Back home after my first bangalore && FOSS.IN trip.. although the flight got delayed by 2 hours or so due to heavy fog at bangalore airport but I returned home safely near about 11:30am on 26th Nov (Sunday).. yeah missed the last day and also ``Coffee @ Y!``.

The entrance to the J.N Tata auditorium was pretty neat but somehow I couldnt figure out the FOSS.IN banner in the front in the first go and I have to go and confirm with some random dude out there that it is indeed FOSS.IN :)
Anyways...
FOSS.IN '06 kicked off by an introductory speech by Atul Chitnis followed by lightening of FOSS lamp by various FOSS people from different states and then the keynote, by an Indian, for the first time in the history of FOSS.IN, Suparna Bhattacharya.

So overall it was a pretty nice trip.. finally meet up t3min4t0r and was also looking around for KingDiamond for some "Ruby moments" but couldnt find him.. :(
Although neither I know PHP nor I have any interest in it but still I attended Rasmus Lerdorf's talk on "Getting Rich with PHP5".. well mainly because I was about to attend "Porting Ruby to Symbian" talk but because of some gah..gah.. expression and words from Gopal turned me down :P, I moved to this PHP talk and finally when I was going home, I decided personally I think this was the best talk of "FOSS.IN 06" that I have attended..

Apart from that, Christoph Hellwig's talk on "Contributing to the Linux Kernel for Fun and Profit" and Suparna Bhattacharya's update on "EXT4 Development" was also pretty neat to me, mainly because I am a ``wannabe`` into the kernel world..

and finally, if you are interested in some pictures that I took, Click Here

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