The weekend leading up to the event is a blur of sorts :D We (Devdas and myself) had tons of things to do and the ones that helped us get through most of that were
Monday morning was fun.
The rest of Monday was spent moving stuff across to the venue (we were under the command of Captain AfC for this Ops), setting up boxen (as Devdas would call them) and the 3 Dual Xeon 3 GHz with 4 GB of RAM (still wiping drool off) servers. Airtel had terminated the Fibre link at the venue and there was much joy all around, which was of course short lived. It took us over 2-3 hours to get power to the NOC which meant most of the plans went slightly haywire. Meanwhile, Seemant who had been chipping in from time to time and playing FIFA 2003 otherwise (as he didn't want to sleep during the day) just couldn't take it anymore and crashed inside my car. I decided to call in both
Day 2 had a few more network issues which were sorted out and then the Gentoo Track, which was good. More people were interested than we'd ever expected and that was an awesome sign in itself. Thanks for all the support!! The Gentoo stall came up sometime before the talks started at 1430 and we (Seemant and me) also managed to grab a LinuxChix tee by helping out
Day 3 & 4 were quite relaxed, spent most of the time around the Gentoo Stall, talking to people, solving few minor issues that cropped
up, catching up on previous years/old times :p etc.
From the Gentoo perspective as well, things were a blast. Seemant is an awesome person IRL and so totally unlike his IRC self :p Let's say Seemant in RL is what Chris White is on IRC :p Thanks go out to
I'm sure everyone will agree that when we sat down in August, the one thing we all wanted was active participation. I am really, extremely happy that the idea of the BoFs+A specific area for them worked very well. Yes, it needed some pushing and shoving that happened only after Day 2, but it worked. People met, People talked. Unlike the previous years, the venue this time facilitated such discussions.
A round of special thanks to Devdas, Arun/
Lastly, to the Volunteers of FOSS.in/2005. Great job guys, you can happily pat yourselves on the back for a job well done (apart from forgetting to turn on a few switches ;) but then, we're all human aren't we? :p).
Things were quite hectic, so very few snaps were taken. I'll put them up later tonight.