Self-explanatory title.
So, what’s going on today?
Yahoo! Open Hack India 2009: Bangalore
GNUnify ‘09: Pune
Startup Saturday ‘Feb 09: Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai
Proto.in Saturday Chat: Online
(from resist.in…)
freed.in, the conference for freedom in technology and software, has published the first cut of the proposed talks at its next edition scheduled for 20, 21 Feb 2009. You can view the list here. The talk abstracts are also up, in the blog posts.
The venue information has been put up in one of the tabs (Note to freed.in: people tend to look at the top banner itself for venue information; a little snippet in the graphics might not hurt) – freed.in 2009 will take place at School of Life Sciences in JNU, Delhi. People from outside Delhi are expected to pour in for this conference, as before.
freed.in: 21, 22 Feb 2009, Delhi
WordCamp India, the first ever WordCamp in India, has chosen a place. It happens to be none other than the Platinum sponsor of the conference – Adobe Systems. The conference will take place on 21, 22 Feb 2009 at Adobe’s Noida campus.
With an impressive agenda for the target audience, the list mentions “Surprise guest – one of the top 100 influential bloggers by CNET” delivering the keynote. Matt Mullenweg is going to be there, and the right now, the registrations are open. The conference is calling out for speakers and sponsors too, so there is still time to contribute if you haven’t decided yet. Registrations close 16th Feb, as per the event registrations page. The registrations (at the time of this writing) require offline payment; it remains to be seen if this process becomes hectic for the contact points listed covering Delhi, Noida, and Gurgaon.
WordCamp India: 21, 22 Feb 2009
MozillaCamp Delhi, the conference that was planned, sponsored, and organized in a jiffy (from the perspective of someone following the mailing list and the tweets), concluded today. While the interesting parts of the conference planning included a good number of media partners, and the decision to hold the conference on a Tuesday (while most conferences pick Fridays or weekends), the coverage on twitter made sure people not around still felt around. The conference had also planned to broadcast it live on air.mozilla.com using HTML 5 <video> tag support in the yet-unreleased FireFox 3.1.
While official blogging partners, blogadda, did a fabulous job at tweeting (like they did at Proto.in, and won the live-tweeting contest), i.t.magazine chipped in with very good coverage too (and also promoted their mobile carrier while they were at it 
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The tweets from the event did satisfy a lot of remote-follower curiosity, right from covering the tidbits about Mozilla strategy, and FireFox features, to the web-collaborative editor, Bespin.
Are live tweets the same to conferences what TV was (and is) to cricket matches?
After the tweets and the blog posts, Proto.in team announced that Pune would be venue of the 6th Edition of the startup conference. The Pune-ousting-Mumbai happening got covered in print media too, which is a plus for the conference, making even those not involved, aware. Planning for the next edition has already began in the mailing list, and by the pace of it, some action would be in soon.
In entrepreneurial-conference-related news, Outlook Business carried a roundup of the “startup promotion events” (sic). It looks at the various efforts, including Proto.in, Headstart, and efforts by TiE and NEN, and spells out constructive criticism with regard to collaboration opposed to rivalry, and reaching out to a wider spectrum of entrepreneurs and Venture capitalists.
| February 21, 2009 | to | February 22, 2009 |
WordCamp India
Concept:Conference of Bloggers, with a special focus on everything WordPress, the blogging tool, and the world around it
General Audience:Bloggers, and anyone hosting or utilizing sites or tools based on WordPress
Where: Delhi NCR, India
Venue: Adobe Systems India, I-1A, Sector 25-A, Noida, India
When: 21, 22 February, 2009
Registrations: http://wci.eventbrite.com
Website: http://india.wordcamp.org
| February 20, 2009 | to | February 21, 2009 |
freed.in
Concept: Freedom in Technology, Software and other related fields, and Personal Privacy, Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)
2009 Theme Tagline: “Getting there together”
General Audience: FOSS community, enthusiasts, Academia, and Government bodies
What To Expect: New Products and Pitches to VCs, Networking in Startup and Investor community, Mentorship, Rapid Product Development (Shotgun Startup event), Pitch practice (PitchCamp event), Idea Brainstorming, and more.
Where: JNU Campus, Delhi, India
When: 20, 21 February, 2009
Website: http://freed.in/2009
Registration: To be open soon
Blog: http://freed.in/2009
Call for Papers: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Freed2009/CallforPapers (Deadline for synopsis submission was 25 Dec 2008)
Volunteering: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Freed2009/VolunteersList
