Kushal , kD & FOSS

Best photo of 2009 (new meme)

kd — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:56:47 +0000

This was taken in March in the colorful festival known as “Holi” . I played holi after 5 years. The kids from the society building already started by the time I came down with my camera. I was really tensed about the camera as they were throwing colors in all directions. Withing few minutes, putting the colors in the fountain and using it as a big tank full of colors became the main attraction for them.

The idea for this meme came from sankarshan.

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The small lane

kd — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:30:02 +0000

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In the sky

kd — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:32:45 +0000

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FOSS.IN 2009 in a total

kd — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:01:26 +0000

5 days of full of excitement and fun. This year I tried to break/arrange my times in few things I wanted to work on. So the first decision was not to take many photos , I tried to keep my camera inside my bag only. The idea worked, I found more time on hand than last few years. From the speaker’s list I already knew who else is coming so fix up my mind according to that.

On the first day we took charge of the Fedora booth. Kital, Heimanshu sat on the table, /me and Sayamindu sat on the ground behind the table and started discussing many things. Next table was full with KDE-IN team with many swags. Day 1 I spent mostly meeting old friends and talking. It was nice to meet Kital once again

I managed to find Girish Ramakrishnan in a table in the first floor. So asked for his help to have a long waiting feature in pony. I wanted to view images with a semi-transparent background just like picasa does in windows systems. While working on it Prashanth Udupa also joined and helped to visualize what I was trying to achieve. Finally it was done with 2 lines of code

I also had a plan to sit with Sayam and discuss two of projects , Jukebox and Lekhonee. Got couple of unknown areas cleared in sugar activities. In lekhonee-gnome I tried to have a WYSIWYG editor using gtkwebkit and later also tried libabiword. This work is not completed yet. Will see which one comes out better.

Meanwhile 2nd day of the event was Fedora Project of the day. Mether, Kiltal, Kedar, /me, Shrink, Susmit, Ankur, Heimanshu many others were there. I gave a talk on python-newt module and tried to show how easy to use that while developing console based applications.

This year was again special as Milosch and Brita came again to FOSS.IN. Russ Nelson also joined along with his talk on arduino boards. /Me and Sayam bought two boards from a Bangalore based firm in the same day. Milosch gave an inspirational talk on how one should start working hardware based projects. He bought me couple of cool gifts so that I can start working of my own. He and Russ had great workshop on 8 bit and 32 bit (OpenBeacon) small computers. I spent the last two days of the event with them only learning small small things. One of the biggest outcome of the event is computerclub.in (not ready yet), a group to work on hardware-software related stuffs. We have our initial mailing list and sf.net project created. Please join if you are interested. The Bangalore group already fixed their first physical meeting.

The event ended with a great performance trdp. Enjoyed the show too much, never took out my camera

All shots can be found here.

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Fedora logo in LED

kd — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:43:46 +0000

While it is off

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Fedora Project day in foss.in started

kd — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:01:46 +0000

Kital is giving the first talk on Fedora Security Spin. The room is not full yet, people are still coming in slowly. Kital just a very nice example of robbing bank and how one should go ahead to plan and execute that

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Foss.in day 1

kd — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:45:30 +0000

First day was fine. Met Kital after long time. Was really happy to find a Fedora booth which was assigned to Rahul Sundaram. Girish helped to me get one of the long waiting feature in pony.

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Will be offline for the next few days

kd — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:16:01 +0000

Will be offline for the next few days, will be available on phone

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New photoblog for /me

kd — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:42:08 +0000

With great help from Nicu, managed to start my new photoblog.

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Training place

kd — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:26:52 +0000

A place which brings smile to many faces. Some come with pain though.

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