After much to and fro, the official Call for Participation has been released on the FOSS.IN website. This is it, folks. If you want to be a speaker at India’s biggest and most awaited Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) event, then it is time to move your Gluteus Maximus and submit your talk/workshop/tutorial/BoF/etc. proposal. [...]

I recently answered a set of questions which were meant for an article. However, the publication decided, in the last moment, to change its focus, and yanked the original article. Since it is unlikely that they will use this material in the future, I thought I’d publish my answers here (the ones they didn’t use).

And so the BLUG met on Thursday, for the first time since early 2004. And I loved every moment of it. I would have written about it yesterday, but something came up (which I shall write about later). Here’s my report on the meet: Read the rest of this entry…

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes! I *am* on gtalk. It is a jabber server, and most of us geeks have been using jabber for longer than we can remember – both on the intranet as well as on the internet. Heck, Mrinal gave a talk about jabber at LB/2003, remember? And no, I am not using the google [...]

Well well well, it looks like the BLUG is meeting up in meatspace again! I recently cribbed about missing the good old BLUG meets, and there we have one. Goodie – I look forward to meeting old friends.

It warms the heart when one sees someone making this kind of effort: FOSS.IN/2005 Logos These are sample logos for FOSS.IN/2005, created by Hari Krishnan. He also made a fabulous set of logos for LB/2004 last year. This guy rocks my world – I can’t wait to see what the final logo will look like. [...]

Over this long weekend, a number of people have told me about their plans to participate at FOSS.IN/2005 by giving talks, holding mini-confs and discussion/meetings, workshops, etc. This is great, because that’s what the event will be all about. Unfortunately it isn’t going to be much fun if you are the only one who comes [...]

Quite a few people asked me (in mail, IRC, etc.) how we settled on the name FOSS.IN for the event. Well, to begin with, you need to read this entry, which explains some of the background. This was about eight months ago. Go on, read it, I’ll be right here waiting for you. Read the [...]

Dear FOSS Community, My apologies for taking so long, but some things just needed to fall into place. On behalf of Linux Bangalore, it is my pleasure to announce this year’s event. As announced last year, the name, venue and scope of the event will change from this year. To stress its focus on Free [...]

Step 1: Tightly control your country’s top level domain (TLD) for years, making it near-impossible to register a reasonable domain name. Step 2: Start a “meaningful” and “thoughtful” discussion about how your country should have a bigger Internet presence. Make press statements like the following (take a deep breath before reading the first sentence out [...]