Hello!

[Vinod Kulkarni]

Hi friends,

This is Vinod Kulkarni, currently in Persistent Systems, Pune. After my
bachelors,
I was at IITB for about 7 years for my research in computer
architectures, but was
thouroughly distracted by our favourite Linux.  Have always been a
techie, and though
I now find myself more on suits side, I still control my own life.

Simputer will be an interesting beast to watch. I hope that a lot of
manufacturers will
get interested in this, and hope it will do a linux in hardware world.

Also Interesting to note that unlike other designs, the device itself
wouldn't have any persistent state  by design. Though it currently
supports smart cards, we can expect that it will eventually move on to
media cards etc.  This will have interesting design
issues in the application software development. We should be able to
discuss all that
in this platform.

In the applications segment, I am primarily interested in looking at
making P2P the
core of the application architecture.

So hoping good times ahead!

-Vinod