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Open Source India 2015

OSI 2015

The twelfth edition of Open Source India (OSI) has concluded, taking the philosophy and spirit of open source to an all new level... or should we say, to an all new ‘business’ level. Yes, OSI is now just

not an interaction and knowledge-sharing platform. Over the years, the show has evolved to become a strong business platform, where the industry meets the community.

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Open Source India 2015 was organised on November 19-20, 2015, at the NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru. Despite the incessant, unseasonal rains

across the city and in adjoining areas, OSI saw a decent turnout. About 1400 people made it to the event over the two days. Karthik Padmanabhan, executive - cloud ecosystem and developers, IBM Asia Pacific, shares, “OSI 2015 was a good show. We were looking to connect with developers of all levels and we got that opportunity during the show.”

A complete show...Open Source India 2015 saw a mix of IT decision-makers and developers in the audience. Lux Rao, CTO, HP India, has been a key speaker at Open Source India for the past four editions. He says, “I have seen this show growing and evolving. The quality of sessions and speakers has improved manifold over the years. From just being a technology show, OSI has now evolved to be a technology-cum-business event. This year, we witnessed a lot of CIOs/CTOs coming to the show, and they talked about the business perspective of technology as well. I think that makes OSI a complete show.”

OSI 2015 focused on taking the concept of enabling the industry to meet the community a notch higher

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than in previous years. Speaking about the show, Rahul Chopra, director, editorial, Open Source For You magazine, says, “This edition of OSI saw a good turnout of the CIO community, both as speakers and as audience members. We saw IT decision-

makers from some of the biggest companies like GlobalLogic, RedBus, Flipkart and Kotak Bank, share their success stories of open source technology deployments. We also saw a huge turnout of IT decision-makers in the audience, who were present at the show to understand how their peers view the latest developments in technology. Going by the adage that seeing is believing, we thought that propagating open source technologies by showing some use cases would make it easier for the audience to believe that the technology is actually being adopted at various levels. This development was much appreciated by the audience and has been a crowd-puller for the show this year.”

Hands-on dabbling with technologyOpen Source India is now a platform where technology is not only discussed, but practised too. OSI 2015 saw 16 hands-on workshops being conducted in a span of two days. It should be noted that most of the workshops were sold out before the show began. Ganesh Samarthyam, corporate trainer, consultant and author, who has been conducting workshops at Open Source India for two years now, witnessed a huge turnout at his workshop titled, ‘Software Architecture: Principles, Patterns, and Practices’. Samarthyam says, “I have attended

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There’s a huge network of tech professionals associated with Open Source For You magazine, who are approached and encouraged to speak about the latest and the greatest in technologies; they put across their presentations through a ‘Call for papers’ exercise.

Rahul Chopra emphasises, “While our team works extensively to bring in the industry experts for the show, we make equal attempts to reach out to the community and encourage them to participate in the show. This year, we received hundreds of requests from community experts who wanted to speak. Our expert committee then screened their papers and decided on the speakers, keeping in mind the direction of the content decided upon earlier. We strive to make OSI a platform where people can get a glimpse of successful as well as upcoming technological trends for the next year. We want to keep the futuristic approach and, I feel, we succeeded in that too. The IoT track, for instance, was added this year. IoT is one domain which is creating a buzz and open source is poised to rule in it. We got a great response for the IoT track from the audience as well as the speakers.”

OSI 2015 signed off on a positive note, keeping the spirit of open source alive and with the promise to come back in a bigger and better avatar.

previous editions of OSI as well, and I can say that the show is growing with every passing year. About 65-70 people attended my workshop, and they ranged from fresh engineers to experienced professionals. At Open Source India, the audience mix is very interesting. While on the one hand, we get to meet the fresh blood, on the other, the experienced guys bring in the balance to the show. Also, I would like to mention that the show was very well organised.”

Jacob Singh, country head, Acquia, India, who has been a presenter at the show for several editions in the past, appreciated the way OSI 2015 was organised. He says, “This edition’s show witnessed a quality turnout and the workshop I conducted was completely packed. The show was better organised compared to the previous editions. I have been at several international shows and I can vouch that OSI is at par with them. The only thing I feel needs improvement is that there should be a 15-minute break between two sessions. This will give a breather to the audience and will be advantageous for the exhibitors as well.”

The latest in technologyHow is the content of OSI planned, you may ask. Well, there’s a panel of experts in technology involved in the process. The industry and community experts brainstorm to zero in on what should be the direction of the show from the content perspective.

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Drupal 8 in a DayThis workshop allowed the attendees to get a thorough introduction to Drupal 8 in one day. Jacob Singh, country head, Acquia, India, talked about the most essential features and concepts of Drupal while taking his audience through a series of hands-on activities. Attendees got an opportunity to get familiar with Drupal terminology and identify how Drupal sites are constructed.

Software Architecture: Principles, Patterns and PracticesThis workshop introduced developers and designers to key topics in software architecture including architectural principles, constraints, non-functional requirements (NFRs), architectural styles and design patterns, viewpoints and perspectives, and architecture tools. A special feature of this workshop was that it covered examples and case studies from open source applications.

