Rahul gives unsolicited advice

In an earlier post , I talked about wanting to create more than I consumed. I've already been writing more than I ever have publicly - but all of it has been limited to the FOSS United discourse forum . A couple of things that I am particularly proud of are the Papers We Love (FOSS edition) and the Absurd Software Patent of the Week threads which I started. The thing i'm most proud of though is the draft 2025 strategy document for FOSS United . For the first time in a long time, I'm incredibly proud of what I have been able to create. It has been a roller coaster ride since I joined the FOSS United Foundation in May 2024 and I've taken a "sit back and observe" approach for much of my time so far. I didn't want to be a bull in a china shop and negatively impact initiatives that the Foundation was already doing successfully. I chose to observe, nudge, advice, and guide instead of direct. And thankfully, I've gained sufficient understanding of the bigge...

So far, I've submitted talk proposals for three FOSS conferences. See the list of conferences and my proposals below. I'm expecting to submit a couple of more proposals for PyConf Hyderabad - a talk proposal on the GIL-ectomy (that I presented internally for a client), a talk proposal about the fossunited.org platform that we have been building at FOSS United, and a workshop proposal on the Frappe Framework that powers fossunited.org! Why am I sharing this here? Because not all of my talk proposals get accepted at conferences but that doesn't mean that the ideas or talks are useless. In fact, I've been wondering for a couple of years now that if a talk proposal gets rejected, I should just livestream the talk on my own personal YouTube channel instead of letting the idea die. This post is me taking one step in that direction. PyConf Hyderabad by HydPy community - 22-23 Feb 2025  DEVCONF India by Red Hat India - Feb 28, March 1 2025 FOSSMeet'25 by FOSS Cell NITC -...

I watched the Groundhog Day movie a couple of weeks back with my mother. It is one of my favorite movies and I was trying to get her to appreciate time-travel movies. We had watched the Edge of Tomorrow movie a week earlier and she had come to not hate it at the end. Groundhog day is one of my favorite movies but I don't think I've watched it since I watched it in college, more than a decade ago. I was a different person then and rewatching the movie made me realize something quite profound, at least to my mind. (Spoilers ahead) In the movie, the protagonist relives the same day over and over again. He goes to sleep and he wakes up on the same day instead of the next day. He goes through various stages of grief and eventually accepts his fate. This leads to an interesting transformation where he continues to relive the same day over and over again but works on improving himself. He starts to learn how to play the piano and everyday, he gets a little better. He starts reading...