tuxmaniac’s blog

Here I am back in Bangalore with fond memories of FOSS.NITC 2007 which got concluded yesterday. I landed up in Calicut at around 05 30 hrs on Saturday 3rd March 2007. Basil (a student organiser) picked me up and was given accomodation at the International Hostel. After catching up with some sleep, I got ready for having my breakfast and then proceed to the event. At breakfast I met Pramode (A person on whose hit list I have found a place Reason: I ditched Insignia organisers), Anivar, Praveen, Hiran, Kushal. I proceeded to the hall in which my talk was supposed to be held. Shakthi a.k.a mbuf was taking a session on Alliance VLSI CAD Tools. I gave a talk on Icarus Verilog and Free EDA Tools followed by a short presentation on OpenMoko.

We had nice yummy lunch. The Fruit salad and ice cream were mmmm.. Then it was time for some photography, networking, mentoring and ofcourse a lot of fun. In the evening, Pramode and myself conducted a BoF on “Students Contribution to FLOSS”. The organisers were so co-operative that they shifted me to the Guest House upon my request so that I could be with the gang. After dinner,Parthan and me proceeded to the Software Systems lab to catch up on mails. Meet Mr. Empty Mind sitting and trying to setup a laptop for his talk the next day. Around 0100 Hrs on Sunday, I decided to head back to the guest house only to find Mr. Empty Mind still missing. I carried my cot (in pradeepto’s terms mattresses) to Pradeepto’s and Parthan’s room and decided to crash there.

Next day began with me attending Pradeepto’s one and a half hour talk. (Err wait did I say something??? He forgot to stop and continued for 3 full hours) Side- effect of that was Parthan became bran dead for his talk that was supposed to have followed pradeepto’s. Man, Jace’s blog Camp was really uber c00l. I loved it. We proceeded to the valley after a informal “Prize Distribution” function . We had a nice time in the valley and headed for Dinner at Malabar Palace. The Appams and Stew were tasty to its limits. After dinner, it was time to board the bus back to Bangy. Reached Bangy at around 0630 hrs on Monday morning. It still amazes me “How in such a short span of time these NITC Folks have managed to make FOSS.NITC a nationwide Community event”. Keep it up guys.
Accomplishment of my missions will be known in the coming days For more pics click here.

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