KDE conference at RVCE, Bengaluru
(9-13 Mar,2011)
By:
IRC (ajnovice)
List of participants from Jaipur Engineering College
· Atul Jamwal(IT)
· Apurva Tripathi(IT)
· Tarun Verma(IT)
· Renu Yadav(IT)
· Rahul Dukiya(CS)
· Bhupesh Solanki(CS)
· Abhay Singh(CS)
· Prakash Suthar(IT)
· Rashmi(Manda Engg. College)
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DEPARTURE & fun IN THE TRAIN
I left my house at 5:15 am. Our train was scheduled on 6:45 am. I reached station around 6:15. It took me about an hour to get to the station from Faridabad(my home). On the station I was delighted to meet the same guys but they all had gloom on their face as they had spent last night without sleep so I cracks some jokes & tried to made their mood happy.
In our trip we got two amazing personalities RAHUL AND PRAKASH. One guy going outside of Rajasthan for the first time and another was travelling first time in the train (WOWWWWWW)
I had bought a camera alongwithme so when we boarded the train I took our departure snaps & when train start running I was little worried as I had never been to anywhere far place like Bangalore before with my college friends. I thanked my parents for supporting me for the trip(LUV u MOM n DAD). My mom had packed the breakfast(paranthas, pickle & aloo sabji). We all enjoyed it full mouth( YUMMY). From Jhansi ,we stepped out at each and every station & enjoyed each and every possible famous dish of the place. At Bhopal we all had icecreams to soothe our stomach. M.P. was really hot, me and apurv were regretting for not coming in AC. But with friends around this was temporary situation and we had lot of fun in the journey. We all especially me and Apurva used to sat on the coach gate for hours. We met a former Infosys employee DIVYa SHUKLA. She was very friendly and she enjoyed our company. We shared food & played antakshiri. She thanked us for making her journey pleasantful. On 7th morning Tarun joined us from Kachiguda , GOD bless his mom as she had made breakfast for our devil stomach. We all ate it and enjoyed the train journey with silly little fights and then negotiating, all this continue till we reached Yeshavntpur railway station.
Our experience in the conf.
We reached RVCE on 7th eve. We were accommodated in the college guestrooms. Our stay was fabulous, thanks to Pradeepto(organiser of the conference). Every room had ACs and rate was affordable.
On 8th morning,he called us for helping them in arrangements for the conference, We(atul,apurva,bhupesh) helped him in the installations in the labs, setting up the main hall screen etc. They thanked us for their help but really it was us who was thanking God for making us meet the technology experts. Campus was huge and everything there was too good. Indoor stadium and OMG what a energetic atmosphere was there. I met a lot of college students and they all were friendly. Everyone was speaking English, I thanked god atleast now I had found my atmosphere for which I was looking for in our college for 1& half year. I’m quite good in English, I encouraged others too to talk with the people around and come out of their ENGLISHPHOBIA. Our efforts( mine & apurva) bear fruits when we saw our group people speaking in English. We were really very happy as this atmosphere had started changing their thinking about imp. of English
In this pic from left to right- Tarun, Me(Atul), Rahul, Bhupesh, Apurva, KNUT YRVIN & Abhay
We all had quite amazing experience overthere, let me tell you
Ø We saw that no one was using windows, for them windows is no more than just trash.
Ø As no one was using windows, so the word VIRUS didn’t exist in their dictionary. I was shocked & regret to spend 500 bucks for a one year antivirus plan.
Ø Even RVCE, had saved Rs 40 lacs for using ubuntu in their computer lab.
Ø Everyone was promoting open source as these are legal software with valid licenses & I personally feel little ashamed as I was using pirated software like MSoffice 2007 etc.
Ø Then I decided from today I’ll also use opensource software & once I got familiar with the the OS I’ll delete my Windows permanently(Ba-byeee GATES).
Ø Sticker culture was on the rampant there, I saw Mozilla, google, wikipedia etc.stickers on almost everyone lappy’s. So I also got some on my Lappy too(wow, now it really looks more powerful)
Ø Printed T-shirts was the centre of attraction, guys wearing GOOGLE t-shirts was like most intelligent people overthere. I saw google, Mozilla, KDE, Ubuntu, Wikipedia, Open suse etc. logo prints on the t-shirts.
Ø Badges or pin are also at wanted list of the attendees, I get FEDORA, KDE, WIKIPEDIA badges.
Let me tell you the guys we met there. All of us met Mr. A.K.Ghosh. He was the man of knowledge who encouraged us for all things including basics of life. He made us more friendly to the environment. Second Mr. Shahid Farooki from IITB . He contacted us to burn some CD’s for spoken tutorials. We had a little conversation in our room at late night. He was talking about how to contribute and some projects of IITB.
We all helped him and some of us took interest in the project. Next day we met some great personalities like KNUT YRVIN and ADRIAN DE GROOT. Knut is working for Qt and lives in Norway. He was among top 10 finalist of Norway’s got talent and So you think you can Dance. Groot talked very frankly about how to contribute in KDE if someone don’t know how to Code. He discussed with Stephanie. Stephanie made us meet Eugene Trounev. Eugene was the guy responsible for all the graphical works and certificates for KDE conference. We met Lydia Pintscher( kde developer). Then I personally met Rohan Garg. He is a third year engineering student and Kde developer too. His talk on project neon was very good & I asked him about how to dazzle my PC with the neon light. He gave my answer & I really looking forward to do this kind of project on my own. Then I met Stephanie Das Gupta, she told about how to contribute to KDE etc. Then we all met ANNE, she told us about how to edit docs. People overthere are very friendly & helpful.
