 So, hi. Well, in the 20 years, there was this 10 years of KD India as KD India. I'll come to it. It's probably a little bit more because interestingly, 20 years of KD is also 20 years of KD in India because one of the first KD developers was an Indian and we'll come to it in a bit. But, yeah, this is the story as I saw it evolve in last 10 years, little over 10 years now. So, yeah, I am Pradeepthu and I forgot what I wrote. Yeah, I wrote some cute KD code once upon a time in my previous life and I basically live in Pune and I live with a wife. Some of you probably have seen her. She came to the last KD thing that happened in Berlin five years back. So, what about KD? As I said, and I must admit, this talk is a little bit about hero worship. It's funny when David showed Torban Wise in his slide and I have literally seen him from my first academy that is exactly 10 years back in Dublin and he just said something. So, this is not part of the talk, but I just heard him say he used to read emails for commits. My first commit was to K-mail. Within 30 seconds, he asked me on IRC, his question was, Pradeepthu, is that the right way to do C++? Don't know. You tell me. So, my question to him was, what are you talking about? And his reply was, oh, the commit that you made. Didn't I just do it? And he was like, yeah, I read it. And apparently there was this email that goes because of the subversion commit mailing list or something and he reads them. Great. And he immediately pings me on IRC. There were two other people, I can't remember who also replied, but they took their own sweet time to reply to the fact that I forgot const in a method which should have had const for the variables or the parameters. So, coming back to the KD thing, KD India thing, I have tried to think how it has gone through for me and for me, it's right now, it's a grown child, I think. But there was a stage when it was at its infancy. So, yeah, David, I also had a bunch of hair back in the day if you could recognize me somewhere in that picture. So, yeah, that's still, and that's Sardar saying the guy with the turban. He was one of the first KD developers. If you go and check the old release note, you will probably find his name in 0.01 or something like that. I see Antonio there, I see, and he's nodding, and I know he showed a picture of Richard Moore. These all guys were in the list that I used to look at. So, they were here in Bangalore for a conference called as false.n. And I was there as someone who wrote Qt code for some random company. And I had just heard about this thing called as community. And there is something called as open source community. And there are Linux user groups and whatnot. And so I went there and I thought like I will talk to these guys. I still remember when I was stirring Sartaj and Till where getting down from the cars and I said, yeah, I've seen the picture in the speaker pages and I have to go and talk to them. It took me two days to let go of my shyness to go to Sartaj and tell him and he was using his nice Mandriva laptop back then. And I asked him, hey, aren't you Sardar Singh Kong? He said, yeah, I am a cute developer from Bombay or Mumbai. He said, wow, cool. Let's go for a smoke. That's what he actually said. He took me around and as you can see, I'm short and they are tall. And he took me like this to somewhere and like, so what do you do? And we started talking, blah, blah, blah. And then in some time, I saw this guy in three-fourth box of shots and a slipper coming like this and saying, yeah, and asking for a pizza and we were near a food counter and Sartaj introduced, hey, Till, that was still Adam. He was like the most casual person I've seen in any conference ever. Okay. And little did I know he was the core KML hacker and he will turn out to be my mentor eventually or whatnot. So I meet him and he said, you know what? This guy wants to do some KD stuff in India. Why don't you organize a buff? I said, okay. And actually what happened was Sartaj was very tired of people promising them to do something or whatnot for the last few years. He was in Australia when he started with KD as a student. So when he came to India, he didn't really get a lot of help to do events. So he thought, this is another kid and who will just say something and run away, which was totally possible by me. So, but what happened is I ran around in the event and kept on telling everybody, hey, guys, let's do a buff for KD. Let's do a buff for KD. So December 2nd, 2006, was that buff happened and we took a picture. Back in the day, one of the most important TV series in India was basically the Hindi version of who wants to be a millionaire. And the Hindi translation was like, who will become a millionaire? So we said, who will become a KD hacker? You don't see that. So who wants to become a KD hacker? That was written on that. Some stupid fun, anyway. So yeah. Now, David, do you know what that means? Or anybody? That's a commit message to the subversion, right? So Till went back to Germany and told that he found this guy and he wants to create a website for KD India. And that was the first ever commit that happened to KD India. And the commit message by David was Till is Indian now. Till date to my primary