You can find my event report here (11MB). This is my first try to make something like this. Nicu helped a lot with my poor spelling mistakes. Comments are welcome.

foss.in team made a cool promo video, you can watch it here.

Just like the last year, kde-india team came up with some awesome posters again,  thanks to Kamaleshware Morjal for these nice works.

You can see them all here.

The words are already out. Yes, it is true, the FUDCon got canceled. But you can still meet us there. We can talk on some wounderful projects and ideas which we can implement. Feel free to join us, in our laptops we will have LiveUSB stations , so if you bring your  USB key , we can turn it into a magical USB key which will contain a full operating system. Just remember to keep contributing in which ever form you can :)

So another FUDCon in India after two years :) Join us in FUDCon @ foss.in on 28th November , 2008, city Bangalore,place IISC auditorium. Me and Rahul Sundaram jointly proposed the FUDCon at foss.in and we are in a continuous communitation with foss.in team so that everything goes smoothly.

I am giving a talk on "Getting Started with OLPC Activity Development". In this talk I will do a post mortem of a simple "Hello World!" activity. The activities are written in Python and they run on Sugar.  So if you want to jump start into the development on this beautiful platform join us there :) Btw, there will be another talk on Sugar by Sayamindu in FUDCon. Me and Soumya will also try to gather more people to test KDE packages on Fedora. More details about FUDCon will come in the future posts.

If you think in the other way, please read this blog post.

On a sidenote: I released a new version (v4) of Jukebox-activity with bn_IN translation.

I just sent a mail to the devel list.

This new version is having .pls playlist file support, so with proper plugins you can play internet radio stations.

More details can be found here.

So, if you want to play your favourite song/movie on OLPC use Jukebox.activity. Started working on this for the last few days after Sayam pointed me to the activity. It was almost in a stagnant condition.

My PyQt mind was someway different than writing this PyGtk stuff :) Sayam helped a lot.

The following features added as of now:

• Full Screen option
• Volume Control support
• Supporting m3u playlists
• Internet radios through m3u files.
• Next/Previous buttons , if you open a playlist with more than one song

Will do a formal release within this weekend. I have a .xo file ready for testing. Please provide your feedback :D

If you want to start writing your own activity , start from this.

This is a new weekly video podcast news. It is having two sections, general news and Fedora specific bits. The first edition is having many errors(human errors mostly) , will fix them in the next editions :)

Download the ogv (164MB).

Runa Bhattacharjee is the Language Maintainer for Fedora Bengali-India and also an active contributor to the Gnome, KDE and Mozilla Translation Projects. Watch it on youtube or download the ogg.