So… I’m finally blogging from Asia Source at Bangalore. The fast few days have been absolutely fabulous, and I have been able to meet some really great people - Javier from Cambodia, Dirk and Douglas from New York, Pi from Phillippines, Colin from Malaysia, Azhar from Bangladesh, Anivar from Kerala, Sufyan from Pakistan, Muhammed from Egypt, Dwayne from South Africa (and the list goes on and on). And of course, there are people like Karunakar, Fred and Sunil, whom I have already met before. We have had people really going on migration issues, covering from all major aspects, starting from installation to strategies and evaluation. We are doing a case study each and every day, and then we try to move on to core technical stuff like hands on and things like that. The food here is great, and after lunch we usually go in for a specialized session (I attended one on wireless by Thomas Krag, one on Open Content by Lawrence Liang, and another on FLOSS in education). We have some real fun after that (basketball, dance, ping-pong, what not), and I usually end the day by having a long “adda” with Azhar Chaudhury (Bangladesh), with whom I am sharing a room. The location here is wonderful (I wish I had a camera), and with so many people from so many countries, this place has almost become magical. This afternoon, after lunch, we had a bazaar, where people traded souvenirs and skills. Skills ranged from playing a guitar to learning to wear saris (where we had a lot fun watching men trying to put on saris :)). Anyway, I think I’ll stop writing now, since I have to wake up early tomorrow, since we are going to a rural school near Bangalore to see how computers are being used there for education.
PS: Just wanted to mention that for the first time in my life, I heard Karunakar shout - he had got locked inside his room ;-).
