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Last weekend, the KDE community in India organized KDE Meetup at DAIICT, Gandhinagar. There were three primary motives behind this-

• Spread awareness about Open Source software among students
• Lot of students have misconceptions about real world software (the myth that its very difficult to work on a big project), try to address them
• Usually all tech conferences, especially FOSS ones are centered around places like Bangalore, Pune etc - give a chance to people in another region

I am happy to announce that the event was a huge success, not just in terms of number but in the quality of response we got and that we met all the three things we wanted to do!

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.

I was delighted to see that India was on the 2nd position on the number of proposals sent to GSoC 2009. Check out the Google Open Source Blog. Hurray !!