Mukti 2014 is the annual national level technical symposium on Free and Open Source Software of the GNU/Linux Users’ Group NIT Durgapur held from 31st January - 2nd February 2014. I’ve been attending Mukti for last four years. Unlike, the previous years when i usually attended Mukti as a student participant, this year I attended Mukti as a guest speaker. Day 0 (30th January 2014) After a hectic travel from Bangalore to Durgapur via Kolkata....
On February 23, 2014 at 4:43pm, Anirban Saha made a post on Facebook Where are the Kolkata Bloggers? Like, seriously ? In August 8, 2009, Webreps organised Kolkata Bloggers Meet. That time I joined Webreps. In October 31, 2009, we organised the BCET Bloggers workshop in BCET. There BCREC and NITDgp also joined in. Have been active ever since then. In 2014 - I hardly find any blogger visible and audible....
I have been involved in Durgapur Linux User’s Group for around last five years. I have been contributing to various open source projects quite sometime. The primary reason on why I contribute to open source is the feeling, the enjoyment when you send a patch or a PR to a open source project. It makes you happy when millions of people use your few lines of code in day to day life....
I could not sleep the night i got the invitation mail from Mozilla to attend Mozilla Summit 2013. I was roaming around my college hostel waking up everybody from their sleep just to tell them that “I have been invited to Mozilla Summit 2013 at Santa Clara, CA”. I was really very excited as this was be my first international travel. Finally the month of October came. rtnpro and I left for bangalore airport early (all due to exitement)....
Lot of things to do! Lot of things to do! Lot of things to do! This was continuously revovlving around my head for last 2 weeks. I had to deploy the work i had done on staging instance and test it. But wait! I had never written a setup.py before, never made a RPM package before. While in college, I had a fascination toward RPM packaging as most of my college seniors had created a RPM package sometime or other....