On the track

Its been 2 months since I blogged, was much busy in my final presentations of DSD (Distributed Software Development). A very nice final demo, in which all the prof’s were very pleased. Expecting excellent grades from this subject.

After the completion of that subject marked the end of Semester 1. A very happy smiling faces all through every people, with the temperature also shooting to bit more higher level at -12 degree C (Earlier it was -30 degree C ) adding cherry on the frozen cake

Good things doesn’t last long and again thesis (the main hurdle) comes forward. Its a thesis at Ericsson and the topic is also quite interesting. For the first part of it I was trying hard from the last few days to recompile the kernel to install LTTng.  Presently working on a Ubuntu 9.10 virtual box (as because it is same as Uni lab) and after 3 days of kernel panics, clock synchronization errors, blank screens while booting finally and successfully installed LTTng kernel and Control packages. Excellent tool to use and seeing the trace results makes you feel more good.

At present LTTng happily, am working on the document for LTTng Installation along with the problems faced by me, and also use of certain kernel patching tools like quilt.

Will blog soon taking time from my hectic but awesomely interesting thesis work , ciao

From Thursday night coding for the Distributed Software Development project. PHP being something new which I was using for this project and so it took bit time to learn it but thanks to Google and some ebooks I learnt how to work on it. All the 4 modules of our project assigned to me were completed by the start of Saturday morning. I didn’t sleep for Thursday night and Friday half night though :). All standalone modules were working really very good and at last on Saturday (after Thursday night) I moved out to meet my project team at the University. We started integration but I don’t know why every module just after integrating inside the CakePHP framework was getting beaten badly. All the conventions and all are being followed still some strange variable mapping errors are given while specially integrating Google maps and Forums. Whole night have passed through .. no sleep and food (had just 1 apple) and still struggling. We have to present this on Monday and so all are worried and working day IN night OUT to complete the project.

Hopefully Integration works out well for us and we be one of the successful teams to demonstrate the complete project in BETA release

At last I was able to do internet through a adhoc connection set up in Windows 7 from my F11. But still the problem is there for a secure adhoc connection. nm-applet crashes every time you try and connect a secure adhoc connection. But as of now I am atleast connected with an adhoc unsecured network and the best part is to access internet through it. I have filled a bug regarding the secure adhoc connection problem in bugzilla. Lets hope it gets fixed in F12.

Not letting anybody to start guessing on what is the title meant for, actually I completed one of my scheduled courses for MS studies. Today was the last day of the course and we literally had to write a research paper and present it in Mini conference where all the professors’ were rating us. Never did actually found such a interactive class session earlier. After we completed the presentation there was a lots and lots of questions from the audience which was very interesting to answer. Faced a huge lot of crowd and presenting in front of them needed me to prepare it for three time yesterday night till 4:30 am. The preparation requirements was mainly as because I had to narrow down my presentation within 15 minutes

Loved this new kinda experience. Now as this is over I should get back to programming in OCL.

Long time since FOSS.IN at 2008, didn’t sit up for writing blogs. I was not too busy in between, but something or the other happened I don’t know due to which I was away from my E - diary or the blog. FOSS.IN this year is around the corner starting in December this time, but I am at Sweden now. To brief you my journey during this whole year which I missed writing blogs, I didn’t had a smooth one. During December 2008 or so decided to contribute to Sugar, for which I started working on just before the FOSS … but like most of my plans this also didn’t last longer, though this time it had some different reasons. Some personal reasons and points came up deciding to which I thought of starting my MBA preparation. MBA studies are tough and getting into it is more tougher. After hectic and stretched office hours, believe me you don’t feel like doing anything, forget OLPC, Sugar, Fedora. For some difference tried to study hard for MBA entrances and was gaining confidence as the days were moving on. Suddenly one day during mid May in the inside portal of TCS (the company which i work for) there was a advertisement for studying MS in Sweden for 10 TCS’ers. It would be a TCS sponsored event and there will be a bond of 2 years after the completion of MS. I also applied like several others , though initially there was a hiccup about I should go for MS or continue with study for MBA’s. After 3 rounds of interview got selected in the month of July for MS at Sweden and now here I am doing my MS in Software Engineering. During this turmoil my Open Source contribution activities took a major dip (just few rpm packages and few contributions here and there) and that’s why for some reason lost my fedora people account though my FAS account still stays active. Too much pressurized classes went from August till now where everyday I sleep for maximum 4 hrs. Lunch is delayed till evening 7 and Dinner starts at night 2:30.

Though there is a lot of pressure from all sides regarding many things, but that’s life and U can’t complain regarding it. Life has changed a lot, but suddenly seeing my lack of Open source activities and thus getting much far from the community makes me sad. I have to regain back the lost arena or else bear the sadness which I can’t. Lets hope to find a more successful, motivated Soumya than earlier … Amen

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 ……………….