TossConf25 - 🎤 Call for Speakers

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:microphone: Call for Speakers – TossConf25

Tamil Open Source Software Conference 2025

:date: Date: July 19, 2025
:round_pushpin: Venue: Location: Off, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Kamaraj Nagar, Semmancheri, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600119
:world_map: Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8b4cEB1uKFXeBGYF6
:globe_with_meridians: Theme: Celebrating and Spreading Awareness of Open Source Software in Tamil

We’re excited to announce TossConf25, Tamil Nadu’s dedicated Open Source Software Conference! This is a community driven event that celebrates open source projects, contributors, and the spirit of collaboration all with a regional flavor and native language inclusion :seedling:

We’re inviting passionate individuals from across the open source spectrum to submit talk proposals. Whether you’re a developer, sysadmin, contributor, educator, FOSS advocate, or student if you’ve got something interesting to share related to Open Source, we want to hear from you!

For queries please contact,

Syed Jafer - 9176409201
Thanga Ayyanar - 9597729724

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:clipboard: Speaker Proposal Template

Please fill out the following details

  1. Full Name:
  2. Email Address:
  3. Phone Number (Optional):
  4. Talk Title:
  5. Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines):
  6. Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced):
  7. Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins):
  8. Do you have a Linux machine? (Yes / No – If not, we can provide one)

For queries please contact,

Syed Jafer - 9176409201
Thanga Ayyanar - 9597729724

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  1. Full Name: Raju Kandaswamy

  2. Email Address: raju.kandasamy@gmail.com

  3. Phone Number (Optional):

  4. Talk Title: Building Tamil LLM/SLM the right way with right dataset

  5. Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines): Building an LLM for Tamil with the tools and methods invented for Western languages are not optimal. The basic building blocks for LLM/SLM training are the datasets and the tokenization. The Quality of these two determine the quality of ML training. In this session we discuss about the challenges in open Tamil dataset curation and tokenization. How to get to a state where the building blocks are driven by the fundamental grammatical constructs of Tamil language.

  6. Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced): All

  7. Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 45 mins

  8. Do you have a Linux machine? (Yes / No – If not, we can provide one): No

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Full Name: Naveen Kumar
Email Address: thilagar.naveen@gmail.com
Phone Number (Optional):
Talk Title: Speed It Up! Building Efficient Indexes in MongoDB
Short Description of the Talk (2–4 lines): Indexes in MongoDB are your best friend when it comes to optimizing performance. They are often misunderstood or overlooked. In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into the world of MongoDB indexes. You’ll learn the fundamentals of indexing, including types of indexes, how they impact query execution, and best practices for designing indexes
Target Audience (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced): All
Preferred Talk Duration (15 / 30 / 45 mins): 45 mins
Do you have a Linux machine? Yes

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