Localized Gujarati Geek

* We need fresh blood! Yes. Like Lucas mentioned in his last post, along with Debian itself, many small teams and big teams are highly out-numbered and probably dying slowly. Currently, debian-in team has only two active members (jaldhar and if I count myself). We live on #indlinux at moment, which also leads to confusion about actual focus area of team.

So, here are some clear text messages:

- Debian-IN is team to work for ‘Indic’ packages as well as bringing new and fresh blood to Debian from India.

- Its not true that we only work for fonts, we have many other packages: aspell dictionaries and festival-* packages and so on. Update: QA Page for Debian-In-Workers. Thanks Runa.

- We aim to provide platform for upcoming DDs from India. Sadly, all DDs in India are highly isolated at moment.

- Hopefully, we will get #debian-in at oftc. Update: Recovered ‘dead’ channel now. Thanks to Ganneff and h0lger for help. Come and join us!!

Please note that we are considering developers only right now. We have already good numbers of users of Debian in India.

kthnx.

* No, I am not talking about current DPL election or upcoming state election of Karnataka. Add +1 if you like new logo of Debian-In-workers team. Thanks to Niyam Bhushan for creating it. The license is upto us and yet to decide, I also wants suggestion for it. If you don’t like it, put -1. If you like it, put +1 in comments.

* Laptop running Linux is yet dream for me! ASUS launched Eee laptop and PC and it is perfect for people like me And it can be hacked to do anything. Its fun!

* As Venky told already, economictimes.com did poll on Should India support free software to take PC penetration to the next level (yesterday). I did not get chance to vote (ah, in digest mode, so news always reach me late!).

The result is promising!

This is what happened to me today! I got letter from Custom Department about shipment of unusual parcel of Ubuntu cds. I just ignored it and thought that it was any ‘Natak’ of govt. But, I was shocked today by receiving Free Ubuntu cds charged with Rs.1,650/- !! Oh !! It happens only in India!