<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>RIP Atul.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I remember his articles in PCQ, which was a really great magazine at the time.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr
size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Avinash Meetoo <avinash@noulakaz.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> LUGM Discuss Mailing List <discuss@discuss.lugm.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 7:32<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [lugm.org] RIP Atul Chitnis<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv3037157088"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for sharing, Ajay. </div>
<div dir="ltr">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. </div>
<div dir="ltr">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. </div>
<div dir="ltr">(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?) </div>
<div dir="ltr">RIP Atul. </div>
<div dir="ltr">Avinash </div>
<div class="yiv3037157088gmail_quote">On Jun 5, 2013 1:24 AM, "Ajay R Ramjatan" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ajay.ramjatan@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ajay.ramjatan@gmail.com">ajay.ramjatan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv3037157088gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">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.<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/he-put-india-on-the-open-software-map/article4778993.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/he-put-india-on-the-open-software-map/article4778993.ece</a><br>
<br>Atul Chitnis brilliantly spoke about FOSS at an NCB-organised, Open Source workshop in 2003. Some photos of that workshop at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lugm.org/gallery/open-source-workshop/">http://lugm.org/gallery/open-source-workshop/</a><div>
<div><br></div><div>It was during this workshop where Avinash presented his 2003 survey on the usage of Linux in Mauritius.<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lugm.org/2003/08/07/survey-on-the-use-of-linux-in-mauritius/">http://lugm.org/2003/08/07/survey-on-the-use-of-linux-in-mauritius/</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Atul Chitnis was an inspiration to fellow FOSS lovers in the audience.</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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