FOSS.IN started yesterday! I’m really excited about the event even though I’m not attending it this time. I was there last year and it was a great experience. Ever since then, I’ve been really eager to step into the open source world with some contribution but somehow this whole year has been crazy for me in terms of work and other personal events and I couldn’t move significantly towards that goal of mine.

FOSS.IN has always focused on contribution but this year they are taking it a step further and there will be less talks and more code. There are a set of Workouts planned and people will come prepared with a goal in mind, and code together on the spot.

So in the spirit of the FOSS.IN workouts I’ve decided that these five days (actually nights since I’m working during the days) I’ll spend all the time that I can and try to put in some contribution from my side. I hope to explore the java-gnome bindings and use them to write my first application for GNOME.

So even though I’m not going to the event I’ll hopefully be taking my first steps towards contributing to FOSS

I spent the first night exploring java-gnome and starting with my application. I will write about the java-gnome experience in my next post. But for now it’s back to coding…