Hi! all, I attended recently concluded foss.nitc in Calicut. Conducted in fluctuating weather of Kerla, foss.nitc was hosted inside beautiful NIT Calicut campus, few kilometers away from civilization. A fun filled event wich coincided with Holi. Pretty decent turn out on first day (approx 300+) and bit sloppy one on second day due to Holi. There were some really interesting talks and several fun filled moments. It turned out to be an interesting mix of people from different corners of country getting together to speak on foss. Event started with formal lamp ligting ceremony and formal opening on 2nd March evening. Opening was follwed by two talks and tasty dinner (for speakers). Like any foss event foss.nitc too had its share of confusions. Thanks to goof up by printer while printing the schedule on paper, audience, speakers and even the organizers were confused about the schedule. This guys managed to delete some talks and print wrong timings for lunch. Amid all these confusions, organizers managed to keep audience interested in talks. Hard work of volunteers could be seen everywhere as they tried there level best in taking care of every minute details. Like any foss event, there were some talks which pulled the crowd leaving some speakers with less crowd. Here a workshop on wiki's attracted 120 registrants forcing NITC guys to break the workshop into two sessions. More deatils about talks can be obtained from foss.nitc website as and when organizers find time to upload the presentation files. So, I will use this opportunity to share some fun filled moments on Holi day. A team of students decided to turn up at the conference venue hunting for the organizing head, who was runnin away from being soaked in colour as he has to organize the event. The guy called Amarjit was the most wanted person in the campus as it will be clear from this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOca_Tdrl0g Guy being looked for can be seen here http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/414805383/ Some more Holi pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/414792680/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jace/411369823/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jace/411188046/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/414794879/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/414797795/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/414786375/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/414802057/ One interesting outcome was open paper airplane desings. This started when Kushal das decided to make a paper airplane to kill time. THe airplane kept on crashing, so I decided to bu fix it and make it fly. Though there was some improvement but I decided to reverse engineer the design to suit the paper quality. Next thing we know everyone jumped into unconference on Open paper airplane making and designing. The outcome could be seen below http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/414789969/ Here is other speaker getting involved in making paper airplane http://www.flickr.com/photos/jace/411368282/ Being human nature to experiment with things we ended up having a stability contest which soon turned into paper airlane attack. Some pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/jace/411369309/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jace/411368792/ Somewhere in middle of all this fun, some speakers were delivering talks and audience listening to them. Good informative talks attended by pretty much intelligent audience. So, by this time if you were expecting a report where details tie wearing "experts" talk would be available. I have thoroughly disappointed you guys. Like any foss event there were interesting talks and good speakers, along with audinece who was willing to listen. (I know it well because of questions being bombarded on me for hours after my talk). Actually i was surprised to see few people actually came prepared to listen to talks and have tried there hands in the areas being talked upon. Overall it was a good enjoyable experience. More pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/foss.nitc/?page=3 Thanks to foss.nitc volunteer team for conducting such a good event. Pic of all volunteers http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/414808851/ Few of the volunteers i can recall 1) Amarjit Sigh (leading the army) 2) Basil 3) Sreedal 4) Feroz 5) Guy with specs, managing software lab (sorry could recall your name) 6) Hari 7) Srikanth 8) Girish 9) Hari 10) Priyanka 11) Pritam 12) Shyam 13) Praveen A 14) Guy who kept on calling me "Vivek ji". 15) And the list continues Ps:- for any technical details please contact oraganizers :-) Looking forward for joining you guys next year. regards VK Engineers normally have problem with every solution. If not they have a solution in search of a problem. http://creative.linux-delhi.org Disclaimer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
