Mapping party@ Durgapur and neighboring places (16th and 17th Oct 2009)

There has been a discussion between Indranil Das Gupta and us regarding the problem we face due to lack of GPS devices and some more mapping parties in Durgapur area.
On 16th and 17th we decided  to map  Durgapur and neighboring places. Primarily Kushal wanted to map his village and we decided to help him to [...]

Rally De Kolkata – My experience

Eastern region of the country witness a National Rally Championship after 4 years of dormant period.Since there was a gap,this rally was really hyped about. But even though it was rally de kolkata the stages were actually held in Durgapur.
Sept 17 : Initial plan for Day 1 was a 23.5KM dirt stage with two rounds [...]

Random Scriblings

Tommorow I will be going to Jamshedpur(India) to attend my brother’s wedding, Since Jamshedpur has almost no data for openstreetmap . I am taking  my GPS with me. Hope to do some traces.
On the other news :
1 ) openstreetmap.org home is now available in 4 languages : German, French,Icelandic ,Slovanian and some partial spanish .
Thanks [...]

Fedora Activity Day@BCREC by dgplug

So finally the Fedora Activity Day which was supposed to be held during Horizon’09 in April was held over two in 14th and 15th May,2009. The reason was that horizon got canceled due to some reason.
Here is a complete jot down of the whole two day experience
Day 1 :
We started a little late.At around 12 [...]

Server Downtime(API 0.6 going live ) 17th-19th April 2009

“Expect server downtime during that period. The current API will go into Read Only mode at 10:00am BST (9:00 UTC) Friday 17th April. You might need to upgrade your editor to use the new API after the work is complete. There may also be some hiccups in the following days.”
Technical Details here.
Announcement is here.

Google Summer of Code 2009

Well, like previous year  this year we are also in Google Summer of Code 2009. So if you are interested in OpenStreetMap, This is the right time to do so. You can take a look at potential project applications here.

Not so good :(

Okay, My mac’s keyboard seem to be b0rtked.
If i press these keys ‘4”r”f”v’; I get this : ‘45”rt”fg”bv’
Is this a hardware problem??

Past few days (including mukti09)

Last few days were hectic to me as there was lot of things that was happening around me .
6th Feb : It was Mukti 09 day ,  a national level tech fest on opensource at NIT Durgapur . Me and Arindam had to do a talk cum workshop there .Our Pre Mukti talk was canceled [...]

Random Scriblings

Theres quite lot to  say :
1. Gave one more talk on OSM at mukti 09
2. Visited Kolkata Book Fair and help folks at IOTA stall .It was awesome .Detailed blog coming up
3. Fedora talk at mukti 09 on 6th .Event page up (need suggestions)
4.Visited bijra today and had lot of feedback (complaints) from them .
5. [...]

First Barcamp and Tweetup at Kolkata

At last kolkata got its way to barcamp and tweetup , Though situation of the city made its presence on the people attending the barcamp.
I reached barcamp venue at IITKGP EXT center at around 10:15 AM .The preparation were still going on , However people started coming only after 11 . However organiser decided to [...]

Fedora on mac ..rocks

It has been two months since i bought my macbook .I mostly use my desktop for daily work and mac OSX was serving me well . However due to need i started setting fedora on my mac . Arindam did that previously and his fedora installation was fine .
After installation , i found that apart [...]

Sending a Freemedia DVD.

I am a part of Freemedia team for Fedora . and this is the first time I am actually sending a DVD outside apart from my local requests .The request i accepted is from Dewanhat , Cooch Behar , West Bengal .
I burned the DVD, put it into a Floppy/CD Mailer Envelope and went to [...]

Bangalore visit .

Though my original intention was GSoC Meetup held at Google R&D office in bangalore on 28th July. I somehow succesfully converted it into a vacation which i needed very badly .
After a lot of fight i finally managed to get hold of two train tickets to bangalore via chennai .
my train to chennai (corromondol express [...]

I am loving it !

pros:
I crossed yet another year .
cons:
I lost one more year from my life .
Welcome future .

dgplug@NIT-DGP and @BCET

Today I suppose is a good day in dgplug’s history . We were scheduled to visit NIT@DGP and BCET today. Naturally we started off a little late but managed to reach NIT in time.
NIT@DGP had organized a seminar cum discussion session,with mostly students from 3rd year and 2nd year our primary concern is to get [...]