This year I am attending my 1st FOSDEM. I arrived to Brussels yesterday, met some FOSDEMers in the train station, then met some good friends during the beer event. For those I didn’t meet yet : see you there!
One week has passed since I came back to France. I was in Norway since May, working for TANDBERG, it was a really great experience working with very smart and skilled people on very interesting and challenging problems. I also enjoyed Norway because of the Norwegian people, all I can say is that they are very welcoming and very friendly !
My week in France wasn’t that interesting, in fact it was annoying, boring and depressing ! I am looking forward to leave here…
My blog is now aggregated on planet-im.com, so “Hello Planet IM”, and many thanks to Christian Hammond for making this happen in less than 5 minutes after I sent my request to him 
Today I felt very ashamed by Morocco when I discovered that they voted yes to Open XML, I sent them 2 mails asking for more information concerning this and without any answer, I can smell the bribes and money from here, and I cannot express how mad I feel.
This year GUADEC was in Birmingham, UK, the GUADEC itself was great, I managed to meet a lot of people and friends, and do a lot of hacking on pymsn and telepathy-butterfly. What I didn’t really enjoy was the considerable amount of security cameras in the UK … that just drives me nut, how can people there be able to live with the fact that they are constantly being spied on ? And of course I have asked few people from UK, and the general answer I got is that it is needed for security …
The other thing that I didn’t really enjoy, was the amount of questions I got asked at the airport ! It seems to be perfectly alright nowadays to harass people holding an arabic name, having a dark skin and wearing a black beard with a load of questions and treat them as potentially bad people.
Anyway, enough bashing, I am now looking forward for the next guadec in Istanbul, that one for sure will be in an interesting place 
I have been in Oslo, for almost a week now, I really enjoy this city, and its people ! And although I miss India, and the people I met in India so much, I love this place, and I really have a good time working here for Tandberg
Concerning pymsn, and butterfly, I think we will manage to hack on it, to get a release ready, Ole André and me ! Hopefully, before the end of the next week.
I am a student of the Computer Science department at INSA Lyon (although I doubt it there is really a computer science department at INSA Lyon…), and I am currently in IIT Bombay as an exhange student (I came here to join a real CSE department). This summer I am supposed to do a 4 to 5 months internship within a company, I managed to find a very interesting internship (thanks to Ole André) in Norway at Tandberg 
The problem is that my university claims that there is a French law (btw I am not a French citizen) that forbids me from doing my internship outside India and France…
The problem is that :
If anyone has some knowledge about French laws concerning this, please let me know !
Edit: Fixed, I’ll be going to Norway (if I get the work permit of course) ! In fact, there is no such law, it was just that they don’t know how to handle my case (Moroccan, studying in France, exchange student in IITB, willing to go to Norway)
Sometimes I just feel like drawing something, so I did yesterday, and here is the result :
“Linux is fun !” that’s what a non-tech savy (and computer hater) friend of mine said while using my laptop
That makes me believe that the GNU/Linux desktop has a really promising and bright future.
The truth is that the GNU/Linux desktop is fun after being setup and configured, because sometimes getting things working can be very hairy, and although it is generaly not better under other operating systems, I think this is where improvement should go to make it really fun from the day 0.
oh, and this is supposed to be my first blog post so “Hello World”