Shifting to Functional Programming: Lambdas for Java DevelopersFunctional programming is on the rise. Almost all major and mainstream languages support functional programming features, including C++, Java, Swift, Python and Visual Basic. With Java 8’s lambda functions, Java now supports functional programming. Moving to functional programming can result in significantly

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FOSS for EveryoneThis half-day track comprised multiple sessions on the use of FOSS and covered some interesting topics including transforming customer engagement with open source DBMS, open source licensing in the cloud age, innovation with open source adoption, IBM’s relationship with open source that spans decades, etc.

The CloudThis was a half-day track with multiple sessions on how to choose the best cloud solution and the latest developments in cloud solutions. Topics covered in this track included: ‘DevOps – The New Paradigm in Business IT, Powered by Open Source’, ‘Simplified Multi-cloud Management’, ‘IBM Bluemix and Docker Containers’, ‘Redefine Your Cloud Storage with OpenSource’ and ‘Architecting the Cloud Journey’.

Mobile App DevelopmentThis half-day track had multiple sessions on what’s hot on the mobile development front. Some of the topics covered in the track included ‘The Open Source Tizen Platform and Smartphones’, ‘Grommet – The UX Framework for Enterprise Applications’,

Key workshops @ osI days 2015

Key tracks@ osI days 2015‘Mobile DevOps: What, Why and How?’ and ‘Cross Platform Mobile Analytics with Mobile Engagement’.

IT InfrastructureIn this half-day track the audience met the experts in IT infra management. Topics included‘Manage the IT Infrastructure Effectively’, ‘Building the Enterprise Ecosystem with Oracle: Oracle Linux’, ‘Building Enterprise Applications with Asterisk’ and ‘Provisioning of Hadoop on Hyper Converged Infrastructure.’

Success StoriesOpen Source has helped organisations save a lot of money. This full-day track had IT decision-makers share their success stories with open source. Some of the key speakers in the track included Ashwin Khorana, CTO, Kotak Bank; Srijon Biswas, Flipkart; Anoop Menon, CTO, RedBus; Piyush Jha, AVP, product engineering, CSM, GlobalLogic; and Susheel Zaveri, CTO, 24X7.

better code and productivity gains. However, it requires a paradigm shift — you need to move away from imperative and object-oriented thinking to start thinking functionally. That’s what this workshop helped achieve. It helped the attendees make this shift towards functional programming. The workshop introduced lambda functions in Java with examples from the Java library itself.

IoT: An Introduction and Getting Started IoT is an evolving field. The purpose of the workshop was to present a current technological snapshot. The architectures, protocols, processors as well as sensors and actuators in use today were looked into. Free source development tools introduced in an earlier lecture were further discussed in the context of the overall ecosystem. A simple demo application and its development was taken

up to illustrate the typical development process..

Getting your Hands Dirty with the DevOps Tool ChainThis workshop targeted developers or system admins, who longed to try their hands at the DevOps tool chain. It introduced the attendees to the approach for managing infrastructure as a code.

Tizen Web App Development – a Hands-on SessionThis workshop included an introduction to the Tizen SDK/IDE and tools – a hands-on session to develop a simple Web application and showcase the sample code usage of multimedia and location APIs.

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01: Rahul Chopra, editor, OSFY, inaugurating OSI 201502: People interacting at Microsoft booth03: The early morning rush for registrations04: Pradeep Balachandran, programme director, IBM, talking about

IBM and open source - a relationship spanning decades!05: Balaji Kesavaraj, director, platform strategy for Microsoft India,

expressing his views06: Attendees engrossed in an interesting talk07: Sandeep Alur, director - technical evangelism, Microsoft India,

giving the keynote talk08: The expo area

09: Lux Rao, CTO, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise talks on ‘DevOps – The New Paradigm in Business IT Powered by Open Source’

10. JPG: Jacob Singh, country head, Acquia, interacting with the audience during his workshop on ‘Drupal 8 in a Day’

11: S.G. Ganesh, corporate trainer and independent consultant, conducting a workshop on ‘Software Architecture: Principles, Patterns, and Practices’

12: People at IBM booth13: Hema Senthilkumar, senior tech evangelist, Microsoft, sharing her

views on ‘Simplified Multi-Cloud Management’ 14: Attending to enquiries at the *astTECS booth15: People at FOSS workshop booth16: Dr Aloknath De, CTO, Samsung, speaks on the open source Tizen platform and smartphones


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17: Anil Bidari, founder and CEO of Cloud Enabled, talking on ‘Redefine Your Cloud Storage with Open Source’

18: Rajesh K. Jeyapaul, IBM, giving a talk on IBM Bluemix and Docker Containers19: Abhishek Narain, technical evangelist, Microsoft, talking about ‘Cross-Platform

Mobile Analytics with Mobile Engagement’20: Jitesh Trivedi, software specialist, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, sharing his views

on ‘Grommet – The UX Framework for Enterprise Applications21: Nitin Mishra, senior VP, Netmagic, speaking on ‘Architecting the Cloud Journey’22: Gnanapriya C., associate VP and principal architect, Infosys, shares her opinion

on ‘Innovation with Open Source Adoption’23: Karthik Padmanabhan, executive, cloud ecosystem and developers, IBM Asia

Pacific, sharing his thoughts during a keynote session24: Pooja Maheshwari, enterprise mobility evangelist, speaking on ‘Mobile DevOps:

What, Why and How?’

