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Firefox world tour and GLug meet

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* Yesterday, we had meeting with Mozilla guys, Chris and Seth at HBCSE. I was touch with Seth from some days and made this announcement on ILUG-Bom mailing list. Nirav was backbone behind this meet. 42 people did RSVP for meet.

* I reached there at around 9.30 AM, Ankit was already there and he came long way from Pune (and paid 500/- from Thane to HBCSE too!), we met after 2 years and I felt great after seeing him – our l10n hero. We chatted while, ate ‘Idali’ and Chris and Seth was there at 10 AM. Perfect. But, there was only 6 people. We waited till 11 and setup tshirts on stage, projector etc. People were coming like they are coming in marriage!

* I gave 1 minute welcome speech. Seth started talk at 11 AM. People grab Tshirts, Pins, Mouse pads (wow!) and cool stickers. Chris joined presentation to talk about how Mozilla evolve. We had nice discussion and question/answers too. Lunch was good. We had presentations from different people, including Ankit’s step-by-step procedure to start new language process for localization in Mozilla-* packages.

* Krishnakant Mane showed us, how Firefox is capable with accessibility. I also thanks him here for Gnome-orca package (I did ITP after his demonstration in Dec ‘06 Lug meet). Siji showed some issues and its solution with printing. Dr. Nagarjuna presented ‘gnowledge’ extension for Firefox. Shantanu also gave demo on transliteration extension for Indian languages.

* Somehow, Official lug meet didn’t happen. Speaker was missing! I seated together with other IRCers of #linux-india in canteen and we talked about various things. It was real fun to hear Pradeepto after long time. BG came too late (too late to have nice stickers!) ;)

* I officially hate Mumbai traffic, now. Many thanks to people who did RSVP and didn’t appear.

Written by Kartik Mistry

July 23, 2007 at 12:45 pm

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  1. Unfortunately this does not form a “report” ie I have no idea what Seth talked about or what JT’s talk was about. Additionally, there is no mention on what are the forward looking action items that came from this meeting save sticker distribution. Were there any interesting side talks that happened ?

    Sankarshan

    July 24, 2007 at 3:32 pm

  2. Dear Sankarshan,

    Please read again::

    - Chris joined presentation to talk about how Mozilla evolve.
    - We had nice discussion and question/answers too.
    - Ankit’s step-by-step procedure to start new language process for localization in Mozilla-* packages.
    - Krishnakant Mane showed us, how Firefox is capable with accessibility.
    - Siji showed some issues and its solution with printing.
    - Dr. Nagarjuna presented ‘gnowledge’ extension for Firefox.
    - Shantanu also gave demo on transliteration extension for Indian languages.

    Is that not talking about what we did? I am amused.

    Well, it was certainly written for bashing RSVP loosers at some point of time.

    Interesting side talks happens too. Me and Ankit met after 2 years face-to-face and I again jumped to correcting OO.o Gujarati l10n and releasing aspell-gu’s latest version soon (which might include in OO.o as Gujarati Dictionary at sometime).

    Cheers,
    Kartik

    Kartik Mistry

    July 24, 2007 at 3:59 pm

  3. Kartik, I read again.

    Chris joined presentation to talk about how Mozilla evolve -> exactly what were the salient points ? eg. Kartik talked about Debian packaging ergo which aspects did he touch ?

    We had nice discussion and question/answers too. -> Any particular ones that stand out and thus were not inane or mundane ?

    Krishnakant Mane showed us, how Firefox is capable with accessibility. -> did he talk about some URL where I can also check it out without actually getting KM down to where I am ?

    Siji showed some issues and its solution with printing. -> What issues ?

    Dude, I guess you are going overboard with the smartass sarcasm “Is that not talking about what we did? I am amused.” – your report might jog memories for those who were there, for those who weren’t it reads like the meeting of some old boy’s network.

    Sankarshan

    July 24, 2007 at 6:20 pm

  4. [...] You can read more from Kartik, one of the day’s organizers, at his blog: http://kartikmistry.org/blog/?p=343 [...]

    seth’s blog » ILUG-BOM, our last event in India

    July 24, 2007 at 11:44 pm

  5. Dear Sankarshan,

    I am not very well writer. See Seth’s blog for more details of meet.

    Cheers,
    K.a.r.t.i.k.

    Kartik Mistry

    July 25, 2007 at 7:55 am

  6. Hi,

    Ankit’s presentation can be found at:
    http://www.indianoss.org/firefox/Start_FFx_Localization.pdf

    Thanks,
    Kartik

    Kartik Mistry

    July 25, 2007 at 11:43 am


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