Akashdeep Dhar

📍 Pune, MH https://gridhead.net/

Day One - GNOME Asia 2023

Dealing with a sore throat since the previous night, I joined the Fedora Project ambassadors team to participate in the first day of GNOME Asia 2023. I attended a bunch of interesting talks throughout a parallel track schedule and helped organize the greatly welcomed Fedora Linux 39 Release Party.

Arriving At GNOME Asia 2023

From unexpected happenings to heartfelt reunions, from regional sceneries to mouthwatering delicacies and from ecstatic celebrations to focused preparations - the onward travel from Pune, India to represent the Fedora Project community at GNOME Asia 2023 to Kathmandu, Nepal was quite the adventure.

Fedora Council Election: Interview With Akashdeep Dhar

After a hiatus on the Fedora Websites & Apps Revamp Objective completion, I am running for the Fedora Council to address issues of incentivizing persistent contributions and enhancing community health. I plan to collaborate across multiple subprojects and SIGs to organize events and establish docs.

Building And Utilizing Purpose-Built GNU/Linux Distribution Images Using Mkosi - A FOSDEM 24 Submission

This is a talk proposal for the FOSDEM 2024 edition of Distributions Devroom titled "Building And Utilizing Purpose-Built GNU/Linux Distribution Images Using Mkosi" submitted by Akashdeep Dhar, targeting release engineers, hobbyist developers and community contributors in the GNU/Linux world.

Designing And Developing Robust API Client Applications - A FOSDEM 24 Submission

This is a talk proposal for the FOSDEM 2024 edition of APIs & Friends Devroom titled "Designing And Developing Robust API Client Applications - A Case Study Of Pagure Exporter" submitted by Akashdeep Dhar and Michal Konecny, targeting software developers, service admins, quality engineers and more.

Mentorship Within Communities And Beyond - A FOSDEM 24 Submission

This is a talk proposal for the FOSDEM 2024 edition of Community Devroom titled "Mentorship Within Communities And Beyond - Projection Experiments With Case Studies" submitted by Akashdeep Dhar, targeting project leaders, contributing members, community managers, contributing members and students.

Playing Around With Mkosi - Part III

This covers the third part of my experiences of descending down the rabbit hole of exploring the nifty tool for generating bespoke operating system images called mkosi. In this part, I will boot the generated image as a virtual machine using the QEMU/KVM hypervisor and helpers like virt-install.

Playing Around With Mkosi - Part II

This covers the second part of my experiences of descending down the rabbit hole of exploring the nifty tool for generating bespoke operating system images called mkosi. In this part, I will boot the generated image as a container using systemd-nspawn and its wrappers like mkosi and machinectl.

Playing Around With Mkosi - Part I

This covers the first part of my experiences of descending down the rabbit hole of exploring the nifty tool for generating bespoke operating system images called mkosi. In this part, I will cover the process of building a custom Fedora Linux 40 operating system image with a minimal set of packages.

Departing From Flock To Fedora 2023 - Part VI

With a bountiful meal for lunch and a recent thriller movie for entertainment, I had some respite after having rushed through the terminal to the departure gate. On landing in Kolkata, I shared a selfie with Sumantro Mukherjee on the Flock To Fedora chat before going in separate ways to our homes.