This weekend, Aarthi and I going to be at Bangalore at the last place you would ever expect a Microsoft employee to be - at Foss.in.

I'm sure folks are curious - what is a Microsoft employee doing at Foss.in? Since I can't talk about my real reason for going there (which has something do with Microsoft's plan for world domination. Resistance is futile! :-)), I'm going to talk about the next biggest reason - Atul Chitnis. I would have never heard the end of it if I missed yet another of his conferences.

Joking aside, there are some interesting talks going on (especially the hardware ones) and I'm looking forward to a weekend filled with geeks and hacks. I don't agree with a lot of the philosophy (and that's the reason I chose this particular badge to show on my blog rather than the ones that talk about 'Free') but there's no reason why we can't all - to quote Jack Nicholson from 'Mars Attacks' - 'just get along'.

If you're going to be there at Foss.In and are looking for a chat, coffee or just a good ol' flamewar, just look for the Microsoft employee who likes his Sony PSP carrying a Yahoo backpack at a free software conference sponsored by Google.

[Updated - Fixed stupid typos. Thanks to the smart aleck in the comments :-)]