The Viamentis Blog

 If you are in India and are interested in free and open source software, you must have heard about Foss.in. It is, arguably, India’s biggest open source conference. I have had a long association with them, and I have been attending it since 2003 edition. Now that Divya has joined me, and Unni will also be joining us in a few days, I thought it would be nice to take them both to Foss.in.

It was the first real conference I have attended after I joined my first job, and it made a great impression on me. I hope it provides the same inspiration to the new folks joining me at Viamentis. Open source software forms an important part of our day-to-day work, and we are grateful to be able to work with such great technology.

If you want to meet us or just hang around with us, you are most welcome. Just send me a mail (refer to the contact page) beforehand. By the way, we will be there for the main conference. Unfortunately we are going to have to skip the Project Days, though all of them look quite interesting.

Also, I won’t be speaking at the conference this year, though I had great fun speaking the last two years. The change of focus this time to having only speakers who actively contribute means that it percludes me. Though I do contribute now and then, I can’t really say I’m a major contributor to any open source project.

No excuses, I’ll try to remedy that next time around. Unni is very keen on contributing to some open source projects, so hopefully he’ll be able to speak next year. It would be a proud moment for us

There seems to be a lot of attention being paid to Google’s answer to the Facebook Platform called OpenSocial. I heard about it on Pmarca’s blog, but there are a lot of details here, here, here and here.

I think this attention is truly deserved, because it really opens up the field for innovative widgets/apps which run on these platforms. The major Facebook Platform app developers are also participating, which portends well for the adoption. Stay tuned for more observations, as I feel this is an exciting new opportunity where there will be a lot of action in the future.