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    Foss.in – Good and Bad Things Happened on Day 1-Image

    Foss.in – Good and Bad Things Happened on Day 1

    December 4, 2007 by Kenney Jacob

    Author: Kenney Jacob

    Hi, I am Kenney Jacob, love blogging about Education, Media hypocrisy and Social Issues.

    After 2 hours of traveling on the bike through the most dirty traffic og Bangalore I reached the FOSS.in venue. Thanks to Robin for driving me there. Without his help I would only have reached here by noon.

    The place was crowded and there were two long queues at the registration counter. After standing there for 30 minutes I realized the fact that I dont have enough money for completing the registration process. I had to break away from the queue, find an ATM and get money.  Then after registering I was issued a food coupon for the next 5 days.

    There is enough security at the entrance and I was throughly checked. They had portable metal detectors. Thanks to the terrorists.

    Then I went to the Mozilla room, and attended 2 talks there about developing applications on the mozilla framework. They were really good, and learned about XUL, XPCOM and some other mozilla related stuff. Also got many Mozilla goodies.

    Now I was felling very hungry cos I had not eaten anything in the morning. But now I realized the fact that I had lost my food coupon somewhere. I contacted the organizers and they were like “we cant issue more than one coupon to a person”.

    Luckily IISC have a decent canteen. The only problem is that you will get only “Pandi” food there. Had some food from there. I was not interested in the after noon sessions so decided to find a place to stay. After some effort found a place 6 kms away from the campus. decent place, 270 per day.

    Now Im sleeping peacefully there.


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