rohitj's domain » Gnome http://rohitj.net Yet more clitches Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:03:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Must Attend in FOSSKriti http://rohitj.net/blog/2008/02/09/must-attend-in-fosskriti/ http://rohitj.net/blog/2008/02/09/must-attend-in-fosskriti/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:21:41 +0000 admin http://www.rohitj.net/blog/2008/02/09/must-attend-in-fosskriti/ For last few days, I have been talking to people (mainly IITK students) about different events we have in FOSSKriti. I found people pretty enthusiastic about different events. I am pointing out those events here:

0: RoR : Y4 batch, being highly affected by Prof. TVP’s, is highly interested in attending RoR workshop. Some people want to learn RoR, some people want to discuss RoR. And I assume that some people will come because they know Saurabh Nanda. :)

1: Linux Kernel : Those who eff around there linux distro, especially Gentoo users, and those who have slightest interest in systems, were found interested in this.

2: Lisp : I personally am going to attend this event as a participant, not as organizing team. :P . And I am sure I will bring 10 more people. Actually no, some people were found interested in this workshop, specially those who are doing compilers course, or those who have done compilers course.

3: Linux Chix : :) :) :) :)

(female.isIITian())&&(female.isGeek())&&(female.hasTalkedTorohitj()) = 0

So, I am not sure how many females will turn up, but I am sure people will be there. This is the second event I want to attend. I want to see what they are upto.

4: KDE4 : Those who do not know, recently there was a big shift in IITK linux community. People broke their long loyalty for Gnome, and shifted to KDE. Alas!! KDE4 is still not in official repos, but they are still on KDE. They think its worth waiting for KDE4. Of course, this talk will attract these people.

Left are beagle hackfest and Clutter talk. Beagle is a must-attend hackfest. (afterall it substitutes stupid google desktop :) ). And clutter? I have no idea about it. :)

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Kontact for example is way too cool. Its a proper bundle of applications that I needed as my daily scheduler/mails/feed reader. As usual feed reader doesn’t update properly. It takes time to update, but its fine.  Everything is at one place. Plus it shows notifications in tray. KOffice on other hand doesn’t have good qualities yet. Lets see what KDE4 does to KOffice. But this idea of showing all option on left sidebar is awesome. All your applications in one place. I am in love with KDE now.

Though this left sidebar has problem as well. In KDE 3.5 this sidebar doesn’t minimize itself, so for normal screen people it looks ugly. I hope in KDE4, or lets say by KDE4.1 they will come up with this minimization thing. KDE4.1 will also have proper support  proxy. Developing country like who are not given enough public IPs need it.

Konqueror? I do not like it as of now, but I guess thats because shifting is always difficult. Its been 3 years using firefox. Firefox is still awesome for me. Kopete doesn’t have proxy support in KDE3.5 .

Desperately waiting for KDE4.

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