Mid-Day Bangalore carried a blurb about GNU/Linux Habba yesterday. Check the IT-Adda Column (Page 9) April 10, 2008.

A pdf copy of the page is available here.

Many thanks to the journalist friends at Mid-day for spreading the word and encouraging our team of volunteers.

For those of you reading this but do not know what GNU/Linux Habba is, please visit:
http://kannada.sampada.net/event/gnu-linux-habba-bengaluru

(for Kannada, check)
http://sampada.net/event/GNU-Linux-Habba

For years now, we've had very less of quality films in Kannada, and here is one cinema that is good on quality, but never got to the theatres. Distributors here fancy films that have songs, dance and crazy fights which on most occasions merely are low quality mockery of Bollywood/Hollywood. Sadly, it is the song and dance films that bring in huge moolah for them as art films go untried.

The film screened was "Mukhamukhi" and the screening was at "Suchitra Film Society" on Saturday. The film bagged the (Karnataka) State film award for "Best Dialogue" in 2006. The director of the film who lives in Australia is an active member of the [:http://sampada.net|Sampada Community].