On the track

After listening to kushal as FOSS.IN 2005 always thought of moving there but unfortunate every time as my exams collided with the schedule. Finally I got a chance this time at FOSS.IN 2008.

1st Day at FOSS.IN started with kushal and me going to IISC campus at Bangalore (which is the venue for FOSS.IN). Got myself registered and just after that met familiar faces. There was a excitement lying within as this being my first FOSS.IN and I was yet to feel what actually happens at such kind of event. Me, Sayamindu and Kushal were roaming after the keynote got over. At last we found a place to sit/work/chat/relax, and that was the KDE booth. I met with Pradeepto for the 1st time there.

Rain started spoiling the show from the 2nd day@FOSS.IN. It affected badly on the no. of people attending FOSS.IN. Within 2nd day we already had deepen our roots at the KDE stall. Half of it was already Fedora booth . We literally glued Fedora posters all over our part of the stall , and started distributing Fedora stickers and F9 live cd’s. I attended talks on OLPC by Sayamindu and after lunch on Activity development in Sugar by Kushal. I video shooted the whole of Sayamindu’s talk which led my hands being senseless for the next 10 minutes. Got a KDE Tee shirt from Pradeepto

Day 3 we were all in Black KDE Tee’s. It was KDE Project of the day. I was there to attend the sessions on KDE started by Pradeepto, followed up by Sharan, Shashank and Adriaan. I and Kushal made a plan to prepare maps for Kgeography and so started the work after lunch in the KDE booth. The three OLPC’s at Fedora stall was really stealing the show. It was really a crowd puller. I too loved the XO’s. I really would like to have one for me. We continued our work on Kgeography and in between distributed stickers and Fedora goodies to the crowd.

4th Day we were the Men in Blue. All of us - me , kushal , mether , Sayamindu , Ramki , Pradeepto , Susmit and few others were dressed in the Blue Fedora tee shirt. We had a nice Fedora team picture which I will upload soon in Flickr. Kushal was preparing the “Meet the Contributors” videos and the “I am Fedora” videos. I was assisting him with the handycam. Day 4 ended with Adriaan giving us a treat at RR’s in Bangalore. Nice dinner , nice people , I was in love with FOSS.IN

Last day was mainly fun. We all had gossips/chat at the KDE/Fedora stall. We were moving in all places with the handycam and mike. Mainly Ramki and Pradeepto were with the mike and Kushal with the Camera. Random Questions , Random people and fun were all at the last day at FOSS.IN. The end keynote by Kalyan Varma left me spellbound and speechless which therefore added FOSS.IN to the core of my heart. I have been attending speeches and lectures from college life but this one left a mark on the mind. Hats off to Kalyan Varma for the end session keynote that day. I really thought it was mindblowing.

FOSS.IN 2008 for me was a really great experience. Meeting new people , attending sessions you like , BOF’s , Workouts are really the key nodes for FOSS.IN. Contributing something to the FOSS community on the spot and getting associated with projects you feel are something worth notable.

Through the blog I should also thank the organiser and the volunteers for the event. They really worked day and night to make this event onto where it is now.

FOSS.IN 2008 for me was a learning. This event gets into my yearly schedule of attendance.

Started playing with Sugar from this morning, really feels good. Just build and installed it, and thus before going into any serious stuffs just loving to use the emulation. Its really cool with all sorts of stuffs working in it. Looks like I have a virtualized OS in my F-9 Box.

Started contributing to OLPC, and the first thing was editing the wiki page of as some contents of it was still featuring the older release update.

Its good I started … Sugar is really sweet

Its 3.12 AM midnight here at India, at last successfully hacked up my own Powershot A620. I am now able to shoot and process raw images taken by it. Its a great experience of post processing the pictures taken by your own camera. I am loving it …!!!!

Thanks to chdk

In the meanwhile for a month I was not in touch with my blog and the preliminary reason this time being my visit to the native. If you are moving home after about a year, you feel like heaven and at any circumstances don’t want to be back. But your work, job , responsibilities drive you away from your home.

