Thank you to Udhay Shankar for the invitation to this list. I love
mailing lists - not just for their retro feel (especially in my particular
MUA) but because I'd rather converse with a group of like minds than stand
on a pedestal with a blog, though that has its charms too.
I'm going to be in India for the next two weeks, and am keen to meet people
doing interesting things with open source software, etc. My itinerary is
roughly:
Feb 4-5: Chennai (fossconf.in, CollabNet's offices)
Feb 5-6: Pondicherry (fun)
Feb 7-9: Pune (GNUnify)
Feb 10-12: B'luru (OSIweek)
Feb 13: Mumbai (OSIweek)
Feb 14-15: Delhi (OSIweek)
Feb 16-17: Dharmsala (fun)
I'm brand new to this list so I've got no idea to the geographic distribution
of people on this list, but I'm assuming many of you are in India itself and
not just fanboys/interlopers like me. I don't know what my precise hourly
schedule will be yet for some of those days, but I'm eager to meet new people
so I'll try to make something work. SMS might be best for last-minute
planning; mine is +1-415-412-4610. I would also encourage people to sign up
for Dopplr - www.dopplr.com - and befriend me. I travel way too much and would
much rather spend spare time in a foreign city with interesting people than
staring at art or hiding in a hotel room.
Finally, for my first contribution: one of my favorite blogs is Andrew
Leonard's "How The World Works" blog over at salon.com. It's
moderate-bandwidth - 2 or less per day - but they're always fascinating slices
of globalization, technology, the future of IP, and Asian culture. One of my
favorite recent posts is:
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/01/29/fragments_of_the_tocharian/index.html
Cheers,
Brian
