Revisiting my talk at FOSSASIA summit, 2018

Earlier this year, I had the chance to speak about one of KDE community's cool projects that is helpding developers erase the line between desktop and mobile/tablet UI's with ease. I'm referring to the Kirigami UI framework - a set of QtQuick components targetted at the mobile as well as desktop platforms. This is particularly …

A look back at the WikiToLearn India conference, 2017

The first ever WikiToLearn India conference was a 2 day single track event held on the 18th and 19th of January, 2017 in Jaipur, India. The event welcomed talks from all domains of technology, but admittedly, talks around KDE and MediaWiki were preferred. Having worked extensively on porting JoyStream's codebase from QMake to CMake and also …

The #DebUtsav14 Experience

On April 6, 2014, I get an e-mail from Praveen, enquiring about the possibility  of conducting a MiniDebConf in Amritapuri. Praveen had previously visited Amritapuri and I can only hope he would've been impressed with the work being done over there. We at Amritapuri, have a very active FOSS club that is doing some incredible …

Debutsav ’14 – Behind the scenes

A quick look at "debutsav.in" shows that 4 days 32 minutes remaining for the event to kick-off. *sighs* It's been a long 3-4 months, since the first mail from Praveen popped up in my inbox, with content that went somewhat like this "How about Amrita University for this year's MiniDebConf ? ". Since then however, …

GSoC ’14 experience so far …

Yesterday(as on 22/03/2014) saw the close of the proposal submission period for GSoC 2014. I also managed to submit a proposal for KDE and more specifically plasma, for the project "Integrating Plasma Media Center with Simon". While I've been hearing about GSoC since the day I joined this college, I find it quite surreal that …