UbuCon IndiaDay 2 of #UbuConIndia2025 starts with a panel discussion, with @artfulsodger, @soumyadghosh , Bhavanishankar Ravindra and Vekatesh Chaturvedi. @ubind @ubuntu
Balachandran S@ubuconindia @artfulsodger @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu Due to technical issues, there will be a slight delay of about 10 minutes in startin the panel discussion.
@benignbala @artfulsodger @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu - Bhavani "I started my open source journey, accidentally, when someone told Electrical engineers can't do software", back in 2006
@benignbala @artfulsodger @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu - Bhavani started as a developer in 2010. Concentrating on open source AI now. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @artfulsodger @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu - Developer community, in the #UDS days, will decide in less than 24 hours and have developer sprints. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @artfulsodger @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu - Bhavani says, "Open source didn't see my disability, it only saw my passion." #UbuCConIndia2025
@benignbala @artfulsodger @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu - There was no huge board, just a council headed by Mark Shuttleworth. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu - @artfulsodger introducing himself now. Involved in Open Source since 2007. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu @artfulsodger explaining his entry into OSS from #TCE, #GLUGOT and #SoftwareFreedomDay. Talks about #FStival, the #SFD at #GLUGOT and #Glug-Madurai
@benignbala @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu @artfulsodger talks about how the seniors at college helped build a community at #GLUGOT, #TCE. #UbuConIndia2025 and that his first distro was #FiestyFawn
@benignbala @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu @artfulsodger mentions how #ilugc helped the community and thanks (past and present) active members of #ilugc, like #LinuxBhaskar, #Kenneth et. al. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu @artfulsodger mentions his interactions with Bhavani and how he was fortunate to have a "job" working on #OSS #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu @artfulsodger mentions is more #conventional learning where #FreeSoftware is how it is referred to as, and not #OpenSource. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @soumyadghosh @ubind @ubuntu - Bhavani pitches in to say how they are from era of "FreeSoftware" #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu - @soumyadghosh asks about bzr and it being older than git and it being sunset. Asks @artfulsodger
to compare bzr and git. #UbuConIndia2025
to compare bzr and git. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger talks about @stylesen being the youngest contributor to #subversion. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger is sad to see bzr go, but acknowledges the loss of mindshare to git. Acknowledges #breezy. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh Bhavani adds to @artfulsodger, and says comparing bzr to git is like comparing Jenkins to docker. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger says that breezy is community maintained and is backwards compatible. Also acknowledges the giants whose shoulders we stand
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh shares with @artfulsodger that he started after the open source boom. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger - Bhavani tells that we all stand on the shoulders of giants who precede us and mentions about people in the Debian and Ubuntu communities who have been there for ever #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger says the idea of Lanuchpad being open source is to allow people to self-host it. #Launchpad is on #Zope!! #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger says @ubuntu is trying to simply Launchpad and wants it to be the best-in-class at where it is good. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger - Bhavani says, as a user, there is nothing better than Launchpad build farms for PPAs and packages. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger - Venkatesh introducing himself. #UbuConIndia2025 . Started with OpenSource in 5th grade. Primarily to thwart viruses #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger - Venkatesh started contributing around 2014-2015 for some Android community. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger - For adroid, it wasn't an easy task. You need to get the kernel and then reverse engineer. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger - Lot of people in tier 2 cities like #Lucknow are interested, but there is no community. And Venkatesh, with FOSSUnited, has started a community there. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger - Venkatesh says, "Like everyone, I was using Google Photos and ran out of space". And so decided to self-host. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger. Venkatesh then started self-hosting many things. Not being initially security aware led to bots taking control. #Learnings #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger: Soumya asks Venkatesh if he would self-host Launchpad and he says "If there is a use case, then yes" #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger says Launchpad was purpose built for Ubuntu. Talks about the "good old days" of ndiswrapper and ntfs and fuse. #UbuConIndia2025
@benignbala @ubind @ubuntu @soumyadghosh @artfulsodger says @ubuntu is trying to make Launchpad a first-class platform to build any artifact, not just Ubuntu. #UbuConIndia2025