Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is believed to be the greatest experiment ever conducted with thousands of scientists collaborating on finding the beginning of the universe. Now, FOSS.IN, the conference which was the prime force behind my contributions to the Free Software world has announced its experiment. A major change in the event format this year. Read the full details here.
I consider this the Greatest Indian FOSS Experiment . Its a move that requires great courage. The focus has been made more clear this time (not that it was not clear last year). “Talk is cheap, show me the code” is getting more visibility. Yes, its going to be the first “Developer” conference in India. Hats Off, Team FOSS.IN. My chances of getting there and finishing off all the todo hacks looks bleak because I am miles away from Bangalore, but will try my best. So ladies and gentlemen, get your wiki pages ready, your brains sharpened and start jotting down your plan for FOSS.IN 2008. Be there and show your code to the world. I am sure its gonna ROCK.
Rant: I am not so happy with the organisers calling “Packaging tasks” as “low hanging fruit”. I am upset a bit because its not such a mundane task as mentioned in the mail, that too from TEAM FOSS.IN.
Hi Aanjan,
While the event FOSS.IN moves to a more focussed and targeted audience its really impressive to see how it all happened.Any conference worth its ground should time and again evolve.
There is a long way to go.The experiment is really on.An experiment which is not easy nor something whose results are tangible in a few years even.
Your rant is not really which should be bothersome.The focus is what is really the case here.
Packaging is something which is important.The code which goes upstream is also very important.Fixes in one set of packages ( my rant indeed ) don’t really flow back upstream that fast.
We need more innovative ideas and ways to make it more tangible.
Regards
Kanti
Hello. Thanks for the great post! As a member of Team FOSS.IN, believe me when I say we don’t consider packaging trivial (I’m part of Gentoo’s GNOME Team, so I know first hand). The point we are trying to make is that we need a *lot* more happening at the conference on upstream projects and particularly in the big picture sense.
Anyway, see you there!
If packaging was ‘low hanging fruits’, we could have several DDs, MOTUs and UDs, and Fedora Developers lying around here and there..
I am not in favor to write yet another lightweight window manager that doesn’t sucks..