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Folks

I have been working on this idea and concept for some time now. Since, my early open source game-dev days (early 2004), I have felt the need for having a pan-india indie game development community. Me and Yadu kept discussing it for so long, its hard to even recall. This all happened while we kept jumping projects on Sourceforge.net and then Launchpad.net.

November 2008, saw the setting up of a mailing list on Google Groups. I called it Indie Game Developers India (InGDIn) community. With no active promotion taking place, the community kept growing at a snail’s pace to the present day 32. That was until yesterday.

On September 2, 2009, Yadu and I, we have finally come up with the InGDIn Community formally. Currently, the website is under development – so we have an active presence on Facebook. See the InGDIn Page on facebook and become a fan as well (just to stay updated). InGDIn is also on twitter now! Follow us!

To propel the whole idea forward, and give us momentum, we have also come up with the idea of DiningCamps (organised by InGDIn). The objectives of DiningCamps are three-folds:

1. Create a platform to interact and network with people interested in game development – create a talent pool
2. Create a platform to showcase one’s work, find team members, investors and publishers – create an indie marketplace
3. Have loads of fun while doing the above both

A lot of stuff has still to be planned. Check out the event page on facebook – DiningCamp 04.10

A lot more will follow… keep your fingers crossed!

Have fun!

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Still alive and breathing. Highly disorganised though.
Need to post a lot of stuff since April.
Peace.

The OSScamp community announces another chapter of India’s biggest unconference on open source. This time the Chennai community takes the initiative.

OSScamp Chennai March 2009 is scheduled for March 13-14, 2009 at the Chennai Trade Center. It is being organised with the OSI Tech Days 2009.

With the growing trend to open source and a higher awareness and tenacity to open source, Open Source is now a reckoning in India. In our efforts to promote Open Source Implementation and Development, we now look at Chennai to take the initiative and take us a step forward.

The alignment with OSI Tech Days will result in a confluence of Geeks and the Demi-gods of Open Source in Chennai. OSScamp Chennai will bring these together in an informal, unconference environment.The camp will thus be a great place to share stuff you have been working at, challenges that you have faced or the innovations you are making. For the newbies, it will create an immense learning opportunity as they can learn and discuss open source tools and technologies with the front runners of the same.

Details about the camp: http://chennai.osscamp.in
Sign Up for the camp: http://osscamp.in/node/147/signup (You will need an OSScamp.in Accoutn First)
Add talks for the camp: http://osscamp.in/node/add/talk
Vote on Talks: http://osscamp.in/category/talk-camp/osscamp-chennai/march-2009
Twitter: http://twitter.com/osscamp

Help us spread the word: Blog about us, Tweet about us, Write about us.
Tag your posts with osscamp or #osscamp.

Come and Participate!

My existing company business cards suck bigtime (and thankfully I am out of stock). So I need new cards, and I tok the opportunity of getting a new design altogether. So I asked my dearest friend kitty aka yadu to design em some. Unfortunately for me he is out of ideas and time, but is trying his best to help me out. He infact designed quite an unconventional business card but that needed some tweaking. Inspired by it, I picked up GiMP 2.4.5 (these days I am running Fedora 9 Live) and set about the task of designing me a card.

Ideally, a designer should work on what is a very crucial conversation starter – one’s Business Card. But the heck! I have no designer. So i have to trust my logic and my understanding of stuff that is around to do so.Below is the card I finally made. Lets call it Draft 1.

Business Card - Draft 1 (Click for Full View)

Now, I’ll attempt to discuss its features and describe why I think it is good. Feel free to contradict me at any point (don’t forget to log it as a comment).

• For some reason, I have always believed that a business card should always be minimalistic. Carry only what is essential, do away with all the crap.
• It should be different. Business Cards are very strong conversation starters. Something different, something unconventional, something uncommon are great tools to break the ice.
• It should be YOU! Its your card isn’t it? And it talks about you – who are you, how to reach you; right?
• Don’t waste the backspace. A lot of cards don’t use the backspace. True! Most Cardholders don’t show the back space, but when you hand out the card, the person will look at the back too. Dont miss a chance to create an impression.

Go on now! Sort out that itch you have; post a comment…