Posts by Atul Chitnis
It’s raining FOSS events! (February Edition)
Seriously, I have no clue why everyone feels like February and March are the *perfect* months for holding a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) event. Not only does it make it extremely difficult to choose which ones to attend, it leaves the rest of the year (all the way to the end, when FOSS.IN [...]
At IIT Bombay this weekend
Tomorrow morning, I am off to Mumbai, to participate at IIT Bombay’s Techfest. Tomorrow (i.e. Saturday, the 26th, at 2pm in the Lecture Theatre) I will be in a panel discussion with Jon “Maddog” Hall and Venkatesh Hariharan. No idea whether this is open to the public, but apparently, the session will be broadcast on [...]
Off to PROTO.IN
This evening, I fly off to Chennai, to attend PROTO.IN – an event I always look forward to. This time, I find myself in the unexpected situation of giving the opening talk – “India a Technology Leader – Possible?”. While it seemed like a dry topic to me when I first looked at it, I [...]
New Year Report 2008
And so another year has passed us by, and it is now 2008. A few friends wrote in, asking why I am not doing what everyone else does – make predictions, resolutions, etc. I’d rather take my time on that, so for now, my one prediction for 2008 is that all predictions will turn out [...]
The Christmas Report
Ah well, it’s Christmas. Joy to the world, peace and harmony to all! It’s been an unusual one for me this year. After the unbelievable success of FOSS.IN/2007, I went from high-frantic-activity-mode to almost completely comatose in a matter of days. Instead of the planned short and much needed holiday to Goa that I had [...]
Slipping through my fingers…
Today is my daughter Geetanjali’s last day of attending classes at the school she has been in for the past 14 years. We saw her off at the bus stop, just as we did on the first day all those years ago, when she joined that quaint little school in the middle of nowhere, which [...]
FOSS.IN Posters (and more)
Someone pointed out that everyone is writing about the FOSS.IN posters in their blogs and journals – except me. Well, every year, Team FOSS.IN brings out some promotional posters for the event. This year, we decided to focus on people and a message – the message being that one should contribute to FOSS. And as [...]
FOSS.IN/2007 Updates
Some updates from the FOSS.IN trenches – Delegate registration is now open here. – Volunteer registration is now open here. – Posters released here – thanks, Hari! And the fun is beginning to escalate – tons of people are actively planning activities for the event. Lightning Talks, BoFs, Corridor Meets, Stickers, T-shirts, FOSS project stalls, [...]
How to pronounce FOSS.IN
We just posted this on the FOSS.IN/2007 site, but I thought I’d post this in my journal as well, since not everyone is subscribed to the FOSS.IN RSS Feed: We simply *have* to put out this post before we go completely nuts! Throughout the year, we run into people who talk about the event, but [...]
FOSS.IN/2007: The first list (and why it is so hard)
If you have been following the FOSS.IN/2007 saga, you know that we chose to do a CfP Restart rather than compromise on the objectives of the event. The CfP finally closed on October 20th, and we have been spending the past week weeding through 300 talk submissions, choosing talks that were closest to what we [...]