About Us

“Debian is the Universal Operating System of the users, by the users, for the users.”

— Anonymous

DebConf is the annual Debian conference which is held in a different country every year. DebConf15 will be held in Heidelberg, Germany in August 2015.

MiniDebConfs are local meetings organized by Debian project members to achieve similar objectives to those of the DebConf, but on a regional context.

Hardware Freedom Day (HFD) is a worldwide celebration of Open Hardware. Initiated in 2012 by the same organization behind Software Freedom Day, it aims at educating the worldwide public about the benefits of using and promoting Open Hardware.

Why Attend ?

A mini-DebConf is an awesome opportunity for any user who wants to experience the magic of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Here you can meet the veterans in FOSS development, develop professional connections which will help you in future, chat with contributors who can guide you, present in front of a grand audience and most importantly, grasp the essence of FOSS development. It is indeed a ‘never miss’ opportunity that will give you a strong foundation to build on!

Schedule

DAY 1 — 17/01/2015

Time LC001 LT001 LT002
09:00 Registration starts and is available on both the days Registration starts and is available on both the days Registration starts and is available on both the days
09:30 Inauguration of the Mini-DebConf Mumbai 2015 — Kumar Appaiah    
10:00 – 11:00 Keynote Session — Venkatesh Hariharan    
11:00 – 11:15 Tea Break Tea Break Tea Break
11:15 – 12:00 Open Source Security with Kali Linux — Rizwan Shaikh Open Hardware — Warranty NOT void if opened — Anool Mahidharia (HFD) Debian History and Debian Cycle — Shirish Agarwal
Key-signing Party
12:00 – 13:00 Open Source Security with Kali Linux — Rizwan Shaikh Debian and the BeagleBone Black — Raju Vindane (HFD) Debian 'In' India — Kartik Mistry
Future Directions for Debian—IN — Jaldhar Vyas
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Open Source Security with Kali Linux — Rizwan Shaikh Lil'Debi: Running Debian on Android — Kumar Sukhani (HFD) Mobile Hacking & Mobile Forensics — Sachin Dedhiya
15:00 – 16:00 Open Source Security with Kali Linux — Rizwan Shaikh Debian on ARM — Siji Sunny (HFD) Cyber Crime in India & Digital Forensics — Sachin Dedhiya
16:00 – 16:30     Cyber Crime in India & Digital Forensics — Sachin Dedhiya
16:30 – 16:45 Tea Break Tea Break Tea Break
16:45 – 17:30 AppStream / DEP-11 for the Debian Archive — Abhishek Bhattacharjee Introduction to Raspbian: A Raspberry Pi flavor of Debian — Rahul Mahale (HFD) Cyber Crime in India & Digital Forensics — Sachin Dedhiya

 

DAY 2 — 18/01/2015

Time LC001 LT001 LT002
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote Session — Kannan Moudgalya    
10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break Tea Break Tea Break
10:15 – 11:00 Open Source Security with Kali Linux — Rizwan Shaikh Debian Packaging — Praveen A Gnome Shell Accessibility with Orca — Krishnakant Mane
11:00 – 12:00 Open Source Security with Kali Linux — Rizwan Shaikh Debian Packaging — Praveen A Rust: The memory safe programming language — Manish Goregaokar
12:00 – 13:00 Open Source Security with Kali Linux — Rizwan Shaikh Debian Packaging — Praveen A Building A Mail Server with Debian — Jaldhar Vyas
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Open Source Security with Kali Linux — Rizwan Shaikh Debian Packaging — Praveen A Lightning Talks
15:00 – 16:00 Open Source Security with Kali Linux — Rizwan Shaikh Debian Packaging — Praveen A Cyber Crime in India & Digital Forensics — Sachin Dedhiya
16:00 – 16:30   Debian Packaging — Praveen A Cyber Crime in India & Digital Forensics — Sachin Dedhiya
16:30 – 16:45 Tea Break Tea Break Tea Break
16:45 – 17:30 Introduction to Docker — Augustine Correa Debian Packaging — Praveen A Cyber Crime in India & Digital Forensics — Sachin Dedhiya

Speakers

The call for papers has ended on 8th January.

