* We re doing heavy uploading and fixing in Debian-IN repository nowadays. Thanks to Vasudev for taking initiative on Git migration + various nice stuffs pending from long time.
* Gwibber is till mess. Help wanted as usual!
* And, MiniDebConf India at Pune is planned at Pune again. Unless, it is colliding heavily with my wife s plan, I ll be there as last time 
* Dear Lazyweb,
I have Macbook (Late 2008) model running Debian Sid + Mac OS X (sigh!) and I m facing nice issues which prevents me to full use of disk. They re:
1. CD-ROM drive doesn t work. So, if I want to upgrade to Snow Leopard or anything else, there is no other way.
2. Disk is 160 GB, I want to upgrade to better disk (say with better speed, capacity). Is there any way to clone entire disk (with partition preserved) and use it? Remember: I don t have CD-ROM
3. Is there any way to wipe-out Mac OS X and running Debian with hardware acceleration? I ve noticed that if you single boot Debian, it lacks Video acceleration.
Any pointers towards above 3 is appreciate. I ll hostname my computer if you help me to fix this 
* It is always fantastic being with Kernel, Device Drivers, File Systems and Network Protocol and yeah, Illumos, NCP and NexentaStor! So, if you re around or in St. Petersburg, Krasnodar or Northen Boston (or even somewhere else too) read below
we re hiring!
From, John Goerzen s recent post,
Oh, and if you d like to work for us, you should probably be sending me an email. No, I m not going to list the address here on this blog post. If you can t figure it out, I don t want to hear from you
Yes. And, I m talking about Localization in Localization foo talk.
Speaker list is awesome. See you there!
* List of talks: http://kde.in/conf/talks/
* So, Debian 6.0 Squeezeis released! And, congratulations and thanks to all people involved. Lets have party now!
* Finally, as announced here. Thanks formorer!
Point your browser to, http://lists.debian.org/debian-dug-in/ subscribe and have fun!!
* No, we don t have moksha packaged yet.
Sometime ago, Nirav forwarded me query regarding Utkarsh (my project where our goal was to provide complete Gujarati interface in OS) who got CD long time back but facing some issue. Last week, I decided to help and finish this pending task and went to place we decided. It was small laptop (ie EEE PC) for guru of group called, OM Parivar. I installed Ubuntu and customized it for Gujarati interface and required software.
Second time, I went to Guruji s place for small training and I was wondering how fast man of 82 years can learn! He was very happy to see me helping and so I m converting more person to Linux. I also explained why I m using Linux and we even discussed about some Free Software philosophy.
Next time: Keep Debian Installer with USB boot handy 
* Gwibber in experimental. Expect: 2.31.93-1 by tonight.
+ It is still slow. In short, it sucks at moment. Report bugs to upstream. Any improvement for Debian packaging (I moved it to pysupport (Thanks to Filip Chabik)
* Life sucks. Why?
+ Festival time. I ve developed allergy to noise.
* I was thinking to move out of as many as non-free (FaiF) web services after reading mako s this post and now zack wrote about it with good explanations and reasons.
What things I m using? And its replacement:
- GMail [and related stuffs] (I don t own server/email setup, may be next year s plan?)
* It is same old life, apart from:
+ Guitar is going good. Learning first thing apart from computer in life
+ Learning C++ and openFrameworks for helping friend for project. More details later..
* Packages:
+ I ve uploaded Gwibber 2 after waiting for ages to experimental now. Now, OAuth sucked life from all previous version of Gwibber stable version will not have twitter working. I m thinking what can be best solution for that.
+ Code::Blocks is with me now. I m talking to upstream to do better things with license issues. It will not make to stable, but backport version is planned.
* Kavin:
+ Arr. He can reach to my any books, gadgets and even laptop.
* So, here is late report!
Sometime back Praveen started discussion at DebianIndia mailing list about having MiniDebConf kind of conference here in India. MiniDebConfs are generally focused on development rather than at introduction to Debian . But, since this was our first attempt, out focus was more on to introduce Debian to student community and after writing this after 5 days I realize that we ve done good job!
