Every now and then, you hear a piece of news that makes you smile broadly. And today’s news that Harald had been awarded the Award for the Advancement of Free Software was one of these welcome news items. The press release says that “The awards committee honored both Welte’s technical contributions to projects like the [...]

Dear all, Over the past couple of weeks, I have been flooded with invitations from various colleges and organizations, to speak at events taking place in March and early April. I have to state that I am absolutely honoured by these invitations, and I am thrilled at the amount of interest shown in FOSS and [...]

On the 23rd of February, Shubha and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary. And to mark the occasion, I took her to the Taj Mahal in Agra. The photograph above was specifically taken with my camera phone (a Nokia e51) to allow me to upload it via GPRS instantly, to mark the moment. Yes, the [...]

Let’s dance in style, lets dance for a while Heaven can wait we’re only watching the skies Hoping for the best but expecting the worst Are you going to drop the bomb or not? Let us die young or let us live forever We don’t have the power but we never say never Sitting in [...]

Heads up! It’s FREED.IN time! North India’s best known FOSS community event, this year with a special focus on knowledge. After a heart-to-heart talk with Mr.Murphy, who has been screwing up my plans for the past few months, I *will* be at freed.in. Yay! The initial speaker list has some *brilliant* talks lined up! I [...]

Seriously, I have no clue why everyone feels like February and March are the *perfect* months for holding a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) event. Not only does it make it extremely difficult to choose which ones to attend, it leaves the rest of the year (all the way to the end, when FOSS.IN [...]

Tomorrow morning, I am off to Mumbai, to participate at IIT Bombay’s Techfest. Tomorrow (i.e. Saturday, the 26th, at 2pm in the Lecture Theatre) I will be in a panel discussion with Jon “Maddog” Hall and Venkatesh Hariharan. No idea whether this is open to the public, but apparently, the session will be broadcast on [...]

This evening, I fly off to Chennai, to attend PROTO.IN – an event I always look forward to. This time, I find myself in the unexpected situation of giving the opening talk – “India a Technology Leader – Possible?”. While it seemed like a dry topic to me when I first looked at it, I [...]

And so another year has passed us by, and it is now 2008. A few friends wrote in, asking why I am not doing what everyone else does – make predictions, resolutions, etc. I’d rather take my time on that, so for now, my one prediction for 2008 is that all predictions will turn out [...]