It was after a bit long time I am writing this. The main update is that, I changed the blog template today. Change from blue-black combo to black and white. The new look is a little modified version of Jillij. I made it a little wider to suit the 1024 * x resolution. It is a very simple and soft-eye theme with single column layout and I liked it very much.
After Fossmeet@NITC the life got tied mostly with office works and I didn’t get much time to blog or play with FOSS seriously. My lappy was almost sleeping these days. Now a bit relaxed after busy office schedule and planning to do something useful to me and the community. Have to look in to some ideas soon.
My first Free Software event of the year was “Insignia 3.0 – Hackerdom” held at Govt. Engineering Collage, Thrissur. It was a pretty good experience with fistful of nice hacking sessions.
DAY 1
The keynote speech was given by Krishnakant Mane (Friends call him KK), who is a physically challenged hacker. He is blind by birth but he use computer as a normal person and contributes to various free software projects with the help of screen reading software “Orca”.
Keynote Speech by Krishnakant Mane
Sujith Haridasan came up with another hacking workshop with CHDK ( Canon Hacking Development Kit). Which is a firmware run in Canon cameras to extend the functionality. He showed sone tricks like printing “hello world” on camera screen and blinking the LEDs etc…
Sujith Hands on CHDK
After that Arun from SPACE and KK moderated a Open Discussion on Insight – The project which helps blind people to use computer. He also demonstrated how he uses computer for hacking with the help orca.
Arun and KK – Open Discussion on Insight
DAY 2
On Day 2 I was a little late due to some reasons, and when I reached the venue, Juan’s session was half on the way.
Another interesting personality was Juan Carlos Gentile who took a fabulous session on “Free Music”. He has been using Free Software for many years for video and audio processing
Juan on “Free Music”
I have attended a workshop session on “Blender” the Free 3D modeling tool using which “Elephant’s Dream and “Big Buck Bunny” was created. The session was taken by Sadik
Sadeek – The Blender Geek
DAY 3
The Sessions I could attend on the last day were “Entrepreneurship and Freedom” by Anoop John and “Hacker Culture” by Anivar Aravind
AJ on the way
In general the event was a good one, Informative and most important factor I noticed was that, Media is now understanding the word “Hacker” correctly which is extremely a happy news because it became a routine of media to use the word hacker in place of cracker.
Congratulations to the Hackerdom Team and Happy Hacking
PS:- All the photos posted here are taken in Sujith’s CHDK camera by either Sujith or Me . More photos are available here
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