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Prelude Last week some of us old friends met. We are all in a similar age group, with about 15 years of experience in the Indian IT industry. We were all programmers and were working on FOSS projects, during the time we passed out of college (in India). About 15 years ago, FOSS was not as easy to contribute as today. From our college hostel or shared home internet connection, when we did a `cvs diff` , it used to go over the network, to generate a patch. Often it was faster to just duplicate the sources and locally do a `diff -up dir1 dir2`. Forget Fibre internet, even Broadband was not available widely. Mobile phones were for the super rich. Laptops even more scarce. But some of us found ways to contribute little changesets, mainly driven by our interest in programming. That is how we bonded as a group, across FOSS projects like openSUSE, GNOME, etc. Most of us worked in our College labs and/or from work laptops in personal time. We have not been in regular contact with each other, b