The folks who brought you the most successful Barcamp in India (Barcamp Chennai), India’s first blogging event (BlogCamp) and India’s first “startup enabler event” (proto.in), now comes And they don’t take prisoners – Jimbo “Wikipedia” Wales himself is coming for the event. If you are into Wikis and collaborative software, you have to be braindead [...]

The Bangalore Linux Users Group meets at 6pm today. Details here. Be there.

I missed documenting this on the day it happened (on the 13th of January), but it marked the 5th anniversary of my seeing Phenom perform for the first time, and it was the beginning of a great friendship that has now lasted more than half a decade. The

I would like President Kalam continue as President of India for a second term. Never in our recent history have we had a president who has been so close to the people, who understands the challenges of the times, and who has not been afraid to voice his opinions about tthings. People trust him, and [...]

At Geodesic, we build applications and devices for the next billion users. The company has been declared a winner of the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 06 programme, which recognizes excellence, innovation and the fastest growing technology companies. We are into communication and collaboration software, such as Mundu IM, Mundu Radio, Mundu Speak and [...]

Yesterday, the Bangalore Linux Users Group had its monthly meet, and it rocked! The meet was, as usual, at HP’s Shezan Lavelle facility, with its modern conference room with all facilities (except coffee – more about that later About 35 people attended, and a lot of new faces were to be seen as well. Waiting [...]

The Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung did an interview with me back in September 2006, while I was at the Wizards of OS conference in Berlin. This interview has now been published (in both English and in German). There have been a number of reports about my talk at the Chaos Communication Congress, including one that [...]

Hello from Berlin, Germany, where I am for Christmas with the family (yeah, wife and kid are with me on this trip). But of course the primary reason is to attend the Chaos Computer Club‘s annual Chaos Communication Congress, where I will be speaking on the 27th of December (at 8:30pm!). For those who came [...]

Currently, a thread raging on the FOSS.IN mailing list asks the question: “What is stopping Indian FOSS Contributors?” Lots of theories, lots of finger-pointing. In all that, the answer is actually quite simple: What’s stopping Indian FOSS Contributors is the number of advocates, who just talk, and don’t contribute a single line of code. Everyone, [...]

We will succeed Where our forefathers failed And we may fail Where our children will succeed There is no shame in either For it is the reason why we exist. Knowing this does not lessen the pain But it will hopefully remind you Of the strength and determination That we all so admire in you.