[lugm.org] RIP Atul Chitnis

[Loganaden Velvindron]

RIP Atul.

I remember his articles in PCQ, which was a really great magazine at the time.




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 From: Avinash Meetoo <avinash at noulakaz.net>
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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.
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>http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/he-put-india-on-the-open-software-map/article4778993.ece
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>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/
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>It was during this workshop where Avinash presented his 2003 survey on the usage of Linux in Mauritius.
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>http://lugm.org/2003/08/07/survey-on-the-use-of-linux-in-mauritius/
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>Atul Chitnis was an inspiration to fellow FOSS lovers in the audience.
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