kinshuk sunilit aint no, dessert if therez no caek

I hope you are having loads of fun on Raksha Bandhan. While, by no means I mean to intrude, I would, definitely, like to remind you of the way we are celebrating this Independence Day.

There is a blogging contest running at the OSScamp Community Blog from August 1st to august 15th. Bloggers can only post content till 15th. However the performance of the posts will be calculated as on noon, August 25th and the winners will be announced by August 27th.

Prizes on offer are 3 annual Subscriptions of the Linux For You Magazine (sponsored by LFY themselves) and 3 .IN Domain Names (sponsored by Digimantra.com). But to win these prizes – you will have to follow the community’s blogging guidelines and retweet this message.

Sounds simple and easy? Join the pool of bloggers already blogging on India’s wannabe-premier blog on opensource.

Details: http://osscamp.in/event/we-are-free-contest

This post was originally published on Digimantra.com

July 1st saw the release of Firefox 3.5. You must already be aware of what is new is version 3.5 and what makes it the awesome-est browser to-date, if not check this Firefox 3.5 preview video and the feature list for Firefox 3.5. In this post we are going to walk you through installing Firefox 3.5 in Linux (no installers for Linux). We’ll be doing it on Ubuntu 9.04, but it will work the same way on other Linux distributions too. Step 1 is to download Firefox 3.5 tarball from the Firefox site. Extract the Firefox 3.5 files from this tar ball and move them to an application directory of your choice. Anything like /home/user/apps/firefox35 (we will use this path as example in this post) or /usr/apps/firefox35 would work fine…

This post was originally published on Digimantra.com

A compilation of some statistics about my domain: kinshuksunil.com for 2009, First Half.
These are very small and insignificant numbers, but at least they are milestones I am progressing forward from :)

The Source for these statistics is Awstats. I have started using Google Analytics, absolutely, from June 20th only. All subsequent stats will come from it.

VISITORS

Unique: 12991 (6 Month Average: 2165)
Page Views: 35655 (6 Month Average: 5942.5)
Hits: 361009 (6 Month Average: 60169)

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Windows (All Versions): 60.8 %
Linux (All Distributions): 33.6 %
Mac OS (All Versions): 5.3 %
Symbian (All Versions): 0.3 %

BROWSERS

Firefox (All Versions): 49.1 %
Internet Explorer (All Versions): 26.5 %
Opera (All Versions): 8.9 %
Chrome (1.0.x): 5 %
Safari (All Versions): 3.6 %
Nokia Mobile : 1.6 %
Sony Mobile: 1 %

SOURCE COUNTRY

India: 56.4 %
USA: 23.7 %
Brazil: 5.2 %
Phillipines: 4 %
Russia: 3.6 %
UK: 3.6 %
Canada: 2.7 %

This Post was originally published in the Linux For You Magazine’s March 2009 Edition. Also available online.

Delhi’s first unconference on Mozilla technologies was a grand event with about a 100 campers who came together to share some Mozilla love on February 10. It was an event that attracted technologists and students, with Mozilla’s Seth Bindernagel and Arun Ranganathan around to discuss the future of the Web…

This Post was originally published in the Linux For You Magazine’s March 2009 Edition. Also available online.

MozillaCamp Delhi is being organised on February 10th, 2009 at the Indian Social Institute, Lodi Road New Delhi.

MozillaCamp Delhi
http://barcamp.org/MozillaCamp
February 10th, 2009 10am to 5pm
Indian Social Institute, near Sai Baba Mandir, Lodi Road

MozillaCamp Delhi will see web developers, designers, media and students coming together to celebrate emerging web technologies, localisation, internationalisation, and standardisation of web the Mozilla way.

Highligts of the event are:

• Discussion led by Seth Bindernagel, Director of Localisation (Mozilla)
• Discussion led by Arun Ranganathan, Standards Evangelist (Mozilla)
• A Talk by Mozilla Labs on Open-Web Development (through conferencing)
• An open Hack session led by Mozilla Labs through Conferencing.
• The event will also be live streamed on Mozilla AIR.

Registerations are beign made at the Barcamp wiki (link mentioned above) and if you use any Mozilla Toolie or are a Mozilla Loyalist, you wouldn’t want to miss the event. Over 80 regsiterations have been made. We know teh event is on tuesday but since Seth and Arun will be in Delhi only on Tuesday, so we cant be flexible about it.

Mohak has been doing a lot of hard work for organising the event. I have done my best to aide him. My company (OSSCube) has gladly sponsored us and is meetign all the expenses of the camp.

Organising and Sponsorship details include:
Unorganisers (its an unconference afterall!): Mohak Prince and Kinshuk Sunil
Organising Sponsor: OSSCube (My Company, Yay!)
Organising Partners: Routeguru, Pringoo, Innobuzz, Pictualize, Innovation R&D
Online Media Partners: BlogAdda.com
Youth Media Partners: YouthV.com
SMS Channel Partners: Indyarocks
TV Media Partners: Sahara Samay, NDTV, CNBC, IBN Live
Print Media Partners: Linux For You, Indian Express

For any more details, you can contact:
Mohak Prince, +91-9868669175,+91-9811230042
mohak.prince@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/mozcampdel
Kinshuk Sunil, +91 9910024895
kinshuk@osscamp.in
http://twitter.com/kinshuksunil

Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/mozillacampdelhi

Graphics for the event were made by the talented Kitty aka ‘Yadu’. Check some samples. In my attempt to show them in a cool way, I ended up showing them in a weird sideline way. Have a look at them, click on the image for a full view. connect with Yadu at his blog.You can also follow him at his Twitter.

MozillaCamp Delhi Banner by Yadu

MozillaCamp Delhi Standee by Yadu

MozillaCamp Delhi Web Gfx by Yadu

MozillaCamp Delhi Poster by Yadu