Hey, I have to say today is like 11th of FEB, when i woke up in the morning i found that i did not have to catch a rickshaw to go to India Habitat Centre. Really all the 3 day fun has finally come to an end but with a note that they would be back next year, with a lot more people and lot more to say..... So i guess i will continue with my work..... read onn.......
DAY 3 I woke up sharp & i was at the occassion before time coz i did not want to miss the talk by DaviD AxmarK (Co-founder MySQL) which in turn started very late and messed up the whole day's schedule. The reason for the late schedule was the day before there was the penguin party and then everyone got late and things happened... So, The talk basically.... He was talking about Mysql 5.0 and what advancements it has in it's latest versions and stuff like that. Then the addition of procedures and triggers and indexes and all cool stuff. As i want to learn Mysql soon i asked him a lot of questions in regard to that. I also got a chance to take a picture with him which was indeed very very cool for me !!! Some of the questions that i asked was... How would someone go about in learning MySQL ?? What about documentation and stuff ? How many people use it currently ? I was like surprised to hear it is powering so many of the best websites and enterprises in the industry.Really much motivated by the talk Then came the IBM people (Mary Ann Fisher) she was talking of what IBM does in opensource. IBM basically supports REDHAT & SUSE and then how they used the OS's to get their work done. Then she talked about patents and stuff and then how IBM is the highest patent holders in this world and they certainly donate some of the patents for open source... But the talk was gr8 !!! Next was the tea break which was like really refreshing for me coz i came early that day !! Then i decided to attend one of the workshops by IBM which were related to DB2,WebSphere. They provided with the dvd's and a 2kg manual which i did not take but it was really cool, they were showing and it was also a hands-on, on how to go about installing db2 and websphere on linux redhat enterprise and also suse... Some of the people were also learning how to install LINUX ES which was really good work done by them. The room was quite big and accompanied quite a few people. Then again the next talk was one of my favourites guess who ??? ...yeah KLAUS KNOPPER he talked on secrets of a LIVE DISTRO which i found very interesting coz he really got into technical very fast and then showing us which script does what and how do you modify and really shed light on the x server concept and what parameters and alterations they had to do to get the server running. Again he showed us various scripts and then it was really a very good talk....!!! You know by now i am really a very big FAN of KLAUS he is such a helpful person..you go to him with a question he always has a right answer for that, he has a very sensible talk and you don't find any compulsion with him as you would do with the IBM guys or someone else... I guess this is because he himself has come up with the OS and then he is very happy about it and ready to help anyone in his way. To tell you some fact i would have talked to KLAUS abt 2 hrs in this whole 3 days ! Just imagine someone from IBM giving you so much time to talk abt the problems or solutions you have. Then came the Naukri.com guys they were really talking abt their servers and how they had to scale as the work began and how many read's and write's that had and stuff.. Well, not interesting for someone who is not into this stuff so many people left. Next were the Codito people, this guy was looking really knowledgeable and he was saying many hardcore things abt optimatizations and vectorization. Since i studied compilers a little bit i was getting some things but to other people i think the talk was a little bit tangent ! Then tere was the most beautiful lunch ! I have to say the India Habitat Centre food is really really gr8 ! I used to like wait for the next break always !! Really after a very nice lunch was the most sort after talk abt Women in Open Source which was really good to hear and talk to people. Danese Cooper was there and she really took the talk nicely along with everyone. They basically focused on the Open Source work environment and how it was fruitful for women and things ! Then was a keynote from V. Ponraj someone from President's Office and was really talking abt how technology is getting penetrated in INDIA and future plans and grids that they are setting up and some of the plans have a 100$ PC to every school kid and things... Then came the Apache Guru Brian Behlendorf, again he showed us some great things and how he gets inspirations and stuff and how 2 guys came together and built MySQL !!! Finally, there was an ending keynote from Danese Cooper, which really opened my eyes ! She was talking about what she has learnt from bieng @ linuxasia for the 3rd time ! then what her total experience in IT says ? Where is Opensource heading nxt ? Really i should have recorded this talk but i guess she is very inspirational whenever you talk to her ! Anyways, It was nice talking to you people thru mail ! I hope you got some of the messages straight outright ! OK, someone asked me about stalls of YODA and stuff. The problem with them was they got a stall in the corner and then i guess they were short of laptops and stuff but they managed to get a few talks and it was i guess a really good learning experience for them too !!! I guess someone from the group should write about his experience @ the stall.. ok i am out of here.....it's been a very big email. Thank You for reading Bye Rohan (LDOM) -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.