Posts by Atul Chitnis

The Wind of Change – Part IV

Long time readers of my diary will know that the title of this post is usually associated with my professional activities. And this one is no different. I left  my 4 year old position as Chief Products Officer and Senior VP at Geodesic Limited several months ago – April 30th 2010 was my last working [...]

And the blog is back…

And the blog is back – duly WordPress‘ed. There are still a bunch of things I need to port across, but that’s what I am working on right now. Things should stabilise over the weekend. For now, I am using the default TwentyTen theme that comes with WordPress, but that should change soon. Also, until [...]

Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die

Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die The old Rocker wore his hair too long, wore his trouser cuffs too tight. Unfashionable to the end — drank his ale too light. Death’s head belt buckle — yesterday’s dreams — the transport caf’ prophet of doom. Ringing no change in his double-sewn seams [...]

Upcoming Changes

When I stood on the stage during the closing of FOSS.IN/2009, I announced that I was stepping down as Project Lead of FOSS.IN, and would not be involved in the organisation of future FOSS.IN events I promised a journal entry about this, clarifying things, but a number of things got in the way, and I [...]

FOSS.IN/2009 Delegate Registration is ongoing!

If you have been living under a rock, here’s a helpful news update about FOSS.IN/2009: Almost 800 registrations at the time of writing, almost all sponsor slots filled, and much more. Read the update: FOSS.IN/2009 – registrations, sponsors, expo, excitement & more

FOSS.IN/2009 Speaker registration closes Mon 26/Oct 23:59 IST

If you plan to be anything more than a delegate at FOSS.IN/2009, you better hurry – registrations close on Monday, October 26th, at 23:59 GMT+0530. So if you want to be part of the largest and most important Free & Open Source Software event in this part of the world, and stand shoulder to shoulder [...]

FOSS.IN/2009 Speaker Registration

Please note that the FOSS.IN/2009 Speaker registration is open, and a number of submissions have already been received. Read the CfP at http://foss.in/news/fossincfp-2009.html and then head to http://foss.in/register/speaker-registration-2009 And submit your talk/workout/workshop/bof/hacker-session/project-of-the-day proposal. It’s best NOT to do what most people do every year – procrastinate till the last moment, especially since talk evaluation is [...]

FOSS.IN/2009 Call for Participation

And here we go – FOSS.IN/2009′s Call for Participation. Apologies for the delays, things are very different for us this year, with a new venue, new team members, and all sorts of aches and pains we don’t want to talk about http://foss.in/news/fossincfp-2009.html The registration system for speakers is open NOW – head there as soon [...]

FOSS.IN: The Calm before the Storm

You should read this first: FOSS.IN: The Wind of Change With that post, I made it clear where FOSS.IN is going – it will no longer be a conference that navel-gazes, and focuses only on itself, but will reach out to the technology world, and become the inclusive hacker event that I have wanted it [...]