Open Source India Week 2008 (aka LinuxAsia) | 11th-15th Feb, 2008 |Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi

Partners


Canaan Partners Knowledge Partner

About Canaan Partners Canaan Partners invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides them the networks, insights and operational guidance required to build high-performance technology and healthcare companies. For 20 years, they have taken an active and committed role in the companies in which they invest, and have completed more than 69 mergers and acquisitions and 53 IPOs. With $3 billion under management and a worldwide footprint, the firm's technology team is committed to catalyzing the growth of innovative companies in the digital media, communications & mobility, enterprise and clean tech industries. Among its successes are DoubleClick, the leading online advertising solution, Match.com, the most popular online dating site in the world, CommerceOne, the company that pioneered B2B ecommerce; Capstone Turbine, first to market and world's leading producer of commercially viable microturbine energy products; and VOIP equipment supplier Acme Packet, which was one of the top ten performing tech IPOs of 2006. Other Canaan technology investments include Active Networks, BharatMatrimony, Blurb, Cortina, GroundWorks, ID Analytics, Tremor Media and SuccessFactors. Canaan has offices in California, Connecticut, India and Israel. For more information visit: www.canaan.com.

CIOL Media Partner

CyberMedia India Online Ltd., (CIOL) set up in 1996 is South Asia's first and largest IT portal. CIOL has 12 network sites and carries over 5000 pages of IT content every month. The site’s page views are in the order of 10 million every month and accounts for unique visitors base of 8 lakh a month. It addresses the IT and business information needs of IT Professionals, Business owners, Large enterprises, Small and medium businesses, Government and Public sectors, Software companies through its multiple targeted initiatives. CIOL 's coverage of "IT News as it happens", today, makes it a popular and must go daily online IT destination. CIOL vast subscriber base has 300,000 registered surfers and users. CIOL offers its customers interactive communication solutions, lead generation programs, awareness building campaigns, Online Direct Marketing and Marketing Data capturing services online. CIOL comes from the CyberMedia group.

ed-media Knowledge Partner

ed-media was founded in November 2000 in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern at the Zweibrücken location. Based on the expierences of the conception and development of the long distance study "Sales Engineer" including the new media (Computer-based Training, Internet care, web group assignments) the Institution has the following tasks: -Design of Computer-based and Web-based Trainings for the use in higher education, studies and further education. -Development of concepts for the use of new media in studies and further education. -Seminars, training programmes and further education events.

Efytimes.com Media Partner

Leading technology all the way, get the latest tech news! Living in the computer technology world, we have developed ourselves to be paced and competitive as per our life demands. Being ahead in each and every field serves our endless dreams to be fulfilled. Using latest technology and devices makes us more techy and powerful. And to run in parallel with all the technologies and environment we need latest computer technology news and tech news. To have, over the edge advantage these latest technology and tech news are integral part of our lives. We at Efytimes understanding all the need and desire of our readers, offers you with the latest computer technology news. From each and every sector, from all branded computer technology companies we gather latest tech news and publish it for your benefit. Being more computer technology prone and addicted to latest technology, we can’t take any chances of missing single tech news. Latest happening in computer technology, latest technology trends, and latest tech scenarios all adds up to give us a competitive advantage. And all together provide us with latest computer technology news and updations. Growing is part of our life but growing with latest computer technology makes us more intellectual and builds our stamina to face the world. And the major player which supports us in this is the latest computer technology and tech news. We at Efytimes make sure that all these latest technology news reaches you as they are out of the box. You never miss single tech news. Come and join hands with us in making your life more successful.

Express Computer Media Partner

The Express Group is one of the nation's largest media conglomerates with a wide selection of publications and a network of offices spread across the length and breadth of the country. Growing in strength from a single edition to 29 national editions and 3 language dailies that reach over 5 million across the country. The Express Group publications include the Indian Express, Financial Express, Loksatta and the highly respected Bollywood weekly - Screen among others. Today, The Express Group boasts an extensive newsgathering and marketing infrastructure as well as a state-of-the-art communications network within the Indian publishing industry

Tehelka Media Partner

Independent, fearless and committed to public interest journalism, Tehelka is today the fastest growing English weekly magazine in the country. It has very quickly established an enviable reputation – national and international - for the quality of its reportage, the eminence of its writers plus the refinement of its analyses and ideas. Tehelka is also the only publication that continually creates a strong space for the voice of the neglected and underprivileged, and increasingly influences decision makers in the country. A pioneer of sting journalism in India, Tehelka has broken many national stories that exposed the truth about - "match fixing in cricket", "corruption in defence deals ","peadophilia in Goa","Jessica Lal", "Zaheera Sheikh" and more recently " the Nithari killings ", which was carried as a Tehelka special on Star News. As a part of its Critical Futures initiative, Tehelka organised the Summit of the Powerless last year, a 2 day event attended by top political, business and people's movement leaders, where issues ranging from naxalism, Kashmir to the North East were debated. The President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam inaugurated the Summit and also delivered the Keynote address. Following its success, Tehelka then organised a mini summit on Education, to discuss important issues. In June 2007 Tehelka organised The Challenge of India, a 2 day summit in London attended by top Indian and British politicians and thinkers, along with Art for Freedom, an ambitious art auction with top Indian artists participating. Tehelka has firmly and truly established itself as a people’s media house. With public interest journalism, Tehelka has earned unmatched credibility and brand recall. The new look Tehelka may be smaller in size but has been bigger in impact. Also brighter, crisper, more unputdownable. Tehelka - subscribe to the truth.

Tetra Information Services Knowledge Partner

Starting out in 1996, Tetra is headquartered in Delhi, India. Focus area of Tetra is around Open Source.Tetra is known world over for its IT infrastructure and business ready solutions, apart from the numerous successful Open Source Projects. Tetra is present in 3 major cities in India, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai and has offices in every continent, Athens(Greece), Almaty(Kazakhstan), Sydney(Australia), Johannesburg(South Africa), Dubai(United Arab Emirates), London(UK) and Michigan and Indianapolis(USA). With its mission of being the “One Stop Source for all Open Source needs”, Tetra provides services in various formats ranging from Outsourcing, Consultancy & Pilot projects, Migration & Porting, Software development, Training, Remote management and many more.

The Society for Promotion of e-Governance (SPEG) Knowledge Partner

The Society for Promotion of e-Governance (SPEG) is a think tank and mission mode organization, promoted by senior IT and e-Government Practitioners, bureaucrats and legal experts as its founder members. SPEG has been engaged in research, knowledge management, community building projects in Asia and Europe. The organization has actively participated in the e-Government policy deliberations of Malaysia, Nepal and European Union over past three years and has partners in Europe and South East Asia for accelerating e-Government initiatives. The organizations has published and presented research papers on various national and international forums.