Yesterday I did my first file translation in bengali. Though at the beginning I took a lot of time typing, but slowly I increased my speed little bit. I did few mistakes. Later Runadi explained me in details about my mistakes. Arindam also suggested changes. Finally I corrected everything and got my first translated file

I started with localization in bengali. I started talking with Arindam about it. He made me understand the entire thing. I took a look at the entire statistics of the translated and untranslated work of bengali localization compared to others. I then had a glance of the kde localization. I will start working with kdebase localization. I did a checkout of both the translated and untranslated pages (translated ones to have them as examples). Later I talked to Runadi about it. I took help of her blog to have the entire set up in my MacBook. Arindam helped me in the entire process. It took a long time in my slow internet connection for the set up .

But finally everything is ready. I have gone through the translated pages to understand it in a better way. I have saved the keyboard layout for probhat which I will be using. Now I take some time to search a letter from the keyboard and type , so I need to practice typing in bengali. I will take help of the ankurbangla dictionary for translations.

Hope to do some good translation soon

29th June, ‘08 marks the beginning of Summer Training started at #dgplug . Now almost a week over in this training. Learned a lot of new things from all the mentors. Debarshi started with shell. Kushal made us explore the vi editor, Prasad taught us programming with C in gcc , mbuf taught us several theories in free software, Parthan cleared our wiki conept.

All classes were very helpful in total. I liked Prasad’s class the most .

Hope to learn more at the end of this month

Yesterday was an important day in the history of our dgplug. The day started with our visit to NIT at about 11:30 a.m. We 5 (me, Kushal, Subhodip, Arindam, Ajitesh and Sunny) went there. We were received by one of the 3rd year students of their lug. We were taken to the Application Lab of the IT Department. Projector was arranged for us and also there was well internet facility. Kushal started with his introduction about our dgplug at about 12:00 a.m. Then all of us introduced ourselves. It was a good and interactive one. Lot of 2nd year students were present including girls. They were eagar to know about the Bijira project which Subhodip explained them. Then Kushal started with the basics like the principles of free software. He explained the ways one can start contributing to the free software projects and also upstream projects. Then IRC was shown to them. It was good for them to see it live. People in IRC were at the big screen, it was really great . For the 1st time they got an idea of it. According to the suggestions of Pradeepto in IRC they were taught little bit of subversion. Then the basics of python were taught and they were explained about Google Summer of Code. There was an introduction of indichix, even in IRC Runa_b wrote what indichix is all about which all saw. They were also taught about Bugzilla. In between all these I met with my junior schoolmate who presently studies in NIT. He asked me a lot about GSoC. One more girl came to me asked how she should approach to be selected for GSoC. Finally around 3:00 p.m. discussions were over. Some stickers were distributed. And at last they took us to the Food Court at Wonder La, City Center. We were very hungry and had delicious food there. We then bid them good bye with a hope to always be in contact.

Our NIT programme ended with the start of our new programme in Bengal College of Engineering, Durgapur We had less time. We reached BCET at about 4:30 p.m. The surroundings there was a very formal one. We were taken to their auditorium hall. There four of us went. Kushal started with his speech. Me, Subhodip and Arindam took our respective seats. There were mostly 1st year students at the auditorium. They were not much familiar with the free software world. They were taught with the basics and were explained the benefits of contributing in upstream projects. There was no internet facility there, so we could not show much. It was a one hour and 15 minutes discussion. Stickers were distributed. There too we were offered sweets and some other food .

In this way the day came to an end with lot of traveling in colleges and lot of teaching and also good food . Hope that this enthusiasm in these colleges does not die.

Yesterday was install fest in our college. We installed F8 in few laptops. Also taught the students basics of using the system. Everyone was very enthusiastic about it. Stickers of fedora, kde and firefox was distributed. You can see more from this blog.

Tomorrow we will be going to NIT Durgapur for some discussions about our lug and also to Bengal College of Engineering and Technology College where there will be an informal discussion about our dgplug, what we do etc.

Also today I installed F8 in my roommate’s computer. Taught her to use the konsole, also taught her few commands. She then practiced everything I taught. She was also enthusiastic about it and said she will be learning more to use it properly.

It’s good to see that the use of linux is spreading in our college

Snowman and snow

Colours of joy

After experimenting with various tools in Inkscape, tried little bit of it and finally came up with it

Inkscape —- This term I was hearing for a long time now. As I am always interested in art and innovative ideas was always searching for something like that. Finally today I installed Inkscape in my PC. Studied the links http://howto.nicubunu.ro/ .

The tutorial was very much interesting which invoked me with more interest in it. I am prepared now to study about it and learn more about it. Will be looking forward to any kind of help in this field.

31st January was the first campusing of our batch in our college. The company was TCS. It started from 8:30 a.m. First we went for the paper presentation in our Seminar Hall. We got lot of information about the company. After the presentation was over we were divided into batches for the aptitude test. There were total 270 students. I was in the first batch. As soon as our name was announced we went to the computer lab for our online test. It was a test of 90 minutes which consisted of quantitative aptitude, verbal reasoning and analytical reasoning. After the completion of the test we were sent to a classroom. We just waited for few minutes. Result of that batch was then announced. I was very happy to listen my name being announced. We were then asked to fill a form which was almost like a CV. Then soon the personal interview started consisting of both technical interview and HR round. I was asked to write few programs and was asked few questions about Object Oriented Programming. I answered them. They did not give me to complete my program, I just wrote few words and they switched over to the next question. I was then asked if I would hesitate to go to a remote place of Africa if I am asked too, also asked me I can travel everywhere or not, all my answers were positive. They asked me few more questions, hobbies etc. Then I was asked to leave. The next day i.e. on 1st February the result was announced and I was selected. So placed in TATA now.