Richard Stallman: Free Software, Freedom and Education

As per the schedule we were at IIT, Chennai to attend talk of Richard Stallman, founder Free Software Foundation and man behind the Gnu project. The title of the presentation was “Free Software, Freedom and Education”     The event had over 3000 participants mostly from various engineering colleges across the city and area nearby, apart …

2 minutes guide to getting started with Launchpad/Bazaar via Lucid Ubuntu 10.04

I just added some contents from allready existing 5 minutes guide to make it 2 mins and work on Lucid. 🙂 Before i start you need to have 2 things allready done, 1. $ apt-get install bzr 2. A launchpad account. 3. Your public key submitted at launchpad. It means create a key is you …

Oneiric release party across India

So what i did is, asked for of my friends in Mumbai, Hydrabad and Delhi share there event related photos of Oneiric release party. That is what i will be doing mentioning about them. 🙂 INMANTEC     Gaurav is assistant dean IT and a Open Source freak who is trying his best to turn his college …

Software Freedom Day, Chennai, India

Its been over 8 months since i moved to Chennai, the southern part of India. Chennai has a strong free software user as well as contributor base. I was invited as speaker at an engineering college (jaya college of engineering). I was amazed to see the enthusiasm among student s about free software. The college …

Desktop Summit: My Experience meeting Gnome/Kde folks

First of all thanks to KDE e.V for sponsoring my trip. It was great place to meet g33ks and folks i been chatting mostly via IRC. I met many folks like Andre , Lydia and Aaron to name a few. I was happy to see participation of attendees from India most of them being GSOC students and contributors. The two freaks …

ImageMagick and mogrify. : My command line tool for watermarking.

One fine day i decided i want “watermark” on my photos too, i know am not a great photographer but just for sake i wanted one. I am too lazy to do anything from GUI so i searched a bit and came to know about ImageMagic and mogrify. I simply installed it on my ubuntu …

My first Ubuntu Cloud Days ..

Its been long time i blogged, this blog is about the amazing IRC session we had during 25-26 july. Another thing i would like to tell is i participated as presenter as well as a student. Interesting session were taken by Ubuntu Cloud developers and from members of OpenStack Team. I took session on cloud-init, …