25: Sanil Kumar D., lead, software architecture team, Huawei, talking about the Linux kernel and the ARM 64 server ecosystem

26: Amar Chigteri, manager, National Alliances, EDB, during his talk on ‘Transforming Customer Engagement with Open Source DBMS’

27: Nitin Mehta, principal technical consultant, MySQL, conducting a workshop28: Debasis Das, ECD Zone, sharing his views on ‘The Development

Ecosystem in the Open Source for IoT’29: Sathya Ravi Kiran Kankipati talking on the ‘Linux Kernel and HPC’30: Aahit Gaba, counsel for software, cloud and open source at Hewlett-Packard,

enlightened the audience on ‘Open Source Licensing in the Cloud Age’31: Vikas Parashar, principle consultant, ScaleMonks, conducting a workshop on Big Data32: Saurabh Kirtani, technology evangelist, Microsoft, giving a talk on

building IoT solutions powered by Python and the cloud


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33: Anand Pai, scientist, ISRO, during his talk on ‘Linux Implementation of the Real-time Thruster Driver Interface for the Mars Orbiter’

34: Madhusudhan Mahale, head, engineering solutions, Webaroo, sharing his views on IoT device as an user on messaging platforms

35: Neependra Khare, Red Hat, speaking on ‘Doing DevOps with OpenStack and Docker’36: Narasimha Swamy, principal engineer, Samsung, sharing his views on ‘Contributing

to Tizen: An Open Source based IoT platform’37: Anurup M., Huawei, sharing details about ‘Performance Analysis on Linux’38: Jaydip Sanyal, open source leader at Wipro Technologies, sharing his views during

his keynote session.39: L.R. Prakash, director, C-DAC, Chennai, talked about ‘Challenges in Implementing

Open Source in the Government Sector’40: K.B. Shivkumar, founder and CTO, IndiQus Technologies Pvt Ltd, conducting a

workshop on ‘Building a Cloud in a Day’

41: Ashwin Khorana, CTO, Kotak Bank, talking about ‘Open Source Technologies in a Business Environment’

42: Dibya Prakash, CTO, ECDZone, conducting a workshop on ‘Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development’

43: Abhishek Dwivedi, director technology, Cimpress, during his talk on ‘Rapid Prototyping Client-Side Apps’

44: Parmeshwar Prasad, Dell, talking about ‘ESRT- The Game Changer Introduced in Kernel-4.2’

45: S. Sujatha, a member of the MySQL engineering team, speaking on ‘Replication Enhancements in MySQL 5.7’

46: Arjun Shenoy, LinkedIn, talking on Simoorg47: Monojit Basu, founder and director, TechYugadi IT Solutions

& Consulting conducted a workshop48: Srijon Biswas, Flipkart, sharing his views on ‘Success with Open Source in

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49: Ryusuke Kajiyama, Senior Manager Sales Consulting, APAC, speaking during the keynote.

50: Kamal Dodeja, Oracle India, talking on ‘Building the Enterprise Ecosystem with Oracle Linux’

51: Ritesh Kumar, Oracle India, talking about Oracle Linux52: Piyush Jha, AVP, product engineering, GlobalLogic, sharing his views on ‘Open

Source Technologies as an Enabler for Retail Solutions’53: Dr Devasia Kurian, CEO, *astTECS, talking on ‘Building Enterprise

Applications with Asterisk’54: Karthikeyan Rajendran, technology specialist, SUSE, speaking on

‘Managing the IT Infrastructure Effectively’55: A workshop on ‘Liferay 7.0: The Next Big thing in Digital

Transformation’ in progress56: Sanjay Manwani, director, MySQL India, speaking during the

keynote session on ‘The State of the Dolphin’

57: Janardan Revuru, technical manager, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, talking on ‘JavaScript - The New Parts’

58: Irfan Rehman. Senior System Architect, Huawei, talking about ‘Redis Service with Kubernetes and Mesos’

59: Megha Singhvi, principal technical consultant, MySQL, speaking on ‘The Scalability Axes of MySQL Architectures’

60: Anoop Menon, CTO, RedBus, talks about the successful implementation of open source in the company

61: Susheel Zaveri, CTO, 24X7, talking about ‘Detecting Data Anomalies and Avoiding Business Disruptions’

62: Avinash Bendigeri, Dell, talking about ‘Provisioning of Hadoop on Hyper Converged Infrastructure’

63: Shubhra Rana, Dell, talking about ‘Provisioning of Hadoop on Hyper Converged Infrastructure’

64: Nishant Sahay, architect and Prajod Vettiyattil, architect, Wipro, speaking on ‘Apache Cassandra and Python: For Streaming Big Data’



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