Posts by Atul Chitnis
FOSS.IN/2008 starts tomorrow
This is it, folks, your last heads-up: FOSS.IN/2008, India’s best known, much awaited, Free and Open Source Software event, begins tomorrow morning (Tuesday, 25th November), at the National Science Symposium Center (JN Tata Auditorium), Indian Institute of Science (aka Tata Institute), in Bangalore, and goes on till Saturday, the 29th of November. Tomorrow morning’s opening [...]
The FOSS.IN Promo Video
It is not often that I get dragged into something like this, but the team felt it was time to raise the bar, so here it is – the first ever promotional video for FOSS.IN.
Understanding FOSS.IN/2008
While we have been working hard in the background to bring the event to life, it looks like a few FUD (Fear-Uncertanity-Doubt) jockeys have been having a field day spreading wrong information about what the event is all about. Normally, we ignore this kind of stuff, but I think a bit of clarification is in [...]
Wind of Change – Part III
As several of you have noticed, I have been fairly quiet (some say – invisible) over the past month. So I think an update on life is in order, before the rumour-mongers have a field day, and the price of tinfoil hats shoots up with the demand. I have been at home most of October, [...]
FOSS.IN/2008 – The first shortlist is out!
The long awaited first shortlist of talks and workouts for FOSS.IN/2008 is out. You can see it at http://foss.in/news/first-shortlist.html Please read the introduction at the top of the page FIRST – we don’t want any accidental jumping-out-of-windows! And yes, I have been rather quiet these past few weeks. I should be able to give you [...]
So what has changed about FOSS.IN?
A lot of people have noticed that unlike in previous years, we are not as loud about FOSS.IN as we usually are. Now that the Call for Participation is about to be published, it is time to explain why FOSS.IN/2008 is going to be different from earlier incarnations. (Clicky)
I need to do more…
I need to write more… I used to write a lot, and I enjoyed it. Not just for the public, but even for myself. Articles, poems, lyrics… I liked the words, and the way I could shape their flow. But somewhere along the way, the flow stopped. I don’t know why. I still get all [...]
Us and Them
Richard William Wright (1943-2008) Richard Wright, keyboard magician for Pink Floyd, left for the Great Gig in the Sky on September 15th, 2008. And with that, the group that was Pink Floyd died – but their music will live forever. RIP Rick Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Customer service: Three strikes, you are dead!
Over the past decade and a half that I have been using the internet as my “local supermarket” (i.e. online shopping, or e-commerce), I have seen vendors come, and vendors go, across the world. And there are some hard lessons I have learnt along the way. Sometimes, I find them valuable enough to write them [...]
Courage
There is no greater courage to be witnessed Than that of a man who has faced himself His weakness and his failures His lack of understanding And who has acknowledged these For only he who has faced himself Can face the world without fear of harm To himself or his own