[lugm.org] RIP Atul Chitnis

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RIP


On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> 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>
> *To:* LUGM Discuss Mailing List <discuss at discuss.lugm.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 7:32
> *Subject:* Re: [lugm.org] RIP Atul Chitnis
>
> 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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