dear all, since i haven't seen any minutes of the meet, am posting the post-meet minutes in reverse chronological order, as a mind-numbing exercise... [grin]
11:00pm: Cafe Coffee Day in Saket starts toggling their lights, as a discreet signal to Ilug-d to call it a day. We've been slurping on their cafe frappes, smoothies, icecreams, while discussing random topics. i get home just past midnight. 10:30pm from 8:30pm: we step out from the movie hall into the star-lit night, wondering what the heck was that story-line on 'Basic.' though we were all thrilled by the movie. Mid-way thru, the concierge brought us our huge popcorn combos, which was sort of our dinner, as we sat occupying the front seats of the middle-set of seats. massive leg-room. the pepsi was cooler, and we did manage to catch some trailers and ads before the show. interesting to note in light of our ilug-meet topic, as we entered the hall all nine of us were frisked, as is routine, by security at PVR. good they didn't hear our discussions on RSA, encryption, and other stuff... ;-) 8:00pm to 8:30pm: we stroll across to a nice dhabha-walla who made some nice, strong, garam garam chai for us. we stood around the bikes in the parking lot, animatedly discussing population and statistics of linux users in india, migration headaches, and other random topics. 7:45pm to 8:00pm: we were surprised to see cops, including some specially-uniformed types, suddenly appear from nowhere, in somewhat large numbers, at the food stalls. the kiosk owners hastily packed up their makeshift tables and chairs at PVR saket. 6:30pm to 7:45pm: the vegetarians amongst us had to wait till the last for their paneer tikkas. the eggetarians were moderately lucky, and the non-veggies had privileged service from the open-air foodstall at PVR saket's complex. we had just arrived at the complex, to disappointingly find that all tables and chairs for people wishing to dine in the open-air had disappeared from the food stalls. some kiosk owners beckoned us to the backyard of their kiosk, which was surprisingly well-lit, and tables and chairs appeared from nowhere in a matter of minutes. two large fans were placed right behind where raj was seated. his cpu always needs cooling. the camera-equipped clicked photos. 6:00pm: we decide to call it a day, and head outside the EFY building in okhla. some bid goodbye, others decide to go partying. we decide to head out to PVR saket in this excellent weather. pre-6pm: tarun dua decides to stop using 'invisible ink' with marker pens and gives a light-hearted and friendly talk on security aspects. before him, raj gave an excellent talk on encryption, symmetrical encryption, public-key encryption, benefits, etc., for audiences in human terms. mayank and gang served all with coke. eishwar (sp?) gave a talk on [eeps! i was late so don't know what was his topic!]. the room on the first-floor was surprisingly full, packed with about 40 to 50 people. great meet! many new faces. a few were holding copies of the latest LFY. apparantly the intro talk on linux for newbies had gone well. sandip and raj had spoken to me earlier on the phone, so i had assumed the meet would start late, but it hadn't started so late, i discovered, as i parked my car outside the EFY office. just about half an hour earlier, sandip and raj were talking to me on the phone from a barista near IIT. and as i showed up to the surprise of a few, i don't have to eat cowdung. yea! as i left home for the meet, i decided to stay thru the whole day for the post-meet partying i always miss out on, never attended any. figured that is what makes an ilug-d meet wonderful and memorable. so decided that later i'll write this summary in reverse chronological order, with the juicy bits first. so more people show up for the next meet. for the fun. :-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
