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Sahana at mukt.in 2008

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Ajay Kumar
on August 4, 2008
in FOSS, GSoC 2008, Sahana and Technology
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Being introduced to Sahana was something that happened to me over an year back while working for my academic project, where I checked out Sahana and got to know about it.

With Google Summer of Code 2008 I got a chance to *actually* work and contribute ..

And while talking and working with guys at mukt.in, an idea popped up suddenly when krish said, “Hey AJuOnLiNE, why don’t you give a talk on Sahana“. I thought it was a great idea, but the event being in a different city and the dates of the event being quite some time ahead,  I wasn’t really sure if I would be able to make it.

But then I had the Google Bangalore office meet up and I managed to extend my stay for mukt.in :-) and not to mention the “You should go for it!!” I got from the Sahana main-dev list :-) and my Sahana mentor, Fran!

So here I was giving a talk on Sahana to the students of Computer Science Department at Osmania University, Hyderabad and speakers from the FOSS Community, IT Professionals, people highly experienced than me and in short it was fun pHun!

mukt.in is a FOSS promotion event which attracts audiences who are Newbies, Students, Professional, FOSS Advocates [not lawyers ;-)] , and speakers from other FOSS Projects/communities… This year the venue was Computer Science Department, Osmania University, Hyderabad. It was a 3 Day event, 1-3 August, 2008.

My main agenda at the event was to showcase:

  • what Sahana is
  • how kOoL it is
  • how it *has* been used in post-disaster situations
  • how can people/community contribute to it..

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RTFM ? Nah “Go look at my employers website”

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Ajay Kumar
on June 10, 2008
in FOSS, GSoC 2008 and Technology
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RTFM == ? Well if you dont know about it already.. Prolly you *should* not know about it :D

But for those who do, getting shot by questions that makes us tempt to answer “RTFM” or “JFGIT”!!

Today while talking to Barry Carlyon, a programmer friend on the GSoC channel, after an hour of discussion or less than that, he made a statement in the end,

” You can use our employers website to find the information you need. lol”

And I replied “Where did it come from?” as in, what made him say that…

“Our Employer is Google“

yAy!!! :D

Yea right, even though it is a part time its a full time employment It’s a bit complicated though, we are currently employed by Google officially :D for the whole of Summer 2008. [Thanks r0bby for the correction, i figured we are full time on it for the Summer]

So guys, you might well want to change that statement… from JFGIT to

“Go look at my employers website for the information you need” ;-)

/me should now get back to code wars

PS: If you couldn’t figure out the keywords in this blog post, you might well want to look for that information on my employers website ;-)

Accepted in Google Summer of Code 2008!!

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Ajay Kumar
on April 22, 2008
in FOSS, GSoC 2008, Sahana and Technology
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Google Summer of Code 2008

This year I proposed an idea as a part of the Google Summer of Code 2008 program which Google has been organizing since 2005 to promote Free and Open Source Development by sponsoring FOSS based organizations in their projects.

My idea got Accepted!!

My idea was to add a feature to the Sahana Disaster Management System. Read more about what Sahana is here.

I will write more about it soon!!….

For now, here is the link to my idea - http://code.google.com/soc/2008/sahana/about.html

#6 above.

Direct link: For application.

This is a sponsorship by Google which promotes Open Source Development each year by paying each idea a stipend amount to the Organization/Project and the student developer upon successful completion.

Some stats:

  • Total Number of Applications/Ideas received by Google - 7090
  • Accepted Ideas this year - 1125
  • Sahana Applications - 59
  • Selected in Sahana - 9
  • My Rank @ Sahana - 6th
  • India #2 - Source

Looking forward for a great coded Summer!! :-)

Happy hAcKing to all fellow GSoC students!!

Hail gEeKdOm!! :D

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