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  Kaun Banega KDE Hacker: KDE India Founded
Community and Events Posted by Daniel Molkentin on Saturday 10/Dec/2005, @11:51
from the one-step-closer-to-world-domination dept.
A group of enthusiastic KDE users and developers met last week at the FOSS.IN conference in Bangalore, one of the largest Free and Open Source Software meetings in the world, to combine their efforts in various regions of the country under a common banner and build a central platform for all things KDE in India. Along with spreading KDE awareness in India, especially in colleges and with local businesses, KDE.in has a few more practical goals. KDE.in will provide Indian KDE developers and users with a community hub to coordinate with and support each other.


The founding members of KDE.in
Besides driving the ongoing internationalization and localization efforts, a major aim is to foster the creation and adaptation of KDE applications to needs specific to India (the Patpedi cooperative banking systems, for example).

"We hope it will encourage more contribution to KDE and FOSS in general from the large pool of technical, artistic and communication talent present in India." said Sirtaj Singh Kang, one of the founders of KDE India.

Anyone interested is encouraged to join the mailing list at kde-india@kde.org and join the discussions. The website at in.kde.org will be built up over the coming weeks.



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Congrats!
by EP on Saturday 10/Dec/2005, @14:20
This is good news for the entirety of KDE users and developers. I hope that the KDE India people will have some fun and I wish them the best luck.
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Congrats
by Inorog on Saturday 10/Dec/2005, @14:20
Excellent! This is the kind of reorganizing we need.
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Great
by Chris Howells on Saturday 10/Dec/2005, @19:22
Always nice to see KDE represented with new regional groups.

Just in case it's not obvious from the article, Sirtaj is a long time KDE developer and press contact so the new group has plenty of experience to get it going (see his bio on http://people.kde.org/taj.html)
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Congratulations!
by Sagara Wijetunga on Saturday 10/Dec/2005, @20:14
Congratulations and best wishes for KDE - India.
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Congrats, KDE India!
by Atul Chitnis on Sunday 11/Dec/2005, @00:09
I can't wait until the day when I launch the first "Made in India" KDE app on my desktop.
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Wonderful!
by marlow4 on Sunday 11/Dec/2005, @01:12
This initiative will be good for the country and good for the world.
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What does "Kaun Banega" mean?
by Kurt Pfeifle on Sunday 11/Dec/2005, @06:23
I am sure the title makes sense to everyone who speaks Hindi. But for those of us who don't: can someone explain what that phrase means, please?
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  • Re: What does "Kaun Banega" mean?
    by Jeve Stobs on Monday 12/Dec/2005, @05:50
    It's the indianized name of Till Adam.
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  • Re: What does "Kaun Banega" mean?
    by Nadeem Hasan on Monday 12/Dec/2005, @10:01
    Its a take from "Kaun Banega Crorepati" which is a very popular Indian version of "Who wants to be a Millionaire". Basically, it means "Who wants to be a KDE Hacker".
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The title means ...
by Arun on Sunday 11/Dec/2005, @06:52
... "Who wants to be a KDE hacker?" in English.
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  • Re: The title means ...
    by Anonymous on Sunday 11/Dec/2005, @07:49
    Thanks.
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  • Re: The title means ...
    by Pradeepto Bhattacharya on Sunday 11/Dec/2005, @09:42
    Exactly!. But this title though looks so simple and obvious but it has a little history that most Indians will surely notice.

    Well folks we have a very famous TV quiz game show called - "Kaun Banega Crorepati" - based on the original "Who wants to become a Millionaire?". The title of the story is pun on that.

    After the BOF session at the http://foss.in/2005 conference, the same title was scribbled on the board. You will notice it in the photo if you look closely . It was then suggested by Sirtaj to the dot editors to use the same as a title for the story. The rest as they say is history :)
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    • Re: The title means ...
      by ac on Sunday 11/Dec/2005, @09:47
      ...and the fact that "Kaun" starts with a 'K' also helped, I'm sure :)
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      • Re: The title means ...
        by Pradeepto Bhattacharya on Sunday 11/Dec/2005, @11:00
        Well you said that not me :P. Heh I was waiting for someone to say that, as they say it was a matter of when and not if!
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Kudos to KDE-India!
by Kartik Mistry on Sunday 11/Dec/2005, @08:50
Kudos to KDE-India Team! I wish more and more people will join it and make it better! Personally, I wish to have KDE in Gujarati Language! And Me and team will start it soon..
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Nice
by E@zyVG on Sunday 11/Dec/2005, @23:59
Great to hear that KDE is getting another strong support, and this time from India. Hopefully this will accelerate the development and spread KDE even more, as well as hope to see new ideas being implemented.

Kudos to KDE India team.
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Congrats
by Deepak Singh on Monday 12/Dec/2005, @00:47
Congrats to kde teams.
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Best wishes to KDE india team
by Shantanu Bhadoria on Sunday 18/Dec/2005, @02:42
Hope you set the benchmarks for quality KDE development for the world to follow.
greetings from bangalore

http://www.shantanu.co.nr
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Bridging the Package Devide
by Manik Chand on Monday 19/Dec/2005, @08:14
This was long awaited for us KDE fans in India. Hopefully in.kde tries to bring KDE closer to people in India.

Localisation efforts are there and I am not commenting on it and it is going smooth somewhere and rough other; but what really matters is that India is a place where Linux lives mostly in student-PCs and there the packages don't reach as we developers find them. Mostly they get RH/Fed/PCQL stuff which do great compromises with KDE which is quite unacceptable (in my view). Now with SuSE going with G* with the next issue the situation will worsen as the majority of the users would be deprived of a good CD/Dvd based distro. In this scenario here in India, in.kde can do good.

All good suggestions are welcome for that matter.
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