Localized Gujarati Geek

* Day 1 was pretty good. We had really nice breakfast, after kind of okay-okay sleep due to late night hacking of memories with Kushl, Pradeepto and Siddhesh. We jumped into vehicle, dropped ourselves to venue and met Jace, Samay and other known faces there. Inside, there were few people.. But, we had very nice discussion with fellow speakers sitting near hackcenter area while watching schedule is updated on-the-fly.

Had nice interaction with Ramkumar and instead of working on Debian workout stuffs, noted to learn emacs (yeah, I’m vim guy ). Started it with small amount of dose. We settled around table #8 and will remain there. Kunal wanted to package some PHP stuff, he started with that. I uploaded yokadi without any fancy stuff (really, nothing). Started with looking into gwibber2. I rushed to hall #3 and introduced about ‘Debian workout’ but I think people were confused about my sudden introduction, Aanjhan was laughing on my crappy jokes on last seat. Anyway, I then went back, met Aanjhan after so many months, met some more people, peeped into wireshark packet capturing by Siddhesh.

Keynote by Dimitris Glezos, was amazing. We then headed to Aangan for dinner. It was entirely Kushal’s idea, so we were suspecting something about beerware, but alas, it was fantastic Punjabi food. We loved it. Return journey to hotel was NFS Rickshaw driving kind of.

Obviously, I’m not seating in Pradeepto-Aanjhan’s room with other fellows, writing this, lots of discussion on lots of random topics. Kushal’s jokes are coming at random() interval.

Day 1, it was..

* Kavin’s school had “Bird Day” and we made him penguin. It was first attempt to learn stuffs are imposing to parents from school. I think overall we did good job. /me pats both Ks.

* This really deserve more than ‘twit’, so I am putting it here as NEWS.

We selected nearby no-nonsense, no-hype, no-big-fees kind of school running in somewhat 4 BHK kind of bungalow in residential area. He is in ‘Playgroup’ where primary motive is to interact with others, to learn by monkey business and to learn some good (hopefully) stuffs. I was glad that he did not cried while going to school, but we had to drag him to home and he cried a lot

Current school timings are 9.30 AM to 11.30 AM, so I must help K and need to wake up early in the morning and probably stop (or reduce) useless hacking till late night.

However, I’m kind of down due to RCT, Stomach issues and now some pain in shoulder – but still alive to write this.

* Long awaited CFP is out! Lets see how we represent Debian this time. Last year’s I missed it completely and I am also not sure about this year, but as always – I am excited

Go for it!

* It has been just 3 years since I uploaded my first package, Xosview!

xosview (1.8.2-10) unstable; urgency=low

* New Maintainer (Closes: #390066)
* standards-version to 3.7.2

– Kartik Mistry Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:16:09 +0530

* Crossed 30. Hope that I will be more mature, sane and reponsible than before. Hope that I will kick my laziness sometime in this year. Hope that I will be myself.

Thanks to all who wished by call, sms, orkut, facebook, im (all possible ways, accounts) and in person.

Koki surprized me in the morning by putting nice birthday card and gift near laptop. I love you, baby.

.. while they are hot!

I have uploaded long awaited Gwibber (Many thanks to Filip Chabik for hard work) and Yokadi in unstable. Until they stays in NEW, you can grab source+binary from this place.

* While chatting, Samay told me that he has started his company. I was so excited to hear this. A just passedout student in Ahmedabad can do this? I visited their place and its real Garage kind of startup. They are still setting up things but I loved their energy and ideas. Thanks Samay, Tanmay and Puja (or Pooja). However, their company’s name is ‘Entourage Solution’ and I just warned Samay that Entourage is also name of Microsoft’s product

* Updated many pending packages, specially for debian-in repository. Fontypython is waiting for some testing from user side and will upload 0.4 soon after that..

* I reach Pune yesterday, had nice dinner with Gora, Ramky, Shantanu, Karaunakar, Both Raviji and Chacha Chaudhari Beer before and after dinner gave me awesome feeling during dream too!

Met ankit/kushal and l10n folks after long time!

Currently enjoying interesting session on Indic OCR using Tesseract by Debayan. Entire schedule is here.

* Wiki Updates:
Development Track: http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/Development_track
Localization Track: http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/Localisation_track

* My state, Gujarat is celebrating on its birthday today and entering in 50th year.

Jay Jay Garavi Gujarat, જય જય ગરવી ગુજરાત!

* We know that its time of election going in world’s biggest democratic country, India. Last and third phase will be on 30th. I am not sure I will go to my dear Palanpur and vote. Oh, I may go and vote! and will wait for sane result this time.