The Dude abides.

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).

CouchDB has an IANA port

So on the heels of 0.7.0 release comes the 0.7.2 release (0.7.1 was a bugfix release) with the official CouchDB IANA port assigned.
w00tness!

foss.in schedules out!

So the foss.in schedules are out. Here is my pick of talks to attend:

OpenOffice + Fedora tracks on the project days
The FOSS.in inaugration talk
Ajunta DevStudio
How and Why You should be a Kernel Hacker
Meet Hadoop (Open Source Grid Computing)
GCC Internals: A Conceptual View into GCC
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Union Mount: VFS based Filesystem Namespace Unification for [...]

CouchDB 0.7.0 Fedora Core RPM

A Fedora Core 6 RPM is available for CouchDB-0.7.0:
http://ditesh.gathani.org/foss/couchdb/couchdb-0.7.0-1.rpm
and it’s spec file:
http://ditesh.gathani.org/foss/couchdb/couchdb.spec
I’ll start the review process and attempt to get a sponsor to get the RPM into Fedora. Feedback is much appreciated.