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FOSSKriti ’09 is *here*
Been a hectic few months, but I could hardly miss posting about this. Some of you might remember the little F/OSS miniconf, we did last year at Techkriti, IIT Kanpur’s technical festival. FOSSKriti ’08 sparked off a number of great F/OSS events in colleges across the country. FOSSKriti ’09 is now here, bigger and badder than ever (for small [...]
Copy — right?
So were chatting about copyrights and I stumbled upon the website of the Government of India's Copyright Office, and some clickety clicking later, came upon The Handbook of Copyright Law. Wanted to chronicle interesting bits for posterity. Fair use: Includes standard stuff like research, private study, criticism/review, reporting current events, judicial proceeding, amateur performance to [...]
It starts …
So this is the proverbial it. FOSS.IN/2008 starts today. We took some hard decisions to come upon the current format. We have an amazing lineup of stuff that’s happening through every day (don’t believe me? See the schedule). All systems are, in fact, go (I feel more redundant with every passing year). I think this [...]
One small step for student-kind
Today, the VTU (the university that granted me my bachelor’s degree) did something incredibly smart. In one fell swoop, they have achieved what Kerala and Andhra Pradesh have been trying to do for years, in vain. That’s right — the VTU has done the one thing that will ensure that no student of theirs will [...]
FOSS.IN/2008: Delegate registrations are *open*
FOSS.IN/2008 delegate registration is now open — what are you waiting for!
N810 – we wantee!
This article by Ted T’so is an excellent commentary on the controversy around Nokia’s Dr. Ari Jaaksi (one of the bigshots behind the amazing Nokia N770/800/810 internet tablets) recent comments (1, 2) on the need for open source developers to understand business constraints. Extremely well-balanced. Bruce Perens also wrote an interesting piece on it.
IITK Fascism Update
So we (some of us students) met and decided to do something about the sudden implementation of the Internet shutdown from 0000-0600. Some updates: The intimation about doing this was sent at 2357 hours today (yesterday, to be precise) to all. The notification basically stated that because of “undesirable activities”, Internet will, with immediate effect, [...]
Knock knock …
Been a good week. I crossed 50 commits to Beagle. They’re all pretty modest contributions, but it’s been awesome fun. In addition, pkgcore 0.4.4 has my patch to support HTTP proxies for rsync. This was a fun patch to write, small as it is. The code is beautiful, and Brian Harring (ferringb) and Patrick Lauer [...]
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