Mapping party in Kolkata_Aug 2009

On August 9th,2009(Sunday) we are having a mini mapping party in Sontoshpur/Jadavpur area of Kolkata.Its a 8hr mapping spree with socializing afterward.
Check http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kolkata_Mini_Mapping_Party_August_2009
So If you are in Kolkata at that time and have interest in OSM, Please do join the party

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.

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 [...]

Finally cambridge is here : WOAH

So finally its is here,f10 cambridge ,
Scheduled my download already ,

read release notes here
download it here

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 [...]

An AND discrepancy

Here’s a small sample of AND data and yahoo imagery .

Its Grand Trunk Road (NH 2)
The green line is the AND data and the line parrallel to it is from yahoo . The gap is big .Need to edit

OSM Mapping started for me

Finally i started mapping for OpenStreetMap .. I got a garmin etrex vista for which i paid 7k extra and got it for 15k INR
I got two vehicles at disposal and i am using them for mapping long distances .some pics :

Some mapping have been done for my city ..and facing problems with AND data [...]

Back from Axis 08

Axis 08 is a tech fest organised by NIT Nagpur . We (me ,Susmit, Arindam ) went there and conducted seminar cum workshop . (our scheduled of 3.5 hrs were genoursly extended to above 8 hours over three days .) Now i am back home and have a nice time with Fever . I am [...]

Hey ! Today was Dgplug’s Birthday .

Four years ago today was the day when dgplug was born .
We are the Linux Users’ Group of Durgapur. The group officially started on Sep 8, 2004. A few small brains grouped together to populate Linux in the locality.
Kushal suggested us to hold a meetup on this regard . However due to many circumstances it [...]

Finally I own one

It has been quite a while since i was longing for a lappy . Looked through dell , lenovo and all major brands until gsoc arrived . Since my budget limiter is gone with it , I finally got it one i never thought off . An Apple MacBook .
I never considered a macbook since [...]

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 [...]