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And the life moves on…
March 22nd, 2007
Today, I finally finished all the formalities at Red Hat - deposited the laptop back with IS/IT, handed over the drawer keys to Murty ji, had a long discussion with Satish in the exit interview, burnt a copy of Fedora devel tree & finally bid goodbye to all the RedHatters 
Leaving RH was a bit nostalgic - lots of good memories were associated with that office - our pune-trans team which was more of a family than a team, our no-mercy pool games, those TT matches, those awesome treks (I still remember how Bhalerao & Aalam had held me from falling down a steep slope!) & specially that night trek… I might miss that all!
I still plan to keep up with m17n-db & evolution projects - maybe when the core packages open up to general public with Fedora 7, I might apply for m17n-db’s ownership.
But till then, DBus’s on my mind - on all 360 degrees!
For those who never worked with Red Hat - an excellent company to work with, very laid back & relaxed environment, gives freedom to work on projects which you might like (ofcourse, official work needs to be finished first!)… & if you are a starter in the FLOSS arena, RH’s the best place to learn - how to interact with the comunity.
It was… & will remain a dream company for me!
PS: (I’m going to install FC here on my machine when Celunite shifts to Kumar Cerebrum & when I’ll get my permanent box). I’ll set up atleast one FC repository here
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From Subu’s Birthday…
March 6th, 2007
Though Zoto’s logins are down for maintainance, I can still upload pictures through my ZoLoader 
…maybe I’ll polish it enough to be release to GPL - read as General PubLic (real GPL)
Here are some memories from Subu’s b’day!
Preparing for the event… as Ashok, Parag, Sachin & Ganesh anticipate the cake! lolz…
The b’day cards on display… as Shanky (one of our fastest bowler - in light blue T) looks on.
Rahul (offwhite shirt, our inhouse fonts expert), Ramky (Elvis dude!), Aman (our bug-master) & Satya (purple T)
The birthday boy - with his GF! lolz 
The B’day cake - Since this time I (me, shanky, ankit) brought it, it was ought to be eggless - & tasted nice too
Sporting popzee’s fav kurta which I managed to get to Pune when last time I visited home - isnt it nice - klass apart! (lol, ‘k’lass apart - not to confuse the poor CPP compilers hehehe)
Fem Fatale - our Charlie’s Angels! - Sanjulee, Runa & Ani
The usual ceremony - without which a b’day seems incomplete
The dude - Ankit - without whose camera, this blog entry would have been lost with time! He had to travel those jammed roads of Viman Nagar to bring his camera from his home in 10 minutes flat! Thanks dude!
More pictures from the party are here
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Thanks Ramky :P
February 16th, 2007
Everyone loves Mickey! Even Ramky
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Now a member of The GNOME Foundation
February 15th, 2007
Dear Mayank Jain,
We are pleased to inform you that you are now part of the GNOME
Foundation Membership. You are now eligible to become a candidate
for election and to vote in the annual Board of Directors elections
held each November…
All the hard work - bugs, patches & keymaps I’ve been contributing to upstream (Gnome majorly) have not gone waste… & I was paid in gold this morning when I got an email from the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee confirming my membership.
Also, part of this credit goes to Red Hat - where everyday, my efforts get streamlined into measureable outputs.
Thanks everyone
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Two more reasons to be happy :-)
February 8th, 2007
One - Today, I completd one year at Red Hat, I landed in Red Hat on 7th Feb 2006 - & if we go by bugzilla statistics, I’ve fixed about 86 bugs for packages owened by me.
Two - We got some important visitors from our corporate HQ, Red Hat! It will be interesting meeting them
Okay… back to preparing my presentaion… I’ll be representing the i18n Engineering Team.
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