Friday, February 24, 2012

Apache - Welcome back to Colombo

Apache BarCamp Colombo - Sri Lanka 2012

Apache BarCamp hits Colombo!. This time we deliver a number of keynotes and practical sessions that gives a complete introduction to Apache Projects and how to contribute to them. IT professionals and IT students are welcome and it's free!!

Date : Sunday 26th/ 27th Feb 2012 - 9 AM

Venue :

Day 1

Date : Sunday 26th Feb 2012 - 9 AM Venue : Prof. VK Samaranayake auditorium , University of Colombo School of Computing.

Day 2

Date : Monday 27th Feb 2012 - 9 AM Venue : Virtusa new office auditorium , Dr Danister De Silva Mawatha,Colombo 09. ( Dematagoda)

Day - 1

Key Note speakers

Sanjiva Weerawarana
Ross Gardler

Nick Burch


Practical sessions

Find your way to Apache contribution.
Practical demonstration for Apache project developers. ( Debugging , Find and fixing issues and patching process)

Panel discussion

How to prepare how GSoC 2012 with Apache projects.

Day - 2

Era of BigData

Sessions on Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop and Apache Chemistry.
Panel discussion on BigData

Apache BarCamp is a dynamic get together open to the public. Like other unconferences, the schedule will be determined by the participants. This time for the benefit of students and new Apache contributers we have scheduled number of presentations during morning sessions of both days. In first day we target to have awareness sessions above Apache project contribution and community building. BigData related Apache projects is the main focus ares of second day but your are free to add your own topic or projects. Whether you're an open source hacker, student, accademic, commercial coder, hobbyist, interested amateur or any one else, we'd love to have you along! We hope that we'll allow different people to connect, share ideas, introduce projects and have fun, in the academic, open source and business sectors.


Further there is a GSoC experience sharing discussion scheduled to have during the first day so that GSoC 2012 participants can hear from past GSoC participants and GSoC mentors.

Sponsors :

WSO2, Virtusa UCSC, ASF

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