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Sahana coming to FOSS.in/2008 :)
Oct 31st
Sahana is going to be present at FOSS.in/2008 in Bangalore, India in the last week of November. I will be representing the Sahana project and interacting with the FOSS contributors present at the event from India & abroad and the community.
A coding session, termed as a “workout”, is planned to make feature additions to the Sahana Messaging module at the event, which would involve interested participants writing code for Sahana at the event. The detailed plan of the proposed workout is present here at the Sahana Wiki. Interested people can participate in the discussion on the Sahana Developer Mailing list and help out in planning the module features and make any suggestions they might have.
Workout: SMS Public Information Feature addition to Sahana Messaging
Event: FOSS.IN
Place: Bangalore, India.
Date: 25-29 November, 2008.
PS: Exact schedule of the workout during any of these days will be out soon on the foss.in site.
Here’s the original announcement about the event at the FOSS.IN/2008 site and the first list of accepted talks and workouts here. You can read about what FOSS.in is here. Besides the session, I will be looking forward to meeting the localization teams from India, the community leaders and active contributors and of course attending their sessions as well.
In case you plan to be around in the town somewhere in that period, do drop in and help spread the message about Sahana!!
I code for SAHANA. Do you?
/me is now a “Sahana Core Team Member”
Oct 29th
Day before yesterday when I woke up and checked my email, which is the first thing I do usually as my laptop is always on 
, found a mail from Chamindra on behalf of the Sahana Project Management Committee inviting me to become the core committer 
That is some awesome news to read and start your day with! I was totally excited for the privilege offered to me!
So now I am a core member, a new addon to my Sahana contributions: Contributor, Localization Team, Developer.
Sure the Spider man rightly said “With great power, comes great responsibilites”
See what I am talking about here.
Thank You to Sahana PMC and team members for the encouragement. I will look forward to make ongoing contributions to the project in all possible ways I can
I code for SAHANA. Do you?
Sahana localisation sprint on 1st November @ Sarai.
Oct 27th
Event: Sahana Localisation Sprint
Place: Sarai, New Delhi. or #sahana on Freenode
Primary Objective/Agenda: Review and complete Hindi Translations of Sahana. [Other language translators expected to join in too]
Date: 1st November, 2008.
Time: 11 AM to 6 PM.
Check the Mailing list for discussion on the topic here.
Join in and contribute to Sahana
I code for SAHANA. Do you?
Google Summer of Code 2008 – Complete! fEeL dA l0V3!
Sep 22nd
Google Summer of Code™ 2008 [GSoC 2008] concluded on September 2, 2008 and I have successfully completed the program This post goes to thank everyone[1] who have, in some way or the other helped me during the project time line. This year’s summer of code student’s success rate is 83%.
GSoC 2008 India MAP
1] A BIG “Thank You” to :
- Sahana – my GSoC organisation for selecting my project idea and giving me a chance to join in & contribute to the development.
- Fran Boon – My Mentor for the GSoC project [he rOcks!] for all the guidance and encouragement.
- Friends I made @ ##gsoc-india & #gsoc for the fun we had, the codes we discussed, the phone calls, the meetups etc etc! It was all motivating and pHun being with you all.
- My school mates, whom i got back to since I recovered from the “coma” of 4 years , who kept encouraging and helped getting back into the groove. Vivek, Akash, Pia.
- Few special friends who stayed along, kept pushing! [you know who you are don't you
] OK. Kaps, Shellz, Rakesh! - my room mates Nishant, Amit, Deepak, Chanpreet for being there!
- My parents for being there. And letting me cOde! in the oddly hours. My time table became opposite, sleep in the day and wake up in the night. Not exactly day & night, I used to code till 6 am, go for a jogging/running to further tire myself. Take a shower, have breakfast and off to sleep! To wake up at around 3-4 pm. Weird no ?
- School friends @ Bangalore with whom I stayed for a month and other friends from Wipro I met there. I had fun! Navin, Rahul, Ashish, Tariq.
- to Google for paying me! and now certifying me and promoting “Open Source”. And the t-shirt of course, the most important part!
- to Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager, GSoC and the Open Source Programs Office team for handling the program of such a nature, with so little resources.
- again to Leslie Hawthorn, for being a mentor taking care of all the students! [I tell you her real name is Trinity, just that she only has 2 hands, but does equal multi-tasking as Trinity. ]
- other hidden forces and people who worked towards making all this possible. Google Accounts dept, FedEx especially!
Me on the Map!
You may also want to check out the traditional map of Google Summer of Code 2008, which displays the connections between all of the mentors and students worldwide (KML – 1.4 MB, viewable with Google Earth or Google Maps.
No wonder this is a big post, if your interested in reading about my complete experience you can read on.
