Fedora Meetup Pune - January 2016

On 15th January 2016, we had our first Fedora meetup at Pune. The venue was earlier decided to be Red Hat office, Pune but due to unavailability of space the meetup was moved to my apartment. The meetup was scheduled to start around 14:30 IST but with people pouring in a bit late, we started the event at 15:00 IST. The turnout was good and much more than what we had expected with a total of 18 people turning out. 4 Fedora Ambasaador were present at the meetup, Praveen, Siddesh, Kushal and /me. ...

2016-01-17 · 2 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Introducing Bugyou

We developed Autocloud as a part of Fedora 23 release cycle as a part of Two week atomic image. Autocloud publishes the messages to fedmsg when the image is queued, running, success and failed. What is Bugyou? Bugyou files issues for failed tests from Autocloud. Bugyou is part of Fedora Project. It listens to Autocloud messages from fedmsg and files bug for images which have failed the tests. Bugyou keeps updating the status of the images in the bug and closes the issue once the tests are successful. ...

2016-01-07 · 1 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Four Weeks in Fedora

26th of October 2015, I joined Red Hat as a part of the Fedora Engineering Team. I have been contributing to the Fedora for couple of years now starting from the contributing to askbot-devel while we were gearing up for the Ask Fedora release. This year in July, I along with kushal, rtnpro, praveenkumar started working on Autocloud, as a part of the Two-Week Atomic during the Fedora 23 cycle. So, I last couple of years of I have met and worked with a lot of people in the Fedora community. Joining Fedora was like working with friends. ...

2015-11-24 · 3 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Leaving HackerEarth

It’s very hard to write but I am leaving HackerEarth. 2013 and internship My college days were coming to an end with placements all around. I was sure to join in a startup. One fine day, I saw a job posting on hasjob on 12th December 2012 that boldly said “HackerEarth is buidling its initial team - Python/Django enthusiast needed”. The idea made me apply to HackerEarth and after a few rounds of email with Sachin and Vivek. I landed up in a remote intern position. ...

2015-10-12 · 2 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Fedora Meetup 2015

Fedora July Meetup 2015 happened at Hasgeek office, Indiranagar on July 04, 2015 at 06:30 PM. Attendees: Sayan Chowdhury Ratnadeep Debnath Lalatendu Mohanty Nitish Bharadwaj Devyani Kota Praseetha KR Sharat MR Topics discussed: Introduction to Fedora and what’s new in Fedora 22 Reproduce Bugs on Vagrant(libvrt) and identify missing features Introduction to RPM Packaging Fedora Hubs It’s good to know more and more people are turning up for the meetup. I would like to thanks Hasgeek for giving us space to host our event. Stay tuned for updates on Fedora India mailing list . ...

2015-07-09 · 1 min · Sayan Chowdhury