email account, that's my signature. Very few people know that because I don't use that email in the KDE world. I just used it for my initial conversations with Till. So that's the signature. So David actually created that www-india folder. And look at it. I was probably refreshing the page because I got it within 47 seconds of committing him. As soon as he committed, I took the message and pasted it as my signature. So that's where the whole KD India website's first folder was created. A little bit of shameless promotion is what I will do now. After this, what happened is I went back and I started basically emailing anybody I could. Anybody. Because I didn't know what to do. I was an infant, right? The KD India thing, infant's definition is somebody who cannot really talk, walk or anything. I just didn't know what to do. I kept randomly emailing people, hey guys, you are doing a conference. Can I come over and talk? And they would say, yeah, we've invited Sartaj, but he's too busy. Sorry, we don't have a slot now. And two days later, do you still want to come? Yes. So I just go there and speak. So first I went to, I used to be in Bombay, 200 kilometers away. There's a town called, city called Pune, where I live now. I went there and gave my first KDE talk. And I didn't know what was happening, to be honest. This was January 2007. Yeah, 2006. Sorry. I just didn't know what I was doing. I just went crazy at that point. I started going to various colleges. I used to hear people, exactly at that conference, somebody comes and tells me, oh, there is another conference in south of India, Kerala. Would you like to go? Yes. I don't know. So I just kept going after that point. And this was the second talk. I can't find any pictures of many of the events, of course. There was another guy who was supposed to give that picture. This picture was taken just because the first guy, Pankaj, did not turn up. And somebody took a picture saying that, oh, the other guy did not turn up. But the other guy was actually giving on-call support to Yahoo. He used to work for Yahoo. Anyway, this happened. This kind of events kept on happening. But then 2006 happened. I'm sure you all know him. You just saw his picture. It's amazing, David. We wrote the slides differently, but we have random similarities here. He came to India in 2006, and people who are old enough out here have seen him. He used to give great keynotes, even. I remember one of my favorite keynotes was back in some academy that he gave. So he came to India, and so he was supposed to come the year when Sartaj and Til were there. But he had to go to this thing called as a desktop meeting or something, by Linspire and various other desktops back in the day in 2005. So he couldn't, and I was really sad. But he came to the conference, and he taught, without even teaching it, how to talk to people, how to... I remember going to all the booths and talking to each one, each and every booth. Doesn't matter what booth it was in. It was all the same conference, year after year. And I was surprised what kind of energy this man brings. So, yeah, definitely. If you have not met him, if you get a chance, definitely me now. So this was 2006 when we were doing all this, going to various events. In the year 2006, I remember there was this particular month in February, I believe. I was not at home at any of the weekends, because every weekend there was some event happening in some college, and we used to go there. And then we become a toddler, a slightly grown-up child, right? We don't have to invite... I don't have to invite myself into conferences. People started inviting KDE. And 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, a bunch of conferences, but especially there was this conference I kept telling, false.in, where KDE India took birth. We used to have this thing called as Project Days. If you have been to LinuxCon for Australia, we used to have this thing called as MiniCon, or you have this KDE room and Mozilla room or whatever. Similar concept. We used to have those in this conference. And now instead of one person, actually there were more people who could come. I couldn't find good pictures of them. As we see, we have Kevin here. Simon is right now giving a talk in one of the rooms. And I'm sorry that I'm keeping you away from that great talk. And that's for Falka. Basically, few of my favorite people on this planet. All of these guys came and there were more people. I'm coming to them, but these three I still remember. And the most interesting thing, I don't know if I should be ashamed about it, or happy about it, or feel weird about it, but this thing was happening literally two weeks before my wedding. So when this conference was happening, I was there and I left the conference midway because I had to go and do the rest of the things for the wedding. And anyway, so yeah, that's weird, but that time I just knew KDE up till one point. Anyway, and then comes to Adam. I don't need to introduce him. He's from this city. I don't think he considered himself to be my guru, but I consider him to be his mentee. I think if ever I needed an advice during my main core KDE days, it was always him. I used to always ask him what to do, and sometimes he would