These are *NOT* 9-5 positions - working in the Geodesic IT Services team is as challenging as it is rewarding. Positions open in both Bangalore and Mumbai.

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]]> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:14:23 +0530 http://atulchitnis.net/diary/showentry/477 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 Linux kernel and the OpenMoko mobile platform project, and his community leadership in safeguarding the freedom of free software users by successfully enforcing the GNU General Public License in over one hundred cases since the gpl-violations.org project began in 2004." - meaning that Harald in effect has won the award twice over! And it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!

Congratulations, Harald, you certainly deserved this award!

]]> Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:14:31 +0530 http://atulchitnis.net/diary/showentry/476 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 Mobile Computing (the two topics that I focus on the most).

Unfortunately, real life makes it impossible for me to attend most (if not all) of them, and since there are so many requests flowing in, I thought I'd post this entry to clarify things:

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