Many thanks to Joerg Jaspert for setting up Mini website: http://in2010.mini.debconf.org/
Praveen got bunch of sponsors, many thanks to CDAC and other sponsors for making event happen with testy food and tea that kept me awake.
Now what really happened at Pune?
My flight was nice. I went to guest house of COEP (the host college, 2nd old engineering college in India) and took some rest and called Praveen. He was already at computer lab and setting up Virtualbox and other things. We had two places hall and lab. Unfortunately, both were at different buildings and subway between them 
I discussed with couple of students and we went to dinner at late night. Pro. Abhijit who was kindly give permission to use lab and college hall was another source of energy. He is handling many FOSS events in college and probably only faculty who encourage students to use and learn FOSS.
The Day 1 started with long lines of registration process. As we had around 200 registration, turn out of students were 100% on first day. Hall was almost full. Dr. Shashikumar from CDAC gave nice lecture about contribution which was well received. Praveen and Onkar then took the stage and gave nice introduction about Debian.
I met Onkar first time. We had really nice discussion ranging from becoming Ubuntu MOTU to his Powerbook s adapter. After that Vikram took lively session on i18n and l10n in Debian and I took boring session on Contributing to Debian . Yet another boring session from me was Developer Toolbox .
Packaging workshop by me at hall made many faces to yawn heavily while Onkar and Praveen handled it nicely at Lab. Main reason for yawning was Wifi and my Macbook s capacity to deal with ndiswrapper and crappy broadcom s drivers. (Note: I should get nice machine.)
I met Sham first time. I met Kushal once again and felt energetic again!
Day 2 As we expected number was very low compared to Day 1. So, we closed hall and moved entire stuffs to Lab only. Vikram took again nice session on Debian Edu . It was very interactive and I should learn something from his act of presentation.
Another nice thing from Day 2 was discussion with BOSS Linux team. Hold on. Lets keep some old woes aside. They are basically doing what their bosses are telling. Developers were clueless about Sending patches to upstream. Their bugzilla had Zorro bug reported. I made promise to follow-up on this and set-up patches from boss at somewhere depending upon their response. That mail is my draft let me finish it by weekend. Pavi and others took video from session. It will be nice if someone will post it somewhere
We then continued on discussing bugs and packaging area. It was amazing to see Praveen become DM during conference and also to see: upstream, maintainer and sponsor in one room.
I really had nice food at dinners. Mango Mastani was nice. Beer was nice. How can I forget discussion with Ramki, Ninad, Pro.Abhijit, Praveen, Pavi and others after dinner?
So lets work for MiniDebConf 2011 now!
* Testing needed from more people. Feel free to break your working gwibber with, http://people.debian.org/~kartik/packages/gwibber/ and let me know at usual address.
Known issues:
+ Read README.Debian after installing package (Thanks to Dionisio E Alonso (Baco))
+ Facebook updates seems broken and also pidgin integration.
+ Tray icon is missing (It use indicator now!)
+ Lots of hidden issues!!
Dionisio E Alonso (Baco)
* Yes. $subject is true!!
We re going to have Mini DebConf here in India. (You may call it Micro too!) If you re not going to DebConf10 and/or nearby Pune, India (or even far!) you re most welcome! Many many thanks to Praveen for taking lead & organizing event. We plan to focus on getting <more> people into the Debian. Good thing is that many Ubuntu contributors will be there and that will probably bring both distribution much more closer! (Hello, Onkar!)
Many thanks to Nexenta for traveling support. And, since Sham is also attending We can have MiniNexenta Meet also! Anil and Garrett are meeting on the other end of the world at the same time
Be there!!
Stay tuned at Wiki page for more update. My blogging frequency is not better nowadays..
1. Kavin is of 3 today. Can t forgot that awesome day 
* After realize that I can book domain name with payment using Internet banking, I booked one. However, that hosting provider has crap schemes and I want:
a. Debian
* I ll be at Mumbai (aka BOM) on next two weekends. Between that I ll be free to work on whatever I want while watching TV or movie. i.e. dear Ks are away for 5 days.
24-25 Apr and 1-2 May. Beer signing? Key party? LUG Meet? Anyone?
My secret plans at Mumbai are:
* Unfortunately
(with apologies to GIMP)
Next.
