Changing Gears

This week I'm changing gears of my life. On Friday (5th September), I  yodeled and bled purple for one last time. It has been 2 years and 8 months when I first joined Yahoo! directly from college during which the size of Yahoo!, here at Bangalore, has almost tripled. Definitely the most rewarding and learning time for me as I worked and interacted with some really cool, supportive and intelligent people.

It was really a difficult decision to consider as I had no reasons to leave. It took me some time to convince myself. The only reason probably is that I got an opportunity to do something that always wanted to, that is working for a startup :).

Starting Monday I'm joining mKhoj, an Indian startup in the "Mobile Advertising marketplace" here at Bangalore. Looks like exciting times ahead.

Here are few things that I remembered to collect. Hooded sweatshirt and a nice clock (my parting gifts), my star, a YEFI calendar, yo yo badge holder and a gluestick. Definitely I will miss Yahoo! while enjoying at mKhoj.

MySQL camp with Kaj (29th july)

I was there in the meetup and my feeling was a mix about the same. It was nice to have Kaj here (for the first time) and listen to him about Sun's acquisition. On the other hand it was disheartening to see so few people from corporates turning up. It was almost negligible. I'm still positive on this and do expect many more people to turn up. There were a total of three talks in the meet and then we had some chit chat with people. In his first talk, Kaj first greeted everybody in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada and many were delighted. Kaj touched various aspects of Sun's acquisition and also their on-boarding struggle. He also mentioned about MySQL considering Sun's liberal SCA in place of their stricter CLA. (I haven't gone through SCA to actually comment on it's benefits) Second talk by Thava was on how to contribute code to MySQL. It was a nice talk and showed various resource points and steps of doing so in a right manner. Third talk, again by Kaj, was on the different ways of contributing to MySQL and MySQL community other than code. He showed screenshots of forums, forge, planetmysql, few blogs (he forgot mine ;) ), bugs.mysql and how to use them. Interestingly, my name appeared on the planetmysql page :) . Overall it was nice that it started and we need to find out ways for more participation.