| I'd hung around at FOSS.IN hoping to get to the Opensource IM PowerBof at 2pm. Unfortunately, it didn't happen. Had to leave at 3:30, so I just hung around chatting with Danese, Shreyas and botsie. Danese knows a lot about restaurants and places to shop here in Bangalore, and at various other Indian cities. Far more than the locals sometimes. Yup, she's definitely the FOSS concierge of the world :)
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fox2mike got me a cool firefox T, so that was good.
Went for the lightning talks after that, and Danese let me take the first slot, since I had to leave soon. I demoed Footsteppr, and then left.
Missed the speaker's party and distribution of mementos, but headed for the Yahoo! Year End Party instead. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| I spent most of FOSS.IN Day 2 in the hack centre. Met Rasmus at the office, and we took a cab out to IISc. Unfortunately, the cab driver didn't know the way, and I hadn't noticed all the one ways while biking around the place. The result was that we had an extended tour of Frazer Town, Benson Town and Vasantha Nagar before getting to IISc in time for lunch.
After lunch, we both headed to the hack centre, to hack. Rasmus was busy cross compiling, while I was trying to coerce Yahoo! Pipes into helping me write an ayttm plugin. Hit some more Pipes problems, but chatted with Kevin later and got them sorted out.
Head was saturated at 5, so we headed down to the 60 seater for the first day of lightning talks. Danese moderated it, and it was a lot of fun. Rasmus started off telling everyone why he was so jet lagged. He was followed by a bunch of technical talks, then I did a talk on food in Bangalore. A Math prof did a hilarious talk on how he looks after his class while all his kids are on their PCs.
Decided to head home after that, and started walking in the hope of hitting a restaurant along the way. I didn't, so I ended up walking all the way down to MG Road. Had rossagolla at K C Das, and Chicken Shwarma at Empire. Then spoke to code_martial, who said he was meeting up with LJers at Mainland China, so I walked across there and had dinner with them.
Was pretty tired by then, but ended up in the office, and saw Kevin online, so decided to get the Pipes problem fixed before my talk. Ended up succeeding, and getting my code and slides finished. Completely crashed after that.
Woke up early this morning, since my talk was at 10am. It was freezing outside, and had no water at home. Anyway, pumped up some water, and got ready to get to the conference.
We got here around 9:30 this morning, which gave me enough time to prepare for my talk.
Plugged in the laptop, got my stuff on screen, and got connected to the network. Everything I needed for my demo... except, no audience. I had two people in the room, and they were expecting me to explain client-server architecture using XMPP. Well, I tried to cater my talk to them, explaining how they'd go about building plugins to do the kind of collaborative work that they actually wanted to do.
People started streaming in a little later, and I ended the talk with 8 people in the room. Finished off at 11:15, and headed to Andrew and Shreyas' demo on the tools of the trade. Had a bit of fun with IRC projecting off Shreyas' laptop onto the big screen.
I'm now in Rasmus' talk which is mainly about why PHP is the way it is, and where it's heading in the next few versions. There's a new ?: operator that does the same as the || operator in perl/javascript. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Well, day 1 for me at least. It was day 3 of the conference, but the first day that I could actually make it. I'd planned on being there on all five days, but had a sinus attack on the morning of the 4th, and then had to get in to the office to take care of my tickets (more on that later).
Thought I'd make it on the 5th, but a terrible mistake on my part left me waking up on the 5th morning with my hand flicking water off the floor. I generally set the washing machine on a timer at night to finish exactly as I wake up. Wasn't in a very good state on the 4th night, and I forgot to let the washing machine drain out into the bathroom. The result was that it drained into the kitchen, and from there into the hall, and from there into my bedroom. And everything in my house is on the floor. So basically, a lot of very wet mattresses and rugs. I managed to scoop the water out of the bedroom really quickly to stop it getting onto my bed, but the hall was gone. Luckily nothing made of paper or wood was affected.
So, it was day 3 that I got to call day 1. The start of the main conference. I decided to cycle there. This is the approximate route that I took. 11Km or so, and I made it fairly quick. Interestingly, this is the same distance that I used to cycle from home to NCST when I lived in Mumbai.
The inauguration ceremony had only just started when I got there. Met louiswu at the gate, and then headed in to see Atul and Kishore on stage. Sat around for Naba's keynote, and then headed out to the hack centre, where I spent the rest of the day hacking. Fun. I'd wanted to get to the LinuxChix BoF, but was too engrossed in my code to notice the time.
Finally left the Hack Centre after 5pm and headed back to the 750 seater for the Pulse Audio talk, which was pretty good. Atul announced on #foss.in that Lennart was showing off many demos. As Shreyas said later, that was the first ear candy talk.
I was starting to get hungry by then, and it was a long ride back, so I started off. The rain started coming down as I passed Windsor Pub and I also found out that my phone battery had been dead for a while. I pushed on until I got to Cunningham Road, and ducked into Sweet Chariot for a bite to eat. Had some Chicken Voluete, which is quite nice. Some very interesting flavours that hit you at various points in the meal, completely unexpected, and very welcome. Also had a chance to charge the phone when I got there, so gave Shreyas a call after that and he said that a whole bunch of them were meeting up at RR. Pretty close to where I had to go, so I said I'd meet them there.
Didn't eat anything at RR, but had a lassi, which was good after the ride. Also got to meet Pradeepto, which was good, since he's leaving tomorrow, and I probably won't meet him again for a long time.
Heading home now for a good night's sleep. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Ok, so I've had to pull my talk on YUI from FOSS.IN/2007 due to several personal reasons resulting in the no time left syndrome. We'll still do the open source javascript libraries BoF, so hope to see everyone there instead. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Yaay, two of my talks got accepted at foss.in.
The first is on Hacking YUI, so if you're someone who uses YUI in your apps, and think that you have something you need to get in there, this talk is for you. To get started, check out the project on sourceforge, join the mailing list, and the IRC chatroom.
The second is about writing ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ayttm plugins. Ayttm is a project that I've long been associated with, and I've worked very closely with the plugin architecture, tuning it a lot to clean up the interfaces and just make writing plugins easier. You should attend this talk if you want to become an ayttm dev, or if you think you can offer suggestions on our plugin implementation.
So yeah, see you there. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
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