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Looks like the first shortlist of talks for foss.in was not enough, we now have the first list of special speakers: Jeremy Zawodny, Harald Welte, Brian Behlendorf, Rasmus Lerdorf, Dave Phillips, Danese Cooper, Alan Cox (yes, I said Alan Cox)… the list is impressive!

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Posted on Monday, October 24th, 2005 at 11:39 pm.
Filed under categories: Bengaluru, India, Open Source, Tech.

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Julian Says:
October 25th, 2005 at 5:38 am

Swaroop, I see you’re an early adopter and you’re doing a talk on TurboGears. Great stuff. Do you have a tutorial or docs online? Just a request that you could post your slides or audio if you can. What does Yahoo! think about Python? I know at Google, Python is used very heavily. Later, Julian

Swaroop Says:
October 25th, 2005 at 7:36 am

@Julian:

Yep, TurboGears is really neat. I haven’t written anything on it although I will be definitely be putting up the slides for the talk.

In Yahoo!, we use Perl and C++ generally, and continue to use the same because we have a lot of infrastructure built around these two languages.

Regarding Python, I know that a lot of people (at least in Y! Bangalore) use Python for prototyping. I have been pinged by various yahoos asking questions about Python equivalents of Perl statements/modules/etc.

However, it looks like Python is becoming more accepted inside Y!. For example, here’s a recent job listing:

Search Cluster Automation Engineer * Large systems automation and monitoring, OOP, python, perl, C++, custom build tools and UIs

This position was listed under the “Senior Software Engineer – Search Core” section.

Sriram Says:
October 25th, 2005 at 10:50 am

I saw the list of speakers and went “Holy sh*t!”. Awesome. Hats off to Atul Chitnis (not everyday will you hear that from a Microsoft employee )

Ankit Says:
October 25th, 2005 at 6:46 pm

Phew! Tall list this one! Although I have probably met only of the enlisted!

It would be interesting to see Sarath give his demo – cool.

Wish I could be there at Bangalore to attend this event (

Swaroop Says:
October 25th, 2005 at 8:47 pm

@Sriram: You can say that again

@Ankit: Why can’t you make it?

Ankit Malik Says:
October 25th, 2005 at 9:22 pm

Because

I live in New Delhi, miles away from Bangalore!
My family isn’t planning a vacation to down South in the near future!
I can’t travel alone that far!

Ankit Malik Says:
October 25th, 2005 at 9:23 pm

I saw the list of speakers and went â€œHoly sh*t!â€?. Awesome. Hats off to Atul Chitnis (not everyday will you hear that from a Microsoft employee )

Cool! BTW who is Atul Chitnis

Swaroop Says:
October 25th, 2005 at 9:56 pm

@Ankit: Okay, Delhi is quite far off. Anyway, I guess you’ll be coming down here after a couple of years

Read about Atul here. Hint: He’s the administrator/moderator of the Bangalore LUG lists.

Ankit Malik Says:
October 26th, 2005 at 7:51 am

Anyway, I guess youâ€™ll be coming down here after a couple of years

????????????????????

Ankit Malik Says:
October 26th, 2005 at 7:51 am

Impressive biography!

Swaroop Says:
October 26th, 2005 at 8:54 am

@Ankit: I meant after a couple of years, you would be old enough to come on your own.

Ankit Says:
October 26th, 2005 at 9:08 am

@Ankit: I meant after a couple of years, you would be old enough to come on your own.

Oh Ok!

Ankit Says:
October 26th, 2005 at 9:10 am

BTW OT but did u suggest WP to AB ?

pradeep Says:
October 26th, 2005 at 7:03 pm

@ankit: english please is it wordpress to amitabh bacchan?

Ankit Says:
October 26th, 2005 at 8:08 pm

is it wordpress to amitabh bacchan?

Haha..I deliberately left it for you to figure out. So scratch the head a bit and think puhleeze. It is sorta of a quiz! go figure?

pradeep Says:
October 27th, 2005 at 11:23 am

I have figured it out.

Now the only missing piece is why you cannot answer a politely worded question, straight.

If it is something personal, which I’m not party to, say so.

There was no need to use the acerbic tone.

Ankit Says:
October 27th, 2005 at 12:30 pm

I have figured it out.

Now the only missing piece is why you cannot answer a politely worded question, straight.

If it is something personal, which Iâ€™m not party to, say so.

There was no need to use the acerbic tone.

C’mon. There was nothing secretive about it! It’s just that I decided to use acronyms for the fun of it – for once stop being paranoid !

Actually AB refers to Ashok Banker. I was asking SC [again!] whether he has ever recommended WP to him?

pradeep Says:
October 27th, 2005 at 12:57 pm

@ankit chill one more sterling example of why acronyms are bad

Ankit Says:
October 27th, 2005 at 1:02 pm

oh ok…actually we have a game in here. Its pretty popular among my circle of friends. We use acronyms to tell about a relevant situation with clues of course and you got to guess… although I can see you guys arent interested! )

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