Posts by Atul Chitnis
FOSS.IN/2007: 48 hours left for talk submission
We have about 48 hours left before talk submission for FOSS.IN/2007 finally closes. At this point, I *still* have people asking me what kind of talk they should submit, or whether they should. Rather than say it myself, I will point you a post I made last year, which referred to Rusty Russel’s fabulous post. [...]
FOSS.IN/2007 – Talk Submissions close 20-Oct
If you plan to submit a talk to FOSS.IN/2007, please note that talk submissions close THIS SATURDAY, 20TH OF OCTOBER, at 23:59 GMT+0530. So go here, make sure that you have read the Call for Participation, and submit your talks! At 00:00am on Sunday morning, it will be too late.
FOSS.IN/2007: For those who came in late…
For those who came in late (or were just living under a rock for a while): FOSS.IN in India’s largest and probably best known Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) conferences, and is now spoken about as one of the the four primary, grassroot-level FOSS conferences in the world, the other three being being linux.conf.au, [...]
Special treatment, and FOSS.IN
OK, so I had it up to here with some of the mails I have been getting, with people asking whether they have to submit talks to FOSS.IN/2007 or whether (implied) they are big and famous enough to get selected directly, or whether they will be given keynotes, etc. Here is my reply. FOSS.IN focuses [...]
The Question
If you ever wanted to figure out what is holding back Linux (and FOSS) from people’s desktops, then you should probably read this. *Now*. Aaron Seigo (a past speaker at FOSS.IN), has really hammered it home, but without using the offensive approach the media usually uses when talking about Linux on the desktop (“as in [...]
The Violin Player
Back in the last century, Kishore Bhargava and I used to travel all over India, giving talks on data communication, the internet, BBSs, etc. While some people today comment that both of us are decent ad-hoc speakers and appear to be able to speak on any topic without any preparation, that is not really true [...]
Linux Can
Sometimes, when I am really down (which usually happens when things aren’t working the way they are supposed to – at work, at home or elsewhere), I turn on the music – loud. And one song that invariably picks me up and gets the adrenaline pumping again is good old “Linux Can!” – currently Tony [...]
Help!
Dear world, This is a rather painful post to make, but I see no way out but ask for help from the three people who read my diary on a sporadic basis. This is personal, and I’d rather not splatter it across the few planets that reproduce my posts, so please click below to see [...]
New item in the toybox
Mine.
FOSS.IN/2007 Event Announcement
The FOSS.IN/2007 Event Announcement is now out there – go read! Highlights: Event dates: 4-8 December (Tuesday through Saturday) Event venue: National Science Symposium Centre (NSSC), IISc, Bangalore. Format: Main Conference (6/7/8 Dec) and Project Days (4/5 Dec) New Stuff: HackCenter, Party@FOSS.IN Website will open in the next 24 hours or so, with more details. [...]