Timeline: March 27 – March 29

Stuffs that happened this time:

- Mr. Faruque was me
- We took Jack’s car (he’s in Australia now)
- Akram was fired due to his poor performance at work

As of today, I am officially involved with the Fedora Project. I have became the Fedora Ambassador for Bangladesh, and my primary job is to:

• Represent Fedora Project to the wider public in Bangladesh
• Help spread the word about Fedora, Linux, and Open Source
• Be a point of contact for community members and channel the feedback to Fedora Project
• Help to recruit project contributors

And my brand new e-mail addresses are: russell@fedora.redhat.com and russell@fedoraproject.org

Here’s a logo that I made for Ubuntu Bangladeshi Local Community (LoCo) Team, which was formed yesterday.

Links you might want to visit:

Ubuntu Bangladesh Team Wiki Page

Ubuntu Bangladesh Team in LaunchPad

#Ubuntu-BD on Freenode has also been set up.

I visited both our Comilla Internet Learning Centers today — Yusuf Multi Purpose High School and Chowara Girls High School.

Details later.

Jack gave us a treat at El Toro, a Mexican restaurant in Gulshan. Here’s a picture that we took together after the heavy lunch:

Just in case if you haven’t recognized me yet: I’m the second last person from left, in blue shirt and blue jeans!

I have spent an awful amount of time and money for DALnet #Mastermind since 2001. I’ve wasted countless hours managing the operators, maintaining the AKick list, running advertising bots, adding new features to the Eggdrop and so on. And in the beginning of this year, I lost the channel. How? Simple. DALnet’s policy is that if a user doesn’t identify to ChanServ for more 30 days, then the nick expires, along with the channels he has founder access to. My nick expired, so expired the channel, and someone else registered it. I didn’t knew who the new founder is, until today.

dELT, an old DALnet user who was also an operator of #Mastermind registered the channel, using a different nickname. And to my surprise, he knocked me today, and handed over the channel. It all happened in less than 5 minutes!

I’ve been on-and-off from IRC all these days, but always identified to NickServ to keep my nick — but this time, I got way too busy with office work, and the sad thing happened. I got back one of my nicks a month later it expired, and still waiting to get back the other nick. Thanks a million to dELT, I got back the channel as well!