The final list of speakers is now available.

Venkatesh Hariharan

“Venkatesh Hariharan is Director of Alchemy Business Solutions LLP, an organization that focuses on leveraging technology for development. Hariharan has served as Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs with Google and as Corporate Affairs Director for Red Hat in the Asia-Pacific region. He has worked on key policy issues like open standards, software patents, open source in government, and Indian language computing.”

- Venkatesh Hariharan

Kannan Moudgalya

“Kannan Moudgalya is a professor of Chemical Engineering, Systems and Control, and Educational Technology at IIT Bombay. Kannan is now devoting his time on spreading education on a massive scale, without quality dilution. He has been focusing on spoken tutorials, open source software systems, virtual labs and the low cost tablet, Aakash.”

- Kannan Moudgalya

Jaldhar Vyas

“A long-time Debian Developer, Jaldhar Vyas is a Perl programmer and the owner of Consolidated Braincells Inc., which provides consulting for Perl, Web and Mobile development or Linux.”

- Jaldhar Vyas

Kumar Appaiah

“An Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Kumar is a free software enthusiast and tries to contribute bits of code to several free software projects. He is a Debian Developer and spend a lot of his time contributing to the Debian project, using Debian GNU/Linux for most of his work.”

- Kumar Appaiah

Rizwan Shaikh

“Rizwan Shaikh is a prominent Information Security Researcher and Cyber Crime Consultant with more than 7 years of experience in the meadow of Ethical Hacking, Information Security and Cyber Law. You can find more information about Rizwan on his website.”

- Rizwan Shaikh

Shirish Agrawal

“Software Professional having substantial experience of working with Free Software specifically Debian-based Distros.Give advocacy and Basic FOSS Trainings. Particularly interested to network and Work with FOSS-based businesses and individuals. Also enjoy debating over various copyleft licenses.”

- Shirish Agrawal

Praveen A

“Free Software Consultant with expertise on GNU/Linux, MySQL and HP OpenView Operations Smart Plug-In development.”

- Praveen A

Siji Sunny

“An Entrepreneur, Researcher and OpenSource enthusiast, Siji develops software and does research in various domains of Embedded Systems. He is the Director of Research Lab at MELabs, a Research and Development company working in the domain of Mobile & Embedded Computing.”

- Siji Sunny

Kartik Mistry

“Kartik Mistry is Debian developer since 2008 and has been contributing to many FOSS projects along with running and cycling. He loves to point everyone to his Gujarati blog whenever asked more about him.”

- Kartik Mistry

Krishnakant Mane

“A software engineery by profession, Krishnakant is an expert in Python with experience in Java. He is working as a IT adviser for many government projects. He is the Lead developer of GNUKhata.”

- Krishnakant Mane

Sachin Dedhia

“Sachin Dedhia is an independent Cyber Crime Investigator & also a Certified Ethical Hacker (EC-Council, USA). He has been working as a Cyber Crime Investigator and as a security expert for IT companies, Govt depts., Corporate & even individuals for many years. You can find more information about Sachin on his website.”

- Sachin Dedhia

Rahul Mahale

“An Open-Source Enthusiast and GNU/Linux user and promoter, currently working as a DevOps Engineer at TinyOwl Mumbai. You can know more about him at his blogTwitter and GitHub accounts.”

- Rahul Mahale

Abhishek Bhattacharjee

“An Associate Software Engineer at Symantec who loves programming, watching movies and listening to all kinds of music, from regional folk to western heavy metal. More information about his open-source projects can be found at his GitHub account.”

- Abhishek Bhattacharjee

Kumar Sukhani

“I am Kumar Sukhani, currently working at Cloudwalk. Lil'Debi was my GSOC project under Debian community and I also gave a talk about it at DebConf14, Portland. Check my Github for other open source contributions.”

- Kumar Sukhani

Raju Vindane

“An Engineering student at Dhole Patil COE, Pune, Raju Vindane has packaged rack-google-analytics for Debian while doing Debian packaging for Diaspora, a decentralized Social Network. He is involved in various open source projects for localisation, packaging etc.”

