We are elated to inform you that Waartaa has been accepted as a project idea for GSoC under Fedora’s umbrella. For those who are new to Waartaa, Waartaa is an open-source communication tool for teams and groups. It is built on top of IRC. Currently, Waartaa is an IRC client as a service and it supports centralized logging, 24x7 idling, notifications and unique identity to a user on IRC. The source code is available at https://github.com/waartaa/waartaa for you to download and hack on it. ...

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. TMC called of the largest Brigade Rally in Kolkata on the very day. The bus i was travelling from Kolkata Airport to Howrah station dropped me at an unknown location. I somehow dragged myself and my luggage to station. The condition at the station was worse, packed compartments including the reserved ones and people fighting for their seats. After a big quarrel, I somehow got my seat. ...

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 want to organise a Kolkata Bloggers Meet later this year. Any help shall be welcome. Please connect to this page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kolkata-Bloggers/401101290026684 ...

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). At airport, we met with other mozillians who were on the same flight. After the checkin and the security check (i was really scared during the security check, i kept on thinking “What will happen if they cancel my trip”), we boarded the flight to Dubai from where we had the connecting flight to San Francisco. ...