Coming to the point of today’s blog —–> Time for FOSS.IN
After the 2nd day of Barcamp rocked and got to know many people out, I really loved Barcamp. Now its time for FOSS.IN and somehow I managed for leave at my Office and am really excited anticipating the fun out here at FOSS.IN this time. Expecting much things from FOSS.IN, hopefully it will meet up my expectations.

So on the way to meet a lotta people and having a lotta fun.

I thought I would move from the BcB7 a bit early on the first day as I had something to do back at home. Just when I did thought of leaving, rain joined the party and I was not able to move out. It was a splendid sight of in front of IIMB as there was a strong rainbow (strongest I have ever seen) which led to another big rainbow over it.

Met with Deepa as she was taking pictures of the rainbow, after some interactions came to know that she’s born at Kolkata and was there for 16 years. She told me that she loves Kolkata. She could speak, write and read Bengali. Her native is Tamilnadu but she was born and brought up in Kolkata. Suddenly more than 2000 kms away from home hearing something like it makes you feel good and I got to know Rain casted a spell on me and as always it was for the good.

BcB7 day 1 ends ……………….  

Its now post lunch in Barcamp today. Some sessions are going on , but yah I am done with 2 sesions already , 1 more to go. Maximum mass here are ready to go for any sessions except technical may be thats the reason Barcamp has fewer and fewest Technical Brags talking here and gathering around. Ongoing in the Open Arena there’s some talk’s on sms journalism going on. A small grup attached to that too.

The things you like here is, everything you present or anything you have to say there will be many listening to you and will be the most ever remembered audience you have ever spoken too. Many persions are of college, many are in Jobs (middle aged persons) and many more are entrepreneur’s.

There are people who will always be very very friendly to you no matter what you ask, how stupoid a question you throw, or no matter how trivial matters it may be.  This time Mozilla being the sponsor of Barcamp, the food has gone much much better than BcB6 which i attended in April.

Missing Kushal here may be as he did always add a technical tingle to the sessions ongoing (If he attends :P)

My lappy is running on battery power and so though being provided Internet, running short of power consoles.

Will add to my Barcamp experience …….. more to come …

Writing blog after a month probably , this was due to my whole amount workloads and stretched office hrs of around 15 hrs and more. Neways suddenly saw Barcamp happening again , and where else you should be in these like events — Move to IIMB ( Venue for Barcamp Bangalore 7 ).

Greatly thrilled again in attending my 2nd Barcamp …. hopefully will be enjoying more than My first one.

Will miss Kushal Da though … as he was with me previous time. Expecting more and thrilled about tomorrow.  Will write after coming back ….

My Wireless started working again . I am really elated that though this initial kernel update( 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686 ) didn’t allow the wireless samely, but I thought of again enabling the livna-testing repo and whaO it worked

Hopefully any other new update of F9 kernel doesn’t take a toll on my wifi connection.

Something into web design, I am going through days with php and mysql wrapped up around /me. Totally occupied by my office hours really finding it hard to do. I have a portal to develop within next 15 days and I really don’t know how to cover it up within that.

Having my financial certification studies hand to hand ( typically disgusting and boring ). Too much stressed out as the company pays only when you complete it successfully, though I don’t like it still I have to do it.

Learning to package fedora stuffs and also trying my hands at translation.

All in all a little crunch situation

Kushal’s last day stay at Bangalore finally arrived. Never expected the day to arrive so soon. I didn’t feel like letting him go, as after a long run of 2 yrs again I catch hold of him finally at Bangalore Neways life doesn’t allow you to do the things you like and moreover its related to join a job that everyone dreams of, so Kushal is leaving by tomorrow morning’s flight to Pune. I am now at Kushal’s home, we are having a nice gossip session and tonight we are not planning to sleep, as usual. Tomorrow morning someone special is going with us to airport. Who’s the special, why is the person so special and etc etc doubts will be cleared by me in my next blog or rather forthcoming blogs

After dropping Kushal tomorrow I will update my blog, lets think what to write