DURING LUNCH
We all had lunch together at same place not like in other conferences where seniors are shown more hospitality. We all are were treated same. We had chat during lunch too with many speakers. Once we had chat with the Shahid farooqi about spoken tutorial & we really liked that idea…
Some of the eminent speakers whom with we had chat are:-
 Runa Bhattacharjee Runa has been contributing to various localization projects since the past 8 years, primarily Fedora, GNOME, KDE and Mozilla. She works at Red Hat and lives in Pune. |
Traditional hues and Technology
We live in a world that is technologically changing at a far greater speed than earlier. The rapid changes have influenced lifestyles and the culture of people and places. As information technology, and modern communication became a part of everyday life, local flavours and indigenous cultural factors have also in turn influenced the way technology had been adapted. Members within the open source community are significant contributors to this pot-pourri of cultural intermixing – where cultures from various corners of the world come together yet stand out independently. With a powerful combination of passion, purpose and pride at work, communities can influence and define the future of a culture based upon traditional identity and technological advancement.
 | Adriaan de Groot Adriaan de Groot is a Canadian by birth and a Dutchman by training. He has worked as a researcher in software quality and formal verification, is an experienced C++ programmer and an active member of several large Free Software organizations such as KDE e.V. In 10 years of programming he has worked on many parts of the KDE platform, focusing on software quality and portability issues so that all Free Software operating systems can use the software. Adriaan is a vice president (legal affairs) on the board of directors of KDE e.V. and a member of the board of directors of the NLUUG. He was coordinator of the Freedom Task Force (FSFE’s “legal department”) in 2009. |
Bits of Legal
Free Software is an interesting creature, because it “misuses” something that is typically restrictive for non-restrictive purposes: a software license. However, there’s much more to the legal landscape around Free Software than just the license. This talk will go over some of the ground regarding contributor agreements, licensing, trademarks, and other bits. It will be based on western European understanding of the legal basis of Free Software, but should apply to some extent in India as well.
 | Lydia Pintscher Lydia Pintscher is a cat herder by nature. She studies computer science at the university of Karlsruhe, Germany and is doing community work for KDE and related communities for many years now. She is the community manager of the popular music player Amarok and a member of KDE’s community working group. On top of that Lydia is one of the administrators for KDE for Google Summer of Code, Season of KDE and Google Code-in – three programs to help people get involved in Free Software. In general she likes to help people make awesome things happen. |
So much to do – so little time
KDE is a successful, large and global Free Software community. It is the umbrella for a very diverse set of applications from music players, over office and education applications to hardware abstraction layers.
Talks that were held from 9-11 march
1. Abhishek Patil – Writing Kate Plugins
2. Aditya Bhatt – digiKam: Professional Photo Management for KDE
3. Adriaan de Groot – KDE e.V.: Supporting the Community
4. Anne-Marie Mahfouf – How To Start Contributing to KDE-Edu: Practical Hints
5. Anne-Marie Mahfouf – Users Do Read Manuals (Doc and Wikis Revealed)
6. Artur Duque de Souza – Plasma devs becomes script (kiddies they already are!)
7. Artur Duque de Souza – Plasma is shrinking!
8. Atul Chitnis – The Importance Of Being KDE
9. Dinesh – From Absolute Zero to Minesweeper in Python and Qt (Pyside)
10. Eugene Trounev – Graphics & Open Source: Survival guide
11. Frederik Gladhorn – Introduction to Qt Quick
12. Inge Wallin – The Calligra Suite: an in-depth introduction
13. Inge Wallin – Calligra: the Office Suite for Mobile and Desktop
14. Ingo Malchow – KDE is more than int and string: an introduction to KDE’s webteam
15. Jain Basil Aliyas – Playing with KDE4 config files using KonfigTracker
16. Jonathan Riddell – PyKDE Introduction
17. Jonathan Riddell – My KDE Journey
18. Jonathan Riddell – Kubuntu: Friendly OS
19. Kartik Mistry – Localization foo
20. Kushal Das – Playing with PyQt
21. Lydia Pintscher – Let me teach you how to fish!
22. Mani Chandrasekar – Calligra Suite for Mobile Devices: FreOffice
23. Nikhil Marathe – Scripting a Qt story: Extending applications with JavaScript
24. Nikhil Marathe – Setting up a KDE development environment
25. Prashanth N Udupa and Abhishek Patil – Getting started with Qt programming
26. Prashanth N Udupa – Generic Component Framework
27. Rohan Garg – Building daily KDE packages with Launchpad
28. Rohan Garg – Project Neon: make your PC dazzle with neon lights
29. Shantanu Tushar – Glue games with Gluon
30. Shantanu Tushar – Writing QML Plasmoids
31. Sujith Haridasan - Getting started with your first KDE application
32. Siddharth Sharma – Plasma Dashboard in Skrooge
33. Stephanie Das Gupta – Contributing more India specific content to KDE-edu apps
34. Vishesh Handa – Nepomuk: The Social Semantic Desktop
35. Volker Krause – The Qt Model/View Framework
36. Volker Krause – Akonadi and KDE PIM: Access your personal data everywhere
37. Will Stephenson – Think you know about the openSUSE Build Service and SUSE Studio?
38. Will Stephenson – KDE at openSUSE and how to contribute
Well, I hope this would be enough information for U all.
For now, we all are introducing open source software to all are our friends & trying to bring it on the college level too ( GOD help us!!!!)
For more, ping me @
Atul Jamwal(jamwal.atul1@gmail.com)
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