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FOSS stands for Free & Open Source Software. FOSS is social movement and has a deeply philosophical meaning. A Free Software would be free to use/share/adapt/improve according to the Free Software Philosophy. Open Source is a development methodology under which the developer/creator/programmer of a software makes the source code of a software readily available for further revision or usage by any party interested. More at Wikipedia.
Futcha is a contemporary Hindi slang predominantly used in the city of New Delhi (capital of India, if ya didn’t know), which means a “Fresher”. It is generally used by Senior Batch students to address the new admittees into the college.
FOSS Futcha, thus, means a Fresher in FOSS.
/mission/
I have just recently converted to FOSS full time when I installed Ubuntu at my home PC on the 3rd of June this year (my 23rd b’day!). Since, then I have been having a tough time getting used to FOSS. The process is difficult because to start afresh you have to unlearn a lot of things and that is not easy. Through this blog, I will chronicle my experiences with everything-FOSS including Linux and FOSS applications.
/why microblog?/
That was a tough choice. With the likes of Twitter already present, why do I need to create a microblog to tackle the issue? After long deliberation, I decided that since I use my Twitter account for general purpose, it would be unfair with my FOSS exploits to mix them in that crowd. To bring specificness in my content, I decided to go for a new microblog. It also helps that in a microblog I can also post longer posts without any issues and the fact that I still don’t have the hang of Twitter.
/how can you help?/
- Teach me FOSS! :D (for free obv.)
- The content of this blog might be erroneous owing to my limited exposure to FOSS. Help me refactor content.
- Become a FOSS Futcha (or a FOSS Guru for that matter) and share your exploits.
- Read what I have been through.
- Ask people to read it.
- Develop FOSS
- Use FOSS
- Be Imaginative :D
For any details, mail me at info [at] kinshuksunil [dot] com or at kinshuksunil [at] gmail [dot] com.
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