Its been long time that I had blogged. May be the facebook had engulfed me for a while. Or may be post marriage effect? There are plenty of questions which roam around me, why I was inactive? So lets keep the past as “PAST”. Good news is that, I found time to work with KDE at least for the folderview patch. I need to thank Aron, Shantanu and my new colleague at office Vimal Singh. Started working on next bug(bug: 256187). Nothing more to write 
conf.kde.in is a dream for every kde hacker from India. Its a venue where you come to meet KDE/Qt hackers around the globe. At this point of time I am in the west of the globe, to be specific in San Jose, California. I am writing this blog after noticing the speaker tag of Runa on the facebook. Guys you have done the best job. Keep blogging keep tweeting. I know every hacker/volunteer is busy there. By tweeting/blogging I would feel that I am sitting next to you
2008 FOSSMEET@NITC. It was the venue where I listened the talk on KDE from Pradeepto. He gave a cute introduction about KDE. He described about the areas where one can contribute to KDE and all. Got inspired from his talk. I was totally new to the desktop technology. I thought of starting from localization. At that time I felt localization would help me to get into KDE contribution. It was
also the time I was thinking how to contribute to FOSS and where to start with.
I searched for long time. I managed to find klettres. Klettres had kannada, telugu and hindi. But then I found my mother tongue malayalam language was missing. I started creating xml with syllable’s and recorded my sound accordingly. I submitted my first patch to annma. She tested it and accepted. I was happy. I couldn’t describe my happiness. In 2009 FOSSMEET@NITC I met pradeepto once again. I started enjoying the KDE indian community. I also joined with Madhusudan, Shantanu and Santosh Vattam.
After 2009 FOSS Meet I wanted to prove myself, that I can try writing C++ code. Madhusudan gave me the KDE Handbook. I got inspired by seeing the photos of people who had actually contributed to KDE from India. I built KDE from trunk. After restarting the kdm, I liked plasma very much. I asked aseigo how to start with plasma. He gave me the first task to “show applications by name”. That
was my first c++ code which went to KDE trunk. Felt really amazing. Continued my contribution with quicklaunch. And I had also submitted a few one line patches too. Over all, I made some good friends in KDE. For me KDE is not just a community. Its like a family for me. Every single patch to KDE had made me happiest man on earth.
Hence my humble advice to newbies who use KDE or who don’t know where to start in KDE , please do attend conf.kde.in. I bet you too would get inspired from some of the awesome speakers we have for the program. Take this as an opportunity to learn and make your KDE better. At conf.kde.in you can also get your queries get cleared which you might have had in your mind while using KDE. Once again I welcome to all to the KDE community at conf.kde.in and last but not the least welcome to the world of “FREEDOM”
Finally my long term concern about my thinkpad r51 came to an end. I brought a new dell laptop inspiron 14r. I had faced a small issue with broadcom 4313 chipset. I had tried kubuntu maverick in my dell laptop. The kernel in which I found the problem was 2.6.35-23. Just download the broadcom driver from the broadocm website. Just follow the instructions mentioned in the README file. I had added the b43 and ssb modules to the blacklist and it didn’t worked for me. So please rename those module ( b43.ko to b43.ko.orig and ssb.ko to ssb.ko.orig). I think for some reason, kernel is again loading these modules during boot. The renaming of the files worked for me
Nov 4th 2010 was the day when we ( me and achu ) exchanged our rings. Nothing more to write. Sharing the photo’s of our engagement with all my friends.
Flickr link is here.