- Raju Vindane

Anool Mahidharia

“An Electrical Engineer by profession, Anool is working in the field of Test & Measurement at Lumetronics. He is one of the founder duo of WyoLum Emergents – a global group of Open Hardware enthusiasts. He is also the co-founder of Maker's Asylum, a community maker space.”

- Anool Mahidharia

Augustine Correa

“Techie, trekkie, foodie, indie. Solving issues one container at a time.”

- Augustine Correa

Manish Goregaokar

“A student at IIT Bombay, Manish is enthusiastic about open source. He is currently working with the Servo browser engine and the Rust programming language.”

- Manish Goregaokar

Sponsors

Please contact us on the Mini-DebConf India mailing list if you would like to sponsor the event.

Debian Community

Debian Community
Website

FOSSEE

FOSSEE
Website

Silver Arc Solutions

Silver Arc Solutions
Website

IdioticIdeas

IdioticIdeas
Website

Open Source For You

Open Source For You
Website

Digital Freedom Foundation

Digital Freedom Foundation
Website

Register

Register for the event at Eventbrite.

Registration is free of charge. Complimentary lunch will be provided. Spot registrations are subject to availability. Terms and Conditions apply.


Accommodation:

Hotel Tulip Residency

Saki Vihar Complex, Building No. 8,

Kamani Oil Mills Lane,

Chandivali, Saki Vihar Road, Powai,

Andheri (East), Mumbai - 400072.

Hotel Hotline/Manager: +91 7303843431

Hotel charges per day: ₹2000 for single, ₹2500 for double and ₹3000 for triple.

While booking, please mention that you are going to attend the "MiniDebConf - IIT Mumbai on 17-18 Jan", in order to avail the discounted prices.

Location

The event will be held at the Lecture Hall Complex, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, popularly known as IIT Bombay or IITB, is a public research university located in Powai, Mumbai. IITB has 14 departments, 10 multi-disciplinary centres, 3 schools of excellence and 3 inter-disciplinary groups, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research.

Directions:

Public Transport

Mumbai has a reliable public transport networked by Mumbai Suburban Railway, BEST Buses, Taxis and Auto rickshaws (Auto rickshaws, however do not ply further south than Sion and Bandra). The nearest suburban railway stations to IIT on the Central line (connecting CST, Dadar, Kurla, Thane, Kalyan) are Vikhroli and Kanjurmarg stations. The nearest station to IIT on the Western line (connecting Church-gate, Mumbai Central, Dadar, Bandra, Andheri, Borivali) is Andheri.

Suburban Railway Transport:

From CST Station/Dadar
Take a slow train on the Central line to Thane/Kalyan/Karjat. Get down at Vikhroli or Kanjurmarg station. Take an auto to IIT, Powai (fare up to Rs 30). Enter the campus from the Market gate (the first gate you come across). 

From Mumbai Central/Church-gate:
Take a fast or slow train on the Western line to Andheri/Borivali/Virar. Get down at Andheri Station and come towards the East side of the station. Take bus or auto (fare up to Rs 200) or taxi (fare up to Rs 350) to IIT, Powai . Enter the campus from the Main gate (the first gate you come across).

Alternatively, you can get down at Dadar station and change platform to the central line. Take a slow train on the line to Thane/Kalyan/Karjat. Get down at Vikhroli or Kanjurmarg station. Take an auto to IIT, Powai (fare upto Rs 30). Enter the campus from the Market gate (the first gate you come across).

If you come by Air:
International flights land at Sahar Airport which is about 8 kms from IIT. The Domestic Airport- at SantaCruz is about 12 kms. Its' best to take a Pre-paid taxi (costs about Rs 350 - 500 (US $ 8.00 -12.00) from Airport to IIT Bombay, Powai) available at the Airport to come to IIT. Auto rickshaws and regular taxis are also available at both the airports for reaching IIT, Powai.

For more information check: How to get to IITB

Map

Get directions with OpenStreetMap / Google Maps

Contact Us

If you would like to contact us or volunteer for the event, please get in touch on the Mini-DebConf India Mailing List. This website's code is available on GitHub.

Lecture Hall Complex
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai - 400076
Maharashtra, India