December 9th, 2007 — Experiences, MobMe, Mobile, Wifi Mesh Networking
The event got over today, but the fun continues.
The first thing I learned is that India can be the heaven of Free and Open Source Software. There are too many developers wanting to contribute. And they will if someone shows them how to get started. Then again Evangelisation…
Javascript is going to become the language that dominates light weight application development. XML is here to stay, and is going to be seen in various usage scenarios. I decided to brush up my scripting knowledge.
Got inspired by the mozilla talks and decided to do a do a mozilla application for FastAlerts and Mobshare. This will help the users navigate the user interface better. Also it will help increase the usage.
Wireless Mesh Networks are evolving into a much more reliable and secure technology. In India the adoption rate is very low for community networks (are indians afraid of sharing). Bangalore will soon see its first mesh setup and I am going to be a part of the team.
Many FOSS developers are now focusing on embedded and mobile development. It gives them more freedom and satisfaction. Mobiles are a better playground cos its largely unexplored and it offers much technology freedom than a normal computer. Openmoko, Openembedded, Android, Qtopia etc are going to dominate this.
The future will see more of software than of hardware. GNURadio project aims to make all communication infrastructure to consist of a standard hardware and different software for different applications. Its like you have a device and you can load various softwares to make it act like an FM radio, tv receiver, GSM phone etc. I didnt understand more…. I wish I had taken that Ham License while in college.
And on the final day met up with Rasmus Lerdorf, the guy who created PHP. I had a strange feeling when I met him, felt like I was talking to some film star. He maintains the php.net website and all its subdomains with around 1200 CVS users actively contributing to the project.
Then had chance to see and use the 100$ laptop. Amazing stuff, cleverly designed for kids. Only kids can use it cos its too small for a normal person to use. Also had a discussion about FOSS and education. FOSS fits into my Technology Evangelisation strategy. To tell you the truth, Im technology neutral.
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December 4th, 2007 — Experiences
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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December 1st, 2007 — Education
This is my FOSS registration card. I am going to attend the event, considered to be one of the largest FOSS events in the world. Its a 5 day event starting on DEC 4 and end on DEC 8th.
FOSS - Free and Open Source Software (For those who dont know)
There are many sessions but these are the ones that I am interested in.
- Writing application with mozilla framework
- Fun with openGL interfaces
- How to Help Evangelize Mozilla in India and beyond
- Crash Course on speech recognition and using CMU sphinx to build ASRs
- Test Driven development with QT and KDE
- Component software development/design
- Using openEmbedded to power open devices
- Meet Hadoop (Open Source grid computing)
- Free Software for wireless community networks
- The Pulse Audio sound server
- Hacking the airwaves with GNU Radio
- OpenJDK mobile and Embedded
- OpenMoko, what why and how
- Introduction to maemo development
- User to hacker in 90 mins
There are many other sessions also, but these are the ones that I am really interested in. I am packing my bags right now. See you there in Bangalore.
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