just tell me what to do. Even for this particular conference, we were wondering if we would get a particular slot because back in the day I was in KDAB and we had a company meeting just before this, and he helped out a lot. He used to help like crazy with to me. So that's still Adam and really a true story. I mean, I know that he's going to come a little later today or maybe tomorrow. So yeah, say hi to him if you haven't met him before. Really cool guy. So from then onwards, we have been starting to, we started to create booths in India for the conferences. You see a bunch of booths. The most favorite thing about these booths was not just KDE booth. And you will see some more pictures. I just love the fact that our booths became the hangout point for various other projects. People used to randomly come and sit there and talk to people or just do something else, not necessarily KDE stuff, but people used to start. It became like a friend community more than a KDE community. That's what I really liked about it. And we made some random posters at that time. Basically, we went all random. We didn't really, we created our own artwork and whatnot, got them printed and whatnot. So yeah, a bunch of things. Yeah. I don't know how many of you know this guy. He's not here in this room. But this is 2008. Why I call him the first god? Way before I started KDE, I was working, I told you, right, cute. I was writing a palm device synchronizer. And this guy was a K pilot maintainer. And when he came to India, for some reason we bought him a kurta and then he wore that. Anyway, when I had written an email to him, this is way before. I am not in KDE at all. This guy actually sent me a reply very detailed what I was doing wrong with my code and helped me with it. Probably that was my, I realized that's what KDE community is. It's all about code, but it's more about people, friends and community. So he's probably explaining me how to deal with community at this point and what to do and what not to do. I am guessing he got tired of explaining and then slept in the booth. So, yeah. So that's Adrian, one of my favorite persons again in this thing. But what happened at this particular year was you always need an inflection point for any kind of community, any kind of movement. Always. You cannot just go crazy of 5,000 people on the one day. It always happens over a period of time. There's a great talk by Mr. Derek Sivers. You have to, if you Google or if you go to YouTube, you will find Derek Sivers, crazy guy. And you will find how a movement is built. This is what started happening. I randomly find these three guys, Krishna, Santosh and Madhusudan at a conference. And I just meet them. This is not, this is after I met them, but I met them sometime back. And I asked them for help. Can you help me find more volunteers? Can you help me with certain things? And they did. The first thing they found me is a volunteer. Literally my brother, I'm sure anybody who's been done Plasma Media Center or Plasma, knows Shantanu. So he was my partner in crime for many, many years. I mean, I could just close my eyes and forget about any task because I knew that it will be done because of him. Everything that happened after this point was all credit to him. So I met him because Madhusudan was his senior and this is the first talk ever that Shantanu and me are giving together about KD development in Kerala. So I meet him and we start doing workshops together. But the other interesting thing happened around this time, the KD booklet. I'm not sure how many have seen that here. I think somehow, I see Claudia raising her hand out there. So Lydia as well. So I met Madhusudan. I'm talking here, but I'm generally a very shy person. I am scared of failure rather than... So when I thought about this, basically I was walking around in a station and I saw this nice advertising classifies and I realized we should have a classified for KD just for the fun. Wanted KD hackers, you will get great community and you will learn to code or something like that. What happened out of that is I went and pinged this guy, Madhusudan, hey, hi, listen, I would like to do... I have an idea, but you have to keep it to yourself. Can you do that? He said, yeah, sure. I want to write some stuff. Let's collect materials about how to... Because for Forstdorton, in the project day, we don't want to just tell people. We want to give away maybe a sheet of commands, how to use, I don't know, some KD stuff or somehow to build KD, the instructions or just a set of links because people will forget. So we started writing one page, two page. What happened was Madhu went back and couldn't stop telling from his two best friends. So, yeah, so much for secrecy. He went and told them and he came back, so I couldn't stop myself from telling my friends, but they have agreed to help as well. In a few days time, I had like 7 to 10 people working on various parts of this document and instead of one page, we came up with a 32-page document and we had to print it. And Sardaj, whom you saw sometime back, sponsored like 40,000 rupees to get it printed. The funny thing was, I didn't know how printing works at all. I thought this book will be this thing, which it was, but then I didn't realize if I'm printing like 3,000 books, it becomes 100 kgs or something like that, right? So when I go to take the delivery, this guy says, how are you going to carry it to Bangalore? I said, yeah, by flight. Are you crazy? 