Cobbling some thoughts together
- My last blog post has had a surge of comments. Good to know. It hasn’t done what I was expecting it to do. And, frankly, I don’t think there would be GNOME-y stuff happening at FOSS.IN this year. I would have loved to see some Performance Testing stuff and bits of GNOME Mobile. So, either those folks are talking off-list and submitting proposals or, they don’t intend to turn up. So much for a few mails that I received gushing about ‘doing GNOME‘ at the event. Stop gushing and start doing is something I should make into a signature.
- I started using duplicity to back up stuff. Wonderful piece of software and a nifty utility. Thanks to Rahul/mether for pointing that out to me. Being the GUI weenie that I am, it would be wonderful to have a GUI wrapped around it.
- FOSS.IN this year would perhaps be less of a ‘conference’ and more of a ’summit’+'WorkOut’. In case, you are presenting or intending to talk about stuff at the event, please take care to give your slides some love. Presenting doesn’t really mean that you would [i] be reading huge chunks of text off the slides or, [ii] be deviating from the slide content into something orthogonal. I saw both of that happening. The presentation/talk is a story and it would be good to spend some time during the run-up to the event to practise narrating without the slides. Lots of things can happen and thus, preparing an interesting narration isn’t a bad idea.
- Interesting proposals for WorkOuts and Project of The Day being discussed on various project mailing lists and IRC channels. To be part of them, hop on to the nearest friendly IRC channel (#fedora-india, for example) and start participating.
- Wrapped up reading An Indian Odyssey – quick read and a good one too.
- This article (from the Online WSJ) kind of sums up the situation around ICICI for a quick read. The television media coverage related to ICICI has been all-over-the-park. Half baked statements, grapevine gossip being palmed off as ‘breaking news’ and a steady attempt to sensationalize the facts without an underlying comprehension. Senior media personnel haven’t been performing up to the mark. The global meltdown and the unheard-of-before statements from various world leaders would eventually walk their way to India. However, it isn’t an excuse for the private media channels to go all out and start adding rumors to the dismay of already shaky indices.
- To all those who have contributed to the page on Subprime mortgage crisis – a round of thanks for keeping the English simple and easily understood.
- If you have missed it earlier, don’t forget to take a look at the EKG Reports.
It’s a good idea to carry a printed copy of your slides in case technology fails completely & you can then have something to refer to. I always have a copy on a memory stick, at least.
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sankarshan Reply:
October 15th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Yes, that’s a good one. Somehow I did miss pointing that carrying a backup on a removable media is handy. I was a bit fed up with people reading off the slides with nothing to add. If that is the case, then they might just put the deck up on screen and keep hitting PageDown.
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James Morris
15 Oct 08 at 11:09 am
Dunno why, but somehow you managed to attract a lot of trolls commenting to the previous post. Don’t worry, this happens.
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sankarshan Reply:
October 15th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
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nicu
15 Oct 08 at 12:43 pm
Funny you mention wanting a GUI wrapped around duplicity, for I have been working on one these past couple weeks and just today posted the first release.
It doesn’t aim to be a feature complete wrapper, nor is it feature complete in and of itself, but you may find it useful.
http://launchpad.net/deja-dup
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Michael Terry
16 Oct 08 at 9:50 pm
this is a great post. I dont know how I stumbled upon it, but it was worth reading. I added this to digg
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forex autopilot
25 Jun 09 at 2:09 pm