I Missed Somthing Very Much during Foss.in

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Yes, It is true.

I saw more than hundred famous faces, but i can’t remember that much for a long time!!! I can’t share my experiences more effectively with you. Because I didn’t have a Camera.

I heard lots and lots of new terms, ethics, experiences, technologies… But I can’t share all with you as it is. I was not able to prepare notes on the go. Because, I didn’t have a Laptop.

Sorry About that… :-(

Day 4 @ Foss.in

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Final Day of Foss.in. Here ends the celebrations.

However the main target of the day was BoFs, I made myself available for the session by Andrew Cowie, “User to Hacker in 90 Minutes: The tools and techniques needed to actually contribute to Open Source”. Another excellent session that I enjoyed very much.

Sam Hocevar The Debian Project Leader described almost every ethical stuff of the Debian project and it’s Derivatives(Knoppix, Ubuntu etc) in his session titled “The Debian Project” in the afternoon.

The main attraction of the day was a guy named Tom Callaway who brought one OLPC(One Laptop Per Child) laptop to the venue. He introduced that laptop to everyone in the Fedora stall as his lunch box. It was funny to see the folks trying to open it. See Santhosh’s post to know more about OLPC laptop. Watch a funny shot here How to open an OLPC laptop.

BoFs, “Arts in FOSS” and “FOSS in Education”.

“FOSS in Education” started with an introduction to OLPC laptops by Tom. He described it’s working and it’s significance in primary education. The discussion was moderated by Anivar and Hiran and chaired by prof Nagarguna(President, FSF India).

The final session was a special one by Rusty Russel titled “Rusty and Friends” but it disappointed me a little because it hijacked the time of one of our scheduled BoF “Community == Developers?”.

Closing ceremony by team Foss.in

* THE END *
Here ends my first full foss.in experiences. Now its time to return to my home.

Day 3 @ Foss.in

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Fourth day at Foss.in. Second of Main Conference.

It Was a BoF day. Lots and lots of technical and ethical meetings are happened there in the BoF tents. But I was not ready to miss the two morning sessions. First one by Simon Phillips from sun microsystems topic titled “The Virtuous Cycle: Sun’s Philosophy and Strategy”. He pointed out the business tactics of Sun in Open Source Projects and how Sun makes money by utilizing the opensource philosophy.

Another lightning talk of the day, by Danese Cooper titled “Trucking with White Elephants – Corporate Employment in Open Source”. She is Advocate for FOSS now working in Intel Corp.

The main program in the afternoon was the Indlinux PowerBoF. Brain storming discussions towards making computers speak Indic languages. The moderator was Gora Mohanty. SMC done it’s part very well with participation as well as contribution.

In the evening we just wandered around through some streets of banglore city. Came home late after having dinner from a “Thattukada” near IISc campus.