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On day 3 we had a few visitors till lunch. The start was slow but towards the end of day we had some visitors who were not familiar with FSF and GNU. Some of these were interested in Associate Memberships provided by FSF-I. We directed them to gnu.or.in for memberships as we did not have any receipts.

In the afternoon Nikhil Prabhakar (nipra) started taking signatures of GNU/Linux users and collected quite a few. There was a photo session at all our stalls. As always Karunakar was our resource of photographs. There were guys from Fedora, Hindawi, IndLinux and other stalls in the photo session :). We had a nice time near the end of the day as guys from stalls in .ORG mela came together. There were few like Ramki, Sankarshan, Niyam, Vivek, Abhishek, Amol, Vinod, Bir, Milind etc. At around 1730 Hrs in the evening we had to close the stalls and hand over stalls and other things to LA people so we peeled off all the posters collected all our stuff and walked to have tea/coffee.

On the tea table a discussion started on localization and native language support at command level in GNU Linux, ways to achieve it and related problems. Abhishek was very enthusiastic about porting Hindawi on GNU systems. Also Vivek from sarai was there passionately presenting the issue of mentor-ship of OSS projects in Delhi and NCR. The discussion stretched till almost 8 in the evening. We were all tired till then, so we concluded the meeting and called it a day with promises to meet online.