Ten years ago I started a Linux Users Group in Durgapur as I thought that is the only way to go forward. All most no one in the colleges had enough idea other than couple of users in each college. "Learn and teach others", the motto was very much true from day one and it still holds the perfect place in the group.

The group started with help from a lot of people who were from different places, mostly the ilug-kolkata chapter. Sankarshan, Runa, Sayamindu, Indranil, Soumyadip they all helped in many different ways. Abhijit Majumder, who is currently working as Assistant Professor in IIT Mumbai, donated the money for the domain name in the first year.

After one year, I moved to Bangalore for my job and gave a talk in foss.in about that first year's journey of the group. The focus of the group also changed from just being a user group to a like minded contributors group.

Then from 2008 I started the summer training program, the 7th edition is currently going on. This program actually helped to keep doing the rolling release of contributors from the group. People from different countries participated in the sessions, they became contributors to many upstream projects.

I have to admit that we are close to the Fedora Project and Python, as many of us work on and use these two projects everyday.

We managed to have couple of meetings before, 2006, 2007. We will be meeting again from 29th August to 2nd September in NIT Duragapur, most of the active members are coming down to Durgapur, day times we will be spending in few talks and workshops. From evening we will be busy in developer sprints.

Suchakra Sharma made the new logo and tshirt design for the event.

The event page is up and the talk schedule is also up with help from Sanisoft. We are using their beautiful conference scheduler application for the same. Come and meet us in Durgapur.