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Posts from December 2007

FOSS.in Conference Day 2

This is day 2 of the conference. Reports for previous days are as follows: Project Day 1, Project Day 2, Conference Day 1.
Union Mount: VFS based Filesystem Namespace Unification for Linux
Bharata B. Rao from IBM spoke on union mount, a filesystem namespace unification (ie, the concept of merging the contents of two or more directories/filesystems [...]


FOSS.in Conference Day 1

This is day 1 of the conference. Reports for previous days are as follows: Project Day 1, Project Day 2.
Conference Day 1 started off with an inaugration by Atul. He mentioned that FOSS.in focuses on all FOSS technologies (and not just Linux). More interestingly, he also mentioned that only an Indian can give a FOSS.in [...]


FOSS.in Project Day 2 (Day 2)

Here is a report of FOSS.in Project Day 2 (day 1 report is available here):
Fedora: Freedom is a Feature
Rahul Sundaram spoke on the importance of Freedom (as in free speech). He gave a great example that insisting on Freedom drives innovation and interoperatibility, as in the case where SUN opened up the Java platform (as [...]


FOSS.in Day 1 (Project Day 1)

So, here is a report of foss.in Project Day 1. Colin, Aizatto and yours truly decided on attending the Mozilla Project Day. It started off by a short introduction by Mary Colvig from Mozilla Corporation.
Oh the places you’ll go! (things you can do with firefox extensions)
Myk Melez then started off Firefox extensions “Oh the places [...]


@foss.in 2007

Aizatto and yours truly are sitting outside JN Tata Auditorium in Bangalore, India. Yep, we’ve arrived and amidst frantic “construction”, we’re coolly leaching off the wireless broadband (@ 228KB/s even).
Flight was mostly uneventful other then the almost dodgy landing and a delayed connecting flight.
Blogging on the event will start tomorrow (wifi availability permitting).


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