Stuart Little! – Just for the laugh

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Ajay Kumar

Stuart[Mouse]: What do you think, I am a man.. errr or a Mouse ???

Snowbell[CAT]: [Looking at the mouse/stuart] *ahem* Is that a trick question ?

– rOFL!!!! :)   :)

[PS: Thats some post-Midnight laugh for me, /me goes to sleep! after documenting and coding all day & night!! :) ]
Its “Official Pencils Down date” for GSoC 2008 Coding. But I have a genuine question & concern. What if I didn’t use a Pencil at all ? Mostly I used a text editor to write my code. w00t! :-/ I get exempted from the clause right!! yAy! :P

Ok I see someone coming with a stick!… LH is that you ? :P

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mukt.in v2 report :-) – An experience “delightful”!

Posted on August 10, 2008 by Ajay Kumar

This year, I made it to the event, after I came to know about it while hanging around on IRC in the Official Google Summer of Code channel. Interacting with the people in there, I got a chance to get involved and volunteer for tasks related to the event.

Considering most of the time I was occupied with work for GSoC, I managed to confirm my talk and attend the event for the whole of 3 days.

Event: mukt.in v2 2008

Venue: CSE Department, Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Date: 1-3 August 2008. Continue reading →

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Sahana at mukt.in 2008

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Ajay Kumar

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.. Continue reading →

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/me goes to the moon

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Ajay Kumar

I want to go to the moon!!! yAy!!

Well normal surfing on some blogs resulted me landing up on few of the NASA’s mission pages..

They say, we could send our names in a DVD and a chip being carried by the spacecrafts in both the missions.. Sounded like fun pHun! so there you go! My name is on the list too!

I always wanted to go to the moon.. Space would be calmer? eh… hmmm

I could sit there on my chair.. spread out my legs.. with my laptop on with a satellite connection [err.. I would be on a satellite already, if I were on the moon.. Wish it could communicate with stations down there ;-) ] and do what? Code :D But wait.. will I miss the Pizzas ? /me will need to call up some Pizza chain restaurants and figure out a deal with them, to open an outlet there.. gEez I would be so in business there?

I wonder someday, an alien would pass by to order a take away.. duh!! I would so fre4k out!! :P

Kepler Mission: http://kepler.nasa.gov/

Kepler Mission Participation Certificate

NASA LRO: Name to Moon: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html

Ajay Kumar in moon

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