100 kgs. Like, what? Okay. And then we pay extra luggage. I don't take all of them, but I take a bunch of them. The good thing about this is, it went to multiple continents. It went to Africa, thanks to Adrian and I think Jonathan. He took it there and it went to Asia. I took it. It came to Europe, thanks to Jonathan and Adrian as well. So yeah, this was one good thing. Now, we grew up a little bit more. So, yeah, you know what happens, right? When the child grows up, they want their own mobile phones or they want their own things or whatever. So I wanted a conference for myself or something like that. The only reason is I can, I know for sure for practical reasons, academic can never happen in India, for cost reasons maybe. But, yeah, so there came a con.kd.in and it took, there are many people in this photo who are in this room and outside in this conference. I can already see Lydia out there. I can see Adrian and a bunch of other people. And so this happened. This happened thanks to, I think, blessings of him. He saw I think for five years, six years, he kept watching me from far away. But this is Sataj and I say that I want to become like him when I grow up. So he was helping me from probably just spiritually he was helping me. But that conference taught me a lot of things. It taught me how to get funds, how to go and bargain the hell out of things. Like no, I want this. And luckily if you see this carefully, you will realize not only a lot, well, if you know, there are a lot of distribution people. Jonathan is there from Ubuntu, OpenSousa, there is Will, there is Fedora, there is Debian, lots of people. I could any friend I could find from the Indian or external open source community came and joined. This was the first thing. So yeah, this is like the thing that I still remember. This was like a magic for me. And this is Eugene, the guy who made this logo. I don't know, I think he's still in Canada, but he made this artwork for us. And I don't know why he's doing this, but this is my reaction, I guess, when I think about KDIndia and the con.KD.in and a bunch of other pictures that happened. I don't know how many of you know about this, that's Anmari Mahoff who is to work for KDEDU and that's our good Frederick and Jonathan and then there is Vishesh, so many people I see aid and this thing, lots of, lots of things happen. I see Kanuta as well. And we had a bunch of volunteers. People didn't see it, but Kenny Dufus helped us like crazy that particular event. And he always does it, right? He is always three days before the event or one month before the event and helps us. Thanks to Kenny, he's probably working somewhere, I'm sure. He did a lot for KDIndia. But then after childhood comes the teenage things. That's when things are becoming difficult I think. And so we started doing Com.KD in very regularly 13, 14, 15 including this year. We have been traveling pretty much all parts of the country. I know that we have done it in North, we have done it in South, we have done it in West. And Bhushan told me some time back that somebody in East is interested. We'll see about that. So basically Com.KDInd has become a traveling conference. But the most important thing was I found new heroes. And I didn't have to do much. These are the people who did that. You see Deveja out there, manning a registration booth for the first KD Meetup or Com.KDInd that happened in her college. She is probably not here. You see Yasha, you see Bhushan, you see Sagar who is attending the event somewhere. Today you see Vishesh, you see Harish. All of these guys were running the event mostly because I couldn't really do it again and again. Because the first Com.KDInd, I actually left my job to do it and my wife did not speak to me for two days. Exactly two days but she really did not speak to me for two days. Because once I came back home and I thought I have left my job, really why? I want to go to Bangalore, stay there for a month and organize a conference. Okay, don't talk to me now. So I stopped doing that for some time but yeah, this guys managed it well. I think I was just answering a lot of phone calls. But to do all this, we needed support. I got a bunch of support from many people. That's Atul Chetan, that's late, he's no more, he used to be my boss as well. But he was the main reason a lot of open source people exist in our country. He used to do the false dot in. And then there is Tarik and Swati and then Kamal. All the posters work is done by this guy. Kushal, all the pictures mostly are taken by this guy and that's Prashant Swati and Tarik. They were my angels when it came to money because I needed, sometimes I needed somebody to make t-shirts. I didn't have to worry about taxes. That time, they always came to help without asking what I'm doing with the money. All I used to do is that I want to make t-shirts, I want to make sweatshirts. They always helped me for all those years. I can never thank these people enough. And I know that I'm forgetting quite a few people but these