[lugm.org] RIP Atul Chitnis

[Avinash Meetoo]

Thanks for sharing, Ajay.

Saw the sad news yesterday on Hacker News and I knew I met Atul Chitnis
before during a conference but I couldn't remember which one.

This conference was organised by Joel Bruneau and Deven Payamootoo of IBL.
Speakers included Atul Chitnis of FOSS.in, a guy from IBM, a guy from
Oracle and me talking about a survey LUGM had just done at that time about
the use of Linux in Mauritius.

(By the way, the conclusion of the survey was that quite a lot of people
and companies were using Linux at that time but only few contributed to it
and/or participated in the community. Has this changed?)

RIP Atul.

Avinash
On Jun 5, 2013 1:24 AM, "Ajay R Ramjatan" <ajay.ramjatan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am the bringer of sad news. Atul Chitnis, Indian FOSS evangelist and
> hacker has passed away at age 51, from a cancer he was fighting since 2012.
>
>
> http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/he-put-india-on-the-open-software-map/article4778993.ece
>
> Atul Chitnis brilliantly spoke about FOSS at an NCB-organised, Open Source
> workshop in 2003. Some photos of that workshop at
> http://lugm.org/gallery/open-source-workshop/
>
> It was during this workshop where Avinash presented his 2003 survey on the
> usage of Linux in Mauritius.
>
> http://lugm.org/2003/08/07/survey-on-the-use-of-linux-in-mauritius/
>
> Atul Chitnis was an inspiration to fellow FOSS lovers in the audience.
>
>
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