins

Thank you, thank you, thank you. For such a warm response to the conference.

We appreciate your love and support in the organisation of OSI Days 2010. It makes our commitment to organising the premier Asian open source conference even stronger and gives us the conviction that together we will make that dream come true.

Announcing Silver Pass Registration

Participant registration for OSI Days 2010 is open now. To begin with, we are offering 500 free Silver Passes. The Silver Pass is a free-for-all pass, with limited access to the conference, available on a first come, first served basis. There are only 500 passes available for grabs, so hurry.

With the free Silver Pass, you will be able to access most of the sessions on the first day of the conference, including:

  • Panel Discussions on Web Development and Mobile Development,
  • FOSS For Everyone Sessions, and,
  • FOSS Awards 2010

Call For Papers

OSI Days 2010: Accepting Proposals, Come & Discover India’s Open Source Arena

Come and speak at Asia’s largest Open Source Conference. We invite you to come and lead a tutorial / session or participate in Panel Discussions at OSI Days 2010. The last date is 15th June 2010.

Submit a proposal now!

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