are the people I could find good pictures and they were always there for me for many, many years, almost a decade. But when it came to money, I am very scared about touching anybody else's money and I didn't want to put them in my bank. So we found the people, this NGO called Janastu, they were very nice. They had organized, helped organize Picon for the first time in India. These guys are an NGO who took care of the money in terms of we always gave the money to them when the sponsors money came in and every time we needed money we used to just give them receipt and take it back and take the money from them. So I remember submitting receipts like literally 11 rupees which is less than 10 cents I guess but I have submitted receipts for that and those guys have been helping even now they help us. They have the money, they keep the money, I or Shantanu just say that we need this much money, we do a cross check between ourselves and we get some money. We don't have lots of money but we have enough to make sure that we can keep our local conferences budgets running because the most of the travel budget obviously comes from this wonderful organization that the KDEV the board and the EV. Now when I say the KDEV and the board I also mean people who work in the working groups, people who are employers or who were employees before like Claudia. I can never, never, never thank them enough. This life is not enough frankly. When I joined Mirko and Eva were probably the board members. I don't know how many of you remember Eva. So and then I saw Klaas, I saw Cornelius, I saw Frank, I have seen Lydia for years now and I have seen so many other people. Albert is sitting right there and so many other people and the new board members as well. So he has been helping us a lot with the travel budget for the local conferences as well and various other things. So yeah, I can, all I can say is this 10 years of KDE India is thanks to you as well. Thank you Claudia for all the help that you did and now Petra, I don't know if she's here in the room. Now, this is the point is where I think it has grown up. I don't know what to do with it after now. He should leave home right now or something like that. So I am here for a few days and you will see lots of people. You see Divya, you see Sagar, you have seen Bhushan is here as well. You guys can tell them lots of people out here have been doing open source for a long time and community management way better than my limitations have reached. I think we would like to know from you guys what should we do how we should do it and please tell me if you want to tell me or somebody else we would like to know what we should do for next 10 years and definitely looking for a lot of advice right now for next three or four days that I am. Before I said, I would like to say thank you but there are other people also whom I would like to thank but the list is so long. I see Mario, I see David here. I remember a great, very, very stupid email exchange that I had with Ingo. I don't know if he remembers or not. This was 2006 and I didn't even know how to react in community. He said something and my reply was SIGH and now I feel so bad because every year when I come to academy I know who is but I didn't even know what was happening and I just didn't know how to communicate with people probably in my first year or first year. I probably still don't know. So I see so many people who have made decisions and I am sure that this thing happens every year and I can speak here now for this talk. So I thank you everybody. If you talk to other people, please convey my regards and my thanks to everybody in this whole thing for this. So yeah, I think I have like half a minute probably for questions if you guys have any questions or advice. I am looking for, definitely looking for lots of advice. Thank you. I'm sorry, I know it was almost a monologue but I can't speak slow. So if you have a question now there's anyway lunchtime so you can talk directly. Yeah? No, I wanted to include that but because I have said that before as well I, we don't. The only reason is if that happens we have to organize a general assembly every year just like the German one. We have similar laws in India. We have to do every year that one AGM has to happen and looking at people like I said right, Shantanu he is now not doing much KD and all respect to him but he is running a startup and I totally understand that. I will see people moving out so we need that 11 people in that society to be doing that. So if the society becomes lesser the society, I don't know what the rules are I need to understand them. So I have never really given it a much of a thought beyond the fact that I know it's a nice thing to have. Can you talk to the KD Spaniard people because I think that helps them grow. It is true. As I said I agree with you completely. It is just that I don't know if there is enough energy to do that. Every day at everyyearatcom.kd.in we see a lot of people coming in contributing a bit maybe for season of KD maybe for summer of court maybe and some people stick around. We have Bhushan here we have seen Shantanu, Sini and a lot of other people and I cannot vouch for everybody else right. So yeah, that's one. Cool. Thank you.