Few days back, there was an outbreak in the media - people all around the world were sad about the demise of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. While the world was in grief, no one seemed to care that the one who designed the base that gave us the technology we have, left us - without asking for thanks;
Who doesn't like pleasant surprises? I got one this September when Vinay S Rao, one of my juniors at my college told me that they will be celebrating Software Freedom Day 2011. I was happy, for the fact that the sprit of Freedom and Openness was still alive in my college, and there are people to carry it forward.
Today was another exciting day in the Free Software Desktop - The Berlin Desktop Summit 2011 - The meetup of KDE and GNOME contributors (yes, where the gearheads meet 
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(Quite some time since I last blogged, have been busy with life's "last exams" and a project work demonstration in which the examiner says I need to relax and enjoy more. Yeah, right 
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[update] Steps to build have been updated, please note the new cmake flags
Its been quite some time since I started working on a QtQuick GUI for Calligra targeted for mobile devices.
Being available on a spectrum of devices has been one of the goals Calligra had, from the very beginning. We even had awesome releases of FreOffice - Calligra running on Maemo Fremantle with full blown support for viewing and editing supported documents.
With all of the foss-y events going on, its been an exciting month, and will be so for the month to come. Most of you would have heard about conf.kde.in this year, and some wondering what its all about. Thats what this post is all about.
KDE India community has announced its first KDE/Qt conference in India. The 5 day event titled conf.kde.in will be held in March 2011 at the R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore.
I met with some of my friends on Sunday for a get together. I realized that all four of us are the only contributors to Plasma from Bangalore, so I thought it will be cool to call it Plasma Devel Bangalore Meet
Beginning of The Plasmoid -
It all started with a GL Applet, one with the ability to provide a OpenGL context in a Plasma applet, put to use. Thanks to Arjen who made some improvments to make it more compatible with some configurations.
The plasmoid then wasn't much fancy, but you could play Invaders on it. I had posted on it here.
Today was a rather productive day as I sat with Leinir and Arjen, hacking on Gluon (while Sacha was trying to get his Qt Creator to work with his N900) and as a result, the comments model is now editable :)
As mentioned in my previous blog post, the Gluon Team has received a Nokia N97 mini for testing Gluon Player o S60 platform. Though we currently are focusing more on Maemo/MeeGo devices, we'll be very excited to bring the social gaming experience to Symbian.
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