Google’s choice of a surprise gift this time for the GSoC students – a one year ACM membership Needless to say, I am so looking forward to this one. I haven’t as yet checked out things in detail, but this interested me a lot.It is not directly an ACM thing as such, but it did make a lot of sense for me.  More on this sometime later. For now, back to N800 emulation….

So I am almost like a month late…selection on 20th April and the  first update  today – fie on me ! And of course, need I mention the end-sems and the ‘God forsaken semester extensions”   (to put it in NG Srinivas’s  Godly words) ??

Anyways, like the good old Gujju saying goes….જાગ્યા ત્યારથી સવાર ! So here I am, with my first baby-steps with the Maemo SDK . While I am much more comfortable with Open Embedded and Bit-bake – that bit might also take quite some time, since I need to set up a build system from scratch. (don’t ask me why, for the answer leads to an issue I have been scoffed at many many times for, by classmates Arun and Suryakiran !)

Meanwhile, fellow GSoC-ers from the institute have been racing ahead with their projects and I only hope I can join the gang !

PS:  The post above skips the most important parts of the story… (talk about incoherency and inefficiency after night-out chains..)

1. My application and project details here and here is the wiki for the GSoC projects hosted by Maemo this year. Updates and technical details (which should follow soon) to be hosted here.

2.  On an unrelated note, Maemo is hosting 10 GSoC projects this year of which 2 are by Indians and 5 are Canola based.  There seems to be an astronomically huge amount of interest in Canola , after it going open source. I wish I was either a  multimedia freak (having lost touch with movies and quite a lot of music for I don’t know how long) or an application developer to be able to make some  sense of the hype.  Anyways, through the GSoC period I surely will…

Its dark,dismaying,delusive and dull
Have I been engulfed, or is it just a lull?

A thousand thoughts the mind doth occupy,
Cluttering,sufffocating the Learner’s Paradise.
Which one is it, that needs to fly by?
When will that old,beautiful feeling arise ?

My first post and my first tryst with blogging – and the event couldn’t have been better. After all, not everyday does one get to meet so passionate an engineer who could dare to give up the comfortable cushion of an IIT-B degree midway through it , to pursue research in his field of interest.