Archive for the ‘Work’ category

FOSS.in around the corner

October 29th, 2009

FOSS.in, the premier Open Source Conference happens in Bangalore from the 1st to the 5th of December, 2009 at the brilliant NIMHANS Convention Center. I am part of the organizing committee and I can guarantee that there are a lot of cool things being put together for this to happen.
The Call for Speakers was met [...]

My Highlights of 2008

December 31st, 2008

On the last day of this year, I thought it was only fair to write about the lovely year its been for me. After I decided to make this post, I thought about the year and the events that I should write about, and the only points of reference I had were the photographs I [...]

Muckwork – The Company

December 25th, 2008

Muckwork (http://muckwork.com) is the new company that is Derek Sivers‘ brainchild which through a weird twist of fate, I ended up being the VP for!

Possible Muckwork Logo
Its the most fun I have had working in a LONG LONG time and the learning curve is tremendous but then, its only getting better every day. We are [...]

The Brand New RadioVeRVe

December 24th, 2008

Lets get the announcement out of the way – The Brand New RadioVeRVe is Up and Running! – http://radioverve.com
About 4 years ago, Shreyas and I started out with a little experiment that eventually became (cutting a long story short) RadioVeRVe. Today I proudly announce the latest version of the site which we have been working [...]

Vice President, Muckwork

December 10th, 2008

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it” – Paulo Coelho
For as long as I have known myself as a kid, I wanted to become this jetsetting, corporate suit type person who would have a swanky office, a fancy car and a beach house! I din’t really know what [...]

Brand New Website

December 7th, 2008

Its taken a long time coming and I know its largely my procrastination that is to blame for this, but it was high time I got this done. Please take a look at the brand new GauravVaz.com and tell me what you think!
This is still work in progress and a lot more updates are to [...]

Wordpress.com goes down?!

August 13th, 2008

And all of a sudden today, wordpress.com stopped working for me! I kept getting an error message “not site admin” on any wordpress.com page. And whats more .. the page source shows NO HTML, NO NOTHING!!

Anyone have any idea what the issue is?
*UPDATE* – So there was an issue! and it was because of a [...]

Is it worth it in the end?

March 21st, 2008

Long time ago I wrote about how kids in colleges were not taking part in co-curriculars and how the entire trend was shifting towards glamour and fashion and the like!
Today, its been about 10 years since I started with all these events and trying to do as much as I can and participate in as [...]

What a weekend!

March 10th, 2008

Team Foss.in was back again and hopefully this time things will fall into place much smoother and much better (though a lot of people don’t believe we can do any better ). Its always good to get an early start and analyze what happened the previous time. We did that and some important decisions [...]

Work is where the heart is?

March 8th, 2008

It is a wonderful day for an organization when anyone in the company can sit across the seniormost of management with a drink in hand and tell them things they think should change in the company!
Right from the focus on work instead of things like attendance and timing to things like this, Citrix has fostered [...]