FOSS.IN/2008 :: Day 1 update
Was totally excited to be @ FOSS.IN for the 5th time!! Reached the venue by around 10AM. Ankit, Johnny, Sankar, Nikanth, Suman and Suresh were already waiting outside. Later met Partha and Harinath. Felt good to be there again! 
This time around, I had a laptop with me. Had grand plans to do live blogging and tweeting about the sessions / event. But unfortunately, the battery didn’t hold on for long. I still managed to take some notes. And not to forget all the issues with E17 + WiFi + IRC. 
Some notes from the event:
Tuesday, November 25, 11:04 AM
• Finally got my laptop hooked onto the network
• Tuesday, November 25, 11:14 AM – Lamp lightingKeynote by Herald Welte:
• Open Source is, conceptually, about writing code that is *readable* by other users and not *just* run on a machine
That’s it – my battery went dead after that. The second talk for the day was by Amit Shah – the *only* Asian on the Linux KVM team – titled, KVM: The Interview. Enjoyed it a lot – though spent a while helping out one of the gentleman in the audience to setup WiFi on his HP laptop running openSUSE 10.3 – same old Broadcom card issue. Compiled the kernel module and gave it to him. Not sure if it helped him. Gotta check tomorrow.
After lunch, me, Ankit, Hari, Nikanth and Suman went to Herald Welte’s workout – Improving Free Software based GSM protocol analysis – After listening to the problem and the kind of tasks that were up for grabs, we felt that we wouldn’t be able to help out in anyway, rather waste the audiences’ time by simply lurking around. So we all went to the nearest Tata Book House, and everyone else – other than me, of course – bought books and we were back in the venue.
Later we had a small BOF session, where the original intent was to get Ankit and Harinath teach me some basics of C# / Mono – but we ended up doing a very general discussion on Mono with one of the IBM guys walking in and getting an idea about Mono and Moonlight.
That’s all that I have for the Day 1. I’m kinda tired now and its too damn late. I better sleep now or will miss Nikanth’s workout in the morning!
foss.in was only one day?
Its been a year, time for another blog post!!