OSS Camp Delhi Sept. 8-9 2007

I traveled all the way to Delhi to attend OSSCampDelhi, Non-Conference (Bar Camp), my first Open Source Camp in India. It started well with a good presentation on "HIGH Performance Websites". Speaker shared few tricks how to make you front-end load faster. * Use of expire headers for javascript, css * Use of compressor to remove spaces in javascript using tools like (Dojo Shrink safe, YUI Compressor, JSMin, Dean Edwards Packer) * use of mod_gzip / mod deflate for apache * not to use @import use "link" tags * load script at last ( although I don't agree ) Another interesting presentation was on "MySQL Performance Tuning" from a OSS guys. We had a good discussion after the session which helped me to learn few new things. Few do's listed by the Presenter(for specific to InnoDB) * use varchar instead of char * avoid using count (*) with InnoDB, ( You can use it for MyISAM since it stores row count) * avoid use of autocommit, use transaction mechanism for multiple statements * configure to use larger data pools. * disable non required engines * use auto increment for unique identification rather than primary keys (lot of thing to argue on this) * make NOT NULL columns if possible * enable log-slow-query (this helps to track slow queries so that you can optimize it Some other useful command for MySQL * SHOW PROCESSLIST * SHOW GLOBAL status like 'slow_queries' * SHOW LOCAL status like 'slow_queries' Mir Nazim, gave a good intro to Drupal. Some of new members in Open Source world were very much thrilled by its powerful nature as CMS. To end the day Noel Hidalgo, expressed his view on use of Media in Social Sector. I was very much impressed with way and his thinking about the use of internet, technology, social networking etc, in Social Sector. We had good laugh at some of his jokes and enjoyed his story on "Scooter Group". I conducted a session on CiviCRM, it was good to see few enthusiasts from the crowd. Second day was very disappointing. Beside sessions on DJANGO (Web Application framework for Python) and Ext (javascript, ajax and UI components), i didn't find other stuff much useful.

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Hi,

I attended both the days. Well I really liked your presentation on CiviCRM. And you were right second day was not that good but I guess it is a nice start.

I have recently started working on translation projects. I and trying to contribute to the fedora Hindi Translation project. I am still learning. I was wondering if there is someone who is translating civiCRM into Hindi. I would love to do that. Let me know.

Cheers!!
Ravi Sagar

Thanx. CiviCRM translation in Hindi would be a great contribution. You can get in touch with Piotr (shot at civicrm dot org).

it was real fun.. the camp.. and it was a wonderful experience to meet geeks such as you...

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Too bad I missed it, I won't be arriving in Dehli for another 2 weeks.