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I'm Indian-da
I think that all Debian developers (including the brand new ones) will be delighted to learn that we not only have 4 indian DD's now, but we have an Indian DPL, at least according to his own words after a few beers.

The first two days at FOSS.in have been quite busy. Sam's first talk ("Giving back to the community, how does Debian perform") was really interesting with ideas about a possible place where various distributions' patches to software could be collected and made available to upstream authors.

I then had two talks in a row, which I feared a little but went pretty well. The first one was a brand new for me ("Contributing to Debian for dummies"). I tried to enforce the idea that contributing to Debian might be fun and opened to everybody, not only deep hard-core hackers (I funnily took my friend Andrew McMillan as example for hard-core hackers....).

To make the talk less boring, I did choose to illustrate the various ideas I was explaining with photos taken from the various Debian-related events I attended last years. So, many of my Debian friends will recognize themselves on my talk slides. I hope you people won't mind being taken as examples (I should maybe have asked your authorization before....in case some of you want to sue me for using your public image).

The other talk I has was a quite standard i18n talk. As I don't like doing the same talk over and over, I changed that one slightly to make it more suitable for the local audience, putting focus on localization for languages of India (even doing some of the "famous" bubulle-style maps especially for India). In case you aren't bored with that one, here's the link to slides.

The next day features some other projects days. I will put focus on talks from the Indlinux project day. Indlinux is indeed an amazingly active project and the small room was entrely packed with people attending quite technical talks about Indic computing, Text-to-Speech, Indic languages spellchecking and such really specific topics. I also attended a very promozing talk by Dimitri Glezios, in the Fedora project day room, talking about Transifex, a very promising localisation material collecting platform with the interesting ability to be able to push translations back to thei respective upstreams, avoiding one of the major drawbacks of tools such as Rosetta. I'll have to come back on that one.

Now for the Main Confeence days....that will be busy, too, for sure ! And I didn't even mention the awful Mozilla party we had yesterday night. Some people will remember that one.

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