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 [...]

Head scratch

It has been one whole year since I turned 21 and  I will be asked what I have learnt in last four years.
Lucky me ^_^

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

GSoC meetup at Google R&D Bangalore office.

28th july was scheduled for the meetup about which i was very excited. Reached Bangalore on 27th and rested for the day .
On 28th reached Google’s office at old madras road . At reception me along with other GSoC students were given stickers on which our names were printed . We were recieved by Aishwarya [...]

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 [...]

who’s the bird

http://www.flickr.com/photos/subhodipbiswas/2636228037/
Saw this bird in a lake ..but cant remember the name ..its called Pankouri in bengali afaik ..

[GSoC] GPSBabel Plugin for JOSM post 1u1

I mainly maintain my contact with my mentor Raphael Mack via email . so after some discussions and some ideas from my mentor . I finally managed to make a GUI on which I will be continuing my work .
My plugin is divided in three part .
1.  GUI itself(design with Netbeans used Metal theme as [...]