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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).


FOSS.in 2007

So it looks like I’ll be off to FOSS.in 2007 in Bangalore, India, thanks to the IOSN Inter-Regional Travel Exchange Grants. FOSS.in is India’s grassroots FOSS hacker/developer conference (much like LinuxConf.au or FOSDEM). It looks like a great conference from the years past and judging by the mailing list, this year should be fantastic as [...]


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29 July 2007 @ 7am

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In Beijing, China

In Beijing, China now. Beijing is surprisingly smoggy. I can imagine that respiratory problems must be common here. The sun is never to be seen and the environment can seem to be pretty gloomy. The summer here is humid and its possible to start sweating whilst standing still at night. Needless to say, many can [...]


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